Archive → May, 2010
Florida?
Hey travelers! There is a great possibility that I will have a day in Orlando. I’ve never been, and I’ll be with a good friend. What would you do? We’re trying not to be high-spenders. (Yes, I know DisneyEverything is there, but we’ve never been to that, either, so we are clueless.)
All ideas/suggestions appreciated! We’ll also be at the STS-132 NASA shuttle launch, which should be fantastic! 
Mobile Phone Fun
I have a G1. I live by this device, despite how much it has been misbehaving these past weeks. These past few days, it turns out that I wasn’t receiving texts because my internal memory was too low!
I had to call tech support (nice folks, btw) to discover that low space correlated. But seriously – why couldn’t there have been a warning on the phone? A simple pop-up would’ve been fine! It’s not like this is my SD space – it’s INTERNAL space. I really expect them to keep up on that or prevent me from, uh, limiting my phone’s functionality. Seriously. Also, the internet cache doesn’t clear automatically… at all? I mean, what?! This is a phone, not a laptop, not a PC. I expect a bit more vigilance in keeping space down and making sure that the phone is, first of all, a workable phone.
I guess that’s been my biggest complaint about the G1: it should, by default, ensure that it is always a functional phone. I still get times where the Contact list crashes, or I can’t get to the dialer as the phone behaves sluggishly (without 6 apps running, at that, or anything non-Google running). I understand that your memory is also a pagefile, but come on! Set aside space for it, don’t make it my responsibility to fish around and find out that you’re suffering. For ONCE, learn from Windows by reserving that pagefile AHEAD of time. It’s just for this reason!
Revisit: Personal Silence
As I enjoy the happy silence of an early Sunday morning, I love to think about how the silence is, itself, not so bad. There can be lots of love within silence, for example.
January 4th, 2008 in “Silence Theory”:
This Esquire article got me thinking [again] about the power of personal silence. There’s a gap between what people understand by what you say and what you don’t, especially whether you say anything or not.
In high school, I was a fairly depressed teenager. Typical small-town, too-smart kid with the right classes and the wrong people. I reached a point of bubbling anger that effervesced through the day, preps and jocks in wise avoidance after a few months. I was aggressive in indoor gym, especially with soccer and badminton. If that wasn’t enough to strike fear in the hearts of classmates, my silence usually did it. Nothing can communicate unfriendliness like a refusal to answer a question with a glare that could cut iron. The mystery, though… you felt the mystery of yourself after doing this for some time as what you didn’t say left all the more to your assailant’s imagination. I frightened myself a bit, after some time, as I realized that I didn’t have anything to fill in those empty spaces, either.
On the other hand, you can have the deepest, sweetest communications with those you love without an utterance passing. A total 360 to the same space!
What do you say when you speak? Are you chatty, covering up social discomfort, or filling a space that would otherwise seem too awkward to live within? Do you use silence to strengthen the words you do say? It’s kind of like keeping your word by not upholding promises to it unless it is of dire importance… people will know your actions or words mean business.
