Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Never owned a cell phone. And I'm a lawyer in active practice. Not a matter of status. Always figured that no call, other than family emergency, was so important that it could not wait until I next checked my voicemail - usually not more than a couple of hours - and decided whether the incoming client call was that emergent. On the other hand, I've always made it a practice to return every client call within not more than 24 hours, whether or not I thought it important. Because it is always important to the client. Seth LaK 9 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hemenway" <Jim@hemenway.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) > Yep! That's for sure why I haven't had one since around 1995! > > :-) > > Jim - http://www.hemenway.com > > > sam wrote: > > > At my job, it is now a status symbol to NOT carry a cell phone. It has > > come to mean that you are too important to be bothered with incessant > > phone calls, and that there is an underling who will contact you in an > > emergency. > > > > Sam S > > > > > > > > Daniel Ridings wrote: > > > >> I'm just like Nathan. In fact, I didn't even bother getting a land-line > >> for my Oslo address. I can be in Africa, anywhere in Europe or even the > >> places I go to in the US (Chicago, midwest area) and people can always > >> call me on the same number. I would say that around 80 - 90% of all > >> 15-year-olds in Sweden and probably Norway too have cell-phones. It's > >> just > >> the way they communicate now. When that many have one, there's no status > >> to it at all. > >> > >> Daniel > >> > >> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Hi Peter, > >>> > >>> Usually I agree with your comments, but here I must say that at least on > >>> my side of the Atlantic, having a mobile phone ceased to be a status > >>> symbol of any kind long ago. It is simply an indispensable part of > >>> personal life for hundreds of millions of people. I don't even give out > >>> my fixed phone number anymore (home or office); most of the time when > >>> people want to call me, they do not even know which country I am in :-) > >>> > >>> Nathan > >>> > >>> Peter Klein wrote: > >>> > >>> In this respect "digital" joins things like cell phones, PDAs, fax > >>> > >>>> machines, PCs, Cabbage Patch dolls, hula hoops and oat bran as Stuff > >>>> That > >>>> All With-It People Gotta Have. > >>>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Nathan Wajsman > >>> Almere, The Netherlands > >>> > >>> e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > >>> Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > >>> > >>> Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com > >>> -- > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html