[Polpolion]

lul, my school year ended in april

[Klaustrophobia]

my school life ended Dec. 18, 2010.


and then started again the following February, in the form of training for work.

[Klaustrophobia]

Lame.  I wanted LA to sweep.

[SpardaSon21]

Ha, LA not sweeping made me a dollar.

[Dark Hunter]

So I'm currently in the middle of nowhere and probably the most boring place on Earth.

AKA Kansas.

[z64555]

So I'm currently in the middle of nowhere and probably the most boring place on Earth.

AKA Kansas.

Well, there's the occasional devastating tornado that transport you into Oz. Just be on the look out for ruby red slippers, boots, or other forms of fashionable footwear.

[NGTM-1R]

Ray Bradbury is dead.

[Dark Hunter]

So I'm currently in the middle of nowhere and probably the most boring place on Earth.

AKA Kansas.

Well, there's the occasional devastating tornado that transport you into Oz. Just be on the look out for ruby red slippers, boots, or other forms of fashionable footwear.

Duly noted. Got a bucket of water for emergencies ready too.

[Klaustrophobia]

worst fortune cookie fortune ever.


"You are not illiterate."

Unfortunately (haha) I can't get my camera to focus enough to read the text.  I was gonna post it with a caption of "I don't understand" or something to that effect.

[Dilmah G]

Good call.

I just got home from the millionth car-ride I've had with my mum, where I have the joys of being verbally abused, ridiculed and have every single angle she has in the book to try and cut me down and prevent me from joining and being a soldier thrown at me. Life is good.

[CommanderDJ]

Good call.

I just got home from the millionth car-ride I've had with my mum, where I have the joys of being verbally abused, ridiculed and have every single angle she has in the book to try and cut me down and prevent me from joining and being a soldier thrown at me. Life is good.

I feel your pain. My parents were much the same with software. They kept pushing me to study medicine. Do what you want, bro. It's your life.

[Dilmah G]

And right back at you, bro. I'm sorry to hear that happened to you as well. To living our own lives!

* Dilmah G raises a glass!

[CommanderDJ]

And right back at you, bro. I'm sorry to hear that happened to you as well.

It's all good. I went for what I wanted, and here I am, two years into a uni degree and convinced more than ever that programming's what I want to do for a living. Hopefully you'll find similar fulfilment.

To living our own lives!

* Dilmah G raises a glass!

I don't usually drink, but I'll drink to that!

* CommanderDJ raises a glass in return!

[Klaustrophobia]

unfortunately, some things just can't be done without parental support.  that's where my dream was.

[perihelion]

Ray Bradbury is dead.

I saw that too.   
His writing made the world a much more wonderful place.  He will be missed.

[deathfun]

And right back at you, bro. I'm sorry to hear that happened to you as well.

It's all good. I went for what I wanted, and here I am, two years into a uni degree and convinced more than ever that programming's what I want to do for a living. Hopefully you'll find similar fulfilment.

To living our own lives!

* Dilmah G raises a glass!

I don't usually drink, but I'll drink to that!

* CommanderDJ raises a glass in return!

Ah what the hell

* deathfun pulls out his flask

[MP-Ryan]

Wife, kid, and I are headed to the UK this fall to visit her family.  Called Bell Canada to remove the network sim lock on our HTC Desire Z so I can just buy a pay-as-you-go sim in the UK and use our phone with all our info.  After 25 minutes, 5 transfers between individuals, one dropped call and redial in the middle, and 3 customer service folks with incomprehensible Quebecois accents, I was informed that I was STILL talking to the wrong department because the last person transferred me to the wrong section, but it would be a $75 charge.

Excuse me?  Did I not buy this phone?  Have I not been a Bell customer for 8 years?  Is the phone itself not an older model?

Fed up with talking to Bell's customer service, paid $15 for an unlock code through cellunlocker.net.  Just waiting to see if they can indeed unlock my phone or if a refund gets sent instead.

Will likely NOT be renewing a cell contract with Bell.  Seriously contemplating a snotogram to Bell's CEO and customer care.

[Klaustrophobia]

most people i've known traveling overseas just buy a prepaid when they get there.

[Nuke]

Wife, kid, and I are headed to the UK this fall to visit her family.  Called Bell Canada to remove the network sim lock on our HTC Desire Z so I can just buy a pay-as-you-go sim in the UK and use our phone with all our info.  After 25 minutes, 5 transfers between individuals, one dropped call and redial in the middle, and 3 customer service folks with incomprehensible Quebecois accents, I was informed that I was STILL talking to the wrong department because the last person transferred me to the wrong section, but it would be a $75 charge.

Excuse me?  Did I not buy this phone?  Have I not been a Bell customer for 8 years?  Is the phone itself not an older model?

Fed up with talking to Bell's customer service, paid $15 for an unlock code through cellunlocker.net.  Just waiting to see if they can indeed unlock my phone or if a refund gets sent instead.

Will likely NOT be renewing a cell contract with Bell.  Seriously contemplating a snotogram to Bell's CEO and customer care.

they are all like that. its one of the reasons i refuse to throw any money at the cellular industry. they **** you in every way that they can. make you spend hundreds on phones that lock you into them as a provider, and you have to pay twice as much for an unlocked model, and when you do buy the unlocked model, half the provider's features dont work. and thats not the only thing. im still kinda pissed off that they killed pdas with the advent of the smart phone and have generally relegated the arm architecture to the phone market, a hole that it is just now starting to climb out of.

[karajorma]

The situation here in China is much better. Almost everyone is on pay as you go. If you want to pay a monthly amount you can. You just put credit on your phone and when it runs out they disconnect you until you pay again. If you don't pay within a certain number of weeks, your number is dead and your contract is over.

None of this 12-24-36 months bull****. Just "While you pay us, you can use your phone with us"


I think the greatest irony is that even though I can only read a little Chinese, I have more of a clue about where my money is going and how much talk time, etc. I have left with a Chinese account than I ever had in the UK. Over there they just shower you with bull**** about how many free texts or talk minutes you have left in the hope that you won't realise how they're screwing with you.