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No More Cell Phone

By barneyb on December 25, 2006

As of the end of the year, my cell phone will no longer work.  It was a company phone and since I'm leaving, I won't be keeping it.  If I replace it, I'll get a Portland number instead of my old Bellingham number, so my current number will stop working regardless.  However, I figure if anyone can't wait until I get home to talk to me, they can buy me a phone, since they're the one that needs it.  If I do get a new one, I'll publicize it.

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4 responses to “No More Cell Phone”

  1. Jacob Munson
    Jacob Munson
    December 26, 2006 at 11:31 am |

    For me a cell phone is not so much a tool for people to communicate with me (I don't answer it half of the time), but a way for /me/ to contact /them/. Especially when I need to tell my wife I'm stuck in traffic on the way home, or I'm at the grocery store and I don't know which type of Jello my wife wants.

  2. barneyb
    barneyb
    December 26, 2006 at 1:52 pm |

    Yeah, a valid point, I suppose. My canonical argument against is "10,000 years". Humankind has managed to deal without them for 10,000 years, so my default position is that we don't really need them that much. That goes for a lot of things, not just cell phones, of course. I certainly don't have any qualms about carrying one where there's a need, but if there's not…

  3. Nat Papovich
    Nat Papovich
    December 26, 2006 at 6:48 pm |

    So Barney, do you know where you're going after your current job? Or does "I'm leaving" mean "I'm leaving eventually"

  4. Barney
    Barney
    December 27, 2006 at 5:51 pm |

    Nat,

    I'm going down to Mentor Graphics. The stars aligned and the whole process lasted like 5 business days from start to finish. Start on the second.