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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Did you know that if you call 911, it's significantly better to do it from a landline as the response time is much faster since they can locate you?
Is this still true? At some point all cellphones were supposed to have GPS built-in for such 911 emergencies. I think my new phone has this. Has this 911 GPS feature been implemented?
i'm not sure about GPS so much as they can track the general vicinity by which tower is being used to place the call.
Thanks, everyone, for the kind words! I'm about to hit the hay, but man, what an amazing day.
Oh, and I saw that y'all were talking about the guy who walked a tightrope between the WTC towers in 1974. His name is Philippe Petit and I wrote a chunk of text about him for my yet-unfinished 33 1/3 book.
I thought I read that you can call 911 from a landline even if you don't have service. I know you can do that from a cell phone. But I'm curious about the landline thing. I should find out, since we ditched our.
If it's true, I should also get out our old phone and maybe plug it in somewhere.
It is still true according to the folks at the hospital. It takes longer to backtrace cell calls, I think because they are looking at the tower.
I'm so tired of my life right now that I can barely stand it. As Allyson would quote at me, Can't fix it, gotta stand it. But I don't have much energy to do either right now.
Feh. oh well. I am doing a ton of reading right now. What not to read when you are knee deep in the blues? A Long Way Gone. I'm presenting at a conference in November where he will be the keynote.
Corwood, great catching! Congrats! DH just said, "Whoa! That would have scared the shit out of me!"
Thanks, Kat. I'll have to dig out that old phone, just in case. Sorry about the craptasticness.
Thanks, Cashmere. Craptasticness seems to be par for the course. I do have Harold and Kumar from Netflix which might at least make me laugh.
That is an excellent choice for the funnies. I hope it can make you laugh.
Kat, i keep meaning to say that those are some seriously adorable offspring. sorry to hear about all the medical woes and i hope you get some relief soon.
'spose i should head to bed too. they sent me home from work early today because i was running a fever and they don't want to catch whatever it is that i have.
Matt Damon was quite cute on the Daily Show. I am so looking forward to that movie!