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I do not have an iPhone.

I have an old fashioned mobil phone, a flip phone.

And that is fine with me.

The result of this is that I have plenty of time to reflect with and about others.

One of these "studies" that I can make is to observe people who have the phones with screens and all. You know. The highest tech versions.

I see them in the gym. They are working out. A perfectly calm alone time during the day. Do they put their phones down? NO. They can hardly get their reps in before they have to look at the screen.

Some people are actually texting while they work out.

What happened to concentration.

I watch screen people in Meetings. They can not not look at their phones. At some point I will see someone digging the phone out to look. People do not always text back but the reading is constant.

Now this.

Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.

I don't know about this actually. I am an introvert so I don't do that much chit chat. But what I do I do face to face. I cannot abide the idea of texting. For me or anyone else.

Every once in a while I get a text and do not reply. I call and tell the person I do not text. That ends it.

I suppose I suffer a bit from this. People who want to text will just cut someone like me out. Good. I am a confirmed introvert anyway and that means I have a lot less to worry about from the noisome crowd.

Labels: Introvert, life, phony baloney

Brian Williams, Under Scrutiny, Will Take Leave From ‘NBC Nightly News’

I have never thought very much of the so called "anchor" newspeople.

Mostly pretty faces, their commentary is vacuous and from another viewpoint than the one I ever hold. Or ever have.

It is interesting when one of them, the most vapid in my opinion, steps on his crank with over inflated ego and bloviation.

Every once in a while they will play a Brian outtake or comment on CNBC which I watch in the gym.

He hovers above the masses and certainly compared to the more rough and ready people who are on early in the day, definitely needs to get his hair messed up. He is the preacher's kid, the holier than thou good boy, the sneak and tattle tale all rolled into one.

Why do I feel that way? Hey, I don't have to justify my views anymore than he needs to justify lying. A lie is a lie. A vicious assessment is so personal as to be a simple rant.

These guys have dominated for a long time. Rather, who actually defends Williams I hear, was not a handsome guy. He worked his way up the ranks and had that rough and ready edge that actually got him in trouble with the suits. Brokaw was able to use the mid country boy look and he was/is smart. Brokaw was less supportive. Old Tom. He can't be happy this is happening to his old seat.

The whole thing is a tempest in a teapot. The dominance of network news is long gone and the impact of one guy on people's opinion of the news is considerably lessened.

I am sure he is stepping down with the idea that it will all blow over in a few days and maybe it will. But he will be the same Brian, smarmy smile and all. An empty suit.

It also seems as though it might not blow over so quickly.

Soldiers in Brian Williams Group Give Account of 2003 Events

They say he was nowhere near the shoot down. Not at all. Oh oh. Eyewitness news!

Labels: news, phony baloney, television