But I do. I snagged a 3G iPhone when they became available, and installed the new and improved Facebook application as soon as it came online. It needs work (and its own post) but it’s better than nothing. I can check on friends and family with a few clicks, zip pictures out to folks, and kill a good five, ten, fifty minutes here and there.
For example, a friend posted that he was feeling “like peppy Beatles music” the other day. A few clicks later, I was connected to his voicemail, singing “She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah,” in Peter Sellers’ style. A couple of days later he fired back with “A Hard Day’s Night” on my phone just as I walked out of a meeting. Being a new phone, he didn’t have my number programmed in, which made it funnier. He used his call log to song-back the ‘random stranger’ who had voicemailed him.
Ten minutes with the internet, and we can dig up the originals, or an exhausting list of Wilhelms and an examination of the originality of the Star Wars theme music. We’re getting to the point that everything is out there, and then someone unintentionally comes up with another internet phenomenon.
This time the honor goes to Microsoft’s SongSmith. If you’ve ever wanted to hear Ozzy Osbourne get his oom-pah-pah on, or pretend Paul and John suffered delusions of grandeur, everyone and anyone is having a grand old time.
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