Speaking WITH Limbs

I started the whole "ten blogs" thing because, as I mentioned, I was without a computer for a week and had to make up for not writing one.  It was suggested to me that I should do it on my phone.  There's no way that I was going to type out a bunch of meaningless bullshit on my phone.  It's bad enough that I even take the time to do it on a keyboard.

Someone then furthered the suggestion by implying that my phone was antiquated and that I should upgrade to something with "talk-to-text" technology.  Well, I've never tried but I'm sure my phone has that ability.  I've never actually tried though because that technology is as worthless as any of these blogs.

Let me get this straight:  I speak into a device which then translates what I say into words for the person receiving them.  Then that person repeats this action and sends a word message back to me by using their voice.  So instead of just picking up the phone and talking to someone, I'm going to have them turn their sound emissions into letters and characters?

That's the problem with everyone today.  We have no idea what we want.

Here's the timeline:
- "Oooh house phones"
- "I got a new cordless phone.  Now I can walk all over the house and talk to people."
- "Just page me and I'll find a phone so I can call you and talk to you."
- "I love cellphones.  Now I can talk to anyone I want whenever I want."
- "Texting rules.  This is superior communication.  Now I don't actually have to talk to anyone."
- "Now I can talk into my phone and it turns it into words for you to read.  Then you just read it to      
    yourself in my voice.  You probably do my voice better than I do anyway."

We all want to be heard yet no one wants to make a phone call.  We don't really want a voice, we just want to send our words so that other people can read them in the voice they think we have.  People don't even leave voicemails anymore because if they did NO ONE WOULD LISTEN TO THEM!

I can't write a blog by speaking. I can't write anything by speaking.  If you pen a speech and don't ever present it out loud, is it still a speech?  I vote no.

This is not an invitation to call me on the phone either.  I've succumbed to the ways of technology to some extent and now I too hate talking on the phone.  It's for that very same reason that I refuse to use the "talk-to-text" technology.  I'd still be talking on the phone.  Not to mention, have you ever been next to someone using this platform?  Does it not sound completely foolish to hear someone say "QUESTION MARK" at the end of a sentence?

The word in the title of the blog is "cathartic."  It's the most important part of the title to me.  It's the whole reason I do it.  When I write jokes for stand up, it's always with a pen in a notebook, never typed on a computer.  I don't know why but it's the way I like to do it.  The only reason I type this on a computer is because I haven't figured out how to manifest a hand-written blog yet.  I'm pretty sure that blogs are exclusive to typing.  A hand-written blog is just a journal.  No one would hear it, no one would read it.  That would be like using talk-to-text and then the message just never sends.

Ok that's it.  I'm cutting ten blogs down to five.  I sentenced myself to ten but I'm getting off at five for good behavior.

"SIRI - END OF SENTENCE"
"PERIOD"
"SEND"
"NO NOT THAT FRANK, THE OTHER FRANK"
"YOU KNOW WHAT, FORGET IT, SIRI.  JUST FORGET IT."