With my old crappy cell barely working and my service contract nearly up I decided to upgrade to the new Motorola Razor flip phone. Cell Phones for all in tense and purposes are essentially toys and thus suffer from the Toy Interest Arc. The Toy Interest Arc goes like this and occurs with nearly all toy gadgets one receives from age 2 to age 92: First you get the new toy in this case a cell phone. For the next few hours you think it is the coolest thing ever and play with all the buttons and features. Then you get a little bored until the next day when you are reinvigorated by showing off the toy to all your friends and hearing their jealous awe that you currently have the coolest of the cool new toys. (until next week when a newer cooler toy comes out). Then there is a few more days of playing with all the cool features until you eventually figure out all you can do (camera, video clips, polyphonic ring tones ext.) and get bored with it again. From then on you are usually bored with the Toy except that once every few weeks usually when bored you become re-obsessed with the features of the toy for a day or two. This cycle of apathy towards the toy for a few weeks followed by a day of excitement continues for about a year. Then eventually you have slowly broken your new toy and you notice that all your friends have the cooler newer toy and yours is the old. Around this time, you decide to get a newer toy and the cycle repeats itself. That my friends is what drives the American economy, but what is really scary is how often the Toy Interest Arc applies to relationships as well. If you don’t believe me, just ask Christy Brinkley.

Here are a few random pics taken with the camera phone:

 




7/18/06 99 Degrees Outside