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Costume, new phone, hacking…

jamin on October 29th, 2003

After work I went to buy a halloween costume. I’m going to be a deathrow inmate. I’ve got the orange jumpsuit. Just need some handcuffs. On the way out I dropped my cellphone and broke it. Well I can still send and receive calls, but the display doesn’t work at all. So I went to the t-mobile shop to get a new one. I fought with the guy for an hour and came away empty handed. Some crap about how I was a secondary on the account so I couldn’t do anything even though I had a wad of cash to give him in return for a phone. And he said in order to get a new phone for free I’d have to renew my contract for a year. Given how wonderful the customer service has been so far you can bet I’m dying to sign up for another year. Finally got the costomer service people at the call center to agree to give me a new phone for free. They’re sending me a Nokia 3595 rushed UPS second day air.

Spent a bit more time hacking on WoodPusher. It now connects to an ICS server such as freechess.org or ICC. It doesn’t do anything once it connects, but it sure connects wonderfully! Creating a TCP client in .NET is deliciously simple.

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3 Responses to “Costume, new phone, hacking…”

  1. Amy
    October 30th, 2003 at 7:34 am

    Conversley, I haven’t had hardly any problems with t-mobile. And if I do they give me free minutes :-) Luckily because of our account status we could get Jamin a free upgrade WITHOUT having to renew our subscription. So while it was a hassle, everything worked out. Incidently when I had phone cover problems with my last phone, they gave me 2 new covers because mine was bad. I generally have good service, weird how it’s different for Jamin when we have the family plan to save $ and get free t-mobile to t-mobile calls.

    -A

  2. Steve
    October 30th, 2003 at 9:19 am

    Jamin, you should have just borrowed Bob “The Good Reverend Manson”’s jumpsuit and cuffs. I’m still disappointed that he didn’t wear his garb for Ben’s wedding.

    And is .NET TCP magically delicious, too?

    And of course, Ben thinks of something completely different when Jamin says he can now push wood. That’s for you, Amy. :)

    Cell phones are like insurance, BTW: a ripoff, a scam. But we all have ‘em anyway. Just too damn convenient.

  3. Jamin
    October 30th, 2003 at 9:26 am

    I thought about borrowing Bob’s jumpsuit, but decided I’d rather not have to deal with removing all the fly eggs. I do wonder if Lori will let me borrow the handcuffs she uses on Ben, though…