Monday, February 18, 2008

Bubba Got Tech

On Friday, I sent you to a "Web Site of the Week" that gave you instructions and answers on getting ready for your television set signal to go from analog to digital next year. Well, now here's something more immediate.

If you own an older cell phone or home alarm system, one that runs wirelessly on the analog system, *today* is the day that signal can be shut down officially. Both A,T & T and Verizon are planning on doing just that. They say one easy way to tell if your phone is analog or digital is to look at the screen. If it's in color, it's a digital phone and you're okay. If it's black-and-white, or monochromatic green, yellow, or orange, you'll need a new phone.

Read about it here, and then go and get yourself an upgrade. Pronto.

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HOW TO TELL BUBBA HAS BECOME A GEEK

He takes his web-enabled cell phone to the outhouse so he can check his email.

His email address includes the word "yonder."

Bubba's computer is worth more than all the cars in his front yard.

He calls his computer "Ol' Bessy."

Every email begins with, "Howdy!"

His PC has a bumper sticker that says "My other computer is a laptop."

He understands that "network" has nothing to do with fishing.

Bubba's baseball cap has the Intel logo.

Bubba keeps an inventory of his truck parts, fishing lures, and country music CDs in an Excel spreadsheet.

[selected - and rewritten by Mark Raymond - from LabLaughs via JokeMaster]

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WORD for YOUR WEEK: "Truncate" is one of those Latin words that survives pretty much intact to this day. "Truncare" was Latin for something that was maimed, or cut off, and "truncatus" literally means "cut off." So when you truncate something, you cut it off, stop it short, end it before it would have naturally come to a conclusion. As in, "you may find your old cell phone service truncated if you don't upgrade to digital within hours."

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