If buying “vintage PCs” to play Quake or downloading old NES ROMS is considered mainstream and squeezing the guts of an Atari 800 into a homemade laptop ascends beyond the heavens of ubergeek chic, then it should only be a matter of time before the “flip-flops and flanel” contingent of techno power nerds will be slinging numeric pagers around like it’s 1998 all over again. I say we get started right away. American Messaging has a promotion going that includes a Sun Telecom Z400 pager for 5 dollars with a 2 year contract. Granted, no “Ridin’ Dirty” ringtones, no 1.5 Megapixel camera, no Bejeweled and no Myspace Mobile. Your yearly paging contract is affording you something much greater than any of those things, however, because it’s buying you freedom. That’s right, I said Freedom. The Freedom to leave your cell phone at home and not be bothered. The Freedom to know that, when your pager does go off; somewhere, someone is trying to get in touch with you and you can call them back.
Or not.
Seriously.
I’m currently re-purchasing my movie collection on Laser Disc…
man I hate cell phones.
I hate that I feel dependant upon mine. I hate that I can’t just walk somewhere alone and not feel compelled to call someone. I hate that I can’t just shut the fuck up and enjoy silence sometimes.
Sometimes I wish that you would just shut the fuck up too.
I keed, I keed.