At 43 I’m old enough to remember a time when you couldn’t just go on the internet to get answers to questions that arose in your head. In the distant days of the late eighties/early nineties, like a poor man’s Waterboy, I did a lot of wondering, guessing, and trying to imagine. For example, if I took to wondering where a certain place was, say Mobile, Alabama, after listening to Bob singing about it, I needed a hardcopy map to check, or a globe to spin, or I needed to ask another human being. Now it’s all so different. You simply drill down into Google Earth on your device du jour and, presto, you’re there. With Street View you can even take a virtual walk around. Of course, there are exceptions. I recently tried to tour Damascus in this manner only to fi...