The look on General Caine’s face as he walked off stage seemed odd to me yesterday. It’s starting to make more sense. Here we have a serious professional leader who just performed a walk-on bit part in a little stage play. He seemed a bit like he was being manipulated - was out of his comfort zone.
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He was recruited out of retirement. Recruiters promise the moon to get an on board signature. Then once on board, the journey rarely goes as promised…
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Just to mix it up, R, I was not a fan of mobiles at first either, especially because of the cumbersome contracts, but in 2015 gave in because I had to go to a family wedding with stages in Manhattan & Brooklyn & 2 relatives who paid my car service - which has to call you wherever - so I signed with the senior phone service, Consumer Cellular. No contracts, etc. Now there are other options for pay-by-month cell phone service, no contract.
Just an FYI - they do not replace laptops or terminals for serious writing such as our host, Dr Farrell, does.
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… that is quite bizarre isn’t it. Well, after all Colin Powell is dead.
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Yes.
They" are integrating digital into every facet of infrastructure they can.
Even paying the rent now; has to be done digitally. Getting into my place requires a digital phone,
to open the gate. As I’m a bus rider, I enter without the required mobile device. Pay insurance: digital. Well, you get the idea. Soon, the desktop, will be obsolete.
The keyboard? [Only voice activated typing/text…]
Slowly. an Abbott & Costello “Step By Step”; process is weeding out analogue choices, and/or cash.
So, the digital asteroids are on a collision course, for dinosaurs like myself.
Quite frankly, I can’t stand “smart” phones.
Or, “smart” anything.
They’re dumb, can’t think; only following an uncanny valleys of digital algorithms.
Constantly being updated to look “real”, as if a human is in the loop.
The “human” is the weak link in their chain.
That’s what being smart is:
Not Human
[in my analogue book]
Rant over.
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… like in Niagra Falls? 
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Several years ago when my Apple computer died the second time, I buried it, the printer and all accessories in the trash bin, turned in the internet equipment and shut it off.
Now all I have is this stupid smart iPhone. I’m just barely smart enough to use it, but I get by.
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I was stumped…
for a second.
A Riddle Me This Batman, moment.
Most people wouldn’t get the Step by Step reference.
Thanks, for giving me paws!
I just looked it up.
Here’s the old classic routine.
Not as good as: Whose on First?
But, it’s still classic, Abbott & Costello
… the Three Stooges did a version of this as well I think.
The Three Stooges I like; are the censored Stooges.
I had a friend who had the old black and white “Censored” versions.
Example:
The censored version of teaching Nuns about SUCCESS.
Otherwise; I didn’t care for them, at all
Dan Aykroyd, and other comedians - absolutely loved them!
… if you see the originals they (along with the Marx Bros.) got away with quite a few - shall we say questionable - jokes.
Marx Bros. - Chico: “So whereayou been, waddayou been doin?’”
- Grouch - “I ate, drank and made Me(a)rry … and Mary didn’t mind”
Stooges - Big food fight at ritzy party. Older matronly woman hit 2 or 3 times with a pie in the face.
Matron - after third pie … “Well, I never!”
Moe - (runs up to hide behind her during fight) after she delivers her line he comes out from behind her. looks her up and down and says, “Believe me Lady it shows!”
These are a couple of the milder ones.
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Even “Popeye The Sailor” cartoon, got past the censors.
Check out some of Popeye’s mumble-jumble,
and you’ll find some questionable dialogues.
I had a cousin who knew quite a few of them.