The Goat Pen

AlabamAlum wrote:I love the smartphone. Email, word-type documents, Google, porn, movies, porn...

My wife and kids are hooked. I don't think they can function without a smart phone in their hand.

I definitely use mine but I don't play games, I text maybe 5 times on a good day and the only time I compose email is if its after 6pm and something is urgent. I just don't have the patience to type the screen keyboard. I do use it for Fantasy on Thursday morning hence my 0-5 record in the Goat Pen. Since its a company provided phone I can honestly say I've never watched porn or netflix on it but I do like reddit. I just avoid clicking on videos not so much for the bandwidth but they just take forever to load.

AlabamAlum wrote:I love the smartphone. Email, word-type documents, Google, porn, movies, porn...

You said porn twice.

My bad. I meant to say it three times.

AA wrote:My bad. I meant to say it three times.

Which still doesn't give it the proper focus it should have.

The article was good, but having a flip phone is just as ridiculous as ogling your phone every 62 seconds. As I was reading it, I kept calling it part noble cause, part annoying nanny state liberalism with sprinkles of the newly chic white guilt. I've long preached to mentees and anyone else who will listen, leadership has its roots in preparation, execution and mindfulness. People nowadays conflate being alone with being lonely. So, they plug in every waking hour getting bombarded with idiotic drivel or curated news. They can wind up reciting "facts" (maybe, if they're lucky...mostly it's just reciting pop culture information), but don't really take the time to get quiet and sort through all the information and figure out what THEY believe or how things all fit together.

I don't have any problem turning away from the net or social apps, but I also have lived fully before the advent of these technologies. I do sympathize with the younger generation. The mode of communication for most of them is solely via text, chat or Snap. These kids couldn't get away from their phones if they tried because no one in their peer group is away from their phones...except for that cute but boring very religious girl and that home-schooled kid who is decent at soccer, but you don't feel like sitting next to at the pizza spot after practice. Their cutting of the cord is much harder than it is for me...but it is necessary to fully mature intellectually, imo.

The response I was looking for was "I like porn"

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Didn't remember the reference.

I can't imagine watching anything on a phone. Or rather, I can imagine it and that's why I've never done it. My eyesight is bad enough already...

I use my phone for everything. Hopefully hedge can't see this. Dumb motherfucker.

I'm shocked that your attention span (I won't say your soul, although they pretty much amount to the same thing) could so easily be beguiled and overthrown. Shocked...

Jungle Rat wrote:I use my phone for everything. Hopefully hedge can't see this. Dumb motherfucker.

that's just because you don't want to fight the guys for the remote at the county lock up

This man was arrested because he set fire to a mattress someone was sleeping on



The police psychologist was called in a failed attempt to "get inside his head"

eCat wrote:

Jungle Rat wrote:I use my phone for everything. Hopefully hedge can't see this. Dumb motherfucker.

that's just because you don't want to fight the guys for the remote at the county lock up

They are afraid of me.

I just bought my wife the Amazon Fire TV because its pretty easy to add Kodi on your own and it has built in Alexa.

I'll get her some bluetooth speakers for the kitchen and then I might actually get dinner once in awhile.

That dude has zero frontal lobe. There is very little chance he has much impulse control, judgement or in-depth memory. Holy shit.

Bklyn wrote:That dude has zero frontal lobe. There is very little chance he has much impulse control, judgement or in-depth memory. Holy shit.

I'm not talking about Rat anymore, I'm talking about the Amazon Fire

Shut it unless you want to get shanked with a bic.

Here is a commercial for the new Nintendo Switch.

All this commercial does is make me realize how addicted people are to video games

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eCat's tech tip of the day

If you're going to commit murder, leave your cell phone on the counter - or better yet, hide it in a friends car and let them be your alibi

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Merritt was in a position to access the cellular telephone tower northeast of the McStay family gravesite on February 6th, 2010, two days after the family disappeared,” an affidavit for his girlfriend’s call records reports Hemisphere finding (PDF). Merritt was arrested almost a year to the date after the McStay family’s remains were discovered, and is awaiting trial for the murders.

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