Good news this week from the world of law enforcement. Evidently, a man in Berlin was charged with disturbing the peace after hurling his computer out of his apartment window in the middle of the night. Police found the street below littered with the shattered remnants of personal computing technology, and identified the culprit.

Why, when I was a boy, we didn't have these ultraslick consumer gaming devices for entertainment. No sir, we had to make our own toys! Of course, even at that tender age, I was a little different from the other kids. While they fashioned yo-yos and paddleballs, I devised a series of handheld gamma-ray projectors. Many were the happy summer days I spent accelerating the evolutionary development of the frogs and lizards in the local pond. Ah, youth!