Yesterday I felt pretty exhausted, but I did manage to catch up on replying to comments. The new cell phone came. Since the store assembled the original, I had not done it before. There were no instructions either in the original documentation or in the activation instructions that came with the phone. I searched the Sprint website for over an hour and could not find them. I Googled it and found them on another website in less than five minutes. After charging the phone, I went back to the Sprint website, according to the instructions, filled out the activation form, and was directed to a page that said they hope that feature will be back online soon. Dating the page revealed that it was over two months old. Grrr!! So, I’ll have to go all the way back to the store to activate it this morning. I may or may not be able to keep up today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:42. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Think Progress: In an interview with American Family Association (AFA) radio yesterday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) argued against repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), arguing that basically, members of the U.S. military are too bigoted to be willing to fight and die for the “guy in the next foxhole” if that guy happens to be gay.
Bullshit!
From McClatchy DC: The Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service, which regulates oilrigs, came under more scrutiny as congressional investigators scheduled hearings to find out why the federal agency never completed rules that would have required additional controls on blowout preventers — the safety equipment that failed to stop the spill.
Here’s a hint for Congress. The reason has 5 deferments, likes to shoot friends, has a daughter named Lizard, and is an asshole.
Cartoon:
TGIF
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As something of an idiot-savant, I had the same problem when I tried to get back to my then-editor at the Globe and Mail here.
“I can’t assemble a cell phone,” Moira.
“Oh, don’t sweat it. It’s the way you think.”
Laterally and not vertically?
I dunno.
LOL! The thing has a tiny memory chip. I thought I knew where it went, but since the contacts are hidden, I wasn’t sure. It’s so delicate, I didn’t want to risk screwing it up. It turned out I was right.
Always have them activate it at the store. Us plebs will never figure it out. Even Otis, the tech wizard, had to spend 2 hours on the phone with Sprint to get ours activated. He was highly pissed off.
Why can’t Inhofe go back to OK and get blown away by a tornado, never to be seen again. Backwardass idiot.
Lisa, I just returned from a three hour trip to the store. They had everything screwed up at the home office.
Inhofe is such an extreme ideologue that he’ll still be denying climate change when Oklahoma City is a seaport.