When we gave up on DSL (the DSL provider failed to actually provide a connection too many times), the phone line went away with it. But that doesn't mean that the phone on the desk or such doesn't work. Both jmaynard and I have Google Voice numbers as well the cell numbers. And a little gadget made by Obihai allows those numbers to work with the wired ( Read more... )

jmaynard upgraded to the most recent iPhone and since that was going on, I got an upgrade as well. Not an iPhone, but an HTC Inspire 4G "smart" phone running Android and capable of wifi (it's already on the house network). Now that I have a "smart"phone transferring contacts and backing them up should be simple, once I have them in the phone. So far I' ( Read more... )

Poll telephonic fission

Back in 2006 I received a couple pieces of nuisance advertising in the mail and posted a little bit about them (and on IJ). A little over a year later I received another piece of the same sort of nuisance advertising and posted scans of it (and on IJ). And then I pretty much forgot about it ( Read more... )

jmaynard just got a call from someone with the DFL (Minnesota's Democrats) who asked if he'd given any thought to the senate race between Al Franken (D) and Norm Coleman (R). She got a reply that seemed to stun her a bit when she asked what he'd decided, "I think Al Franken is a left-wing lunatic, so I'll be voting for Coleman." When she recovered she ( Read more... )

wendyzski probably has it right: turn off the ringer until after S(t)uper Tuesday. There have been a few calls. Some of them even connected. Ron Paul is using some automated set-up.

And that earlier polite call from the Romney folks? Today it was utterly cancelled out by another call from Romney folks (live person, again) that didn't say why to vote ( Read more... )

A little while back I posted about how none of the Presidential candidates seemed like a really good idea. Since then a few have dropped out of the race. I'm still not really liking any of the bunch very much.

Earlier this evening I received a phone call from a strange number, but the number was listed on the caller ID. When I answered, ( Read more... )

Since I've been entering and editing contact information on the new phone it has occurred to me that I might be missing some. All responses to this post will be screened. If you think I ought to have your contact information, you can reply with it.

jmaynard bought an iPhone. By luck he walked into the store a few minutes after the price drop. I wound up with a new phone as well, but nothing so fancy. I've spent a chunk of the day reading the manual and editing the contacts list. The list transferred with the SIM card, but not in the format I find useful, so I wound up editing it anyway.

The A437 ( Read more... )

A new telephone icon was another of the set of five.

Jumping ahead from the era of such telephones to the era of answering machines, the answering machine which used to have an outgoing message about the phone number rather than a name now has no message at all. I haven't spent much time looking for the manual or trying to figure out how to ( Read more... )