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DCJensen - Dec 14, 2004 8:11:23 pm PST #559 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.

t starts thinking about hotswappable iPod drive bays...


Dana - Dec 15, 2004 9:08:33 am PST #560 of 10003
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

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Jessica - Dec 15, 2004 5:21:17 pm PST #561 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

DH and I just got call waiting (since he's working from home now), and have noticed an irritating quality -- if you don't pick up the call waiting, it just keeps ringing and ringing and ringing. The answering machine doesn't pick up, and the person on the other end never hears a busy signal. Our phone is an AT&T 2256/1256, and nothing in the manual seems to address this issue. Any ideas?


§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 5:22:14 pm PST #562 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Don't you need voice mail to answer a call waiting call?


Jessica - Dec 15, 2004 5:24:13 pm PST #563 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Do we? I've never had call waiting before, so I have no idea about these things. Damn. Well, at least it's another write-off, I guess.


SuziQ - Dec 15, 2004 5:38:55 pm PST #564 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I have yet to find an answering machine that will pick-up "call waiting". The only time I had this was when I had the phone company's voice mail.

I came home today and there were a couple of boxes on the doorstep - one was a TIVO box. Guess what I'm getting for Christmas?!?!? I went out Christmas shopping and pretended I never saw the boxes, so the giver (either my mom or my husband) had no idea I know. Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!


§ ita § - Dec 15, 2004 5:49:26 pm PST #565 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If you only have one line, the answering machine can't record anything other than what's happening on that line. Voice mail, OTOH, doesn't have to use the line to make a recording, since it's not on the end of the line.


Jessica - Dec 15, 2004 5:58:37 pm PST #566 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?

Yeah, that makes sense. Drat.


Rio - Dec 15, 2004 7:50:08 pm PST #567 of 10003
Are you ready to be strong?

Hey, TiVo early adopters! My first-gen TiVo's remote is eating through batteries. I mean I have to change them like every 2 days now. Has this happened to anyone else? Do I need to get a new remote? And how do I do that?


DebetEsse - Dec 15, 2004 8:37:52 pm PST #568 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.

The TiVo Store at TiVo.com sells remotes.