There’s a lot going on, so I wanted to write a quick post with a few notes and updates. Update 1: Gameliness is Next to Godliness? Some of you who’ve been to certain Barnes and Noble stores recently have written in to report a strange experience: The Game is nowhere to be found on the shelves. Instead, it is now kept behind the counter. Evidently, it turns out that The Game is one of the two most stolen books in those stores. So I called a Barnes and Nobles in Los Angeles to ask...
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That is because corded phones work with a six volt current that runs trough the telephone line. And when power goes down in your neighbourhood, its not likely to have gone down too in the telephone central, miles away from your house. (Or if by any chance it has, the phone central has backup generators in line)
Cordless phones use this current too, but they also need to be plugged in to your wall to get the additional power they need to transmit the radio signal between the handset and its base station.
Im loving the old posts.
Trip down memory lain, btw loved Emergency =)
i bought a corded phone a while back just for that reason – as well as knowing i’m not going to have neighbors electronically eavesdropping (at least not on my end).
Only problem is, i don’t have landline service – only VoIP – so if the cable goes out, i’m SOL.
funny – how many times have we made a decision impulsively where it turned out bad than good?…. i think the ratio is not in our favor. Impulsive behavior can sure get you into trouble!