Deep Thoughts with Drek the Uninteresting

I wake up a lot at night. It's because I get to thinking about something in my sleep and it drags me back to wakefulness. I usually just lie there, staring at the swirling darkness, and listen to my wife breathe. And then, in the still depths between bright spans of activity- plunging through the hour of the wolf- it really hits me:

An encyclopedia is a really stupid idea. I mean, seriously? A book that contains an entry on everything? What the hell?






As a side note, I should probably add that I agree that Wikipedia is not as stupid a notion as a traditional encyclopedia and, likewise, that in a bygone year encyclopedias made more sense. Even so, however, a book that fails at breadth and depth simultaneously leaves something to be desired.