[FRIAM] now that's walking the talk!
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-woman-who-ate-chernobyl-s-apples FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] Optimizing cell phone plans...
Even though I secretly snicker when well-funded folks here worry about the last nickel on their cell phone plans, I just got skooled by ATT on this topic. I normally run a 1GB family share plan over 2 phones and pay a whopping $120/month for this. My wife hardly uses HER phone at all and my use can be sporadic (days without a call or txt) since we don't get coverage at our house. I've dabbled with other options, the closest to a good deal being prepaid plans from T-mobile but their data coverage out of town seems weak (i.e. while I'm traveling where I use it as a hotspot for my computer). A prepaid plan at $2/day for unlimited everything comes out to about $120 for two phones if used every day. Neither my wife nor I has the patience or willpower to leave our phones off for days at a time and all it takes is a single incoming txt message to trigger that day's charges... so on average we could do a little better, but probably not much. I just checked my current data usage since when traveling I can rack up 2-3 GB overages (@$20/GB) easily. In the process I discovered that their 3GB family share plan quoted at $90/month. Of *course* the prices are going down and the services are going up to be competitive, and of *course* ATT wasn't going to tell me that automatically. I *think* I just saved $30/month on my basic plan and put myself close if not entirely under the data limit when on the road... and if I thought I needed 6GB regularly, I could now have *that* for the original $120. So, I guess I understand why some here revisit their cell plans regularly in what I previously felt was a bit of first world hand-wringing. I've probably forked over a few hundred dollars to ATT in the last year or so, unnecessarily? - Steve FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] now that's walking the talk!
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-woman-who-ate-chernobyl-s-apples And of course there was the precedent of Eve's behaviour regarding apples! Interesting contrast to this woman who was an "early" internet video sensation: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] Optimizing cell phone plans...
My own data plan in India gives me 2GB+unlimited Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp. It costs me about US$2 per month. The provider also gives free access to many websites using Facebook's internet.org, but there is a huge uproar here because people say it violates something called net neutrality Sarbajit Roy On 4/23/15, Steve Smith sasm...@swcp.com wrote: Even though I secretly snicker when well-funded folks here worry about the last nickel on their cell phone plans, I just got skooled by ATT on this topic. I normally run a 1GB family share plan over 2 phones and pay a whopping $120/month for this. My wife hardly uses HER phone at all and my use can be sporadic (days without a call or txt) since we don't get coverage at our house. I've dabbled with other options, the closest to a good deal being prepaid plans from T-mobile but their data coverage out of town seems weak (i.e. while I'm traveling where I use it as a hotspot for my computer). A prepaid plan at $2/day for unlimited everything comes out to about $120 for two phones if used every day. Neither my wife nor I has the patience or willpower to leave our phones off for days at a time and all it takes is a single incoming txt message to trigger that day's charges... so on average we could do a little better, but probably not much. I just checked my current data usage since when traveling I can rack up 2-3 GB overages (@$20/GB) easily. In the process I discovered that their 3GB family share plan quoted at $90/month. Of *course* the prices are going down and the services are going up to be competitive, and of *course* ATT wasn't going to tell me that automatically. I *think* I just saved $30/month on my basic plan and put myself close if not entirely under the data limit when on the road... and if I thought I needed 6GB regularly, I could now have *that* for the original $120. So, I guess I understand why some here revisit their cell plans regularly in what I previously felt was a bit of first world hand-wringing. I've probably forked over a few hundred dollars to ATT in the last year or so, unnecessarily? - Steve FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
