08.08.00
Scott Adams
This may seem really strange, but Scott Adams’ book ‘The Dilbert Future” is mildly funny, and overly self-depreciating humor, that in the last chapter turns very strange.
If you ever see this book in the bookstore, grab it and read just the last chapter. While the rest of the book is just funny musings and exerpts from his Dilbert comic strip, the final chapter takes a right turn and heads right outside of this universe.
<http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/books/html/future.html>
I’m not a huge fan of Dilbert, though I do think it’s pretty good, but the gem of this book is that last chapter.
For those of you who have read it, I’ll share this little story. One of the things that Adams talks about is the potential effects our thoughts can have on the world around us.
This intersection at 20th and Hawthorne is sslllooowwwww. The traffic on Hawthorne gets much much higher priority over the traffic on the other three streets that meet there. I travel on 20th, the slowest of the lights.
Sceptically thinking about Adams’ final chapter of the book, I sat at the light. “Well,” I thought to myself, “if there was any credibility to the book, I ought to be able to and have the traffic light change to let me through.”
I looked up, and the light was green. I laughed as I drove off.