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So, I got an email the other day from my esteemed editor at the Pioneer, a gentle reminder that I have a column scheduled for the next issue, and therefore a deadline to meet. That deadline is today.
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I have the exact same attitude to technology. I don't own an iPod, or iPad or MP3 or whatever as I just can't be bothered to try and learn how to use them. My dad (!) gave me a Palm Pilot (quite) a few years ago and I know it was an amazing gift, but I couldn't get the synch whatever to do what it was supposed to, was told I had to download a different bla bla bla. I never used it (and feel horribly guilty). I have a cell phone, and it has a touch screen (drives me batshit - every time I put it in my bag it calls someone BY ITSELF) and many, many functions, but I only use it to a) make calls, b) receive calls and c) wake me up in the morning.
I'm a Luddite, it's true, but I get by, well enough.
Posted by: Kirsty | July 28, 2011 at 02:48 PM
I'm with both of you on this. I hate reading instructions, so things that require them usually are not purchased by me, unless necessary. I did get a Blackberry, because the phone I'd had for seven years finally died. It took me a year to discover that I could 'lock' the keys so that it wouldn't ghost call someone from my bag or pocket. Wink, wink, Kirsty. I don't get internet on it because, well, who the hell wants to be that accessible all the time? Aren't I accessible enough just by having a cell phone without having to check email on it, too? I would like an IPod, but the thought of having to learn how to use something that does too many things is prohibitive. So I got a Shuffle: I stick it into my computer and it randomly loads tunes from ITunes, randomly plays them, too.
Posted by: Pambasilea | July 28, 2011 at 03:16 PM
Hmmm, "locking" the keys, you say... Interesting... What puzzles me though is that the keys are only available via a touch screen, so when, for example, my phone called my plumber 17 TIMES in one afternoon, that seems to defy the laws of probability (all the right keys, in the right order, pressed accidentally in my bag, 17 times in one afternoon?), and my plumber isn't on any kind of speed dial (because of course I haven't worked out how to do that). I seriously have no idea how this stupid phone does it... And naturally I have no idea where the instructions are. Oh, and to cap it all, it now won't ring at all (and the profile isn't on silent or anything - THAT, I did figure out and check), it just goes straight to the answerphone. GAH. And I can't understand the appeal of internet on a phone: the screen is TINY! Even texting is a mystery (though I do it occasionally, but mainly because I hate talking on the phone, especially outside where other people can hear me) because the keys are TINY too. Maybe I should go back to something like carrier pigeon, or papyrus...
Posted by: Kirsty | July 28, 2011 at 05:44 PM
I think your phone is possessed. You don't need instructions. You need an exorcist. Good luck and God speed!
Posted by: Pambasilea | July 28, 2011 at 08:24 PM