What items define our generation?

As I went to sleep last night I was thinking about what the definitive items are of our generation.  The three items that I came up with were a CD, a cell phone, and an email address.  I think everyone I know has or had at least one of each of these.  Then I started to get more specific and I realized that we don't fit many of the more specific details.  Almost everyone I know has a Facebook account (including my parents) so that could easily be considered something definitive about this generation.  A good number of our friends have iPhones, but not as many as have Facebook.  I could make a case that social media itself is something definitive and then we could include all the "previous" Facebooks (Myspace, Friendster, etc.) and even current trends like Twitter.  In any case I think this all goes back to the email address.  I still remember my family's first email address: madhatt285@aol.com.  In 1992 we were using probably a 14.4k modem to dial up to AOL and internet browsers barely existed.  Now all of the aforementioned sites function off of your email address.  It is amazing to look back on our short lifetimes and realize how much things have changed. 

What is a sport?

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word "sport" means:

An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.

To me it seems that the things that make a sport a sport are skill, physical exertion, and the act of competition.  Naturally for sports that are more subjective and requiring judging of style some set of guidelines must be established in order to determine the winning competitor.  Anyways where I'm going with this is this short piece for E:60 that I saw on Parkour.  I find it interesting that there is so much discussion against why parkour and there is even a mention of rock climbing not being a sport.  I think that if rhythmic gymnastics, figure skating, or any other Olympic sport that requires judges awarding points for artistic performance can be a sport than so can parkour.  Another point that is made that anything that you can do while eating is not a sport to which the very appropriate response was have you seen baseball.  One of the first comments that the anti-parkour lady makes is that do people not have anything better to do with their day than jump off buildings.  That blind argument can be made the first time someone sees anything new.  Anyone with an Indian grandmother has probably heard them say while watching basketball, why don't they give them all balls so they don't fight over one?  American football is the most glaring example of is there nothing better to do, but it just so happens that it is ingrained in our culture.  If American football was reinvented today the complexity of the game would greatly diminish it's ability to succeed.  The height of this argument comes when the anti-parkour lady (who happens to be black) states that parkour is something that white people do and there are no black people that would take part in this.  Obviously she is making a gross generalization, because some of the most influential traceurs (practitioners of parkour) are black.  Whether black people participate or not is a topic for another post, but what she was driving at is that it is not something that interests her race.  She is probably the same person that would have argued that before Tiger Woods black people weren't interested in golf or before the Williams sisters they weren't interested in tennis.  I think that should be the goal of ESPN to open our eyes to a broader variety of things, because they have the means to make them known to us.  Well I digress.  Watch the piece if you have time and decide for yourself whether you think parkour fits your definition of a sport.