by AArdvark » Sun Oct 28, 2012 7:12 am
People under twenty five have never been without a phone so it's part security blanket, part life-line, part social status. Very sad, really.
Strange how they don't all get straight As in school with so much information right at their fingertips.
That reminds me of a Rubes cartoon I saw once. ( I can't find it so I'll just describe it)
In a classroom, one of the young students is holding up a smartphone above his head. To the teacher he says:
'If I have this then I don't need you.'
Something like that, only wittier. Damn, I wish I could find it. It was hang-on-the-fridge worthy.
What kills me is when you have two or more of them all sitting around and they simultaneously whip out their phones and start a phone feature discussion while texting other people.
Cellphones (texting!) at work are a distraction and unproductive. It's too easy to have your mind on a texting conversation and make bad parts, or worse yet lose a finger or something. Plus the management is old school in a lot of ways and frowns on newfangled stuff.
Should have seen the hoops they had to go through when all of our customers went paperless. They had to upgrade the entire front office network (to XP!) AND get DSL internet just because the customers all wanted to send us blueprints ELECTRONICALLY!
And here we are with that over-sized mailbox out by the street so all the blueprints we USED to get would fit when the mailman came by.
THE
WRONG ERA
AARDVARK
People under twenty five have never been without a phone so it's part security blanket, part life-line, part social status. Very sad, really.
Strange how they don't all get straight As in school with so much information right at their fingertips.
That reminds me of a Rubes cartoon I saw once. ( I can't find it so I'll just describe it)
In a classroom, one of the young students is holding up a smartphone above his head. To the teacher he says:
'If I have this then I don't need you.'
Something like that, only wittier. Damn, I wish I could find it. It was hang-on-the-fridge worthy.
What kills me is when you have two or more of them all sitting around and they simultaneously whip out their phones and start a phone feature discussion while texting other people.
Cellphones (texting!) at work are a distraction and unproductive. It's too easy to have your mind on a texting conversation and make bad parts, or worse yet lose a finger or something. Plus the management is old school in a lot of ways and frowns on newfangled stuff.
Should have seen the hoops they had to go through when all of our customers went paperless. They had to upgrade the entire front office network (to XP!) AND get DSL internet just because the customers all wanted to send us blueprints ELECTRONICALLY!
And here we are with that over-sized mailbox out by the street so all the blueprints we USED to get would fit when the mailman came by.
THE
WRONG ERA
AARDVARK