My big birthday present this year was the Blackberry Pearl -- a completely frivolous and over-the-top piece of technology that only has perceived value in major metropolitan areas, and even there it's kind of absurd. It's at least not the iPhone, which makes my brain bleed just thinking about it.
Anyway, I'm a sucker for the tail end of a trend so I got one. For the first week I was afraid to touch it -- somehow I convinced myself that the keycode for "Unlock" also meant "Call Europe." Then one night I found myself in a room full of dorky phone boys who I persuaded (read: begged) to set it up with Google and GMail and Facebook and whatever else. It was awesome, and then awkward, which is a pretty persistent pattern for much of the things that have happened in my life.
I never figured out how to add GoogleChat. That was too complicated, somehow. Recently I decided that I'm competent enough now with my phone to install GoogleChat on my own, so now I have that going for me. And on the one hand, it's pretty baller, but on the other hand, I want to die.
There are times, usually when a great scientific or technological advance has been achieved, when those annoying philosophical-types sit back and wonder, "Yes, yes, we see that you could do it -- but should you?" Well no one listens to them even then because they're annoying and everyone's all frustrated by what a stupid question that is, and why would you ask that question after it's already happened, anyway? Where the devil were you before I became consumed with the dream for constant availability?
Seriously, where? 'Cause I immediately regret my decision.
There's no more playing "hard-to-get" when you're on GoogleChat 24/7 -- everyone knows where to find you. And you aren't going to ignore the tell-tale call of the new chat. You're too curious. You need to know who said something, and what they said. It's non-negotiable, you need to f*cking know.
I never thought I'd get tired of talking, but it's overwhelming. There's no time off from socializing! In college this would have been the coolest thing ever.
Youthful Enthusiasm for Communication Technology FAIL.
Friday, August 22, 2008
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Do you even pay your own bills, or are mommy and daddy still doing that for you as well?
Oh and you know nothing about obama if you believe he stands for individual freedom. He believes in the collective and from what I can tell so do you, so don't sit there and say you believe in individual liberty and the American dream when what you stand for is quite the opposite.
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