Where are you going to watch the Mini? Do you know what it is like to approach the start line, in duck-walk fashion? Have you seen the discarded sweats strewn about the area just across the start line? Heard garage band after garage band play every couple of hundred of feet?

   Technology is amazing—especially for a person who graduated with a bachelor’s degree in political science (misnomer; always used to be called "government") in 1978. When I was in college, if someone had told me, "One day you will be able to use a credit card in a grocery store," I would have laughed. If someone had said pay telephones would become rare, I would have scoffed.

   My high school had one video camera my junior year, as I recall. That was considered very high-tech. On "60 Minutes," of course, reporters snuck cameras into offices in what seemed to be items the size of sample cases. Mike Wallace asks to interview you. A guy in his twenties is alongside Wallace. The kid carries a sample case and keeps moving it a bit here and a bit there. They really got away with that.

   Web cams are much tinier than the sample case cameras used by "60 Minutes." One can be so small as to comfortably strap to one’s shoulder; so light as to hardly be noticeable. Audio gear even is smaller and lighter.

   This will be my 14^th consecutive half-marathon in the first weekend of May. I started in 1999. The half-marathon is my way of flipping the bird at Multiple Sclerosis, with which, as I have written before, I was diagnosed in 1994.

   There are many times I have entered the Indianapolis Motor Speedway® sober. There only are 13 times I have left IMS with a BAC of zero. If you are interested in watching Saturday, boot up your computer and see what might be streamed "live."