Cell phone ringtones

This blog was supposed to be about ring tones, but I changed my mind. I decided to write about the evolution of the phone instead. This rant is inspired by a VG comic that I read ages ago.

Now lets start from the very beginning of communication. After developping a written language, there was the whole letter writing dealio and such, which was great but slow and unreliable if you were trying to write to anyone overseas because you had a great chance of losing your letter on the bottom of the sea.

Then we had the telegraph and homing pigeons. I must admit, THAT was really cool. I mean it's like, train this bird to go there. I wonder tho, did homing pigeons fly back or did they ahve to be sent back? But neway, this form was more reliable for sure than the letter sending over the sea, but still kind of annoying in that it was freaking expensive. So when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, life suddenly got a whole lot more convenient. But what were we to do when we we are anxiously waiting for someone or lost in the middle of somewhere unable to find that person's house where that cool party is at. For this, we invented... the cellphone.

Cellphones are not necessities, I mean we lived fine without them, just needed better organization. But now when someone organizes some sort of gathering, they just say, alright be hereabouts by such and such a time and call me. If you were caught saying something like that in the 1300s they would have burned you at the stake as a witch :P Now, if you don't have a cell phone, you inconvenience everyone by making them actually plan things out! Horror of horrors!

But then, have you noticed that we're reverting to a more primitive sort of communication, that is the written word? I mean, blogs are a perfect example, or text msging, or MSN. ANd yet at the same time these things have made people even MORE connected, so then does this mean that we've gone to a more primitive form of communication or a more advanced primitive form of communication? Did that make sense?

Anyhow, yeah. Ciao.

Surreal experiences

For those of you that are older than 16, have you ever had the chance to meet some person who knew you when you were a baby and has never seen you since? Have they marvelled and felt you up and wondered at how much you'd grown into a handsome man/beautiful women? In any other situation it would be considered harrasment, but because you exist in their memory as a baby they used to know, it somehow excuses it :P

It's incredibly surreal however, the feeling of someone knowing who you are, but you not remembering them at all. I mean, I'm sure they're there SOMEWHERE in your brain... it's big enough to everything in your life 15 times over. The fact that you exist as one thing in their brain, while their existance only exists as a part of a brain neuron buried somewhere in your brain, it's a weird feeling really.

Brings one to think about the philosophy of Berkeley... the whole the world only exists in our minds kind of thing. Now Berkeley was a Christian, and so he postulated that the reason that the idea of an objective reality exists is because we are all figments of God's imagination (which is an amazingly cool idea, although I don't know how much I agree with Berkeley). If we exist in these people's minds as a baby, are we then babies? But since we exist in the minds of others as an adult, are we then adults? Are we babies and adults AT THE SAME TIME?!?!?! (That's why I disagree with Berkeley :P)

Jobs, jobs, and more about jobs

Have any of you tried to find summer employment? Have you looked at some of the weird things out there on the jobbanks and working.com sites? I assure you it's not pretty.

So I'm living in Montreal for the duration of the summer for a mission trip/training project (if this interests you at all, see my prayer journal at http://montrealproject.blogspot.com) and looking for a job during the day time. I was able to find a job with a temp agency immediately working a graveyard shift in some courier warehouse. That is/was interesting to say the least and to put a VERY long story short, I'm no longer employed there.

Why is it that finding a good job is so annoyingly hard? What's the point of this blog? I'm just going to stop :P Maybe I'll edit it later.