A quick addendum to the blog below: I was wondering where a particular gift was in the "shipping-from-Amazon.com" sense, so I checked the status online. The online version of reality said it had arrived yesterday. Well, I hadn't seen it. Just the pants (see below). Then I looked. It said that UPS had delivered the package to the backdoor! I never looked in the real world out the back door yesterday. Had I checked the online world I would have known to look out my back door in the real world to check for the package.
Sure enough - there it was. Sitting there just beyond the back door. In the real world. Just like the computer told me it was.