On Wednesday 26 March 2014 07:36:57 Mark Wendt did opine: > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Dave Cole <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ahh shaddup. My last cell phone was the economy AT&T that I had > > > signed > > > > up > > > > > for a 29$ month 200 minute account that I never used more than 10% > > > of unless I was up in Iron Mountain MI. Had a keypad. Did phone & > > > > voicemail. > > > > > But the monthly kept going up and when it got to $109.99 a month I > > > told them where to stick it and it wasn't on the table of my mill. > > > ;-) So > > > > I've > > > > > been cell-less for about 6 months now. Don't miss it a bit. > > > > > > Cheers, Gene > > > > Gene, you are fortunate that you don't have to keep one in your > > pocket. > > > > Dave > > I'm on call 24/7, and I'm damn glad the days of the pager are long gone. > I had to have one of them strapped on my all the time. > > Ever tried to water ski with a pager? > > Mark
I have, back when the pager was king, drowned some of them. I got to where it didn't bither me a bot after a while. I'd take the battery out, lay it up for a week or two, and it was as good as new, which meant it worked about half the time. No pager relay tx in Weston. If I didn't get the page, shrug. We had a news manager that thought I was his 24/7 slave, made the mistake of getting all riled up when I didn't call back in 3 or 4 minutes. When I arrived nobody had paged me unless it was somebody in news. Turned out it was the news director, they were out of camera batteries. They had been slowly failing. I guess he had tried to order a dozen (about $1100 worth at the time) and had been turned down because all we could afford was a 6 pack at the time, so he didn't order any at all, then tried to pass the buck off on me. We went into his office and closed the door while I explained the facts of life to him in very simple language. We had never gotten along at all well anyway, so I went up to Tims office when I had run down and threw his ass under the buss, with Tim interrupting me to ask why it took so long. 6 months later he found a new job, out of TV & we all celebrated. 10 years later he manages to get his face in front of a camera, and he is just as big a jerk as ever. Yeah, I remember pagers, biggest pain in the ass ever invented by mankind. Cell phones that pocket dial are next. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
