Resquiat In Pace, P-I.

I'm sitting in front of the last print edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and can't help but be a little sad about it. As a former desk reporter and occasional columnist, back in the days before my migration to the Emerald City, newspaper ink probably runs in my veins to some small extent.

As technologies go, newspapers are horribly outmoded, having been outstripped in many ways by television newscasts, twenty-four hour broadcast news channels and ultimately the Internet. All those forms, though, lack tangibility. There's just something about the feel of newsprint which is unique, not to mention its potential for endurance.