Friday, February 29, 2008

#7 nano bits of tremendous embarrassment

Nanotechnology. Some love it, some hate. I hove it. That's a mixture of hate and love. But since i only took a letter from hate and 3 letters from love, i guess i love it more. Nuh, not really. I never know. Comparing the humongous cell phones then to the razor thin ones, to ear phones that muffled the entire ear to wireless ear pieces that look like sequins from afar. I bet technology had its share of embarrassment then, but so does nanotechnology now.
Here's technology recounting his share of boo boo's: With the giant portable phone in the past, i guess it was made to match portable toilets. It was so huge, with the long, sticky outy antennas. Back then when someone was on the phone, everyone else around the caller had to be on the alert and get ready to duck whenever he turned left and right. "ugh, charlie, the reception here is absurdly poor! Hang on, let me pull out my antenna...right, up it goes...no wait let me stand nearer here...to the left..ah, much better! What were you sayin again?" I can just imagine the poor people around Charlie's friend, ducking here and there tryin to protect their eyes from gettin skewed like a kabab on the antenna. I think their worst fear would be when Charlie says " Oh, you're here too? Where? Lemme look around for you!" and starts lookin left, right, high and low.

And here's nanotechnology's share of bad experiences: What with all those tiny ear phones and credit card slim phones, you can't really tell if your friend is talking to you or someone on the line. Once I was in the elevator with my tutor and I had no inkling of common sense that she was on the line. She asked some question i can't remember (thank goodness) and I replied. To which i received an odd stare. I was like what, 12, and i thought pretending could cover up any mistake. So i started pretending to recite my chinese stuff aloud right there in the elevator. Ah, the inverse proportions of nanotechnology to embarrassment never cease to amaze me.

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