Look in your hand. It's a calculator! a Game station! It's...a phone?

There are some things which prove quite tricky and difficult. Crossword puzzles provide hours of entertainment for many people as do the new sudoku puzzles. The Rubik's Cube caused consternation for many people, a sense of accomplishment for others. Setting up a VCR is apparently a challenge since there are so many jokes about it.

On the other hand, some things are pretty easy to understand. I can operate any sink or shower I have ever encountered. The concept is pretty simple...turn the water on, adjust the heat of the water, turn the water off. Yay! Go me! I must be a candidate for Mensa.

So imagine the joy someone would have in figuring out how to operate over 500 different phones.

Wow, his parents must be so proud.

A couple years ago I made, with the help of the Starving Crazed Weasels, the mocking testimonial video "The Swiss Metropod". It was keyed off the idea that phones have gotten ridiculously complicated with calculators, calendars, cameras, web surfing capabilities, becoming music boxes, etc. They have more and more functions.

And I still think "mastering" 500 phones is ridiculous. What, is it going to be an Olympic Event someday? Will there be a "World Phone Mastering Tour" where professionals compete to see who can master new phones the quickest? Who wouldn't pay to see that. Well, me for one...I will be too busy trying to get in the Guinness Book of World Records by mastering 501 phones...