cultural notes from all over

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:07 PM -0400 10/6/08, Mark Mandel wrote:
>On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
>>  new squeeze Josh by up- or downloading (I can never remember which is
>>  which)
>
>The metaphor is that our own computers are "down" and the big servers
>are "up". You or I UPload TO (the server, the Web, some site or other)
>and we DOWNload FROM it.
>
>m a m
>
OK, but what happens if you take a bunch of photos with your phone
camera and transmit them to your ex-girlfriend's cell phone?  Is that
up, down, or lateral?  (My own cell phone takes phone calls and makes
them and that's about it, so I'm a quasi-Luddite in these matters.)

LH

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