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Jul. 6th, 2009
Moar phone drama
Jul. 6th, 2009 04:21 pmSo that new phone I got on Friday? Yeah, in the immortal words of Antoine Merriweather and Blaine Edwards:
No seriously, I was sitting with my old phone charger in my hand earlier trying to figure out what to do with it and looking at the new phone, and quite suddenly realized that if I had to put up with it for the foreseeable future, I would go bugshit. So I went back to the AT&T store, dutifully received my clowning from the brothas on staff (one of whom I think is another one of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
masteradept's Brothers from Other Mothers... helloooooooo Mr. Dimples and Lashes!), paid my "ooh shiny" tax, and left with the phone they tried to sell me in the first place, which was the next model up from my old phone. I'm already much happier, and hey, I can has spare charger now. Win.
That said, do not get the Pantech Matrix. It is shiny blue crap on a stick. The camera sucks, the screen is huge but the graphics are painfully awful, you can't reprogram the center buttons so you risk non-consensual connection to Media Net every time you bump it, the navigation is clunky, and the button that actually lets you make calls? invisible. The list goes on and on. Pretty much once the Oooh, QWERTY keyboard! wore off that thing had nothing going for it. New hotness, I'm amused to find, has the same resolution on the camera as the camera I used to borrow frominle_rah when I wanted to take "really good pictures" six years ago. *shakes head* Technology.
Well, at least I got the phone book update and ringtone making out of the way last time around - all that's left is upload and assign. Hopefully this will be the last time for a while.
Back to work, South Park, and cleaning like a fiend.
Hated It!
No seriously, I was sitting with my old phone charger in my hand earlier trying to figure out what to do with it and looking at the new phone, and quite suddenly realized that if I had to put up with it for the foreseeable future, I would go bugshit. So I went back to the AT&T store, dutifully received my clowning from the brothas on staff (one of whom I think is another one of
masteradept's Brothers from Other Mothers... helloooooooo Mr. Dimples and Lashes!), paid my "ooh shiny" tax, and left with the phone they tried to sell me in the first place, which was the next model up from my old phone. I'm already much happier, and hey, I can has spare charger now. Win.That said, do not get the Pantech Matrix. It is shiny blue crap on a stick. The camera sucks, the screen is huge but the graphics are painfully awful, you can't reprogram the center buttons so you risk non-consensual connection to Media Net every time you bump it, the navigation is clunky, and the button that actually lets you make calls? invisible. The list goes on and on. Pretty much once the Oooh, QWERTY keyboard! wore off that thing had nothing going for it. New hotness, I'm amused to find, has the same resolution on the camera as the camera I used to borrow from
inle_rah when I wanted to take "really good pictures" six years ago. *shakes head* Technology. Well, at least I got the phone book update and ringtone making out of the way last time around - all that's left is upload and assign. Hopefully this will be the last time for a while.
Back to work, South Park, and cleaning like a fiend.
Moar phone drama
Jul. 6th, 2009 04:21 pmSo that new phone I got on Friday? Yeah, in the immortal words of Antoine Merriweather and Blaine Edwards:
No seriously, I was sitting with my old phone charger in my hand earlier trying to figure out what to do with it and looking at the new phone, and quite suddenly realized that if I had to put up with it for the foreseeable future, I would go bugshit. So I went back to the AT&T store, dutifully received my clowning from the brothas on staff (one of whom I think is another one ofmasteradept's Brothers from Other Mothers... helloooooooo Mr. Dimples and Lashes!), paid my "ooh shiny" tax, and left with the phone they tried to sell me in the first place, which was the next model up from my old phone. I'm already much happier, and hey, I can has spare charger now. Win.
That said, do not get the Pantech Matrix. It is shiny blue crap on a stick. The camera sucks, the screen is huge but the graphics are painfully awful, you can't reprogram the center buttons so you risk non-consensual connection to Media Net every time you bump it, the navigation is clunky, and the button that actually lets you make calls? invisible. The list goes on and on. Pretty much once the Oooh, QWERTY keyboard! wore off that thing had nothing going for it. New hotness, I'm amused to find, has the same resolution on the camera as the camera I used to borrow frominle_rah when I wanted to take "really good pictures" six years ago. *shakes head* Technology.
Well, at least I got the phone book update and ringtone making out of the way last time around - all that's left is upload and assign. Hopefully this will be the last time for a while.
Back to work, South Park, and cleaning like a fiend.
Hated It!
No seriously, I was sitting with my old phone charger in my hand earlier trying to figure out what to do with it and looking at the new phone, and quite suddenly realized that if I had to put up with it for the foreseeable future, I would go bugshit. So I went back to the AT&T store, dutifully received my clowning from the brothas on staff (one of whom I think is another one of
masteradept's Brothers from Other Mothers... helloooooooo Mr. Dimples and Lashes!), paid my "ooh shiny" tax, and left with the phone they tried to sell me in the first place, which was the next model up from my old phone. I'm already much happier, and hey, I can has spare charger now. Win.That said, do not get the Pantech Matrix. It is shiny blue crap on a stick. The camera sucks, the screen is huge but the graphics are painfully awful, you can't reprogram the center buttons so you risk non-consensual connection to Media Net every time you bump it, the navigation is clunky, and the button that actually lets you make calls? invisible. The list goes on and on. Pretty much once the Oooh, QWERTY keyboard! wore off that thing had nothing going for it. New hotness, I'm amused to find, has the same resolution on the camera as the camera I used to borrow from
inle_rah when I wanted to take "really good pictures" six years ago. *shakes head* Technology. Well, at least I got the phone book update and ringtone making out of the way last time around - all that's left is upload and assign. Hopefully this will be the last time for a while.
Back to work, South Park, and cleaning like a fiend.
Me: [bored, waiting for pot to boil so she can make pasta]
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Pssst! Lookit me! I'm pretty! Or I was. I will be pretty when you polish me. You like to polish the pretty things. Make me pretty!
Me: Hmm, okay. I need something to do while the pasta cooks [commence hunting for silver polish] Aha, There you are!
Silver Polish: Avast! You have found me, you scurvy dog! *
Me: Now I can polish the tray!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Hooray!
Me: [opens the silver polish]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: BOO! **
Me: OH MY GAWD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! [drops silver polish in trash can and flees kitchen]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: [cackles]
Silver Polish: Yarr!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: [pout]
Me: [goes upstairs to post to LJ and attempt to calm down]
Pasta Pot: [boils]
FIN.
...OKAY SERIOUSLY? IS THERE A SUBSTANCE THAT WILL NOT SPROUT INTERESTING FUNGI IF LEFT ALONE LONG ENOUGH???? HOLY JESUS CHRIST ON A POTATO CHIP.
* yeah, I don't know why the silver polish can has a pirate accent either. It just does. Deal.
** Acceptable alternate dialogue: "SURPRISE!" or "O HAI!"
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Pssst! Lookit me! I'm pretty! Or I was. I will be pretty when you polish me. You like to polish the pretty things. Make me pretty!
Me: Hmm, okay. I need something to do while the pasta cooks [commence hunting for silver polish] Aha, There you are!
Silver Polish: Avast! You have found me, you scurvy dog! *
Me: Now I can polish the tray!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Hooray!
Me: [opens the silver polish]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: BOO! **
Me: OH MY GAWD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! [drops silver polish in trash can and flees kitchen]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: [cackles]
Silver Polish: Yarr!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: [pout]
Me: [goes upstairs to post to LJ and attempt to calm down]
Pasta Pot: [boils]
FIN.
...OKAY SERIOUSLY? IS THERE A SUBSTANCE THAT WILL NOT SPROUT INTERESTING FUNGI IF LEFT ALONE LONG ENOUGH???? HOLY JESUS CHRIST ON A POTATO CHIP.
* yeah, I don't know why the silver polish can has a pirate accent either. It just does. Deal.
** Acceptable alternate dialogue: "SURPRISE!" or "O HAI!"
Me: [bored, waiting for pot to boil so she can make pasta]
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Pssst! Lookit me! I'm pretty! Or I was. I will be pretty when you polish me. You like to polish the pretty things. Make me pretty!
Me: Hmm, okay. I need something to do while the pasta cooks [commence hunting for silver polish] Aha, There you are!
Silver Polish: Avast! You have found me, you scurvy dog! *
Me: Now I can polish the tray!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Hooray!
Me: [opens the silver polish]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: BOO! **
Me: OH MY GAWD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! [drops silver polish in trash can and flees kitchen]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: [cackles]
Silver Polish: Yarr!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: [pout]
Me: [goes upstairs to post to LJ and attempt to calm down]
Pasta Pot: [boils]
FIN.
...OKAY SERIOUSLY? IS THERE A SUBSTANCE THAT WILL NOT SPROUT INTERESTING FUNGI IF LEFT ALONE LONG ENOUGH???? HOLY JESUS CHRIST ON A POTATO CHIP.
* yeah, I don't know why the silver polish can has a pirate accent either. It just does. Deal.
** Acceptable alternate dialogue: "SURPRISE!" or "O HAI!"
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Pssst! Lookit me! I'm pretty! Or I was. I will be pretty when you polish me. You like to polish the pretty things. Make me pretty!
Me: Hmm, okay. I need something to do while the pasta cooks [commence hunting for silver polish] Aha, There you are!
Silver Polish: Avast! You have found me, you scurvy dog! *
Me: Now I can polish the tray!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: Hooray!
Me: [opens the silver polish]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: BOO! **
Me: OH MY GAWD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! [drops silver polish in trash can and flees kitchen]
Gigantic Long Dead But Still Magnificent Black Spiky Fuzzy Mold Thing: [cackles]
Silver Polish: Yarr!
Tarnished Antique Silver Serving Tray: [pout]
Me: [goes upstairs to post to LJ and attempt to calm down]
Pasta Pot: [boils]
FIN.
...OKAY SERIOUSLY? IS THERE A SUBSTANCE THAT WILL NOT SPROUT INTERESTING FUNGI IF LEFT ALONE LONG ENOUGH???? HOLY JESUS CHRIST ON A POTATO CHIP.
* yeah, I don't know why the silver polish can has a pirate accent either. It just does. Deal.
** Acceptable alternate dialogue: "SURPRISE!" or "O HAI!"
