Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I held out against a cell phone for a long while on principle, and also because one unfortunate documentary producer of my acquaintance was forced to conduct an interview with a VIP with the questions being fed down his ear by the control-freak Executive Producer (who didn't trust him, but couldn't be bothered to actually get off her ass and do the interview herself) via his cellphone. I decided I would not put myself in that position... However it turned out that living in Toronto but visiting London and LA frequently made having a cellphone a necessity. It hardly gets used in Toronto except for "should I buy milk on the way home" but it gets hammered when I am traveling. One important feature that few people seem to use is the 'off' button. It's there for a reason. On Dec 19, 2003, at 2:20 PM, Seth Rosner wrote: > 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 > > - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com http://www.unintended-consequences.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html