Vonage. English woman calls her "nana". Says text messages and letters are "just thrown aside" and conversations "you don't get rid of. They're memories."
Say what??
Like the old communist trick of saying something was so and expecting everyone to agree it's so.
Conversations are totally ephemeral. Each word is lost as soon as it's said. Texts can be stored and reread. Letters are permanent. They might fade, but it's pretty hard to totally destroy a letter.
The woman also says conversations are more in the heart. I can go with that. Phoning is more like being with someone, which is why it's been so popular since it was invented. It's immediate, and you can hear your loved one's voice.
Writing is far more permanent, however.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Seth MacFarlane for the Oscars.
He ridicules James Bond for requesting "Shaken, not stirred," intimating that Bond is naive and has never had a martini before. Poppycock!! Martinis always used to be stirred. Certainly, they were in Ian Flemming's time (he who invented Bond). Martini pitchers came with special spoons or stirrers. Shaking leads to cloudy, aerated, bruised martinis.
Bond calls out "shaken" because he wants his drink in a different way than standard--and this is mostly for the double entendre. For you, Seth, the whole point is that "stirred" refers to becoming aroused, and shaken refers to mind blowing sex. Lots more than merely aroused. If you haven't caught on yet, Bond is all about the sex puns.
According to Wikipedia, Flemming, himself, according to his biographer, liked his martinis shaken, but who's to know if that's to be like his hero, or a true preference. The Wikipedia article, in a similar disconnect with its origins, seems to suggest that vodka is the standard liquor in a martini, whereas in fact "vodka martini" used to be a call out, and gin was standard. My own personal opinion is that the point of a martini is to use vermouth (which is pretty obnoxious on its own) to obscure the rather obnoxious flavor of juniper (gin).
Get your history right before you go around taunting people, Seth! It's bad enough that you're behaving like a bully. You don't have to show yourself to be an idiot as well.
He ridicules James Bond for requesting "Shaken, not stirred," intimating that Bond is naive and has never had a martini before. Poppycock!! Martinis always used to be stirred. Certainly, they were in Ian Flemming's time (he who invented Bond). Martini pitchers came with special spoons or stirrers. Shaking leads to cloudy, aerated, bruised martinis.
Bond calls out "shaken" because he wants his drink in a different way than standard--and this is mostly for the double entendre. For you, Seth, the whole point is that "stirred" refers to becoming aroused, and shaken refers to mind blowing sex. Lots more than merely aroused. If you haven't caught on yet, Bond is all about the sex puns.
According to Wikipedia, Flemming, himself, according to his biographer, liked his martinis shaken, but who's to know if that's to be like his hero, or a true preference. The Wikipedia article, in a similar disconnect with its origins, seems to suggest that vodka is the standard liquor in a martini, whereas in fact "vodka martini" used to be a call out, and gin was standard. My own personal opinion is that the point of a martini is to use vermouth (which is pretty obnoxious on its own) to obscure the rather obnoxious flavor of juniper (gin).
Get your history right before you go around taunting people, Seth! It's bad enough that you're behaving like a bully. You don't have to show yourself to be an idiot as well.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
ATT iPhone with the kids. The one about doing two things at once.
Somebody make that man stand in the corner for an hour then write an essay on the subject of "I will not be rude and dismissive to little children."
Whether you think little kids are charming or annoying, whether you think these spots do a good job of representing the speed and multitasking abilities of the iPhone on the ATT network (my opinion on that is mixed--my take away is fast like a cheetah (other spot) and do two things at once like the nodding and flapping boy, but I didn't remember what they were actually advertising...)--whether you buy into any of that, the man was so nasty to that sweet little girl he really deserves to be punished.
Somebody make that man stand in the corner for an hour then write an essay on the subject of "I will not be rude and dismissive to little children."
Whether you think little kids are charming or annoying, whether you think these spots do a good job of representing the speed and multitasking abilities of the iPhone on the ATT network (my opinion on that is mixed--my take away is fast like a cheetah (other spot) and do two things at once like the nodding and flapping boy, but I didn't remember what they were actually advertising...)--whether you buy into any of that, the man was so nasty to that sweet little girl he really deserves to be punished.
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