I always remember the classic Microsoft Flight Simulator. In the pre-9/11 days, the game had a helicopter that you could take off from the roof of the World Trade Center. You could only access that takeoff location via a helicopter. However, once the map was loaded, you could switch your aircraft. Our favorite thing to do was to start with a helicopter on top of the WTC, then swap it out for a jumbo jet. All of a sudden you’re piloting a 747 trying to take off from a dead stop off the roof of the WTC.

You’re not going to get hantavirus from walking into a store.

Do you wear gloves every time you touch a door handle?

What exactly is your point?

At the Las Vegas airport all the kiosk spaces in the middle of the halls are filled with slot machines. Lead to one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen. While waiting for my flight. I look over and there’s this young kid, maybe five years old, sitting at a slot machine. He didn’t actually have any money in it, as you need a credit card to use them. But he was happily tapping away at all the buttons and gizmos, treating it no differently than some iPad game.