listener said: “Somewhere today I glimpsed an article's headline about how to go back to a flip phone from a smart phone. Ha! I wonder if that's going to become a thing.”
Reply: I have not used a smartphone yet, but my new one has a built-in camera, LTE capability (that is the newest in communications standards) and evidently it will work on both CDMA and GSM networks (which latter means I could use it outside the US). The user’s manual has to be downloaded online—didn’t come in the box. I will live it up and put in a 32 gB memory chip. Tracfone will be sending a SIM chip for their system gratis. If one were to do a much texting, this one wouldn’t be a good choice—is uses the older ten-key input system—but I don’t text. (Never could see the point of it.)
One of the reasons I finally got a smnartphone is that it allows texting by voice input. The advantage of texting is that it is a matter of intermediate urgency. It doesn't create an immediate interruption the way a phone call does but will come to the recipient's attention faster than an email. (I have one friend who looks at email maybe once a week.)
I suppose the voice transcription works better than it used to; let us know. The learning curve used to be very steep.
I think almost all the text messages I get are commercial junk, and even those seemed to be garbled on my old cell phone. And they cost me money to read, so I just delete them unread (if I don't make a mistake and open them). [Grouchy old stick-in-the-mud.] My new cell phone evidently has the potential for voice-activated commands, which I suppose might be useful if my hands were incapacitated and I had the phone turned on and laying near my mouth.
Same here. Book discussion today and dinner with the group after. I recounted a skit I saw once and somebody remarked that was the first time they had ever seen me cracked up.
Autumn has definitely arrive here; cool breeze in the mornings, high temps in the 80's F. Still some smoke from forest fires, but we can see the foothills to the NE.
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Pretty sure both Jehovah and Satan are scratching their heads, giving puzzled looks to each other at this point. Jehovah: You SURE he's not one of yours? Because I didn't make him. Satan: Please. Give me some credit. Even I have standards. Jehovah: Buddha? Brahma? *Both shrug their shoulders* Satan: Gaia? Gaia: *glowers* Satan: Right right. Sorry. Forgot about the "pussy grabbing" thing. Jehovah: Cthulhu? Cthulhu: What kind of monster do you take me for? *sips tea* Satan: Well SOMEBODY cooked him up. Flying Spaghetti Monster:... Jehovah: Wait...there is no way you could... Flying Spaghetti Monster: Look...it was my first time. I was a little drunk and someone asked for a "Tangerine Dream" so I thought.. Satan: *facepalms* F*cking newbies...
I hadn't heard anything about Dear Leader commiserating with the people of the Carolinas, but before I said anything I thought I should check the WH website. There it was--absolutely typical for this chowderhead--I'M SO GREAT! WE DID ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN ADVANCE! THE GREATEST HURRICANE PREPARATION EVER! There was more and particularly fetid BS on the economy, but that is another matter.
FEMA to Test ‘Presidential Alert’ System [Click] IMO it is worth reading the comments. I assume that intemperate responses are not likely to be allowed.
ReplyDeletelistener said:
“Somewhere today I glimpsed an article's headline about how to go back to a flip phone from a smart phone. Ha! I wonder if that's going to become a thing.”
Reply: I have not used a smartphone yet, but my new one has a built-in camera, LTE capability (that is the newest in communications standards) and evidently it will work on both CDMA and GSM networks (which latter means I could use it outside the US). The user’s manual has to be downloaded online—didn’t come in the box. I will live it up and put in a 32 gB memory chip. Tracfone will be sending a SIM chip for their system gratis. If one were to do a much texting, this one wouldn’t be a good choice—is uses the older ten-key input system—but I don’t text. (Never could see the point of it.)
—Alan
One of the reasons I finally got a smnartphone is that it allows texting by voice input. The advantage of texting is that it is a matter of intermediate urgency. It doesn't create an immediate interruption the way a phone call does but will come to the recipient's attention faster than an email. (I have one friend who looks at email maybe once a week.)
DeleteI suppose the voice transcription works better than it used to; let us know. The learning curve used to be very steep.
DeleteI think almost all the text messages I get are commercial junk, and even those seemed to be garbled on my old cell phone. And they cost me money to read, so I just delete them unread (if I don't make a mistake and open them). [Grouchy old stick-in-the-mud.] My new cell phone evidently has the potential for voice-activated commands, which I suppose might be useful if my hands were incapacitated and I had the phone turned on and laying near my mouth.
Alan
I've never gotten commercial text messages except from TracFone itself.
DeleteBeautiful, sunny day here. A touch warm for the middle of September, but nothing too uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteSame here. Book discussion today and dinner with the group after. I recounted a skit I saw once and somebody remarked that was the first time they had ever seen me cracked up.
DeleteAutumn has definitely arrive here; cool breeze in the mornings, high temps in the 80's F. Still some smoke from forest fires, but we can see the foothills to the NE.
ReplyDeleteAlan
Guardian Florence live feed. [Click]
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Pretty sure both Jehovah and Satan are scratching their heads, giving puzzled looks to each other at this point.
Jehovah: You SURE he's not one of yours? Because I didn't make him.
Satan: Please. Give me some credit. Even I have standards.
Jehovah: Buddha? Brahma?
*Both shrug their shoulders*
Satan: Gaia?
Gaia: *glowers*
Satan: Right right. Sorry. Forgot about the "pussy grabbing" thing.
Jehovah: Cthulhu?
Cthulhu: What kind of monster do you take me for? *sips tea*
Satan: Well SOMEBODY cooked him up.
Flying Spaghetti Monster:...
Jehovah: Wait...there is no way you could...
Flying Spaghetti Monster: Look...it was my first time. I was a little drunk and someone asked for a "Tangerine Dream" so I thought..
Satan: *facepalms* F*cking newbies...
Oh, really fine! I shall forward it...
DeleteAlan
Genuinely, genuinely amusing. Really!
DeleteFOTCROTFLMAO
DeleteDamned newbe, didn't he know the difference between a tangerine dream and a tangerine nightmare?
I hadn't heard anything about Dear Leader commiserating with the people of the Carolinas, but before I said anything I thought I should check the WH website. There it was--absolutely typical for this chowderhead--I'M SO GREAT! WE DID ALL KINDS OF THINGS IN ADVANCE! THE GREATEST HURRICANE PREPARATION EVER! There was more and particularly fetid BS on the economy, but that is another matter.
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Been amazingly quiet, still here today. Small fine rain. No wind at all.
ReplyDeleteCulverts running at 10, 20 per cent.
Hope it stays pretty much that way, puddle.
DeleteAlan
May it continue!
DeleteYa. I hope so, too. But it won't. But for now, nice. And I'm grateful. If it sticks to the script, I'll be fine-- 2 to 4 inches is no problems.
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