Musings of a Drunken Monk: Individual Entry Archive

Actually, they don't at all, but haw haw boy did I fool you ... !

Go to Images and be treated to a special gallery of my new Keitai. As you can see, the one sort-of disadvantage of a Japanese cell phone is that they are huge. In comparison, the Keitai is probably twice as bulky as my Verizon phone. But as you can see, the Verizon phone has a tiny-ass screen, not to mention the fact that it's a total piece of crap. I guess their Keitais are so big because they cram so much in there. Mine has:

• GPS Navigation


• 2.0MegaPixel Camera with Flash (same as my current normal camera)


• English-Japanese-English dictionary


• Text/Email/URL recognition on the camera (scan a word and it'll look it up in the dictionary, or scan a url/email and it will copy it to the addressbook)


• MP3 Player


• 2.4Mbps (faster than the average American DSL service) broadband


• The Kitchen Sink


• Downloadable EZChannel movie/TV/radio programming


• Can Opener/Corkscrew


• List of top 100 pickup lines guaranteed to work on Japanese women with bad taste in men

I imagine those who aren't tech-geeks are saying "big friggin' deal" but imagine this: this phone is stable!!! My old Verizon phone would crash twice a day. Crash, as in like Windows. As in have to remove the battery to "reboot" the stupid thing. Stay tuned, and surely you'll see a photo gallery of me beating the hell out of that useless pile of electronic junk.

As for the 100 pickup lines, they must work, because man there are a lot of ugly foreign guys with good-looking women. We've come to the conclusion that there is a significant portion of the Japanese female population who have absolutely abomidable taste in men. Anyway, enjoy the Keitai. I know I will!