December 27, 2007

• Can You Hear Me Now? Good.

  

  This is Dr. Martin Cooper of the Motorola company. He is credited with the invention of the cell phone. In fact, he's holding the first cell phone ($3,500.00 when it came out in 1983) called the "Motorola DynaTAC 8000X." The first cellular telephone call was made by Cooper in 1973 to his rival across the street at Bell Labs, Joel Engel. Perhaps you recognize this phone from watching Saved By The Bell. It's the phone that preppy, Zach Morris regularly used. As interesting as this may be, I like giving credit where credit is due. Dr. Cooper was not the first one to invent the cell phone or make the first call. ===>

  

  I clearly remember watching Maxwell Smart do that. I think Dr. Cooper was just rippin' off ideas of of television. So where does this come from, Miguel? Where the hell are you going with this??? I shall tell you, faithful reader.

  

  Well, I was buying S.O. a new phone the other day and I noticed that there were two couples there getting phones for the family. I mean, one dad was getting 5 phones! The other was just getting 3. Each had kids as young as ten getting phones.

  

  Are you kidding me??? Back when I was a kid, we were expressly forbidden to even answer the house phone! Man, times are changing. And that may be a good thing, or not, depending on the subject.

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  And the other thing I was thinking about was that every generation thinks that they are so original, or superior in some way. What they don't realize is that history repeats itself more often than not. Fashions, hairstyles, a bunch of things...they've been used before. For example:

   

  Not too long ago, I was watching one of those dance movies at a car maintenance shop's waiting room. I was pretty bored and unfortunately, there was no control for the tv. Besides it was a movie that jut kept playing over and over. Not sure what it was called...but they're pretty much all the same. Anyway, there were a couple of teenage kids there too and they were really into the movie. They were dancing along with the tv! I gotta tell you, I was thoroughly entertained! Anyway, we got to talking and they were both learning how to Crip Walk (or C walk). Being from LA, I was very familiar with it and even knew how to dance it myself...ha! Just kidding. I'd never heard of it before. My experience has been limited to pole dancing for sweaty men in a smoke filled bar...okay, maybe that's not true either. I've never been much of a dancer...not because I lack rhythm or coordination, but because dancing in clubs was considered slippin' in times past, and I've never let down my guard like that...anyway, my point:

  Look familiar? And I was watching that in the 70's! This is nothing new. By the way, I loved that show! They need to bring The Gong Show back on the air!

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