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14688. jayackroyd - 4/25/2005 9:03:05 PM rereading my initial message, I will decode:
vonage box: I use vonage, which is a voice over IP provider that allows me to call any telephone using my DSL connection. 500 minutes for 24.95 per month, including caller id, voice mail, internet voice mail retrieval and other stuff. I plug the vonage box into my router and my phone into the box. I could take the box with me, and make calls from my office phone number anywhere I could find a fast connection.
POTS phone: POTS= "Plain Old Telephone Service" is a widely used acronym in the telecom industry. As with most technology literature, irony abounds. What I mean here is that I'd have to bring my vonage box with me and a telephone and a cord with the standard two or four pin connection you have on your phone at home. I couldn't be sure to find such a phone in my hotel room, nor that the internet connection would be in my room.
rj45: An rj45 is the connector at the end of a network cable that plugs into the network port on your computer. It's like the plug on your telephone (an rj11) but bigger and with more pins. 14689. Ms. No - 4/25/2005 10:01:27 PM So does that mean we should all be looking forward to calls from you at odd hours due to the time change while you revel in your new technology?
14690. Magoseph - 4/25/2005 11:33:25 PM Ooh La La , nice thights, toughtful! 14691. Magoseph - 4/25/2005 11:36:07 PM The post above belongs in Escapes--see post# 3049. 14692. judithathome - 4/26/2005 12:13:18 AM Are "thights" tight thighs? ;-) 14693. robertjayb - 4/26/2005 12:16:17 AM Skype sounds terrific, jay. Another development to baffle us geezers. But it sounds like it might be practical for spouse's marathon chats with relatives and friends in Wisconsin.
14694. jayackroyd - 4/26/2005 5:09:04 AM Long distance rates in the US are so low that I don't think it really enters into it. But for international calling, it's a godsend. 14695. Magoseph - 4/26/2005 9:13:00 AM In my house, "spouse's marathon chats”, are more Flexy's than mine. Lately he has been talking to University of Chicago's classmates--these people seem to have all the time in the world to chat and what they talk about mostly is their health. If they happen to get me on the phone, puzzled by my accent, they think that I am the help here—old geezers that they are! 14696. Macnas - 4/26/2005 9:44:49 AM I'm sure you put them aright pretty fast Mago! 14697. Magoseph - 4/26/2005 9:58:13 AM There's a reunion this summer--I'll dazzle them then, Mac. 14698. Magoseph - 4/26/2005 11:46:47 AM How was the trip to Italy, Ali? 14699. alistairconnor - 4/26/2005 12:41:58 PM Excellent, Mago. I'll post some pictures and comments in a day or so.
A lot of driving - nearly 2000 km - but the kids seem to think it was worth it. So who am I to complain. (I'm only the driver...) 14700. thoughtful - 4/26/2005 1:08:50 PM All of the former moters who are no longer around...I wondered where they went. Well on this past weekend's trip to FL, I found out:
Mote Rehab 14701. alistairconnor - 4/26/2005 1:18:07 PM Good lord. I never knew it was cureable. 14702. alistairconnor - 4/26/2005 1:18:46 PM Rehabilitation, sure. But can one ever be really "well" again? 14703. Macnas - 4/26/2005 1:44:39 PM "wellness"
What a dumbass word.
If we could look in the window, we might see Khan and Pincher having at each other with walking canes, while Irving stands between them, trying to calm things down.
Rustler would probably be squatting on top of a cupboard, howling like a dog and throwing things at the staff. 14704. PelleNilsson - 4/26/2005 3:20:37 PM And that would be the blue cupboard in which Hashké encouraged people to shit. 14705. Ms. No - 4/26/2005 5:08:20 PM I'm not going.
I DON'T have a PROBLEM!!! 14706. arkymalarky - 4/26/2005 5:40:59 PM It is so gorgeous here today--65F and clear as a bell.
I'm getting to the stir-crazy part of this recup business. 14707. Magoseph - 4/26/2005 6:38:22 PM We have 50F here and glad of it--it's been so cold recently.
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