[kwlug disc.] 'Blackberries make you stupid!'

[Donald Tees]

Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 February 2007 8:42 pm, Unsolicited wrote:
>   
>> I have long hated the idea of carrying a cell. Hated even more the
>> idea of carrying two things. So I get a LifeDrive. Then a cell. Go figure.
>>     
>
> That's exactly how it happened with me... Palm then Cell, then Palm+Cell and 
> Cell (Treo and TX).
>
>   
I have neither,  but then I have no car or television, either. I work at 
home, over the net, so i am beside the phone all day, and on it a dozen 
times a day when I want to clarify something.  There is also ample time 
during compiles and such to check mail, though not always the time to 
write a full answer.

I had a cell for a period, and hated it.  Instead of being constantly 
interrupted for eight to ten hours a day, I was constantly interrupted 
twenty-four hours a day.  I got rid of it, and swore I'd never get another.

Perhaps it is different, growing up in a more modern world, but when I 
was growing up (I was born in 1947), a phone was there so you could call 
a doctor in an emergency. If I want to talk to someone, then I go to 
their house, or invite them here.  I never use the telephone for "just 
talking" unless the person is at least a continent away.  Email, and 
Usenet, I have used extensively for years, but then I am text oriented. 
The little hand-helds never turned my crank. I always wanted my own 
mainframe.

Donald