Letters for Dec. 14, 2015

Letters for Dec. 14, 2015

A time for giving thanks

Aquarius: Exceedingly helpful and courteous driver for the Kauai Bus, who returned my chair left on paratransit in Hanapepe to me at the obon ceremony.

Beulah: Very courteous and helpful Walmart employee, and Caleb, young lad who industriously searched for my lost tiger’s eye earring in the yardage/fabric area of Walmart. Caleb found the earring hidden under the bottom shelf where it had rolled and gave it to Beulah who then hunted me down, still shopping in the dress area. Happily, I welcomed this special token of my deceased, beloved cousin to wear joyfully, again.

Kauai Interfaith Council: Individual loving delivery to homebound and frail seniors from Anahola to Lihue. And to Mark Oyama and staff, who created delicious complete Thanksgiving dinners.

Alice Parker

Lihue

There’s a lady named Siri

I was always somewhat proud to tell people that I was one of the last people in America to not have a cell phone. That all changed on my last trip to the United States of America. My cousin Ron kept teasing me about living in a Third World country — and this and that and the other thing …

Finally he said, “You really need to get an iPhone.” I said, “I can’t afford an iPhone and I really don’t want one.” He said, “How about I take you to the iPhone store right now and I buy you an iPhone?” “You serious?” “Yeah, I’m serious,” he said.

My life has changed. It is much different — I now take pictures with my telephone and talk to people on my camera. I listen to music on Pandora for free, anything from traditional Jewish folk songs to rock-n-roll and in between.

There’s a lady named “Siri,” you can ask any question your mind can conjure up, or for directions to anywhere in the world and she will direct you there since the iPhone knows your coordinates of longitude and latitude. I can video chat with any other person with an iPhone, Skype or Facetime on Facebook.

I did not even have to type this letter to the editor, I dictated it to the iPhone. The only mistake Siri made in typing was calling dictation, “Dick Tation!”

And that could had been my fault for improper pronunciation.

I am waiting for the day when an app is invented where we can teleport ourselves to anywhere in the world. I am sure that time is coming.

You can also ask Siri fun questions when you are bored. I once asked Siri if she would would marry me. Her reply was, “I sure have gotten a lot of marriage proposals lately, Kimo. I’m sorry I am not human so I must decline.”

James “Kimo” Rosen

Kapaa