The Bad Thing About Cell Phones

And so I had a very busy weekend. Such a busy weekend in fact that I didn't place any phone calls or txt messages for 2 days. Well 1, but let me finish. In my apartment I have what we shall refer to as 'spotty" service. That is I get reception in one spot and not another. Oddly, on Friday night I happened to notice two odd things:

1) The battery had gone down to 1/2 charge.
2) I had 4 bars where I previously have none.

So I thought: "great my battery is going." and "Great! ATT must have thrown up a tower somewhere!"

Sadly neither was the case. After spending all day Saturday working on my Car and a DVD for a client, I settled down to enjoy the evening. I happened to look at my phone and lo and behold the battery was again at 1/2 charge. Now I'm thinking that I hadn't used the phone all day except to look at the time. But I also had 4 bars.I suppose I was so enraptured by having service in my apt. that it didn't dawn on me that something was not quite right.

So next day I head out to visit moms. While we're at Home Depot I decide to let somebody know I was alive ( I have a habit of not answering phones and people have habits of not leaving messages, bad combo). Oddly the message took forever to send and I never quite saw that it went since the screen blanked out to save the battery. But I had 4 bars!

Then I got annoyed that the lucky person to have received a txt message from me didn't even respond. I mean, a text message from me is a special thing y'all. Still I'm distracted by this 4 bars everywhere thing.

It didn't even occur to me that I had not received a single phone call in the past 36 hours which is odd. So anyway, this afternoon I'm at work, sitting in a room that is a known cellular dead zone. I check the phone. 4 bars. No way. so some 72 hours later I realize that the cell phone had in fact been partially locked up. It would show the time, play music and all that jazz, but it would not be receiving or sending calls or txt. Reboot.

As I exit the dead zone, the phone lets me know I have a message. From 2 days ago. just imagining if I only had the cell phone as a means of contact. That would have sucked. Worst is to have no clue that your phone is locked up.

WAMU falls

So I suppose that the WAMU guy was wrong after all.

The DOW

Lets see how low the Dow goes today shall we.

MaemoMapper Update for Nokia IT

MaemoMapper, by far my favorite app on my N800 has just gotten an update that overlays Google Traffic data on maps. Often when I have to go somewhere I check the google traffic to see if the GWB is backed up or the GCP. But that required either starting up the browser or using the Garnet VM for the google maps app in the Palm emulation. Now I can just fire up my mapper program and be done with it.

Now if I could get a bluetooth DUN profile having phone to tether too.

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Older Athletes kicking tail

Count me in the contingent of "older" people who are not allowing our relatively advanced age slow us down. We have the 40 year old mother, Dara Torres who beats most swimmers half her age. We have yesterday that victory of the 32 year old swimmer, Lezak, who overcame a deficit to win gold in the 400 relay. What's the secret?

I'll tell you. We eat well. We understand that technique will help us overcome what we may be losing in sheer muscle power. We are more mature and therefore we can keep those emotions in check so that we don't break form. It's about understanding and working with your limits.

Scared by Cyclists

So the NY Times has an article on the rise of Cycling and the mental problems that have arisen. Here's one paragraph that defies logic:

“Mention the noon riders to anyone in town and you’ll see the blood pressure go up,” said Susan George, Woodside’s town manager. One day, she said, she rounded a bend and came upon them: “I slammed on the brakes and they swarmed around me, screaming and yelling obscenities. My heart was pounding. It was very scary.”

Scared by cyclists? Is she serious? Exactly WHAT threat did the bikes pose to her? No, seriously. She and her 2 ton vehicle was the threat.

Edwards

I'm just going to say that Edwards is lying about the baby not being his. Seriously folks, why was he at a hotel at 2 AM?