*modes of communication*

-as of [12 JANUARY 2024]

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*SNAIL MAIL*

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*THE TELEPHONE*

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*SOCIAL NETWORKING*

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TEXT MESSAGES

i’m getting bizarre texts from a “914” area code (NYC?) about some 3-hour flight delay and a restaurant discovery (michael symon?)…

they claimed “sorry, wrong joe” when i responded…i’m also somehow getting the same texts from some “smoking” company…have i already died and gone to hell?

turns out it was “harriet gluckman”…the “career advisor” from jpmorgan i used to visit back in the summer of 2007…

now i receive text messages on my blackberry whenever someone leaves a voicemail…

MMS

WRONG NUMBERS

got a wrong # call from some black lady talking jive about how she can’t meet me because she can’t pay a mortgage…guess she thought i was some sort of realtor…

AREA CODES

most direct forms of communication

(g-mail / cellphone / face-to-face networking)

16 july 2015:

phone is stolen…cheryl gave me her old shitty iphone 5…internet is way too slow…and it is cracked…at least i can start taking video (but now my computer is down)…

14 july 2015:

phone lost while riding into penn station…it was on my lap…reference # 436099…

23 april 2015:

left my phone charger @ arv’s pad monday night

(4/20)

picked it up tuesday night…

25 february 2015:

(lost blackberry in lower east side)

(in blackout drunk haze)

so cheryl bought me a verizon flip phone @ the lawrenceville verizon store @ mercer mall

(she wouldn’t buy me the iphone 6)

great…the fucking flip phone only connects to windows…can’t even get the videos uploaded to the imac…

all the more reason to start earning money for iphone 6…

(apple phone)

i’d enjoyed the services of an ipod since christmas 2003. and my cellphones were always breaking down. always. the battery life would gradually grow so short that i couldn’t leave my apartment without a charger. and then my first day at bgc partners, i decided to run to the office from my east village apartment. and i signed up at the local new york sports club so that i could lift weights + shower before the workday. in a frazzled state upon entering a new gym, i left my ipod on the front desk as i went down to the locker rooms. a minute later, i’d realized what i’d done and shuffled back up the stairs. but it was too late, the ipod was already gone. the chubby hispanic lady at the front desk seemed genuine enough when she claimed that she’d left to go the bathroom during those crucial 45 seconds. i had no choice but to believe her. i’d be late for work if i stuck around to file a police report, and no matter the excuse i knew d’arcy would eat me alive if i were ever so much as 5 minutes late. i’ve been forced into a helpless state for far too long. and people wonder why i distrust all authority nowadays!

so i went without an ipod for a month or two before landing the iphone. which only made the payoff extra-sweet…

january 2013:

cheryl bought me a verizon samsung cellphone

(with the new phone # (908)210-6648)

i finally found the cover to the phone in the front yard of my princeton estate (14 oakland drive)

she pays $50 a month for the phone bill

february 2014:

i find out that my cellphone has run out of minutes…probably from all my 411 calls since saturday…even though cheryl filled up the phone with $50 last week…she fills up the phone with $50 again…new verizon password is 76323272…

not enough money on account to dial 411

2 april 2014:

phone battery life is shot after walking (and talking) on phone in the rain…sometimes it won’t even turn on (or indicate that the battery is charging when i plug it into the charger)

(take out the battery to minimize power and avoid short circuit)

15 april 2014:

cheryl gave me a spare blackberry (like the fruit)…same phone #…now part of her verizon “family plan”…only downside is i can’t play music with it (like i could with the iphone)…

9 may 2014:

cheryl sent me an e-mail informing me that the family account has used 75% of its data allowance for the month…the monthly data limit resets on the 21st of the month…she already bought more data…she asked me to use the internet only to check my e-mail…which means no more falling asleep to youtube videos on my blackberry…

1 july 2014:

my blackberry runs out of batteries very easily…because i’m always watching youtube videos…and not charging it enough…soon cheryl will be calling me bitching about my internet usage…

i listened to LOTS of videos on blackberry

probably went way over the internet limit for the month

another decent sleep

(to blackberry youtube videos)

(3am – 8:30am)

watching more blackberry youtube videos

(why not?)

before going even more overboard with online may december porn videos from the blackberry

the blackberry’s also been acting up

just watching TV and surfing the net on the blackberry

blackberry overheating…

and i need to start copying lyrics to the chord sheets on the hard drive (from the blog via the blackberry)…

videotaped the lightning storm as i walked home…can my blackberry camera capture lightning?

this will be a relaxing reclusive weekend of audiovisual mixdowns…

while listening to opie and anthony on my blackberry…

2 september 2014:

why does it take so long for my blackberry to return to vertical?  these delays will eventually aggregate and sabotage my progress…

4 september 2014:

the blackberry is responding very slowly…sabotaging my progress…it seems that i’m running low on memory…perhaps i need to delete google maps?…i need to keep the damn thing clean…and i’m already up to 75% usage for internet data…with 16 days left in the cycle…oh well…

temporarily lost internet access on phone this morning…now it’s back…

one-hour limit on blackberry voice notes…and some notes don’t translate…(corrupted files)…

youtube isn’t working on the blackberry…and i can’t conduct searches in wikipedia…what the fuck is going on?

why does the blackberry keep going to the clock?

i charged my phone in starbucks as westminster gaybirds and pretentious old men chatted around me…didn’t bother busking and caught the 9:49pm bus back to franklin corner road…same detour…i should’ve gotten off further down franklin corner…same fucked up asian man asking me to borrow a quarter…why don’t my videos stream properly on the blackberry?…other videos do…

(hook up with gandharva)

(upload your flip phone videos to his computer)

(at least i can more easily navigate videos on the new phone)

my phone is acting strangely…

i can’t wait until my phone access comes back on at midnight…

the phone access won’t come back until wednesday at midnight…

the internet is back on the phone…

i lost both my wallet and phone at certain points last night…had the night janitor call my phone…

phone still won’t charge properly…gotta charge it through the imac…

the camera is having trouble connecting to the imac…but at least now i moved the mouse USB connector to the USB hub so i can always be charging the phone…

for some reason i’m not running out of internet data

running out of data usage…with 20 days to go…

going way over the data limit…

get a fucking iphone

(and sell your cracked one)

(so you can get on instagram and vine)

the phone is working again…

(just like my amp)

at least my internet reset on the 20th…

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*2001*

(my parents gave me my first cellphone when i was a high school junior)

(908)295-8242

(this was my phone # from 2001 – 2013)

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