[AGL] 2019 Not Dead Yet party

[Michael Eisenstadt]

We have a cellphone now finally. It is a smart phone but we're only 
contracting for phone calls. Supposed to be $15 a month from Consumer 
Cellular but they lay on the $15 $3+ in phone taxes, so it costs over 
$18 a month just for phoning. Actually any smart phone can access the 
Internet even with just basic phone service if in proximity to an open 
wi-fi access point.

Big news. You have to wait 3 rings before answering an incoming call 
while the phone and phonecall do a handshake by setting the parameters 
of their data flow. We discovered that just this week. That fact is NOT 
called to your attention in the manual for the phone. Can you believe? 
We only found out from a YouTube amateur video on how to answer an 
incoming phone call. Sliding your finger towards a green phone icon - 
but not visible if phone is black and shut down - and not sliding your 
finger the other way towards a red phone icon to not accept the phone 
call and press on that. The YouTube guy mentioned the wait 3 ring 
instruction at the beginning of his video about the green and red icons. 
Aha! We tried it out and it works infallibly. Imagine that not being in 
the instructions!.

You can see folks who have mastered 2 thumb typing on a virtual keyboard 
which is a very classy act. I can touch type fast which I taught myself 
during the summer before going to college. The general rule which Sandy 
Lockett taught me is that multi-purpose tools are a /pis aller/ to 
single-purpose tools. So Charlie, if you have a computer at home, and 
you do, you're wasting your time trying to get up to speed on a teeny 
tiny muli-purpose Swiss knife-ey smartphone.

On 10/9/2019 10:33 AM, Charles Loving wrote:
> Dropped my cell phone in the creek. Dead. Got a new cell phone, a 
> smart one and I can't figure out how to make it do anything. I try to 
> call people but it doesn't work. Called Consumer Cellular abd they 
> worked it for one call. Am I too stupid to have a smart phone?
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 10:16 AM John Moriaty <moriaty at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:moriaty at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>
>     Great idea!
>
>>     On Oct 9, 2019, at 7:40 AM, Charles Loving <lovingigor at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:lovingigor at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I AM GOING TO PETE'S SATURDAY. MAYBE WE CAN MEET FOR A DRINK.
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:41 PM J. David Moriaty
>>     <moriaty at sbcglobal.net <mailto:moriaty at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         Not a birthday party—Saturday November 2, 4 pm until. 4903
>>         Red Bluff Road, Austin TX 78702, 512 799-7224— BBQ, beans and
>>         booze, plus soft drinks or whatever you want to bring
>>
>>         <Not Dead.final2.jpeg>
>>
>>
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Charlie Loving
>>     <oct 12.jpg>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Charlie Loving

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