I'm proud to say that I am one of the remaining 7% who doesn't have a cell phone and who has never had a cell phone despite my employer insisting that I carry one of their's. I refused and we compromised, instead I carried an old Motorola Pager for a couple of months until they forgot about it and it has been in my dresser drawer ever since. The batteries wore out five or six years ago.
When I hear a cellphone ring, I never wonder if it is mine.
George, I'll admit it took me a long time to get a cell phone. When I lived in California, I swore I would never get one. Californians, at that time, were on the cutting edge of the cell phone culture. You couldn't turn around without seeing someone with a phone at their ear.
They would walk out of the office building already talking on the phone; drive down the freeway with the cell phone at their ear; in the supermarket, etc.
The worst, in my book, was a neighbor of mine who walked out of his apartment with a child in one hand and the phone in the other.
He walked the child to the swimming pool, located directly across from my apartment's patio. Put the child in the pool, sat down in a lounge chair, and never stopped talking on that damn phone. No amount of trying to get Dad's attention, by the child, did any good.
Finally, still on the phone, he picked up the boy and walked back to his unit.
Cell phones, iPods, etc. have their place. I now admit to owning two of them. They are convenient. If you can do your job without the need to be connected to the office 24/7 then good for you.
As for the pager. The pager I had was the same size as my TV remote. I hate to tell you how many times I discovered that my pager was home on the counter, and the remote was in my purse.
George, I went without a cell phone for about 5 or 6 months in 2005, I used only a pager. I had a heck of a time finding pay phones. they just aren't around like they used to be. So I got another phone and feel naked without it. With the texting, my son texts me a lot and I hate it (mostly why he does it) because I can't read it very well and it takes me forever to type a reply. I don't know how people can do it so fast.
Did you see the speed that one guy can achieve while texting? Amazing!
Why is Howard doing this right? First he is aware that while his advertisers are paying the bills, there would be no one for them to send their message without the posters. Ergo, we have more than enough room to write our posts and to read them. We aren't relegated to a small space at the top or bottom of the screen.
He has also made it user friendly (although, I still have a problem posting videos that aren't the size of a big screen TV - thanks Howard for getting it down to the right size).
I wish he had an editorial page, so his editorial views were separate from his headlines. But, that is just me.
:)
I'm proud to say that I am
I'm proud to say that I am one of the remaining 7% who doesn't have a cell phone and who has never had a cell phone despite my employer insisting that I carry one of their's. I refused and we compromised, instead I carried an old Motorola Pager for a couple of months until they forgot about it and it has been in my dresser drawer ever since. The batteries wore out five or six years ago.
When I hear a cellphone ring, I never wonder if it is mine.
George, I'll admit it took me
George, I'll admit it took me a long time to get a cell phone. When I lived in California, I swore I would never get one. Californians, at that time, were on the cutting edge of the cell phone culture. You couldn't turn around without seeing someone with a phone at their ear.
They would walk out of the office building already talking on the phone; drive down the freeway with the cell phone at their ear; in the supermarket, etc.
The worst, in my book, was a neighbor of mine who walked out of his apartment with a child in one hand and the phone in the other.
He walked the child to the swimming pool, located directly across from my apartment's patio. Put the child in the pool, sat down in a lounge chair, and never stopped talking on that damn phone. No amount of trying to get Dad's attention, by the child, did any good.
Finally, still on the phone, he picked up the boy and walked back to his unit.
Cell phones, iPods, etc. have their place. I now admit to owning two of them. They are convenient. If you can do your job without the need to be connected to the office 24/7 then good for you.
As for the pager. The pager I had was the same size as my TV remote. I hate to tell you how many times I discovered that my pager was home on the counter, and the remote was in my purse.
George, I went without a cell
George, I went without a cell phone for about 5 or 6 months in 2005, I used only a pager. I had a heck of a time finding pay phones. they just aren't around like they used to be. So I got another phone and feel naked without it. With the texting, my son texts me a lot and I hate it (mostly why he does it) because I can't read it very well and it takes me forever to type a reply. I don't know how people can do it so fast.
Did you see the speed that
Did you see the speed that one guy can achieve while texting? Amazing!
Why is Howard doing this right? First he is aware that while his advertisers are paying the bills, there would be no one for them to send their message without the posters. Ergo, we have more than enough room to write our posts and to read them. We aren't relegated to a small space at the top or bottom of the screen.
He has also made it user friendly (although, I still have a problem posting videos that aren't the size of a big screen TV - thanks Howard for getting it down to the right size).
I wish he had an editorial page, so his editorial views were separate from his headlines. But, that is just me.
:)