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1. I couldn't agree more... I HATE cell phones. I think they are a tremendous intrusion on face to face personal interaction and experience at every level, and they are dangerous besides... driving while talking on the phone! Good Grief.

   I was walking down the Las Vegas strip looking at people and lights and generally enjoying myself a few months ago. Then I noticed how many people were walking around <b>talking on cell phones!</b> They were in couples, in groups, and one or more talking on the phone instead of being present with the people and places who were right there around them. It was sickening truly.

   I'll hear people talking in the grocery store and realize they are talking on the phone, not to anybody with them. And I notice that people talk louder on the phone then they do to somebody who is standing next to them. It is quite annoying.

   I confess I'm one of those people that shouts down the ringing cell phones in movie theatres.

   end rant

   Posted by Lillith156 on Aug. 11, 2005 at 11:51 AM

2. People who spend lots of time on the phone while in a social space are weird. There was a guy who came to visit my friend D~, and we went out on the town to get lunch, go shoe/boot-shopping, etc, and he spent almost half the afternoon on the phone with his girlfriend. Craaaaaazy. D~ was NOT amused.

   Still, they sure are useful for short bursts of conversation aimed at coordinating a lunch, finding each other in a crowd, etc.

   Posted by Auros on Aug. 11, 2005 at 2:54 PM

3. In the Good Old Days, people were forced to arrange an exact time and place for everyone to meet. People like being able to wing it nowadays, but it just means spending fifteen or twenty minutes wandering around and squawking, "Should we meet at the coffee shop? No? The burrito place? Where was the burrito place again? Does Joe know about this? Wait -- can you hear me now? Can you hear me now?" Arrrgh.

   Posted by Evan on Aug. 11, 2005 at 4:44 PM

4. Cell phones are convenient and helpful. I just couldn't live without mine!!! Get yours today and drive and talk and watch movies. Studies show that cell phone owners enjoy better sex lives and sometimes win the lottery. Also, your mother will thank you.

   Posted by Verizon Corp. on Aug. 11, 2005 at 6:21 PM

5. In the Good Old Days, if I was leaving work and wanted to figure out dinner plans with my girlfriend, and she wasn't at her desk at work, I'd just be out of luck. Now, I can call her up and find out whether I should be heading home, or over to her place. Also, given how many of my friends seem to have absolutely no sense of direction, "making plans ahead of time" is NOT a substitute for being able to talk them through things.

   Posted by Auros on Aug. 13, 2005 at 1:23 PM

6. Hmmm... momento.

   Posted by Master Betty on Aug. 16, 2005 at 6:14 PM

7. I almost never check your journal, since you post so rarely...but check it tonight I did, for which I am thoroughly glad, because I think you may be the single most amusing person I know.

   Posted by Littlest Sis on Aug. 22, 2005 at 10:33 PM

8. two months since a new entry???

   Posted by kathy on Oct. 09, 2005 at 11:16 PM

9. Evan's main page says: <b>Journal</b> Updated "when I feel like it", which these days translates to about one or two entries a week.

   Just because you read it on the internet, doesn't mean it's true... ;)

   Posted by xyz on Nov. 05, 2005 at 9:42 PM

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