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The Fools – Bite It!

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Totally worth the time to find them!

I’m gonna have to get a new cell phone soon, and the #1 priority will be a powerful antenna. Around my house (with T-Mobile) I get maybe 1-2 bars. Inside: 0.

What kind of phone do I have, you ask? Motorola v300.

How much do I use it now? I think it’s in my briefcase in the living room, uncharged.

What features am I looking for in my next phone? Why, glad you asked!

First, of course, is that powerful antenna so I can use it at home. Without that, the phone is useless to me.

Second is bluetooth so I can use the wireless headsets. I need hands-free phone.

Third is a speakerphone feature with which I can start a call instead of waiting for the call to connect, THEN switching to speakerphone. Fucking annoying. I really don’t like putting the phone to my head, it’s just an uncomfortable position to hold for the long calls I have to make, so good speakerphone is necessary.

Fourth is a cradle where I can charge the phone instead of using the annoying little wire and plugging it into the bottom of the phone, then jiggling it for 5 minutes to make sure the damn thing actually starts charging. Why is my phone in my briefcase, uncharged, unused, unloved? Because I rarely use it at home and charging it has always been a bitch.

All the other bells and whistles that are constantly promoted by the wireless companies, such as MP3 players, camera, video, radio… all useless to me. I could care less about that. I just need the fucking thing to WORK.

My cell phone ain’t bling.

My cell phone ain’t status.

My cell phone just needs to WORK!

My cell phone frustrates me.

This should be its own post. :>

schwarzerwind Says:

September 2nd, 2006 at 10:39 pm

The problem isn’t your antenna. It’s T-Mobile, and yes, I use them too. So I know of what I speak. My friend and I are jumping ship to Verizon, soon, because in the last 9 months, they have become fucking abysmal.

I don’t know what’s going on at T-Mobile, but they are on the bullet train to hell, and I been with them 4 some years now. I hear great things about Verizon’s signal strength and quality, though, and I am seriously looking into them.

I’ve addressed these concerns to T-Mobile, who simply don’t care, and tell me it’s not their problem at all, but perhaps how I use my phone. They even suggested I turn the phone off every day or so for 5 mins, then turn it back on, so it reconnects to their tower, thus (POSSIBLY) improving the signal.

Bullshit. It needs to work. 24/7. My house is the only place I get a good signal; everywhere else, just like yours, 1-2 bars or NO SIGNAL AT ALL. And the latter happens quite alot.

No Doubt – Spiderwebs

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Folk Implosion – Natural One

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Today my topic will be The BeeGees.  He will LOVE this one.  First off, this is a very serious topic to me.  This is the music that I love best in the world, not the disco crap everyone thinks of, their early work, more folkie and just all-around great love songs.  My soulmate and I listen to this music and call it “the music” and he’s an urban rapper-type with a not-so good decision-making history, so it proves even very “tough” men can be sensitive. 

We think it’s immortal timeless stuff, Byron will claim that he just can’t stomach a single thing about it.  HOWEVER, I do have a secret to share, and that is that he once listened to some of the older stuff and liked it.  And admitted it.  See, I’ve got the dirt on him more than you think.  Yes, admitted it.

I wish I could remember exactly what song he liked but it’s either “New York Mining Disaster 1941″ or something of that era.  Let me make a few suggestions to any of you who are doubting that this music can be more than falsetto.  I’d suggest ”Elisa,” and probably “Run To Me.”  And if those are not enough, throw in “I’ve Just Gotta Get a Message to You” and “I Started A Joke.”  Of course the quintessential BEE GEES must be “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” which, in a recent conversation, many people think the Bee Gees remade it after Al Green.  UH, NO.  They CREATED it.  It’s The BeeGees song to hear if you can only hear one.

Byron, this is what you get for taking off and doing other things this weekend.

Peace!

“I could never see tomorrow, no one said a word about the sorrow!”  Notice, I don’t have the power to put music here, or the knowledge I don’t THINK, and if that’s true, he probably LIKES that.

And of course, he gets me the 4-cd collection of the BeeGees, just happens to download the whole thing and send it to me….not that HE wants it for himself of course.

*****

The meanie actually came back and taught me how to provide the music, so here it is!!

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