Met an old friend and made a new one today. They're John Brockman's Digerati (commentaries by the cyber elite) and Gary Dorsey's Silicon Sky (about a small start-up making it in the satellite industry). Yes, these are books I bought today (from a mobile booksale *not* near my office) and they made my day. My bro behaves the same way. It's uncanny how when my bro was confronted by my sis-in-law for neglecting his sleep to read, he and I just piped up together, "But books are our friends!".