The impact of a phone call.
veddertown
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I had a couple of phone calls recently, one bearing some bad news and one a bit later with something better. A friend just found out he has cancer which is treatable but only to prolong his life as long as possible. It was such a smack in the face to hear it, I've know him for over 30 years and now his clock is ticking that little bit faster. On the other hand I get a phone call from my area manager to say the company have raised my salary by 3.5% which is great. It just made me think about all the people in the world who are right now answering calls that could change their lives for better or worse. What a significant invention the phone turned out to be.
Like a book among the many on a shelf...
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Dublin 02 Arena - 22/6/10. Belfast Odyssey Arena - 23/6/10. London Hyde Park - 25/6/10. Berlin Wuhlheide - 30/6/10.
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Oddly enought as I was reading your post my phone rang, unknown caller. I took the call and a nice woman just told me I was being considered as one of the authors to a new children's book of "religious" shortstories, with one of my fart-whatsamacallits (hard to translate)*. Pretty cool as it will be my first non-academic publishing ever, and it's what I am shooting for in the long run. Also a nice birthday present for me as well.
* generally a fabled creature I created, which flies on farts. Your farts, it's farts everyone's farts.
Sorry to hear about your friend :(
I got a really bad text yesterday. I never expected to hear about someones death through a text. It made it a bit more shocking because it was so impersonal.
"..That's One Happy Fuckin Ghost.."
“..That came up on the Pillow Case...This is for the Greek, With Our Apologies.....”
if you made an app for that I bet you be sitting pretty... maybe the appp could start measuring by clicking good or bad news after each caller and by the phone user mark would it good or bad phone call.... the the app can make a determination on the caller when they call again ... do they generally have good or bad news.... just send me a small check on that when youve made your millions and have stolen the fortune of the angry birds dude...
i was thinking more along the lines of the caller punching a button before calling so that there is no guessing.
caller id ALMOST works that way