As good as...my pretzels

The best thing about my life as an intern is this bag of Rold Gold pretzels...barely beating out learning how to render a 105-minute earthquake talk for WILL's video archive (coming soon!).

Honestly, though, haven't you felt that strong craving for a bag of 3.5 servings worth of salty, wonderful, baked pretzels? That's why the folks at WILL secretly endorse Frito Lay...for a constant supply of these succulent treats (jk, jk)! Rold Gold pretzels beat out homemade brownies any day!

Today's Chicago Tribune says the city is looking to provide Wi-Fi internet access to its millions and millions and millions of residents (Total population: 2,862,244 - ed). This is a great time to be a Chicagoan.

Soon, a matrix of little, tiny zeros and ones will blanket commuters, large buildings and...Grant Park. A major metropolitan area will be another step closer to looking, acting and working like a well-oiled machine. Heck, maybe a omnipotent machine will be a mayoral candidate in the distant future! Tomorrow, Keanu Reeves won't be all that good of a fighter. This could be a problem in the future...for Keanu.

But, today is today!

Wireless Internet is great for the economy and great for our knowledge. It's all coming together at the perfect time. For the economy, sales of laptops, Blackberries and Sidekicks all skyrocket (Buy! Buy!, Jim Cramer...Buy!). For our knowledge, sites like WILL will be more available.

Not only will WILL radio be live streaming soon, but a great (and I really mean great) video archive is in the works! Internet director Jack Brighton and I will be working on these things extensively in the remaining 11 (or is it 12?) weeks of the spring '06 semester.

They'll be up and running in no-time. Let the City of Wind and everyone else check it out!

With unfettered access to Wi-Fi and WILL online, a world-class city like Chicago needs only one more thing: Rold Gold Pretzels!