tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538303186554500986.post6795208459559878267..comments2023-05-22T01:58:44.656-07:00Comments on Three Things: 3 Technology TragediesGlennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08019672085936530855noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538303186554500986.post-4792907646782616712011-01-18T18:45:56.245-08:002011-01-18T18:45:56.245-08:00I'll tell you one thing! As much as I am attr...I'll tell you one thing! As much as I am attracted to the newest, shiniest, tiniest object that has come up this week, I also can't stand it! Especially if you still remember the days when you could not call your girlfriend when you were out with the boys because there really wasn't a phone available where you were, maybe. Now when you go out for an hour you get fifteen texts needing an explanation for every single thing that you are doing. <br /><br />Every time I get on facebook I see another douchebag posting how they just had a cheeseburger at Johnny Rockets and it "Totally Delish>;}!" Then twenty minutes later another posting from the same douchebag talking about how he's "CHEATING ON HIS DIET at Cold Stone Creamery;/!!" Cannot stand these )*( (assholes)<br /><br />My point is simply that it seems with all of these technological leaps and bounds, come consequences. I can't remember the last time I went on a walk and didn't check my Blackberry fifteen times, or didn't have a computer in my lap for four hours a day killing off what sperm I have left.<br /><br />-KEVINAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538303186554500986.post-79179928021929302062011-01-11T16:48:37.825-08:002011-01-11T16:48:37.825-08:00My comment was that, although I hate dating myself...My comment was that, although I hate dating myself and showing what a nerd I am, we've been using "LOL," "ROFL," "ROFLMAOASTC," "AFK," "BRB," etc. since the earlier 90's with BBS's. (Yes, the commas and periods go inside the quotation marks. At least, I have never seen any rule to the contrary.)<br /><br />It's really fun trying to decipher the context when people just randomly take out every vowel in a word. <br /><br />How come I can't use my facebook profile to link. Not fair. :):)Kristinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04182595073446386473noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538303186554500986.post-11082471036452613462011-01-11T10:57:18.144-08:002011-01-11T10:57:18.144-08:00Pro of the Con Number Two: A Voice for Everyone (...Pro of the Con Number Two: A Voice for Everyone (Who Used to Put Bombs in Mailboxes)<br /><br />This one's easy. Sure....every Kaczynskite living in the woods in a shack made out of empty iPhone boxes and running his satellite uplink off of batteries powered by his own urine now has the ability to broadcast his thoughts on Sarah Palin's immenent ascension worldwide. The great thing about that though is that those guys have ALWAYS existed, we just never knew where they were unless they blew a few people up so that the New York Times would publish their crappy little meditations on all things wingnut.<br /><br />I don't mind that they're a little crazy...I don't like QUIET crazy...quiet and crazy makes me nervous.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16916038035993249208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2538303186554500986.post-9579795102736882852011-01-11T10:43:15.065-08:002011-01-11T10:43:15.065-08:00Let me offer you pros for two of your cons:
The...Let me offer you pros for two of your cons: <br /><br />The Smartphone Hunch: <br />Sadly, we can't all be the erudite, eye candy, social god, dance machine that, oh, say any random lawyer with a blog might be. From the moment they walk in the door that person is 100% occupied until they collapse hours later, exhausted and satiated, probably on the bed of twin Japanese human origami artists. <br /><br />For the rest of us, the Smartphone Hunch fills those frequent moments when we aren't talking to anyone, don't like the song, have exhausted in futility all of our opening lines on the hottie in the low-rise leather jeans, don't have to pee and already have a full beer. <br /><br />These (all too) frequent moments used to be occuppied by standing around, staring into space, bobbing one's head to the music (probably out of time) or pretending to be amused by something the people standing next to us said even though they weren't actually talking to us and we can't hear them anyway, all in a vain attempt to establish please god just a little human contact.<br /><br />But everyone, no matter how maladjusted, has someone who wants to hear from them, even if they aren't people that would ever get admitted to a club that doesn't start with the words "chess", "science", "Star Trek" or "Philatelists'". The Smartphone lets us fill the souless, empty moments by reaching out to less fortunate nobody's outside, and for all you know we're texting our good buddy Brad who's dating our ex Angelina. So...yeah...suck on that!Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16916038035993249208noreply@blogger.com