(no subject)

[reldnahkram]

There ought to be an announcement system that tells me when friends of mine from out of town end up in town.

Oh wait, it's called E-MAIL!

In other news, I spent far too much of the afternoon in the fifth circle of hell, better known as the Upper Merion tax base, better known as the King of Prussia maul. I have a raincoat, an ankle brace, and a ping pong net to show for my troubles. That and I'm pretty sure now that the cell phone I would want (were I to upgrade) doesn't exist.

I want a flip phone that's a phone first and PDA second. I don't care about a camera. Frankly, I don't care about a color screen. I want it to be not terribly large in length and width (I don't mind a little depth - the RAZR seems too thin to me). For PDA features, I want contacts, calendar/appointments that will sync with Outlook/Sunbird/etc., read/write text files, maybe the ability to sync e-mail from a base station. I don't want a QWERTY keyboard, I don't need the ability to get e-mail anytime, anywhere. Unfortunately, there aren't any semi-smartphones, it's all or nothing, and the all, as far as I'm concerned, ends up being too big and clunky.

Comments

[ilanala]

better known as the King of Prussia maul

Was that intentional? It does seem appropriate...

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

Having referred to it as 'the fifth circle of hell' previously in that sentence...

[ilanala]

Hey, just because it's hell doesn't mean it's going to attack you (or someone's going to attack you there or however you'd parse that). Shopping malls generally involve more passive forms of torture.

[reldnahkram.livejournal.com]

But the end effect is that, by the time you leave, you feel like you've been mmauled.

[uncleamos]

I hate KoP. And everything on that side of the river. :P