Unwired, Unlisted
And I thought I was the only one who jumped when the phone rang thinking “What is that strange sound? Oh, the phone!”
I definitely prefer e-mail and IM to phone calls. My wife and I IM between my and her home offices. The phone is great and I often “resort” to it when the idea is too complex to type that much. But I can related to the sunglasses anecdote in the article.