Me and my mobile phone
I’ve been tagged in a slightly odd meme by the irrepressible Matt Wardman:
The assignment: Your phone, exactly 139 words explaining why it is your phone, and a hero.
Here goes…
This is my phone.
I use it to wake me up, email, text, Twitter, TwitPic, surf the internet, blog, read, write and even, to make telephone calls. Apparently, it works in Afghanistan, but only occasionally in Somerset as the signal there is rubbish.
I did most of my degree on the previous version.
The revolution may not be televised, but it will be covered on a range of social media.
It is powered by lots of tiny gnomes on tiny bikes who have to pedal really quickly if I want to call long distance. The gnomes used to be bigger, but they became smaller, and that’s why Nokia had to change the size of the power cord. Hey, it makes as much sense as any other explanation.
Large and a bit geeky – it is a good representation of me.
I tag the Political Penguin, James Higham and Laurie Penny.
xD.
June 27th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
As I said over at my place, I was bored with politics.
Is that a Nokia 9000 Communicator or equivalent (that dates me)?
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June 27th, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Yes, it’s a Nokia E90, the latest iteration of the Communicator. It’s the third communicator I’ve had; I did most of my university class and lecture notes, and a couple of essays, on a 9210.
The Communicators presaged the smartphone by essentially bolting a mobile phone onto a Psion. They really are tremendously useful.
Honestly, I don’t work for Nokia!
xD.
June 27th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Essays? Ouch.
And a hero …?
June 28th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Essays? Ouch? Not at all. I did them in the smoking area of the students’ union with plenty of coffee. They took longer than they needed but weren’t unpleasant to write.
As to a hero… Simon Bolivar. Don’t know what the connection is to mobiles, though.
xD.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Just spotted your tag. Damn, how do I compress the love of my E90 into 139 words? I’ll give it a bash tomorrow.