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Entries Tagged as 'Phones (Cellular and Otherwise)'

Remotely Running After My Hat

June 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments

[Image of 18th-century dowser from Wikipedia... Wonder if it's sized to fit?] I’m going to be computerless much of this week. Which presents me with a convenient dilemma — to wit, how to do a whiskey river Friday post? You may be thinking: How, exactly, will this be “convenient”? Sounds rather like a pain, in [...]

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Tags: Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · Poetry · Running After My Hat · Tech · The Online World

Uncomfortable Numbers

March 5th, 2010 · 4 Comments

From whiskey river: A Word on Statistics Out of every hundred people, those who always know better: fifty-two. Unsure of every step: almost all the rest. Ready to help, if it doesn’t take long: forty-nine. Always good, because they cannot be otherwise: four — well, maybe five. Able to admire without envy: eighteen. Led to [...]

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Tags: Art & Photography · Computers · Humor · Music · Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · Poetry · Ruminations · Science & Medicine · The Internet · whiskey river Fridays

Voice Tech Follies

January 23rd, 2010 · 14 Comments

I’m really not a fan of the telephone: give me good-old when-I-get-to-it email any day, y’know? (People at work long ago got used to the idea that I intentionally sit with my back to the phone — so I never even have to see the red “voicemail message waiting” light. They all email me, even [...]

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Tags: Everyday Life · Hearing · Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · The Internet

Department of Unintended Consequences
(Animals & Technology Division)

June 30th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Missus and I are not alone in having a dog who barks rabidly during thunderstorms. But alone or not, we do. She may be little, and her bark may be a mere yip! compared to the more conventional woof! of full-size hounds, but she is determined to scare the storm away. (And you know [...]

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Tags: Everyday Life · Family · Nature & Pets · Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · The Missus

Bars on Every Corner

May 14th, 2009 · 5 Comments

I worked for AT&T, late 1970s through sometime in the early 1990s (depending on where you want to place the marker). And I was a loyal customer, too. When less costly competing services came along, from MCI and Sprint, I never gave them a glance. I never considered buying a phone or answering machine that [...]

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Tags: Advertising/Packaging · Everyday Life · Language · Phones (Cellular and Otherwise) · Television · The Media