Passing Notes, Modern Style

Remember when you were in school, and you used to pass notes to your classmates? This was in the day before cell phones became so prevalent across high school campuses, and well before text messages.

Well, today Allan and I were in a meeting that got a little boring. Part of it was the subject matter, and part of it was the speaker, and part of it was the fact that the speaker was remote, so instead of having a live, talking, moving human being to at least focus on, all we had to stare at was the screen with the presentation slides, and a disembodied voice emanating from the speakers in the ceiling.

We'd whisper to each other, but that isn't easy to do or keep surreptitious. So I asked him to bring up a Notepad-style app on his phone so we could converse that way. It was almost like IMing each other... except we could look over each other's shoulders as we typed. I'd type on one line, and Allan would type on the next line:

(Helly in red, Allan in blue)

Look we can pass notes
Haha
We're naughty
How naughty? ;-)
Naughty enough. does this remind you of school days
don't know too long ago
Lol. I should blog this. Save and send: )

It all reminded me a bit of our recent trip to Vegas, where I lost most of my voice on the first day, and had to resort to using Allan's phone to type casual messages to him at the breakfast table... and try to save what little voice I had left.

So there you have it. Passing notes, updated a little from the old-school style of pen-and-paper. Ain't technology grand? ;-)