I found myself in a conversation about Nova Scotia the other day.

Unexpectedly, of course, not a place that comes up in conversation in my life a whole lot,

perhaps if I lived in Halifax, yet I don't.

But when on the rare occasion Nova Scotia does come up, I always think of a song I heard

a very, very long time ago, like decades ago that I don't think I've heard since.

And in that song, a guy sings, You're in New York, but I'm not.

You're in Tokyo, but I'm not.

You're in Nova Scotia, but I'm not.

I always stuck with me that song, because why Nova Scotia?

It's odd and funny.

There's some deliberate comedy in there, but stayed with me. But what I was

wondering, just the other day, in this Nova Scotia conversation, who was singing that? Who was

that band? What was that song? So when the conversation was completed, I thought, I've going to figure that out.

I picked up my iPhone. I googled Your In Nova, and then the auto fill offered Scotia, but I'm not.

Followed the link, and it gave me all the information about the song, Everywhere That I'm Not, by the band Translator, 1982. Translator is from

San Francisco. They still play together sometimes. Being able to get that information instantly,

into my hand, and up to my eyes and brain, that is neat. It's really very cool, and I love it. I'd rather have the internet

than not have it. It's how you get this show after all. It's depressed mode. I'm John Moe. I'm

glad you're here. The internet is powerful, but with great power comes a great number of complete assholes.

Jerks aplenty, with a very low entry point to distributing cruel comments, bigotry, hatred, bullying, all sorts of things.

It's easy for them to do, and so they do it a lot. And this experience,

encountering this stuff, reading this stuff, absorbing it can be draining and painful. It can

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