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Apr. 15th, 2004 04:15 pmanyone out there have experience, good or bad, with buying refurbished cell phones? while trying to get my number changed up for a local one, i found out that my cell phone plan is expired, and to make changes i'm going to have to get a new-and-different account anyway. so i'm shopping. at&t has a refurbished nec 525 - that's one of the fancy picture-takin' internet-usin' flip-phones - for free with a plan... i'm used to at&t wireless, i can live with the crappy reception here and there, but if i get one of these things, will it die the 91st day i have it?
other than that, anybody have any strong cell phone deal recommendations? i've been using a dinosaur, so i barely know what features i want... i'm thinking the 650 anytime minutes, national calling plan (in selected at&t-happy towns, of course), free nights and weekends, plus 1 MB of data up and down and a free phone every year for $47.98 a month looks alright... is it actually highway robbery? is a MB far too big or far too small? aagh!
the complexities of modern society confound me. at least we don't conjugate people's names.**
** at least not beyond making possessive forms... (this was a parenthetical, but it got too big, so now it's an end-note.) i've been trying to teach myself latin. i didn't take it in high school because it was dead and i figured i could go back and do it later, once i had a handy-for-travel language under my belt. (and i do apologize - i seem to be in a dash-heavy mood today; i'm unable to resist splashing them everywhere.) little did i imagine that i'd end up at a university that barely believes in teaching living languages, much less the classics. but anyways, i'm used to navigating comparatively highly inflected languages -- ok, fine, language, it's french -- but this is ridiculous! i was alright until i got to the example sentence in 2nd declension nouns -- "Maecenas, amicus Augusti, me in numero amicorum habet." and it suddenly dawned on me that "Augusti" is the genetive form of "Augustus" and that if you want to, say, take "Augustus" somewhere as a direct object, his name's going to be "Augustum." and i screamed in anguish and started beating my head against the wall.
i no longer blame the french for strange mutations like changing julius caesar into jules césare. (which, by the way, made one of the best jokes in the astérix movie, in my humble not-natively-speaking-french-and-thus-missing-most-of-the-good-puns opinion.)
but now that i've gotten over the initial frustration, i'm kinda starting to crave my own declension...
other than that, anybody have any strong cell phone deal recommendations? i've been using a dinosaur, so i barely know what features i want... i'm thinking the 650 anytime minutes, national calling plan (in selected at&t-happy towns, of course), free nights and weekends, plus 1 MB of data up and down and a free phone every year for $47.98 a month looks alright... is it actually highway robbery? is a MB far too big or far too small? aagh!
the complexities of modern society confound me. at least we don't conjugate people's names.**
** at least not beyond making possessive forms... (this was a parenthetical, but it got too big, so now it's an end-note.) i've been trying to teach myself latin. i didn't take it in high school because it was dead and i figured i could go back and do it later, once i had a handy-for-travel language under my belt. (and i do apologize - i seem to be in a dash-heavy mood today; i'm unable to resist splashing them everywhere.) little did i imagine that i'd end up at a university that barely believes in teaching living languages, much less the classics. but anyways, i'm used to navigating comparatively highly inflected languages -- ok, fine, language, it's french -- but this is ridiculous! i was alright until i got to the example sentence in 2nd declension nouns -- "Maecenas, amicus Augusti, me in numero amicorum habet." and it suddenly dawned on me that "Augusti" is the genetive form of "Augustus" and that if you want to, say, take "Augustus" somewhere as a direct object, his name's going to be "Augustum." and i screamed in anguish and started beating my head against the wall.
i no longer blame the french for strange mutations like changing julius caesar into jules césare. (which, by the way, made one of the best jokes in the astérix movie, in my humble not-natively-speaking-french-and-thus-missing-most-of-the-good-puns opinion.)
but now that i've gotten over the initial frustration, i'm kinda starting to crave my own declension...
