Newspapers and other old fashioned stuff...

I was just wondering, would all of you who regularly subscribe to and read a newspaper please raise your hand? Hmmm, I was afraid of that. This last decade I've watched as one old rag after another slowly bit the dust or tried to prevent it from happening. Our local paper, Philly Inq, is fighting chapter 13 as I write. I must agree with CS Lewis who said, if I may paraphrase him, "You ought to read the old with the new." He was speaking of books, mind you, but the principle is still the same. I try to demonstrate my multi-tasking ability to this generation by adjusting my glasses, walking down my driveway to pick up my newspaper each morning while thumbing through my Pre for my emails all at the same time. Does that qualify me as a member of the now/current generation of x'ers, y-ers and other alphabet chromosome possessors? If not, I'm fine with it. I can still use my newspaper to sop up wet carbon footprints, line appropriate facilities and help start the wood burner in my fireplace with old copies of the Inq. Let's see you gen-exers do that with your iphones/pods/apples ad nausea. I know, I know, if Windows 95 was good enough for my father, than it ought to be ancient history to me. And so it is; I tried apple vicariously through my wife for a while, wasn't impressed. Nonetheless, I'll keep googling uncertain terms and unknown people in the mean time (by the way, when did we first start to use "google" as a verb form...?). When the Lord returns, I'll be leaving my laptop and pre behind. I have a feeling there won't be cell towers in heaven...