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Season 21 Ep 18: The comments episode

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:29:10 -0500

Croncast - 2009-03-02.mp3
Show: #518
Length: 29:43
Size: 25.2 mb
Format: mp3

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The comments show
Been a long time since we have done one of these
Check out Matt's rider for Betsy
That's it on show notes

Tags: Blackberry Verizon comments Matt Snodgrass

kris smith verizon footer test

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:04:06 -0400

just testing to see if flickr is filtering new verizon footer. if not there will be a ton of stuff below here.

verizon junk removed (by me).

Tags: verizon footer ton below junk

smooth move verizon - via twitter

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:29:24 -0400

900 plus google results for your new mms footer - http://tinyurl.com/3rynvb thanks for the spam!

Tags: iphone verizon footer sucks

Maggie's haul

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:23:52 -0400

right now this betta is try to kill my fingers.

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crab gear

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:19:34 -0400

hermit crab should be set.

Tags: hermit crab pet store verizon sucks

welcome to the crab shack

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:09:32 -0400

it's a crab crab world!

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off to pick out a hermit crab - elliot is stoked

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:01:29 -0400

the man is pretty excited about putting a shelled crustacean under his guard.

I wish this beastie the best of luck and will maintain an open eye for its welfare. I swear, betsy.

Tags: hermit crab pet store verizon sucks

family verizon contract up in 1 day - via twitter

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:13:37 -0400

dear verizon, is there any reason that i should stick with you after tomorrow? anyone else?

Tags: verizon evdo

Season 19 Ep 23: Omniscient Nerd, Void Your Warranty, Ferocity

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:42:29 -0400

Croncast - 2008-03-21.mp3
Show: #470
Length: 15:41
Size: 10.8mb
Format: mp3

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We keeps it short today
Maggie is sick with croup and flu with fever
It's one half of a show
So I was at Goodwill
What story you tell doesn't start this way?
My pockets were loaded
I don't trust my purse
You shouldn't
We haven't told the story of your purse being stolen yet?
Nope
Another day
Not to be disgusting
Sure
I had to go to the bathroom and leave my cart outside the door
I pulled up my pants with ferocity
As soon as I left my pockets felt lighter
Oh, Baby
I go back in and my cell phone is in the toilet
Multi-use public toilet
I had to decide which hand to stick into the toilet
Baby, I gotta tell ya
You should have just left it
Goodwill urine water would do it
You could have sold it with your personal information
What are they going to steal? Your skype number?
This person could use more friends
Lists of potential friends
I love the idea
How much is a list of friends from a cell phone found in a toilet at Goodwill?
You're right
Kris, I need you to get me a new phone
I want a penny phone
Cheap flip phone?
Cell phones say a lot about people
It's like getting out of prison and wearing the same clothes from 20 years ago
I want a phone that I can dial and drive
If you hit the shift key you can dial numbers
It isn't a smart phone
They call that insurance fraud
I gotta hit the red dot
Sure, if you crack the head open you will void the warranty
It's funny you say that
Two months ago I had brain surgery
I felt like I was an inch tall
Omniscient nerd

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Tags: smart phone Verizon voided warranty Omniscient nerd

Smartphone absurdity, I want just one

Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:23:33 -0400

I didn't realize how absurd this smartphone crap was until the day before yesterday. We have a potential client using Blackberries as podcast players. Which was no big deal since I worked on a solution a few years ago at my day job but I needed to get the same version as the client. Hence a new radiation hot spot for my palm.

Now in the house:

1 Treo 700 (mine, Verizon)
1 xv6700 (Betsy, Verizon)
1 iPhone (work, AT&T)
1 Blackberry 8703e (work, Sprint)

Two of them are for work, like I marked them above, but it is ridiculous. They all do like one thing better than the others, one carrier's plan is better priced or the network makes all the difference. What do I mean?

Best sounding as a phone:
1. Treo
2. iPhone
3. Blackberry
4. xv6700 (horrible)

Ease of use as a phone:
1. iPhone (my mother-in-law could use it)
2. Treo
3. Blackberry
4. xv6700 (need 3 hands to make a call)

Ease of use overall:
1. iPhone
2. Blackberry
3. Treo
4. xv6700

Best OS:
1. xv6700 (windows mobile 5.0, too bad everything else about it sucks)
2. iPhone
3. Treo
4. Blackberry

Best media playback:
1. iPhone (wonder why?)
2. xv6700
3. Treo
4. Blackberry

Best keypad:
1. Blackberry (update: thanks Garrick for pointing out I misspelled it the first time -LOL)
2. Treo
3. xv6700
4. iPhone (it's pretty . . . hard to use quickly)

Best sms device:
1. Treo
2. Blackberry
3. xv6700
4. iPhone

Best email device:
1. Blackberry
2. Treo (would be third if AT&T edge were faster)
3. iPhone (on wifi this is second)
4. xv6700

Best web device (network):
1. Treo (doubles as EV-DO modem, love it)
2. xv6700 (doubles as EV-DO modem, never used it)
3. iPhone
4. Blackberry (locked into a special start page, blah and doubles as EVDO modem but Sprint rates are insane)

Best web device (wifi):
1. iPhone (experience much like real browsing
2. xv6700 (fast but reformats pages)
The other two are AWOL with no wifi capability

Best camera:
1. iPhone
2. Treo
3. xv6700
Blackberry is without

Best network:
1. Verizon
2. Sprint
3. AT&T

Best overall:
1. iPhone
2. Treo
3. Blackberry
4. xv6700

Taking all of this into consideration and my experience with all four operating systems and form factors, I have decided that my ultimate phone and carrier combo would look something like this:

An iPhone on Verizon's network, use as EV-DO modem, with an add on keypad and GPS onboard. That would get an 'ooh la la' and an amen.

Tags: iPhone xv6700 Treo 700 Blackberry 8703e Verizon EVDO Sprint GPS

Asurion + Verizon = 57 min 33 sec of podcast voice

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:16:04 -0400

Something happens when I am confronted with ridiculous customer service, my podcast voice comes out. I usually realize it minutes into the dialog and then take that opportunity to enhance it with some extra oomph.

Last night's podcast voice was the result of attempting to get Betsy's missing mobile phone replaced. We were expecting it to be an easy transaction since we actually pay for the lost, damaged or stolen insurance package Verizon offers through a third party, though you won't find this out unless you ask, or in our case, lose the phone and need to make a claim. The third party in this case is Asurion.

I can spare you the specifics on this one but thought that I would share this one gem/life lesson. I was told repeatedly that our claim would take 2-3 days to be reviewed by Asurion and that I should expect a call where I will be asked for more information. I had to be told repeatedly, because Verizon staffers had imparted that it would be taken care of with one call and the new phone would ship in 24 hours.

Lessons learned? Use podcast voice, "no" is unacceptable from an insurance outfit, paying for the insurance was a good idea and that it is too bad that the podcast voice didn't work with the Volvo dealer or Volvo Cars of North America.

Tags: Asurion Verizon cell phone insurance mobile phone insurance XV6700

Why a Skype phone? follow up

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:01:31 -0500

I re-read my post from yesterday about the Skype phone and realized that I completely missed the most important element, why I was looking for one.

Last Monday marked the work at home chapter in my life and thusly landed me in the Smith man pit (basement) where my cell reception is spotty if non-existent. It wouldn't be fair for me to pick on the carrier, Verizon, as every service we've had has been worse in the rest of our house. We're just in a mobile bottomless pit.

Since I am always sitting in from of my computer the best solution was to get a SkypeOut number and get my people to contact me with that number. So I spent my week hearing the ring, scrambling for a headset, muting my music and hoping that I could pick it up in time for it not to forward the call to my cell. And after five days of doing this, it hit me . . . get a Skype phone.

Tags: SkypeOut Verizon wireless Skype phone sph101 smith man pit

Betsy and her husband Kris Aug 09, 2006

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:04:46 -0400

Croncast - 2006-08-09.mp3

Show: #260
Length: 29:40
Size: 20.3 mb
Format: mp3

Betsy and her husband Kris August 09, 2006

Happy anniversary, though it really isn't today
Betsy's sister has ruined the magic by telling us when it really is
"We can have a lovefest for days, right?"
"Are you kidding . . . we have kids"
Betsy and her sister having snacks
We are going to pretend that it is the 20th
Figuring out what day it is by using a calendar online
Computers have taken the mystery out of almost everything
No excuse for blissful ignorance
Betsy kidnapped me and car jacked me
On way to Verizon store and Betsy detours
Time to get Booba a new phone
Kris: manipulated again into letting Betsy take charge
Kris has a great day today
Sean says I have right to bew grumpy and Betsy should put up with it
I'm a bear that has to hibernate
Anniversary is coming I have no clue where Betsy is takin me
I thought it would be something nice
It turns out that God spelled backwards and put Patch after it and that is where I ended up
See the image above
They don't sell puppy mill dogs . . . sure
The internet has taken joy out of looking for a dog
Betsy extolls the great virtue of Petfinder.com
Is it owned by FriendFinder (notice no link)
Betsy is way to into this dog thing . . . I am having hard time fighting it
Giving up good dogs to keep the bad ones because they will get dirt nap
Taking the kids on her doggie rebound trip
I don't think it is fair to the kids
10 years of marriage
Deployed in WI for 3 years writing wills for soldiers
I really question Betsy taking the kids with her
It is shopping . . . not just lookinig at dogs
Am I alright? You are not going to turn this around on me
She's setting up the kids with the dog business
They understand more than she thinks and gives him credit for
This is shopping for a dog, not looking period
He knows when you go to stores you buy things
Kris is not a dog hater, Zeus is a good dog, however I have rationalized not needing a new dog
The old ass cats as old as Abe Lincoln's bones
Betsy's need to bring havoc into our lives
Doggy proofing already . . . I can't win
So what does it mean to be married for 10 years at our ages 31 and 30?
Obviously, it could have been very bad
You got married young
At older age you have way of running your own life and set in your way
We have the same ways
"That is really annoying about Kris I can't believe that you put up with that"
"Who says that"
That doesn't gel with my life
I don't care your ticks don't bother
It doesn't feel like 10 years to me it feels like a year
Our marriage has gotten better in the last 10 years
Ball and chain? Not really
Kris goes off on some bizarre tangent that makes no sense at all
All I can say is thanks Mr. B for giving me room to do what I want to do
In the basement like a pile of pudding
Kris is keeping secrets
Betsy could have gotten the dog tonight if she had done one thing . . .

Tags: dog Pet Finder marriage anniversary Dog Patch Naperville