Odd, isn't it, those teeny tiny cellphones? I just finished watching
an episode of "The Mentalist"--which has some of the best writing on
network TV--in which the big biker gang members, in full biker
regalia and built like brick outhouses, are using dainty little
cellphones to conduct their biker-gang criminal enterprises. (The TV
audience is expected to accept this as realistic and true-to-life.)
As a PRACTICAL matter, a small cellphone fits more easily into a
pocket, especially if you're wearing snug bluejeans. A small
cellphone also doesn't make you look geeky--you don't have to have
one of those dorky cellphone cases attached to your belt to
conveniently carry your cellphone (as you probably did in cellphone
prehistory, in the 1990's). And these days, microminiature gadgets
of all kinds are status symbols, in part because the latest model of
anything is likely to be smaller and to have more functions--and
possibly better design.
And you can always secretly pretend that your flip-phone is a
Communicator, if your favorite Star Trek is Star Trek Classic.
(Which mine is; it's dated, of course, but Classic had some of the
best writing and acting available at the time, which is more than
some of the later series and movies can say. Especially the latest
Star Trek movie, which doesn't even PRETEND to be SCIENCE fiction.
It turns out that the current producers have made a conscious
decision to keep science per se out of the movies and books. Hand-
waving is so much more fun!)
--Constance Warner
--Constance Warner
On Jan 7, 2010, at 9:34 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Anyone remember the Princess Phone? Remember how guys would have
nothing to do with one of those. Guys would rather walk three blocks
to a pay phone back in the day if their only other choice was to use a
Princess Phone. Their problem? It was a size thing. No "real" guy
was going to use a small little phone for anything other than throwing
one across a room. These days, guys are obsessed with getting the
teeniest, tiniest, most mini-demi Princessy Phone they can get their
manicured hands on. Just an observation. So what happened?
Steve
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