Phone home

My life feels slightly more in order: I’ve gotten myself a new cell phone. It’s a Samsung one-piece (not clamshell)—totally my style of phone—a brick, lots of battery life. Well, the new brick is tiny compared to my old brick (Sanyo SCP4500)—I should call it “baby brick.”

Old brick: http://cellphones.about.com/library/bl-pp-sanyo-scp-4500.htm
Baby Brick: http://www.geckobeach.com/cellular/reviews/samsungn370.asp

The new phone also has that goofy voice dial feature: Hey Jean—I can still tell my phone “Redhead Cell,” and call you!

In case you were not on the email lists with my new number, take my old cell phone number (as a 10-digit number) and subtract 975,149,520 for my new one. Hmmm… for the crytographically oriented, isn’t this an extremely lame form of a one-time pad?

For those of you who care about my plan (if you’re bored enough to be reading my blog, I figure that might be the case), I get 250 minutes to Canada OR the US per month included in the plan. However, additional minutes are a real rip-off (30 cents/minute). Also, I get nailed with serious roaming charges in the US. The problem is, that in order to get US roaming included, you have to upgrade to the next tier of calling plans—more than I want to pay. However, the rep told me that you could get travels plans (~$10?) if you know you’re going to calling from the US.

Soooo.. that means my current plan is to catch up with people at length via voice over IP (Vonage box), once I get broadband installed (hopefully on Tuesday).