Friday, July 06, 2012

Heh



Ain't THAT the truth?

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In other news... I have to run off to The Big(ger) City™ this morning, coz my phone has looked like this since 2130 hrs last evening:


Terrible glare from the flash, I know, but the phone hung during a "routine" software update and is dead for all intents and purposes.  I hope the Sprint store can fix it, but I'll give ya a dollar to a donut that I'll lose ALL my contacts, saved messages, photos, yadda, yadda in the process... IF they can fix it on-prem and not mail it off to Taiwan or someplace like it.  Sometimes I HATE technology.

Update, noonish:  Back... with a working phone, minus ALL my contacts, apps, yadda, yadda.  So now I'll have to send e-mail to everyone I normally speak to and ask 'em to call me so I can kinda-sorta rebuild my contact list.  (sigh)  It's ALWAYS sumthin'. 

15 comments:

  1. But you are normally so techie. I guess even a techie has his bad days.

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  2. YOU of ALL people should know better than to be w.o. hard-copy paper back-ups, Buck
    (well, nothing you can do about the aps) Shame on you, you damn old codger--making us fossils look bad! Do we have to threaten to drum you out of the union? I mean, it's NOT like you lead such a harried existence that you don't have the time to do the back-up. Hell, TIME is ALL geezer retirees like you and me have on their hands, lol

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    1. What? You want me to spend hours and hours and hours transcribing data from PAPER to my phone? It's easier to just e-mail folks and say "call me." Then... "add contact." Walla! Done. Necessity ain't the Mom of Invention... laziness IS.

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  3. Luddite that I am, I figger that if I can't remember their number, I don't need to call them all that bad

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    1. This is the classic case of technology making us more stupid. Back in the day (before cell phones) I had ALL my frequent caller numbers memorized. Today? Not a one... they're all in my phone. Or, they WERE.

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  4. Ahem....do you not synch your phone to your PC???

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    1. Shhhh, Kris, your making us menfolk look bad.. :)

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    2. @Kris: Now WHY would I wanna do THAT?

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  5. Fast trains to hell07 July, 2012 04:22

    I think cell phones are all a communist plot to destroy western civilization.

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    1. They might be a plot, but I think they're a capitalist plot, if anything.

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  6. Kris beat me to it. You know...I think you can also back up your contacts to your Sprint online account, too.

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  7. My phone refuses to update as well. However, its a Samsung/Google phone and all my contacts and aps automatically back up to my gmail account. A pretty cool feature I think.

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    1. My phone is an Android phone as well, but I wasn't backed up to G-Mail. I tried...

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