Comments on: Crushes & Hexes http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:29:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: It’s DA Time (also, the Pope & Passover). | Speech Technology Magazine Blog http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5#comment-78 It’s DA Time (also, the Pope & Passover). | Speech Technology Magazine Blog Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:40:08 +0000 http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5#comment-78 [...] Pope-Mania here in New York today, and, soon, Passover time (Chag Pessach Samaiach V’ Kasher!). Anyway, religion aside, let’s talk about directory [...] [...] Pope-Mania here in New York today, and, soon, Passover time (Chag Pessach Samaiach V’ Kasher!). Anyway, religion aside, let’s talk about directory [...]

]]> By: Lauren http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5#comment-71 Lauren Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:09:12 +0000 http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5#comment-71 Dude, this is scary because people will be able to talk freely! No one used those phones because they were expensive -- now, no one will care about yapping away on their BlackBerry/iPhone/etc. The apocalypse is surely upon us. Dude, this is scary because people will be able to talk freely! No one used those phones because they were expensive — now, no one will care about yapping away on their BlackBerry/iPhone/etc. The apocalypse is surely upon us.

]]> By: JoshCRM http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5#comment-70 JoshCRM Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:22:44 +0000 http://www.speechtechblog.com/2008/04/09/crushes-hexes-5#comment-70 Or, y'know, **fret**: http://www.gogoinflight.com/ -- coming soon to an American Airlines jet near you (assuming the one near you isn't grounded, that is). How come no one seems to see that "In-flight WiFi" = "Skype-capable laptops on every tray table not in its full, upright, and locked position"? Besides: Those seat-back, credit-card-enabled in-flight phones have been around a long time -- and the only thing that kept the fat guy in the middle seat from gabbing away for all five hours of your flight to SF was the prohibitive cost of making a call from one of them. Where, O where, can we score a Cone of Silence? (Maxwell Smart, we salute you. Yes, you had a phone in your shoe -- something the TSA obviously is on the lookout for now -- but you also knew enough to know the value of shutting the hell up.) j. Or, y’know, **fret**:
http://www.gogoinflight.com/ — coming soon to an American Airlines jet near you (assuming the one near you isn’t grounded, that is).

How come no one seems to see that “In-flight WiFi” = “Skype-capable laptops on every tray table not in its full, upright, and locked position”?

Besides: Those seat-back, credit-card-enabled in-flight phones have been around a long time — and the only thing that kept the fat guy in the middle seat from gabbing away for all five hours of your flight to SF was the prohibitive cost of making a call from one of them.

Where, O where, can we score a Cone of Silence?
(Maxwell Smart, we salute you.
Yes, you had a phone in your shoe — something the TSA obviously is on the lookout for now — but you also knew enough to know the value of shutting the hell up.)

j.

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