You know you live in 2006 when…
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1. You go to a party, sit down and take MySpace pics.
The Mercedes
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A lady walks into a Mercedes dealership and browses around.
Suddenly she spots the most perfect, beautiful car and walks over to inspect it. As she bends forward to feel the fine leather upholstery, an unexpected little burst of flatulence escapes her.
Very embarrassed, she anxiously looks around to see if anyone has noticed and hopes a sales person doesn’t pop up right now.
As she turns back, there standing next to her is a salesman. With a pleasant smile he greets her, “Good day, Madame. How may we help you today?”
Trying to maintain an air of sophistication and acting as though nothing had happened, she smiles back and asks, “Sir, what is the price of this lovely vehicle?”
Still smiling pleasantly, he replies, “Madame, I’m very sorry to say that if you farted just touching it, you are gonna shit when you hear the price.”
alrighty then
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not a good day so far.
- Update -
I’ve been using the BlackBerry for two days now so today I wanted to clear the data and set it up for someone else. I used the desktop utility to do that…no big deal. Unfortunately I left the Desktop Redirector running so Outlook was still sending mail to it. I saw this and thought the data clear just didn’t work. so I tried again. This time entering the wrong password 10 times on purpose which also wipes it out (in case it gets stolen). Then I reseated the battery and turned it back on….STOP, DO NOT PASS GO, DO NOT COLLECT $200. The dang thing wouldn’t boot at all, just a white screen with error 503 on it. I call Cingular and the following conversation ensues:
Clueless Wonder Phone Rep #1 (CWPR): Can I have the # you’re calling about?
Me: 310-xxx-xxxx
CWPR: And the name on the account?
Me: :insert female boss’ name that is clearly not me no matter how white I sound.
CWPR: can I have the tax ID # on the account
Me: no clue whatsoever. I am the IT person for the company
CWPR: long pause…..okay, I don’t need that to help you. What’s the problem?
Me: I tried clearing the data on the BlackBerry to set it up for a new user. After reseating the battery it wouldn’t power back on.
CWPR: long pause again while CWPR undoubtedly reaches for the hidden button alerting security this negro stole the phone and just wants to put his info in it….Our computers are down so I can’t really..like….do anything. Did you try reseating the battery?
Me: Yes, but I will do it again….I do to the same result
CWPR: I believe you “kinda like sorta fried the SIM card maybe”. You’ll have to send it back so we can give you another one, which will take 3-5 days.
Me: You don’t sound very sure of yourself. Is there a way you contact the phone remotely and see if it’s really dead? (Call the damn number using them gizmos ya got over there, biatch)
CWPR: Without software we won’t be able to contact it. You’ll need to send it back.
Me: GRRRRRRRRRRRRR……..they don’t call me Dial_tone for nuttin.
So I have just killed our new $300 phone. Boss comes from lunch expecting a demo of the phone with her data in it. I explain the situation making it sound less critical than I think it is. A few minutes later I call back and get someone who sounds just like CWPR. Not talking to her again…wouldn’t be prudent…not at this juncture. I hang up and call back again.
This time I get Habib. He tells me to just reinstall the software via the USB cable. I didn’t try this before because I figured the software talked to the device at the application level and since the OS is gone that won’t work. Well I was wrong and it did work. In removing the data I removed everything, even the OS so reversing the process worked fine. She’s probably sitting at home surfing on it right now.
sniff…the aroma of BlackBerry
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We decided to get some Smart Phones at work. Most everyone here has their own cellphone plan but they don’t have laptops. All they really need from a new unit is email access and possibly text messaging. It was my job to decide which to go with – Treo 700 or BlackBerry 8700.
A couple of weeks ago I went to a demo to see the Treo 700 running Windows Mobile. It was really nice but it does a lot of things we don’t need. Basically the Treo 700 is a phone, SMS messager, camera, mp3 player, video player and mini laptop since it runs Windows Mobile OS & a mini version of MS Office. The BlackBerry is more simply a phone with email and text messaging.
I decided to go with the Blackberry 8700c. It’s alright so far. I don’t like that it doesn’t have any storage like a removable media card. I guess there’s little need since you can’t play music or video or edit files on it anyway. I don’t like that I can only get new Exchange mail, but nothing that was in my box prior to setting it up. The only way to get previous mail is to forward it to yourself again, which isn’t practical. I can use the browser and our webmail to do that but the screen is only 320×240 (the Treo is 240×240). The browser also doesn’t support frames. The browser speed with Cingular’s EDGE network is not bad really. It’ll do in a pinch for sure. It’s more than fine for quick Googling.
The keyboard takes some getting used to but its better than texting on a regular phone; probably not better than a Treo. Another difference is the Treo uses a stylus and touch screen to navigate while the BB has a thumbwheel. I’m not sure which I’d like best there.
If I were to get one for myself I think I’d rather have the Treo 700. I don’t have a laptop so the computer-like features would come in handy for me. They’re just overkill for what we’re going to use it for here.
The real fun for me will come when I have to configure it for a new person every other week. Since these will be shared units I have to set it up for whoever will be out of the office next. That’s gonna suck but that’s why they pay me the small bucks.
-ugh – I think I just ran into a major gotcha. It looks like you have to use BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) to be able to view attachments. That’s like $1500 so this could be a deal breaker. Adding more email complexity for essentially two BB’s just ain’t happenin.
And all this time I thought I was a cradle robber..
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I got nuttin on this woman.
CNN.com – Woman, 104, takes man, 33, as husband No. 21 – May 2, 2006
Couldn’t have said it better myself
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“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American..There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Pure genius. People in this country are too concerned about being politically correct to tell anyone how they really feel. All those supressed feelings are eventually going to boil over and there’s going to be a seismic implosion of some sort. The other day I heard someone say “everyone has a right to be here”. NO, THEY DON’T. Too many people having a sense of entitlement to something they haven’t earned, worked for or deserved is what’s running this country into the ground.
