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[HudsonVC]

Rather surprising guest appearance at the end, there.

[AugustWest]

SPEAK IT GINSBURG!

Hmm.  I have a feeling that Beef will acquit himself more admirably that Ray did.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Why does Roast Beef have five fingers but Cartilage Head have four? ONSTAD YOU ARE A HACK AND BEAT YOUR WIFE.

[Carlos del Vaca]

OMG IT'S CH.  I was just looking at his strips a few days ago. 

I really wasn't ready for that this week.
Yeah, I'll take it.  Shit, dude.

[pmcd9]

Gasp!

[CortJstr]

Why does Roast Beef have five fingers but Cartilage Head have four? ONSTAD YOU ARE A HACK AND BEAT YOUR WIFE.

The missing fingers are the least of his problems.

[Toaster]

I got it on good authority that Death grabs its car keys off the table by the door for each of us the moment we are born. That's why I siphoned his gas. You're welcome.

[ananke]

Do I sense a classic "I have no idea how to resolve this story so I'm just gonna have it veer in a completely irrelevant direction" move going on? All helicopters with long legs style? I'm excited by this.

[littlefallsmets]

A man that can't stand to be seen with a Blackberry is a man that has my respect.

[smick]

In 2001 I went to work for a wireless cellphone carrier.  I was issued my first cellphone.  I was embarrassed and thought I might be perceived as putting on airs. 

"WHOAAA LOOK'IT ROCKER-FELLER HERE, TALKIN' ON HIS MO-BILE-PHONE!  asshole."

In 2009, everyone has one.   I'm still embarrassed by them.

[jaydub]

I fought hard not to be leased to a pager for my first few years here.  Now I note my cell-phone number is on the handy laminated card my admin issues to our work team.

[littlefallsmets]

I mean, cell phones... I get cell phones for certain people.

Between rolling around at the bottom rung of the entertainment industry drivin' around fetching things and now drivin' the old piss-and-blood van for a large combined portion of my life, I get it, there are lifestyles and occupations where you need that shit in your pocket for business and/or emergencies. Especially now that I spend about half my waking thought process on the white hot fear that my little brother had a seizure in a men's room in the last hour, cracked his head on a urinal and is dying in a puddle of urine, alone and scared in the face of The End... I get it. I get it. For pressing business and emergencies when you're mobile... full-on.

But holy fuck. If you need a GPS, get a GPS. If you need a digital camera, get a digital camera. If you need to send text messages and e-mails to people, wait until you get to your office computer or your home computer and send your little -faces out. If you need to play music, get a fuck*ng iPod! It's all very easy.

To be able to do all that from one incredibly expensive-to-use device in your pocket, why do you want yet another way for people to track you down and bother you about completely irrelevant shit? If what they had to say was so important that you needed to know it immediately, they wouldn't text you or e-mail you the information... they would CALL you.

ON YOUR CELL PHONE. All I need is yet another crutch for my already criminally divided attentions.

[theinevitable]

I don't even understand what you're saying there.

People should carry a camera and an ipod and a GPS separately, or else should have a device that does all of those but is not a phone, but really if someone wanted to get in contact with you they would use a phone.

I like talking to people. I like when people call me. This is the difference here. I like having my handy little iphone guy, and I like that people can call me on it, in addition to checking my mail. and playing Tower Defense games while waiting for classes, and listening to music, and looking up movie times, etc.

I can't really think of times when people have called me when I wanted to be alone (other than when I was sleeping, at which point I turn off my phone). Mostly times when I wished people would call me when I was alone. What is with this whole "aloneness" thing?

I was initially embarrassed by my iphone, and then realized there is >60 percent smartphone saturation at my school, and tried to get over it.

[littlefallsmets]

What I'm saying is that... man, in the old days, all the Big Scary science fiction was about the government forcing us to have cameras and microphones and tracking devices fuck*ng everywhere and MAYBE a few scrappy free-thinkers would be actively fighting it but everyone would, at least, secretly hate it but feel they had no way to act against it.

And now... everybody not only WANTS these things and NEEDS these things but they'll even sign a two-year committment to pay slightly less for the newest iteration of all these devices that tell everyone exactly where they are and exactly what they're doing at all times and... the coolest person is the one with the shiniest newest tracking-distraction device.
 
Why would anyone want MORE ways that people can bug them when they're in one of the few situations when they can't be directly bugged without actively carrying the tools to be bugged? Why would you want another tool whereby people can get totally offended if you don't immediately answer their piddle-shit requests about this or that, because they know that even when you're walking around a bookstore IF YOU VALUED YOUR FRIENDSHIP/VALUED YOUR JOB YOU WOULD CHECK YOUR E-MAIL EVERY TEN MINUTES?

Call me nuts but there's something sacred about having quiet time and alone time, even if its in a crowd. It's bad enough to completely divest yourself of your privacy ANYWHERE for the sake of allowing people to call you with their voice in the case of an emergency... that's bad enough but I get it. But why the fuck would you want people to be able to bug you anywhere with things that even THEY don't consider worth actually vocalizing to communicate in the breaking of your sacred solitude?

I can't say I get it.

[wombat]

Inev, you may not get it because people call you for pleasure, not business. If you've never gotten a phone call from someone who wants you to drop everything and do something for work instead of whatever interesting thing you are doing at the moment, yeah, you probably don't understand the attraction of being unreachable.

You know, I agree that people who seem to use their Blackberry to show how important they are are annoying, but I would get something with mobile internet access in a minute if I could justify the expense.  Like when I am waiting on a long line or something like that, it just seems like the obvious thing to do is send email or check a messageboard. It's smaller than carrying a book everywhere. And it doesn't bother people around you like a cellphone conversation would. But I am not away from a computer for enough hours in a day to justify it.

I definitely wouldn't mind if it looked like a stock ticker, though. Or maybe one of those Star Trek communicators.