Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Cell Phones
Have you got the latest in cell phones from Santa this year? I'll admit to being a near luddite in many things and cell phones is definitely one of those. TV shows on your cell phone. You can tell they aren't marketing the older generation here. I'm lucky to be able to read a telephone number on the screen let alone watch the Green Bay Packers get beat again. The way I figure it, the back of Star would be about 1/8" wide in a normal huddle picture. Can you image instant replay on that tiny little screen? I want to see details on TV. Let's face it, I'm not watching Stacked or reruns of Cleopatra 2025 to follow the plot.
And as if people need something else to make cell phones irritating. Cell phone ring tones - sheesh. Why on earth do people need three stanzas of the Star Wars theme song to let them know their cell phone has a call? It's not like the phone tone sounds good. It's like those old synthesizer melodies from the early 80s. Nothing but raucous sawtooth and square waves modulated to resemble some hit tune. You'd get better sounding noise from Fibber McGee's closet.
It's bad enough watching some cretin in an SUV flying down the interstate with their phone glued to an ear. Now you'll have to watch them as they have a phone glued to an eye. However, I suppose it will save them from having to flip over the DVD in their player while dodging little Hondas and Mazdas in the slow lane.
