Dinner (un)Interrupted: Marta and Hubby Get iLives

Anyone who's anyone has gotten an email from the brills (cool speak for brilliant) Marta Strickland, editor of ThreeMinds, at some point. And thus, if you're anyone...you know she's been tagging every mobile-phoned email with "Holding Out for the Android."

Well, a few weeks back, she caved and just bought an iPhone...here's a sampling of how it changed her life. From her "recentlyconsumed.com" blog...



Our New "Connected" Lives

The change in our lives was never so apparent as when Tom and I had dinner together yesterday. We were on the road and decided to take a detour by 6 mile to see if there were any new restaurants. We didn't see any, but when I pulled up my Urban Spoon application and found a highly rated restaurant hidden in the back of the strip.

We sat down, enjoyed some snacks, ordered our drinks, and then... the phones came back onto the tables. Off and on during the dinner the phones served as discussion points. Places to look up information, and places to even record information about the wines we were drinking. I wouldn't say there was ever a moment where my husband and I were distracted from each others company. It was almost like there was another presence at the table. Like we were not eating alone.

At the end of the meal, my husband told the waiter/sommelier how we had almost missed coming here. I toyed with the idea of showing him my phone, until the urge was just too strong. I had to pull it out and show him the Urbanspoon and how well rated the restaurant was. He had thought it was cool, but didn't really grasp what I was trying to show. Without being "always connected", my husband and I would not have even dined there tonight, we would have had a total different experience.

And so that is why I say that it is just that... Something happened this week that is going to change our daily lives. It's going to change vacations, it's going to change just sitting around our house in our pajamas. It's going to change the way we have dinners. It's going to change the way my husband and I connect to each other.