The other day I was stuck in Houston traffic attempting to make it back to the UH campus on time for my Terry Scholar meeting. It was necessary to make it their on time because I was the only one who had the Agenda PDF on my flash drive as well as online on DropBox. Suddenly, I remembered that my new 3G Android phone could probably retrieve it from the Internet and email it. Or could I?
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Text messaging saves unneeded overhead from short conversations like “Where are you?” or “Are you coming tonight”? A couple of days ago I almost sent out an embarrassing text message with my Nokia 6103. I wanted to ask someone if they “Could bring the plates,” but instead almost sent “Could you bring the slaves?”
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