Deep-Thought's Nerd and Ant Soup

“ Some of us still carry around a book of these, which is referred to as a checkbook, so that we can pay for items in the slowest possible form known to man. You may be wondering why people would still pay for items in the twenty-first century with these scraps of paper, but this is an integral part of the banking system that runs the biggest economy in the world. Now you can even deposit a check from someone else into your own bank account by taking a picture of the front and back of it with your cellular phone. It’s kind of like a caveman making fire by rubbing two cigarette lighters against each other, but it works for us. ”