[ecyrb]

Reminds me of the Cory Doctorow short story: "The Things that Make Me Weak and Strange Get Engineered Away"

Available here: http://www.tor.com/stories/2008/08/weak-and-strange

[whimsy]

In case you don't like short stories and didn't click the link, the title is a line from a Jonathon Coulton (of Portal fame) song, "The Future Soon" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEEDa9Mej8