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I’d better arrive at the office Monday to find an e-mail saying “We have approved your new cell phone” — or, better yet, a box with said cell phone sitting on my desk — or there will be hell to pay. <\/p>\n

The current device works between 1 second at several hours at a time, without shutting the phone off (or rebooting itself), the time being directly infuenced (negatively) by my actually doing anything with it.  This has led to multiple instances of hilarity as people have called me, I’ve hit the button to pick up the call, and gotten the cheerful “Good-bye” picture and tone.<\/p>\n

Grrr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d better arrive at the office Monday to find an e-mail saying “We have approved your new cell phone” — or, better yet, a box with said cell phone sitting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-computer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5110,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/31\/busy_buzz_buzz.html","url_meta":{"origin":10781,"position":0},"title":"Busy buzz-buzz","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 31-Oct-03 7:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"I set my cell phone to vibrate last night during the movie. 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