If you’ve read my blog for any length of time, you’ve seen me talk about my Treo. I love this phone and its "I can do ANYTHING" capabilities. And it can. When it feels like it.
But it doesn’t always feel like it. The two most recent issues were when it decided it only was willing to publish *half* of the absurdly long post I spent obscene amounts of time writing on a desktop (and lost the other half of it in the ether of the internet) and then when it decided to not actually attach documents to the email I was sending, but did allow me to attach the documents to a completely different email to a completely different person, who replied to it… at which point the phone decided to route said reply to my work email account, which isn’t even set up on the infernal phone. ??? Explain *that* away.
I think I need to find an alert tone that goes "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah", because I swear this thing already says that. I much prefer having the realizations that I’m an idiot for something that I actually did, rather than having an anthropomorphic device hell bent on convincing me that I didn’t actually want to do whatever it was I was trying to do in the first place.
I’m starting to think I should name it. HAL seems fitting, but dangerous… it’s already smarter than me, I don’t want to encourage it to go any further than it already has. "I can’t let you do that, Fyre." It just hasn’t vocalized the statement. NOW I have to try to find a midi ring tone of "A Bicycle Built for Two". Um… on second thought, maybe not so much.
Stupid smart phone… what do YOU think I should name it?
*EDIT* Upon further thought, I am considering naming it Daisy as a nod to HAL without actually invoking him. If you’ve seen the movie and get the reference, what do you think of that idea?