Telecommunications Breakdown!
Mar. 4th, 2004 08:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oneirophreniaARGH. It's bad enough I've been having trouble with the hpl-laboratories.com SMTP server this week, now my useless phone is shorting out, too! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
illusion_of_joy just called me, and whereas he could hear me perfectly, I could sometimes only make out two or three syllables at a time thanks to breakup.
Weird thing is...some natural-resource company is installing natural gas wells in the woods all around my town here, and it seems as though the troubles with my phone reception began right when they started drilling closer to my house. Now, I know of no possible natural phenomenon related to deep-well drilling that could generate, say, a magnetic field strong enough to jack up a cellphone's reception--but an unnatural phenomenon....? I won't rule that out just yet.
For all I know, the drillers may have accidentally released an ancient alien electromagnetic entity that had been imprisoned deep in earth's crust a few hundred million years ago, and now that it's loose once more it is feeding on my cellphone's transmissions. That's annoying as hell, but if it tries to start feeding off my cable modem connection and interferes with my incessant downloading of goofy eurotrash house music, its joyride will become a hellride!
illusion_of_joy just called me, and whereas he could hear me perfectly, I could sometimes only make out two or three syllables at a time thanks to breakup.Weird thing is...some natural-resource company is installing natural gas wells in the woods all around my town here, and it seems as though the troubles with my phone reception began right when they started drilling closer to my house. Now, I know of no possible natural phenomenon related to deep-well drilling that could generate, say, a magnetic field strong enough to jack up a cellphone's reception--but an unnatural phenomenon....? I won't rule that out just yet.
For all I know, the drillers may have accidentally released an ancient alien electromagnetic entity that had been imprisoned deep in earth's crust a few hundred million years ago, and now that it's loose once more it is feeding on my cellphone's transmissions. That's annoying as hell, but if it tries to start feeding off my cable modem connection and interferes with my incessant downloading of goofy eurotrash house music, its joyride will become a hellride!
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Date: 2004-03-05 02:31 am (UTC)<looks off into the distance>
Crash!
Burn!
Get your electromagnetic butts back here! I didn't say that you could go off pranking the end users.
Dammit... never let AIs get bored... where's that fucking copy of Zork Zero...
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Date: 2004-03-05 03:41 am (UTC)Tell them you want them to delete your VLR from the switch. Then, have them check to see how you're registering with the SID.
You'd be amazed at what that can do.
SWH