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"(c) still in Gov. Mike Beebe's hip pocket,"

Yep.

"Someday, I might get a cellphone. But not yet."

Gawd! I can't believe there's someone out there besides me who doesn't have a cell phone and ain't going to get nary!

Hell, I'm still mad because I can't get another rebuilt IBM Selectric II typewriter. And it's real hard to find those ribbons, too. I'm afraid that if I can't fix my fax again I'll have to buy one of new ones that use plain paper.
Max, what did the Wordsmith say about "Sanders and me?"

ARK. BLOG: Y'all still paste up the paper, Louie?

Anyway, Doug says you must have gone to school at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville given your limited grasp of grammar. (Just kidding. Doug is, of course, a proud grad of UAF, too.)

My usage was correct, he agrees. "Me" is an objective pronoun. There is no verb or preposition for which "I" was the object in my formulation, "David Sanders and I. Together at last."

It was a sentence fragment to begin with, so perhaps you could argue for correctness for "me" on the ground of sounding pleasing to the ear, particularly to the ears in places where football is more important than book learning.

But, had I written a complete sentence, I would have written -- David Sanders and I agree. Or, David Sanders and I are together at last.

Me is incorrect in any of the cases. Moreso even than Sanders.

I work in the IT department of a telecommunications company (guess which one!) and I didn't bother getting a cell phone until about two months after I started. I've never sent a text and I can't quite get my mind around the idea of twittering. I don't begrudge anyone who gets excited or addicted to these things. Some technology just doesn't interest me.

I have no idea what all this a-twitterin is about. Sounds kinda like one of them sexual perversions that should be outlawed.

Max, just the image of you a-twitterin is leaving indelible images in my pea-sized brain.

What the heck is this twitterin stuff? It scares me.

Arky

Louie, try eBay. That's where I get needles for my old stack record player and such.

I got a cell phone because my mom wanted me to be in touch, and I respected that. That was back in 2000. Today, the only reason we keep a land line is for emergencies and because it's "bundled" with our internet and Dish. Still, I believe in cell phone courtesy -- it's not for use in a restaurant, the grocery store checkout line (calling to say 'pick up some butter' is okay), at a concert or in most meetings. I know where the off switch is and often employ it.

Still, the hubster and I do have a little running rant with our friends about technology. In the nearly 16 years we've been together, we count all these technological devices among things that have come along since then:

We met in radio, where we used turntables, cassette decks, reel-to-reel cut with razor blades, cart decks, the AP printer, and a bare-naked light bulb that told us when we had a call.

He's still in radio, where it's all about CDs, DVDs, MP3s, computer programs, and timing. In fact, outside of a few control boards and microphones, it doesn't look the same. Oh, and the inevitable coffee mug that needs a bath. There's that.

We met and started to date before either of us ever owned a cell phone, pager, computer with more than 128 KB of room (I had a Commodore 64!), email account, or knew what the heck the Internet was.

We both sent text messages before we ever signed on to the Web. That's because we had pagers back in 1995 through Snider Brothers, who had the girls downstairs who'd type in your message and send them out on pagers.

My mom did have a cell phone at the time. It came in a bag and weighed more than my laptop does today.

in contrast, some of our best friends met through eHarmony and married on elist invitations, with webcams to show off their nuptuals.

I haven't got into Twittering exactly yet -- I do the Facebook and the status update there. Someone with more technical expertise able to tell me if there's a way to do both in one swoop? Updating multiple sites is a pain in the batookas -- that's why I seldom check my MySpace.

"I haven't got into Twittering exactly yet -- I do the Facebook and the status update there. Someone with more technical expertise able to tell me if there's a way to do both in one swoop? Updating multiple sites is a pain in the batookas -- that's why I seldom check my MySpace."

Yes, twitter allows you to update your facebook status the sametime you make an update on twitter. However, i don't use it. Reason being I twitter so much i feel like it would make my facebook page look out of control. I look at twitter as one big unending text chatroom w/constant updates.

I will update Facebook, but not in the constant way i do with twitter. Lots of personal preference on how to use, or if to use any of them. I think that's what makes it so...interesting..

And you think you have problems? Do the clicky

Oh shit Cato. Most of your hyper links are funny. That one is tragic in too many ways.

TV-still that throbbing McLuhan tribal drum. Different creatures are beating it these days and it's no longer medium cool.

I warn anyone choosing to click Cato's link- your life will not be the same.

Click with caution.

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