Monday, January 29, 2007

On Sunday, I went to the Exploratorium, which is a great hands-on science museum here in San Francisco. It was there that I typed the least helpful text message in the brief history of SMSing. I had gotten separated from Hank and Daisy, so I whipped out my cell phone and typed this message to Hank: Marco

Recognizing my predicament, Hank promptly and helpfully typed back: Polo

It took me a while to find them.

5 comments:

carey said...

Bahahahhahaha!

tinyhands said...

But even on a GPRS packet-switched network, it shouldn't take you long to triangulate a position with 20 kbps per time-slot (assuming a CS-4 coding scheme in a metropolitan area). I mean, they're not going to get very far in 600-700ms worth of latency. Sheesh.

Mike said...

Carey, thank you.

Tiny, yes, obviously I did all that, but then I got fooled by the mirror exhibit.

tinyhands said...

Shiny

Mike said...

Shiny and tricksy!