way way OT: wireless on planes (aside)

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004, GCC Consulting wrote:
...

>They should allow cell phones only is a special section in the rear of the
>plane sealed off from the rest of the passengers.  By rear I mean 10 feet
>behind the tail.

>If not, the regulation should permit anyone within earshot of someone
>talking too loud or long to ......  (comments not politically correct) read
>this to be "make a meal of the phone."

I happened to catch a few minutes of Jay Leno's monologue a few days ago
when a cell phone rang in the audience.  Leno walked out into the audience,
grabbed the phone, and started talking to the caller.  I don't know whether
this was intentionally staged, but it was almost as funny as Mr. Spock's
putting the Vulcan sleeper touch on the guy with the boom box in one of the
Star Trek movies.

My biggest problem with my cell phone is forgetting to take it off vibrate
when I leave a theatre (actually 2nd biggest the 1st being that I had to
get a new cell phone this week after dropping mine in the toilet :-).

Bill
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