No Style No. 24: Less is more.
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Just so you know, never in your natural lifespans will you catch me making that face ever again.
So…if you remember the comic where the wenchzilla was mocking me over my horrible “T-Mobile Magenta” (now trademarked as a color, how ridiculous is that?) RAZR mobile phone…it’s now been happily replaced by a sleek, sexy little black Motorola W490 with a 2GB MicroSD card. I love it; it lets me set stored MP3s as my ringtones without having to specially send them to myself via browser or text message via mobile17.com like I had to on the RAZR. After converting to MP4 format, I can fit a good nine full-length movies on the thing (okay, teeny tiny full-length movies, but still) with about 500MB left over for a selection of MP3s. It does e-mail, IM, ‘net browsing, and all kinds of other nifty little things, leaving me wondering: why the hell would I need a $400 brick-shaped iPhone when I have my sleek little $100 flip phone that does pretty much everything the iPhone can with the exception of the touch screen (which my fingers are too large to use comfortably, anyway)? Especially when the iPhone locks you into overpriced AT&T plans that don’t even do half what my T-Mobile plan does, and yet cost twice as much.
…yes, I am proud of being cheap. I call it being frugal, prudent, and economical, because it makes me feel better about being…well…entirely cheap. The only thing I don’t like about the phone is that even the headset plugs in with the mini-USB jack, so I can’t use standard stereo earphones with it when listening to music or watching movies on the go. Instead I had to buy a special set of stereo headphones with the mini-USB connector, but that was only $3 more.
Okay, I’m done rhapsodizing about my happy new non-pink phone. Pink sunglasses are fine. A pink phone? That’s just pushing it too far along the “flamingly out there” spectrum. Yeah, yeah, I know, real men wear pink. I guess I’m a fake man who loves his little black phone. Oi. (…although the touchpad still lights up with a lavender backlight. Lavender. C’mon, Motorala, wasn’t the neon blue good enough?)
And no, that’s not what it looks like; I’m not suddenly developing hetero tendencies on you with Red back there. My friends are just very snuggly people; I’m very…not. They’re also very contrary people, and like to take advantage of moments of inattention to creep up on me and see how much they can get away with before I notice and the instant “NO TOUCHIE-TOUCHIE!” reaction kicks in.
Ahem. Anyway. If the art’s even more drunken on this one, I actually have an excuse this time. I don’t know what’s wrong with my tablet, but I think it’s been quietly ingesting copious quantities of crack when I’m not looking. I couldn’t get any decent pressure sensitivity or stroke recognition out of it at all last night, even after replacing the battery, recalibrating the pen sensitivity and settings, and rebooting everything just as a catch-all and a failsafe. This thing took so long that I might as well have done it on paper, but then I still would have had to fight the tablet and Photoshop on the color. Bah. I actually tried to get more of her full face in there, but I kind of had to go with what I could wrestle onto the screen. This way’s probably more accurate anyway, considering that at the time the wench was trying to bite my hair. Gah.
Yes, I have weird friends. Like I said last time: shiv. Trachea. ’nuff said.
That’s it outta me. I’m gone until tomorrow. Ciao.
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November 12th, 2007 at 1:11 am
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November 12th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Congratulations on the new phone =)
November 12th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Cool! I looked at the W490, but settled on the RAZR2 (times 4, stupid family plan). I’m a sucker for the cute commissioned T-Mobile sales guy, I guess.
November 12th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Yay! New phone! I need one sometime soon actually, mine is now refusing to turn off (which is a new and disturbing manifestation of its age). I want a flippy one.
November 12th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
:it’s been quietly ingesting copious quantities of crack when I’m not looking.”
That made me laugh to no return! *wipes tear* brillant!
Congratulations on the kick ass new phone you got! It does look 10 times better than the iphone…which I don’t see as that well done anyway…I need to get myself a new phone too…it’s very old…like the first motorola flip phone-old
As always, lovin’ the comic and your random rants ^^
Peace, love and chocolate chip cookie dough!
November 12th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Pfft. I love my pink phone, puny mortal.
November 13th, 2007 at 1:42 am
…Anji, that’s because you’re so girly you make RuPaul look butch.
November 13th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
hehe my phone is so old its not even a flip phone, it can’t take pictures, and the screen doesn’t display in color….I have a relic fit for Indiana Jones. I’m not kidding. I’ve been laughed at, BY FRIENDS, for the petrified thing.
Anyway… Congrats on strange friends and pink-less phone goodness.
And yes real men wear pink. At least you still have your manly pink shades.
November 14th, 2007 at 10:12 am
I still run around with a Nokia 3310. I think I might have you all beat xD
November 15th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
“…Anji, that’s because you’re so girly you make RuPaul look butch”
Ahah!Stupid girl.
Real mean don’t wear pink, only the meat-heads who buy into the propaganda. Honestly, who would’ve thought that by telling someone they’d be more “manly” by buying this here pink shirt would’ve worked?(^-^)/
November 15th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
Was that supposed to be an insult? Try again next time, Ash. In English.
November 18th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Congrats on the new phone! I hope your phone lats you longer than my average phone. My first cell lasted 2 1/2 years, everyone since then has only lasted about 9 months, I’m thinking maybe going back to the brick phone is a good idea.
Where can you find a 2GB micro SD? I’ve looked everywhere and I’ve only ever found 1GBs, tho I suppose I should be grateful I can expand my phone’s memory at all.
November 18th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
You can get 2GB, 4GB, I think even 8GB from NewEgg.com or Amazon. I got my 2GB card for $18.99 at NewEgg, and I think Amazon has one for $18.00. You may want to check and see what size microSD card your phone will support, though. Even though mine’s a fairly new phone, for some reason it only supports up to 2GB; the tech manual says it won’t recognize a 4GB card, and I’m not possibly wasting money to test and see if they’re telling the truth. You may want to see if yours has similar limitations.
November 19th, 2007 at 1:06 am
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