Gonna Go Back in Time!!!

It's really hard to imagine the days before computers, cell phones, and all the gadgets upon which we rely on a daily basis. In fact, i was listening to the radio the other day when I heard something that really got me thinking. There was a poll taken in london about what it would take to give up your cell phone. It turns out the british REALLY love there cell phones, over 1/3rd of the people polled would rather pass on a cool £1 million pounds (close to $2 million for folks on this side of the pond) than give up their mobiles. I know the British are known for some wacky stuff like Benny Hill and Monty Phython, but that is just plain looney, or perhaps i have a misunderstanding of their "high tea" tradition. For $2 million dollars, people I want to get in touch with would be getting a boat load of singing telegrams. (see related article i found http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/cnet/story?id=3313826 as well as the singing telegram company that would become my make-shift cell http://www.bubbygram.com/ ).

I imagine that most of you, while reading this, are taking that much deserved "5 minute break" to check your email, much as i'm spending my 5 minute break to bring you this blog. I have to ask the question, what did people do at work without the internet? Its crazy to imagine there are actually people, to this day, working jobs without that constant connection. On one of our recent trips to the burbs stephanie and i discovered a person with just such a job. Now, I believe that this person's actual job was to sell apartments, but just like the rest of us, he deserves his "5 minute break" (as a side note, why would the apartment complex think that this guy would entice me into purchasing one of their units...see picture below for my confusion). Can this picture be considered a fair representation of what life is like sans technology? Because if it is then........... count me in. (ps. sorry for the poor resolution, its the best my cell could do).

Just in case you can't make out what's actually going on in this picture, i have zoomed in a bit for you


Ok, just to make this clear, if i did in fact give up my cell phone you guys might benefit from the excitement of receiving a singing telegram from your favorite celebrity impersonator, but you be missing out on bunnyman sliding down the hill on his "for sale" sign. So tobey mcguire played Spiderman, and Clooney, Kilmer and Keaton played Batman, I wonder who this masked crusader is?