Truth in a highly condensed form

[sabotabby]

The telephone was an aberation in human development. It was a 70 year or so period where for some reason humans decided it was socially acceptable to ring a loud bell in someone else’s life and they were expected to come running, like dogs. This was the equivalent of thinking it was okay to walk into someone’s living room and start shouting. it was never okay. It’s less okay now. Telephone calls are rude. They are interruptive. Technology has solved this brief aberration in human behavior. We have a thing now called THE TEXT MESSAGE. It is magical, non-intrusive, optional, and, just like human speech originally was meant to be, is turn based and two way. You talk. I talk next. Then you talk. And we do it when it’s convenient for both of us.

This is true and in a few years when there are no more loud noises followed by disembodied voices, you'll know just how true it is.

In other news, if you haven't tried the Geocities-izer site (make any website look like it was made in 1996 by a 13-year-old), you are missing a good half-hour of fun. Minimum.