Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phone. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

that was nice

i stopped by a verizon in-store kiosk on the way home today and asked carmine about a promo that verizon was running for people who bought the LG Dare. buy the phone, get a free (as in beer) 8gb microSD card for your phone. i wasn't aware of it until i signed up for my employee discount (22% off my bill! AND it applies to anything i buy for my phone too!). i shot our sales rep an email but in no real surprise, he never replied.

so, i talked to carmine and he knew exactly what i was talking about. he looked a few things up but wasn't sure when the promotion started. and he wasn't sure if it was something that would have to be mailed to me or he could give to me. so i patiently waited while he looked things up, talked with a co-worker who wasn't sure, and then he emailed someone who would know. but they were on vacation until the 25th. so he mailed the person covering, and i continued to wait. i was able to find info about the promo, but nothing with a date, so after he assisted 2 other customers, he made an executive decsion - he gave me an 8gb card.

WOO!

so, i now have an 8gb card to put into my phone and i can replace the 2gb i'm currently using that belongs to my mp3 player. so the day ended on a pretty good note after starting out in a pretty rough fashion. i'm still tired as hell, but pleased how the day ended.

thank you carmine of the verizon in-store kiosk :-)


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Thursday, July 10, 2008

ain't technology grand?

like many people these days, i've been interested in picking up a GPS device, but held off because in reality, i don't really need it. it's just technology that intrigues and amuses me, so i've saved my money and not bought one yet.

but the other day, i picked up the new LG Dare and i'm rather pleased with it so far. i continue to play with the various options and i figured out how to do various things like ringtones, wallpaper, etc.

at the time i bought the phone, i changed my plan which gives me all kinds of new things including VZ Navigator which provides GPS funtionality. so this weekend i'm thinking about visiting the parents, so i was curious to see what route it would choose and then compare to google and came up with interesting results.

my normal route (mapped on google):
137 miles
188 minutes


google default route:
137 miles
177 minutes


fairly close to my normal route, a route i've taken a few times, but out of habit, i've used a different one.

so onto the VZ Navigator choices.

vz fastest:
164 miles
195 min (185 min google)


verizon's navigation takes traffic into account which i presume is why there is a time difference. i found it interesting that it takes me nearly 30 miles further using the mass pike rather than the 'slower' road. so for a potential savings of 3 minutes, i can travel 30 miles further.

vz easiest:

i'm not sure it chose the easiest. it basically mirrored their fastest route, but then it went off on some wild tangent i couldn't follow. when i zoomed in on the map, it stopped about 15 miles short of the final destination. so much for easiest.

vz shortest:
132 miles
175 min (187 min google)


it's similar to the google default, but it starts off by going thru some of the back streets around my neighborhood which i thought was odd, but in the end, it is the shortest. i don't think that they get the time right because it starts out more back roadish, and knowing the roads, i know that the google time estimate is better.

so there you go. the best route? i dunno. they each (except for the ironically names easiest route) get me to my destination. fortunately the ride out is one i enjoy, so going the slower roads doesn't bother me.

now to plan my roadtrip music...

if i burn the seattle 75 show, i'd only hear 75% of the show...hmmm....ponder ponder ponder....



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Thursday, July 03, 2008

heeheehee



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Thursday, November 30, 2006

arg...

i hate when i want to look something up and i promptly forget what it was. at least i remembered that i wanted to try and find Flight of the Bumblebee. it's actually harder than i thought. i can find some mp3s, but not all of them are loud enuff, or simple enuff (looking for a good piano version if possible). i've figured out how to put ringtones on my phone, and after several years of not having it, i want Flight of the Bumblebee on my phone. right now, i'd be willing to guess that not that many people have the opening bars of Kashmir on their phones, let alone a live version of Kashmir. or something by The Residents. heh. what else can i put on it...

but before i sat down just now, i wanted to look something up, and now i can't remember what it was. must not have been that important. but of course now it's going to bug me. need to do my dishes, took out the trash, will do some cleaning, those i remember. but this i forget. whatever this is.

damn.

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Monday, October 30, 2006

...and we have a WINNER!

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days left

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Sunday, October 29, 2006

at long last, there is finally only this number of days left.


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Saturday, October 28, 2006



there are how many Petronas Towers? cuz that's how many days are left before i can get my new phone. still not soon enuff...

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Friday, October 27, 2006

so close...yet so far away.










(yes, i know the lyrics have no relation to my little countdown. but it's one of my favorite songs so the title fits)

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

the number of days left....

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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

there are this many days left:

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006


DAYS

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Monday, October 23, 2006

1 week...that's all there is until i get my cellphone satisfaction. well, not really because to be TRULY satisfied, i'd heave my current piece of shit across the parking lot and watch it shatter into pieces.

so allow me to update:

1 week until i no longer need to use this piece of shit LG calls a cellphone.

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Sunday, October 22, 2006

less than 192 hours to go.

(that's 8 days for the mathematically challenged)

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Saturday, October 21, 2006

9 frakking days until i get me a new frakking phone!

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Friday, October 20, 2006

by request, in Flemish:

10 Dagen

hope i got it right. i'm not that linguistically endowed, so i'm guessing it is pronounced slightly differently than when spoken in Dutch.

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Thursday, October 19, 2006

In het Nederlands:

11 Dagen

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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

En español:

12 días

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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

In Italiano:

13 giorni

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Monday, October 16, 2006

Auf deutsch:

14 Tage

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