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Communication breakdown
Sep. 11th, 2009 12:37 pmThe ol' body is feeling noticeably better today than I was yesterday. Woohoo! I still feel bloaty and gross, but that has more to do with 4 days of crappy eating than it does with any sort of illness. ;)
As some of you might've noticed, I had Twitter updates being sent to my phone while I was at PAX. It actually was sort of handy for keeping up on PAX-related things, and I was spending a lot of time sitting in lines, so I figured it was as good a time as any to test whether or not I could actually cope with constant Twittering.
The answer to that? Is a big HELL NO. It *was* rather nice when I was killing time until a panel started, but in the context of my normal life, I really would go completely insane. At the very least, I wouldn't get a single speck of work done, because when I receive texts, I have this practically uncontrollable need to look at said text. I communicate with Boy about business-related things via text quite a bit, so I'd be way too afraid of missing something important.
One possibility is that, whenever I graduate from my crappy RAZR to an iPhone or G1, I might be able to roll with it then. I'd tried to see if I could assign a unique alert noise for certain texts on my RAZR, so I could differentiate Twitter updates from regular texts, but no dice. My phone sucks so bad. :p
I really do need to make a damned decision about my phone, though. I don't particularly like AT&T and their plans are hideously expensive compared to T-Mobile, but I *would* rather have the iPhone instead of the G1 or G2. Sigh. It's not even about Twitter, really: just being able to access Google Maps on my phone would be priceless.
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I won't be talking much about That Thing That Happened Several Years Ago Today. Someone else has probably already said it better. Here's what I said on the day of, though. I didn't expect it then, but now I believe we've all been greatly affected by those events, in ways that extend far beyond the death toll.
As some of you might've noticed, I had Twitter updates being sent to my phone while I was at PAX. It actually was sort of handy for keeping up on PAX-related things, and I was spending a lot of time sitting in lines, so I figured it was as good a time as any to test whether or not I could actually cope with constant Twittering.
The answer to that? Is a big HELL NO. It *was* rather nice when I was killing time until a panel started, but in the context of my normal life, I really would go completely insane. At the very least, I wouldn't get a single speck of work done, because when I receive texts, I have this practically uncontrollable need to look at said text. I communicate with Boy about business-related things via text quite a bit, so I'd be way too afraid of missing something important.
One possibility is that, whenever I graduate from my crappy RAZR to an iPhone or G1, I might be able to roll with it then. I'd tried to see if I could assign a unique alert noise for certain texts on my RAZR, so I could differentiate Twitter updates from regular texts, but no dice. My phone sucks so bad. :p
I really do need to make a damned decision about my phone, though. I don't particularly like AT&T and their plans are hideously expensive compared to T-Mobile, but I *would* rather have the iPhone instead of the G1 or G2. Sigh. It's not even about Twitter, really: just being able to access Google Maps on my phone would be priceless.
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I won't be talking much about That Thing That Happened Several Years Ago Today. Someone else has probably already said it better. Here's what I said on the day of, though. I didn't expect it then, but now I believe we've all been greatly affected by those events, in ways that extend far beyond the death toll.
