New Phone Notes
I got this new phone. I had heard that Verizon had hobbled bluetooth on it’s phones and the reception in our neighborhood was atrocious. Even when my Verizon phone was brand new, I had to stand outside to get decent reception. So I switched carriers and went for one of their higher end phones. This new phone gets four to five bars in my basement, for God’s sake. Oddly, only three in the upstairs dining room. So I’m less likely to care that I can sync my contacts and calendars using iSync, because I can actually use the phone in my house.
The new phone has Bluetooth capabilities and my iBook sees it just fine and moving pictures from the phone to the camera is pretty cool. I can take a picture upstairs and transfer it wirelessly to my machine downstairs. Provided the machine hasn’t gone to sleep. I haven’t messed with it, but there is a setting that lets Bluetooth mice and keyboards wake up a sleeping machine… maybe my phone can do that. But God help it, because when my iBook wakes up it’s a grumpy little bastard. Sidenote: the phone makes a good toast as well; golden brown and crisp, yet moist and tender in the middle.
The best and worst part of the Bluetooth action is that I can use a wireless headset with the phone. It’s really nice to set the phone where it gets the best reception and yack 10 or more feet away. The problem is that I look like a dork with the headset:
I’m already on the edge with the clogs. The headset just pushes it over the cliff. o
- 07.31.2006
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dude, you can’t keep letting the woman keep you down about the clogs. they are *not* dorky. they’re comfy, sensible, and before i start making them sound orthopedic, they’re hip. in their way. don’t let her start making you think otherwise.
can’t help you for the headset, though.
It’s interesting that you get better reception in your basement than at ground level. Maybe your basement has big coils of copper around the walls?
You’ll become one of the pod people in no time now that *they* have one of their pods attached to your ear.
On the plus side, when the Borg come to assimilate, you’ll be an easy conversion. Dork.
Take another pic in your yellow slicker and clogs, now with the headset. Wow, that’ll make a great Christmas card photo.
Maybe a fanny pack would complete the look.
No worries. clogs, bluetooth, ibook. Everyone else is just jealous. It’s not everyone that can openly admit they are in touch with their inner geek.
I support the clogs (not clogging, which I believe is a sort of folk dancing), but the headset is pushing the geek-dork continuum….. Perhaps if you only have brutishly manly conversations while you’re wearing it….”I’m cooking six pounds of BACON! and then I’m gonna go chop wood. HoooOOAH!”
You…will…be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
I washed my black Razr. I tried to dry it out using Silica packets and a baggie and that didn’t work. A month after the incident, I walked into T-Mobil to buy a new one. They laughed and laughed at my story. But I guess it wasn’t funny enough for a discount. That’s how I ended up with the pink Razr. A week later, the pink one slid out of my pocket in a NYC cab. I haven’t seen it since. I was so pissed off at myself, as punishment, I grounded myself from electronics all together. (I had washed my Nano a week after I washed my Razr. Things were so not going my way, although since the nano is solid state, a few days later after it had dried out it worked. Thank goodness.)
Anyway, one day, frustrated about not having a phone (we don’t have a landline at all anymore), I plugged in the washed black Razr thinking maybe time had healed all wounds. And, wouldn’t you know, the freaking thing powered on. I called tobyjoe to celebrate. Here’s how our conversation went.
“Hello?”
“MY PHONE! IT WORKS!”
“Hello?”
“MY BLACK RAZR WORKS!”
“Hello?”
I could hear him just fine. But the microphone no longer worked. Since I didn’t want to buy a new phone, I walked into Best Buy and used the gift card I won from work to purchase what I call “the douchebag headset” so I could talk to people again.
It worked for a day and then began to give me errors about having a weak signal.
So, I’m back to where I started. I’m two phones poorer and I’m one douchebag headset richer and I still have no way of calling anyone.
I’m not sure why I’m sharing all of this. A confessional, I suppose.
That headset just SCREAMS Star Trek.
Jon, I was totally with you on the clogs, but no one can pull off the bluetooth headset and make it look cool. I say just embrace your dorkitude; wear the clogs and headset with your waist band pulled up as high as you want. You have a hot wife, who cares what you look like?
> The problem is that I look like a dork with the headset:
Personally, I don’t see the difference with or with out said headset.
oops…that’d be “without said headset”.
I have the same phone with the same carrier and beats my old carrier and phone hands down. I no longer drop calls by walking into different rooms of my apt.
Is that the Plantronics headset? I’m guessing it works well if you are showing it
Jon, my dad has this and he has found Oakley sunglasses with the headset. He is confident it looks badass, I’m not sure I’d go that far, but is is less dorky. And then, THEN! you could wear clogs and sunglasses all day every day. I’m sure Heather would love it.
Mihow- your confessional made me laugh out loud.
I am so glad you posted this.
I finally got a new phone this weekend, a Bluetooth enabled phone, and caved in and bought the headset. For years I had said I would never, ever be that dork. And yet here I am, embracing my geekitude.
But, I have found great joy in making people think I am talking to them, when in fact I am on the phone. It is hilarious every single time. I suggest you try it
However, I am aware of how I look. I only wear it in my car. Or at home. I refuse to wear it in public. Yet. AND I won’t talk on the phone in the public bathrooms. EW, why do people DO that? It’s the perfect time to be especially gross so their phonemate can say “Are you calling me- from the bathroom???” You gotta have limits. Remember the days- BEFORE answering machines? When you would call and they wouldn’t be home and you’d have to- *gasp* call again later? When will people realize it is OK to let the phone roll to voice mail while you’re on the pot?
I so clearly have issues.
So *that’s* what those things are! And here I thought the body piercing set was taking it to the next level by fastening little staplers to their ears.
Very nerdriffic!
Hi, my name is Jessica and I think headsets are sexy.
Internet: Hi, Jessica!
Something to do with being part cyborg, or something, and it makes me wonder, what else might be bionic??
Well, mihow started it with the confessions,’k? *blushes*
I love machines.
Dorks in headsets are excellent. Scott used to have one, and he would walk around gesticulating wildly while talking on it. He looked like he was talking to himself and that he had gone completely insane. It was awesome.
perhaps i’m a bit behind – but has heather feasted her eyes on these yet?
http://shop.crocs.com/pc-33-4-prima.aspx?reqid=33
perhaps it may change her mind about the clogs once and for all!
I’ve come up with a cunning plan…
We should set up a charitable foundation that GIVES bluetooth headsets to those poor unfortunates who roam our city streets while talking to themselves and/or their imaginary counterparts.
Not cellphones, just the headsets. Then they can roam about freely. Rather than look like they are mentally unwell, they can look like gadget geeks and/or self-centered mercenary ass-hats.
Perhaps I’m in the minority, but I say:
borgish bluetooth headset + emo glasses + 5 o’clock shadow
= supergeekboy hotness
I love it.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7830/
This would be a huge improvement over the bluetooth headset and is an absolute must have, it goes perfectly with the clogs…