The modern way to find a cell phone
As I was rushing out the door this morning, I couldn’t find my cell phone. Normally, I try to place things I normally keep in my pocket in a common space: keys go on the key post, wallet goes on the counter, and the cell phone goes on the charger. Last night I fell asleep after calling my parents, and didn’t bother to put the phone back on the charger.
Late for work, I didn’t want to rip up the house looking for my cell phone, but I knew the one time I left my cell phone at home I’d get an important call, or I’d get stranded somewhere and need it. I don’t have a home phone any more, so I couldn’t try to call myself and follow the ringing. So I was stuck, what is a geek to do in such a situation?
So I went on IRC and looked for someone who had said something in the last 5-minutes. That’s when I came across ptweak grumbling on about WindowsCE.
“Hey, could you call my cell?” I typed to him.
“Calling you now…” he said, though I paraphrase IRC. “Calling u now lolz” is usually is what is put into an IRC channel.
It was then I heard the happy ringing of my cell phone. I wondered around the house until I noticed it was my sofa tha was ringing. I reached under the cushion, grabbed my phone, sent a message to Ptweak to thank him, and I was out the door.
To think, I can go online, tell someone to call my cell because I lost it, and seconds later I find it.
Who needs a second phone line when you have cable Internet and IRC?