Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yep, out on the road the cell is king. I can't even begin to count how many assignments were saved by it. However, when I start hearing instructions en Espanol, I take the battery out. The danger of cloning along the border is just too great. Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: Johnny Deadman <lists@johnbrownlow.com> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) >Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 3:07 PM > > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html