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Dec. 4th, 2007 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickOkay, now I have Semagic (the widget I use to post to my LJ) up and running on The Shiny New Laptop. (It's red.) I know that some of you are getting tired of the laptop being shiny and new and red, but you're just going to have to deal because it was expensive (and ALL THE KEYS WORK THE FIRST TIME I HIT THEM!!!) and expensive things take longer for the shiny to wear off of them.
In the last week at work, we've found two small, Nokia cell phones in assorted parking lots. Nokias are apparently sort of independent, strike-out-on-their-own cell phones. They're well suited to roughing it, though -- both of the Nokias worked once we dried them out (they were getting rained on) and powered them up.
Phone #1 had the startup message (before the brand screen or the desktop) "Landon's phone. If found, call xxx-xxxx" While Landon can't keep ahold of his phone, this was a prescient and intelligent message on Landon's part. We did, indeed, call that number. We got the machine and left a message that said "This is Landon's phone. If Landon would like his phone back, he can contact our office at xxx-xxxx." Landon's mom came and got the phone, so presumably Landon and his phone are now reunited.
Phone #2 DID NOT have a useful startup message. "Michelle -n- David 4evah" is not helpful. However, the address book had the following entry: "Mom and Dad". We called "Mom and Dad" and got a live human being who probably was "Mom". She allowed as how her daughter had an asshole of a husband. Said asshole probably got mad at daughter, grabbed phone, and threw it from a moving vehicle. "Mom" sounded as if this was not the first instance of the scenario. Perhaps Asshole is a repeat-phone-thrower. We didn't ask.
So. If your cell and you have parted ways, the finder, assuming it's someone like me and not someone who wants to use all your minutes to call Paraguay, will look at the phone and try to find out where to call to give it back. Try to have *something* in the address book or startup messages that is useful for people who do not know who you are and yet still might want to give you back your fucking phone for free.
In the last week at work, we've found two small, Nokia cell phones in assorted parking lots. Nokias are apparently sort of independent, strike-out-on-their-own cell phones. They're well suited to roughing it, though -- both of the Nokias worked once we dried them out (they were getting rained on) and powered them up.
Phone #1 had the startup message (before the brand screen or the desktop) "Landon's phone. If found, call xxx-xxxx" While Landon can't keep ahold of his phone, this was a prescient and intelligent message on Landon's part. We did, indeed, call that number. We got the machine and left a message that said "This is Landon's phone. If Landon would like his phone back, he can contact our office at xxx-xxxx." Landon's mom came and got the phone, so presumably Landon and his phone are now reunited.
Phone #2 DID NOT have a useful startup message. "Michelle -n- David 4evah" is not helpful. However, the address book had the following entry: "Mom and Dad". We called "Mom and Dad" and got a live human being who probably was "Mom". She allowed as how her daughter had an asshole of a husband. Said asshole probably got mad at daughter, grabbed phone, and threw it from a moving vehicle. "Mom" sounded as if this was not the first instance of the scenario. Perhaps Asshole is a repeat-phone-thrower. We didn't ask.
So. If your cell and you have parted ways, the finder, assuming it's someone like me and not someone who wants to use all your minutes to call Paraguay, will look at the phone and try to find out where to call to give it back. Try to have *something* in the address book or startup messages that is useful for people who do not know who you are and yet still might want to give you back your fucking phone for free.
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