A Semi-Critics Guide to Human Interaction
Guest posting by Jonathan H. (Pennsylvania)
It’s 8:30am and your bluetooth rings; “Hey I’ll be there in five minutes can you cover for me with the boss? I know I’m running late traffice seems bad let me see if I can gps my way out of this traffic jam using my Blackberry. Goodbye.” Instantaneously as you hang up, your smart phone beeps with that annoying sound you set for when your boss shoots you a quick text as to why you’re not at your desk yet. Upon arriving to work you scramble to check your emails from the previous day on your work commissioned laptop that you aren’t allowed to access from home. Fifteen minutes later you finish all return email correspondence that you missed after you had left the office the previous day. Yep, its your morning routine, every morning and throughout the day technology keeps you up to the minute on news, work alerts, missed assignments and appointments, your schedule for the day, and the ever so popular “How many times my heart has beat so far today” app that you just couldn’t resist downloading…
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Earlier today, while working, my Twitter feed refreshed with a tweet from Facebook asking how happy I was. Well, actually how happy the nation was… Apparently, for the past several years, Facebook (with the help of the University of Oregon psychology department) has been compiling data from user’s status updates on the “happiness index” of the nation, dutifully called the Gross National Happiness Index. So very interesting.
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Just found this of interest and thought ya’ll might enjoy. Don’t really know the validity of all of it, but it came from the internet so it must be true!
1. Money isn’t made out of paper, it’s made out of cotton..
2. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.
3. The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a ‘tittle’.
4. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
5. Susan Lucci is the daughter of Phyllis Diller.
6. 40% of McDonald’s profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
7. 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
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I was at Panera this morning, ordering my breakfast sandwich and coffee while enjoying the sample slices of Cinnamon Crunch bagels they provide when I overhead an older gentleman talking on his cell phone (and by older, I mean in his later 50’s and possibly into his 60’s). I didn’t take much of a notice other than he was talking while ordering his food. This in itself was rude, but what caught my attention the most is when he hung up after ordering and he was using an iPhone 3G S.
Now, as many people know, I am not the biggest Apple/Mac fan; I really don’t notice the “major difference” in operation or quality of the devices. But, I am willing to concede that their iPhone has surpassed many boundaries that other devices have not and that their marketing tactics are apparently working quite well. Apple has been able to steal so much mobile device market share from other contenders (such as RIM/Blackberry or Microsoft) that those companies are reacting with slashing prices and adjusting their technology. Too little too late… Even with talks of Verizon having an iPhone Lite on shelves before the end of year are more speculation and good-wishing than reality.
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