"Of course, Monica, or any friend of hers, would never have their minds sucked out like a slurpee and replaced with a poor substitute which thinks that it's OK to rudely talk loudly about all sorts of things in all sorts of public and semi-public spaces, even to the point of interrupting actual interactions with people in the same space to talk with someone on the other end of the phone who could probably quite happily have waited another five or ten minutes to hear about the details of your date the other week with someone who might or might not be going to Margalite's little party on Saturday night."
:-)
I agree that cell phones are often used when they didn't really need to be. What I really want is a portable way to check messages (implied: and a way for people to leave messages). Asychronous access would be fine in 90% of the cases.
I wonder if my current answering machine can be queried remotely. Its predecessor claimed this ability but didn't deliver (or maybe the code they gave me was wrong; I never tried all 10,000 options), so I never got into the habit. Of course, in this case I wouldn't have known that I had a message warning me of a cancellation, where if I had something that blinked or vibrated or whatever to let me know, I'd then know to check.
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Re: Cell phones are *evil*
Date: 2002-02-14 08:02 am (UTC):-)
I agree that cell phones are often used when they didn't really need to be. What I really want is a portable way to check messages (implied: and a way for people to leave messages). Asychronous access would be fine in 90% of the cases.
I wonder if my current answering machine can be queried remotely. Its predecessor claimed this ability but didn't deliver (or maybe the code they gave me was wrong; I never tried all 10,000 options), so I never got into the habit. Of course, in this case I wouldn't have known that I had a message warning me of a cancellation, where if I had something that blinked or vibrated or whatever to let me know, I'd then know to check.