David was reading aloud to me from Jonathan's blog as I went and got the printouts of witness accounts I had found on that horrible thing called the Web.
Snap a picture outside of a building in New York City and you'll get this printout from the camera: "This is a faded picture of a dilapidated building.
So, if Amazon is selling, say, the iPod touch for $100, you can walk into your nearest Apple store, printout in hand, and get the same price then and there.
When leaving the lot, the user shows the cashier a printout of that page or a subsequent e-mail response to get the rate shown.
Mr. Space stopped by the station again Wednesday morning to get a printout of the winning numbers to check the tickets.
This is a case where the Internet has taken a wedding guest's tedious and inconvenient afternoon's chore -- to go to the store where the couple registered, stand in line to get a printout of the list, then walk around looking for an in-stock item in the appropriate price range -- and virtually eliminated the pain.
"If you want to buy the CD or a seat at the concert, if you want to know more about an artist, or get a printout of the lyrics, or watch a rockumentary, or if you want to see some of the Rolling Stones movies — say you're nine, and you can't figure out how these fifty-year-old guys got here — you'll be able to order 'Gimme Shelter.' There will be MTV movies, MTV products.
And for 10 cents, a farmer can get a printout listing the prices of any agricultural commodity sold at surrounding markets.
"I believe that every board member should get a printout of the financial statement on a monthly basis," Mr. Davis said, adding that with a few years' worth of monthly reports in hand, board members can get a sense of whether the building's finances have been handled consistently, with no significant deterioration.
