And Now For The Moment No One's Been Waiting For...
Well, I've been relatively silent for the past few days, reflecting on the New Year, reflecting on the Old Year, and Eating Pie. And after much of this reflection, I've come to realize one thing: pie's pretty good. Not life-changing, but decent. This one was apple, but they all pretty much taste as good as one another, don't they? Those reading this who may know me, perhaps sense an essay coming on about my position on the inherent jocularity of pie. And to those few good folks, I leave you only with this: Pie is still funny, you all know it's funny, even if you resent and blithely dismiss my insistence, thus stifling the inevitable giggles that will only rise up hours later in the middle of night as you lay awake with the maddening, inexplicably hilarious image of lemon merengue hovering with fierce intensity above the acquiescing placemat of your mind.
Pie.
Bake it. Taste it. Laugh at it.
Cobbler on the other hand, while certainly no jester in the world of pastries, is indeed undeniably charming.
I now return you to your irregularly scheduled blogram.
So, what else can I tell you all? All of you who read this blog. Well, okay, at least the one guy in Denmark who does (Hello MRK). I can tell you this: I still love my cell phone headset.
That's right!! It's time for the long awaited, much anticipated blog entry on my ultra-super cool bluetooth wireless cell-phone headset by Jabra!!!
Okay, first of all let me say that I was once like you. A slave tethered from ear to phone, entangled with limitation, snagged by wire, singing the do-you-hear-me-now blues. But, the day came when I finally set myself free. Free from the ongoing search for the perfect headset. Free from continual replacement fees on headsets shorting out, getting caught on doorknobs, stick-shifts and virtually any other objects of solid mass, harshly yanking earpieces out of my ear canal, while friends and family yelled at me to call back when I left the construction site. Free from the inconvenient, unwieldy, aesthetically obtrusive dangling line. Ladies and gentlemen, technophiles and techno-neophytes, I give you the image of freedom. I give you...
The Jabra BT200:
My model is used with the above pictured bluetooth adapter, as my phone is not actually bluetooth enabled. No matter. With this modern wonder of our marvelous electronic age I can:
-Answer and disconnect calls with a behind-the-ear touch of a button.
-Toggle and use my phone voice-dialing with a behind-the-ear touch of a button.
-Greatly amplify the volume of my callers voice with a behind-the-ear touch of a button.
-Prevent imminent car accidents when driving while using my cell phone due to always needing a mere behind-the-ear touch of a button.
-Talking on my cell phone while it's actually 30 feet across the room, behind-the-ear touch of a button aside.
Other unexpected bonus features to donning what I affectionately call my "phone-dolphin":
-Free admittance to Star Trek Conventions.
-Spontaneous and surreal conversations with intrigued strangers who want to know "what's happening on the side of my head."
-Using the notably prominent flashing blue light to safely guide single-engine planes through inclement weather.
-Monitoring the social unease of those assuming it's a big-ass hearing aid.
-Telling people, "No, I don't work here."
Caveats, or
Complaints I've heard from those who can't handle the aspects of progress:
-"Get this vice-grip off my ear!"
-"What's with that skull-shattering beep noise every time I turn it on?"
-"People keep asking me if I'm from the future. I'm not from the future, damn it!"
-"It's cool but I keep losing it." (Don't we all.)
-"How am I suppose to get this whole thing in my ear?"
-"It costs how much?! Thank you, but I'd rather buy my $20 headset and replace it every three months for the rest of my life."
Well, that's all I got for now. I did notice on the Jabra website that there's a brand new model that offers a vibrating alert mode. Down, technolust, DOWN! Oh, one last thing...
posted by Solomon Wall @ 10:39 PM
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