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Where do I sign up for the Pauls Against Telephones movement?
Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Shog9:
Paul "The human happy pill" Watson
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I switch my mobile on once during the day - And that's to set the alarm clock function at night!
It's off for the other 23 hours 59 minutes. People don't even bother leaving messages anymore. They know it'll be 4 days before I get them!
Gradually people are realising they are guaranteed a reply if they send me an email.
John.
www.silveronion.com[^]
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Yes. I do hate phones. Phones are annoying mostly if you don't know who's calling you - I hate that.
But email is to for me.
I prefer hanging around in IRC, where everyone that knows me know that I'm there and will respond when convenient.
For urgent things that can make a query, write what they want and I can read it and decide when I want to answer It pops up in seconds like a phone call, is instantly like a message and I can answer it directly - but just when I want to
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Paul, you are betraying at least your age and gender
Factors that contribute to phone-hatred:
- Male
- Married (primarily if male)
- Children (particularly for males)
- Later 30's or older (prior to mobile-phone "revolution")
- Actually does work at work
- Occupational stress (obvious for programmers)
- Caffeine intake (redundant criteria for programmers without severe heart disease)
Cheers +
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What about multiple-choice? There is such a thing as being equally communicative in more than one form of technology.
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You have ten gorgeous woman layed out in front of you. You are only allowed to pick one.
Lifes a bitch, now pick one.
Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Shog9:
Paul "The human happy pill" Watson
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I already picked my beautiful woman, but I'd rather have two.
Besides. How beautiful can a woman compared to a fax be?
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Paul Watson wrote:
Lifes a bitch, now pick one.
Ah now.. Surely there's a way of getting around the rules and getting all ten..
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I once watched a documentary where an African tribesman had multiple wives as a result of his wealthy status (multiple goats) which he cursed because they ganged up on him like a greedy union. Could the sand possibly be browner on the other side?
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Lucky me, I am Muslim, I can have four wives.
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I almost always have my phone with me and writing a txt is quick and easy as well as being cheap and delivers to almost anywhere in the world in a few seconds... Sher meself and Paul W does be SMSing internationally on occasion... quick, cheap, easy and can be used in situations where you don't have email... like sitting on a beach, on the floor of a toilet in a nite club [ ] and so on...
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I can't get sms at a reasonable price here, and it's all but impossible to type on those useless keypads. I have, however, used my ham radio when I've fallen off my barstool to connect to a repeater with a phone patch and call the bartender to ask her to deliver the next round to my patch of carpet.
"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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What would you consider a reasonable price??? ~8cent is the usual here in Ireland on off peak times and ~12 on peak times.
Writing txt's is easy... just use T9 Predictive input
Regards,
Brian Dela
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I'd consider $.01 a reasonable price, if the service was even available. I've never heard of T9 predictive input, and I'm sure that Sprint hasn't either. I can't see any value in a service that sends cryptic messages for an extra charge when I already have 3000 minutes of talk time I've never used for a fixed price that I'm going to pay whether I use it or not.
I can get text messaging with Sprint, but there's an extra monthly fee on top of what I already pay, and a per message charge on top of that. SMS just hasn't caught on in the US, though I know it's common in Europe. Verizon is starting to advertize the service here, but I don't see anyone using it yet other than children who should be paying attention to their teachers in class instead of passing notes.
"Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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'last updated 18 Oct 2001'
does not look good next to a banner ad!!
Davy
Blog for Software Testing, Bugs, Quality, Security and Stability - www.latedecember.com
News From Angus, Scotland - The Angus Blog My Personal Blog - Homepage.
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Picky, picky
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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You could be like those sites that just have:
Last Updated: <<insert dynamic="" server="" time="">>
Which makes you look busy. But then you are anyway...arn't you
"If you just say porn then you get all manner of chaff and low grade stuff." - Paul Watson, Lounge 25 Mar 03 "But a fresh install - it's like having clean sheets" - C. Maunder Lounge 3 Mar '03
Jonathan 'nonny' Newman
Homepage [www.nonny.com] [^]
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I was paying a total of $85/mo for my cell phone and my girlfriend's, for 2000 anytime/anywhere minutes, including unlimited Sprint-to-Sprint minutes. I was also paying $35/mo for local phone service, which is supposed to be a base rate of $19/mo, but even the neighbor isn't local (well, just about) the way the phone company splits things up, so there were all these extra "out of zone" charges.
Seemed ridiculous. Karen and I don't talk 2000 minutes a month (yes Paige*, that means only 64 minutes a day!), long distance or not. Plus, one phone is a San Diego number, and the other phone is a Rhode Island number, so my client's and my ex-wife (who live in San Diego) can call me as a local call. Try doing that with your phone company. (Our son lives with me, should you be wondering why I make it convenient for my ex to call me).
*Foxtrot, for those who are wondering
Marc
Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator. Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"
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Your life is way too complicated. Why not just use e-mail?
"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Our son lives with me, should you be wondering why I make it convenient for my ex to call me).
I was wondering whether you were totally insane, so thanks for clearing this up, else I'd have gone to sleep thinking you were a masochist.
Nish
Author of the romantic comedy
Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win]
Review by Shog9
Click here for review[NW]
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I got rid of my land line over 2.5 years ago and I haven't missed it one bit.
$44.95 / month. That's it. Nothing else.
I got a telemarketing campaigner once and they actually left a message on my cell phone. I think the Attorney General would like my input. hehe.
(ps. Foxtrot Rules! The 'All your base, are belong to us!' episode was classic! )
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"telepathic manipulation of sidewalks "
Someone has watched Darkcity far too many times...
Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Shog9:
Paul "The human happy pill" Watson
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"Jungle Drums"
Mauricio Ritter - Brazil
Sonorking now: 100.13560 MRitter
Life is a mixture of painful separations from your loved ones and joyful reunions, without those two we'd just be animals I guess. The more painful the separation, that much more wonderful will be the reunion - Nish
"Th@ langwagje is screwed! It has if's but no end if's!! Stupid php cant even do butuns on forms! VISHAUL BASICS ARE THE FUTSHURE!" - Simon Walton
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Mauricio Ritter wrote:
"Jungle Drums"
Must have been a fellow African
Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa
Macbeth muttered:
I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Shog9:
Paul "The human happy pill" Watson
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