Thursday, April 03, 2008

on phones

some stranger – with whom i spent about half an hour on the phone because his company was providing me with a service – got comfortable enough with our friendly transaction to tell me that i had a '1-900-phone-sex voice,' and when i responded with a monotone 'really,' thinking he was doing nothing to endear me to his company, he said, 'now don't get a big head.' i had no response to that except to laugh incredulously, because if dude thinks calling someone a phone whore is a compliment, then there's really nothing i can say.

speaking of phones, i got a new one. along with anyone who has had the misfortune of talking to me on my old piece of junk motorola, what with its sustained high-pitched whine, sudden hangups, and staticky reception, i have put up with its many ridiculous dysfunctions for several years. it has now been decommissioned because i got a great deal on a new, ugly but super-functional nokia. it even gets good reception at my house!

the one thing i miss about the old phone is my frogs and crickets ringtone. so i got a new one at amphibian ark, a nonprofit org trying to save the world's frogs in the face of worldwide die-offs. the organization is actually a consortium of zoos and conservation groups who are trying to 'bank' as many species as possible in case their populations begin to dwindle in their natural habitats. i love frogs; i feel like they are my totem animal, so this group makes me happy.

not phone-related: a cool awareness test. [sent by hawaiilawyer]