I love the twenty-first century.

Almost no one I know will care about what's on this link. Many will roll their eyes at me just for knowing about such a thing. (Right, Debbie?) I don't care. I love the twenty-first century!

Read the second paragraph, where it talks about these highly powerful machines costing somewhere from $45,000 to $300,000. Then read the tenth paragraph, where it talks about the use that Procter and Gamble has found for these machines.

Go ahead, read it. I'll wait.

Read it yet?

Pringles. They have actually employed extremely powerful computers, using state-of-the-art fluid dynamics techniques, to model the airflow around... What? A sports car? A new kind of missile? A revolutionary airplane design? No, potato chips. And why would they do such a thing? To maximize the speed at which the cans of Pringles can be filled up without breaking the chips.

Aren't there starving kids in Africa who have been panting for this kind of information? Now tell me you don't love the twenty-first century too.