I was at my local Library this week and they installed a new self-checkout system. They've always had a system that was easy: You put your card on the scanner, you scanned your books one at a time, you removed your card. Done.

Now you scan your card. You place your entire pile of books on the table. Done. The process takes less than two seconds.

I was so tickled by how cool this was that I realized...

...I must be the most boring person in the world. Seriously. The most exciting thing to happen this week was I checked out my books in two seconds instead of thirty?