Wednesday, August 30, 2006
On Phantom Cell phone Syndrome
Phantom limb syndrome is defined as follows:
After a person's limb has been amputated, about 50-80% of amputees experience phantom sensations that seem to be coming from the missing body part. If the feeling is intense enough, these sensations are called phantom pains or phantom limb syndrome. Phantom pains can also happen to people who are born without limbs and people who're paralyzed. A phantom sensation is when a person feels that their missing limb is still attached to the body and moves appropriately with other body parts. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb
Having lost my cell phone all too recently, here is how I define phantom cell phone syndrome:
After a person's cell phone has been stolen/lost, about 50-80% of poor sods without phones experience phantom sensations, sounds and vibrations that seem to be coming from the missing cell phone. If the feeling is intense enough, these sensations are called phantom pains or phantom cell phone syndrome. Phantom pains can also occur amongst people who are too young to have cell phones but desperately want them so that they can be cool. A phantom sensation is when a person feels that their missing cell phone is still close to the body or is vibrating/ringing with a message/call/alarm or needs to be charged.
Oh. Another thing. You know how everyone got those forwards explaining how to get that fourteen digit code out of your phone that you can give to your cellular service provider if your phone gets stolen and they can ZAP your phone and it will be of no use anymore? Well I have that code for my phone but it appears that it doesn’t work in Pakistan. (I don’t know why I thought it did work with the 5647576736344 phones that get stolen in Karachi every day!) But why doesn’t it work? Because the five or six miserable cellular companies we have cannot be bothered to sit down together and put aside their differences long enough to come up with a way to have a database of 14 digit numbers that people who lose their phones give them. So that if one company enters a number then the other 5 or 6 block that number too. Jeez, its compliance, not rocket science.
Phantom limb syndrome is defined as follows:
After a person's limb has been amputated, about 50-80% of amputees experience phantom sensations that seem to be coming from the missing body part. If the feeling is intense enough, these sensations are called phantom pains or phantom limb syndrome. Phantom pains can also happen to people who are born without limbs and people who're paralyzed. A phantom sensation is when a person feels that their missing limb is still attached to the body and moves appropriately with other body parts. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb
Having lost my cell phone all too recently, here is how I define phantom cell phone syndrome:
After a person's cell phone has been stolen/lost, about 50-80% of poor sods without phones experience phantom sensations, sounds and vibrations that seem to be coming from the missing cell phone. If the feeling is intense enough, these sensations are called phantom pains or phantom cell phone syndrome. Phantom pains can also occur amongst people who are too young to have cell phones but desperately want them so that they can be cool. A phantom sensation is when a person feels that their missing cell phone is still close to the body or is vibrating/ringing with a message/call/alarm or needs to be charged.
Oh. Another thing. You know how everyone got those forwards explaining how to get that fourteen digit code out of your phone that you can give to your cellular service provider if your phone gets stolen and they can ZAP your phone and it will be of no use anymore? Well I have that code for my phone but it appears that it doesn’t work in Pakistan. (I don’t know why I thought it did work with the 5647576736344 phones that get stolen in Karachi every day!) But why doesn’t it work? Because the five or six miserable cellular companies we have cannot be bothered to sit down together and put aside their differences long enough to come up with a way to have a database of 14 digit numbers that people who lose their phones give them. So that if one company enters a number then the other 5 or 6 block that number too. Jeez, its compliance, not rocket science.
# posted by zalima @ 1:23 AM 
