Onward, Luddite soldiers

[kiya]

So I seem to have a cell phone.

I've spent a while programming numbers into it (brooksmoses's home number, erispope's pager, my brother's cell). I spent a while longer pounding on it until it vibrated instead of making noise (though there was a bit where I was shouting at it for playing the New World Symphony faster than a largo, and an incredible bemusement as an electro-beepy version of Stars and Stripes Forever set off my S&SF reflexes).

It has a little screen. When it doesn't have anything better to do, it shows a panda walking (down and to the right).

Or, as oneironaut put it, I have a tamagotchi that happens to allow me to talk to people who are far away.

(Am I the only person who can't help but think of 'tamagotchi' as if the last syllables were the I-think-Yiddish word that I've generally seen used to mean 'thingy'?)

Comments

[kiya]

Well, Brooks and I are going to be travelling without necessarily having set plans, and so the 'contact while wandering around' feature seemed useful.

Kevin figures we can drop our long-distance bills with the thing. He has a leash for work already.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

ooooh, yes. our cellphones have been hugely useful for at cons, for example. (vibrate mode is your friend. did i mention that?) it makes finding the people you promised to have dinner with, for example, much easier.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Work keeps trying to buy me one... it is getting harder to create excuses, compared with five years ago.