Google Me Up, Scotty!

Since I have absolutely no problem with self discipline and will power, I couldn't resist this:

The Mountain Messenger via YubaNet

NEVADA CITY Mar. 12, 2010 - We just got through with Superbowl Sunday and now here comes Superhype Sunday.

This little town is trying hard to put together a presentation that will convince Google, the biggest and most successful company in history, to pick Nevada City as the installation site of fiber optic Internet service. A rally downtown Sunday, March 14 at 1 p.m. will be video recorded along with a march of eager citizens up Broad Street, ending with music, dancing, food and drink at Miners Foundry. The event will be melted down and submitted to the big G.

Nevada City is my county seat and quite a historical place from Gold Rush days.

Competition, as you might guess, is furious. One city has renamed itself. Topeka, Kansas is now Google, Kansas...at least until they lose the competition. Remember when the little town of Clark Texas got free satellite television service for all of its 125 residents by changing the name of the place to Dish, Texas?

In other news, the Postal Service (sic) has announced that its business plan, formulated right after the Pony Express stopped running, isn't working any more. With the clear insight of a buggy whip manufacturer a few years after Henry Ford started making affordable automobiles, the Postal Service is raising the price of buggy whips.
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Another dinosaur business model is phone book publishing. Who needs three Nevada County phone books? Who uses a phone book anymore? There are a bunch of web sites where you can find a phone number fast, and get it with a map and driving directions.

See you here in Google City at the renaming ceremony.

Editor's note: The Mountain Messenger, California's oldest weekly newspaper since 1853, is published on Thursdays from Downieville, California.

The Mountain Messenger can be purchased for half a buck at the National Hotel (sidewalk), Nevada City Post Office (sidewalk), Nevada City SPD (outside), Nevada City Express Mart (outside) and in front of Safeway, Brunswick area.

I get my copy for free from a stack on the counter at our local post office.

The Mountain Messenger used to be airdropped to the more rural general stores in a coupla counties by its 90-year-old publisher from his '40s Aeronca until the FAA found out about it and yanked his license in panic that he would have The Big One in the air!

Big whoop. Around here, he'da probly just ended up in the top of a tree.