This is a mostly personal, blog-style complaint so pass over if you're looking for substance (but, Clockwork my friend, it is game related).
Thanks, nameless individual who stole my Nokia N-Gage mobile phone. It won't do you any good; the service was suspended probably before you tried to make your first call. Plus, I dropped it stepping out of my car, apparently, and knocked the back plate off in the process. So you have an imperfect, unusable mobile phone that you can't sell for more than ten bucks and it's missing the back plate. But because you picked it up rather than just leaving it by my car, I'll have to pay US$200 if I want a new one. US$200 I can't really afford right now. So, thanks. You got nothing but you burned me. I love you for it. Jerk.
Heh.
Posted by: ClockworkGrue | 03/12/2004 at 02:11 PM
Come on; it was just some three-year-old who picked it up and started side-talkin' Big Bird.
Posted by: Thomas | 03/12/2004 at 07:04 PM
Doesn't that just piss you off.
Posted by: marco | 03/13/2004 at 01:57 PM
If I was the one who stole your N-Gage, I'd have eaten it already.
Posted by: tim | 03/14/2004 at 02:57 AM
Maybe this is gods way of saying that gameboy is better.
Posted by: lead | 03/14/2004 at 11:42 AM
Maybe this is gods way of saying that gameboy is better.
Posted by: lead | 03/14/2004 at 11:44 AM
As someone growing up in L.A. I never actually felt it was dangerous. I guess I was just used to it. Always using your "The Club(tm)" to lock your car, knowing where to go and where not to go, going to some banks with 2 inch thick floor to ceiling plexiglass to stop bank robberies.
Now I live in Japan where if you drop $20 cash someone will turn it into the police. In fact, last week I dropped a 2 $25 train passes. One of them had my name of it. I got a call 5 days later from the train company, someone had returned it. Nothing was stopping them from using them.
It makes me ashamed to of my own country that we suck so much.
Posted by: gman | 03/14/2004 at 06:48 PM
Yes, but in Japan they have "hikikomori," not to mention little boys that cut off the heads of other little boys and put them on the gate posts outside elementary schools. I mean, no country is perfect, y'know?
Besides, Mexican food in Japan is a) lousy, and b) expensive.
Posted by: Not necessarily | 03/14/2004 at 11:01 PM
I don't mean to antagonize you and mock your loss of property, but why did you buy and N-Gage?
To be completely honest, you are the first person I have heard of actually buying an N-Gage (I am not exaggerating).
I am very curious to your reasons for getting an N-Gage. Despite the negative publicity, I know it has a decent hardware. But I don't understand how this device would appeal to you in the face of other peripherals like the GBA SP, the Neo Geo Pocket Colour etc.,
Posted by: AlfredT | 03/15/2004 at 06:54 AM
" But I don't understand how this device would appeal to you in the face of other peripherals like the GBA SP, the Neo Geo Pocket Colour etc."
A person can easily drop $300 on a new cell phone with fancy do-dads, ring tones, and camera. If one doesn;t have the personal interest in those bells and whistles (B&W) but can buy a phone that can play games then it makes sense to do that. He also might be buying with the PS2 mentality, "games suck now but soon, very soon they won't".
He got the 2 for 1 deal, with the game only handhelds, you get only the game system. That is who the N-gage is designed for. The person who needs both a phone AND a quick game-on-the-go.
Posted by: Jon in Canada! | 03/15/2004 at 07:21 AM
...or for the person who doens't know a good handheld system if it was, well, in thier hands.
Posted by: lead | 03/15/2004 at 02:41 PM
...or for the person who doesn't know a good handheld system if it was, well, in thier hands.
Posted by: lead | 03/15/2004 at 02:41 PM
I bought it mainly because it turned up to be the most affordable Bluetooth mobile phone at the time. What bothers me so much is that it is completely worthless to anyone who picked it up, as it had no game in it and because of the high theft rate, pawn shops in my area won't even buy mobile phones anymore.
Mentioning Japan, it's the same way in Sweden. Just unfortunately not here. Part of it was my being in the wrong area at the wrong time. But I tend to trust that I won't be robbed rather than the other way round. Unfortunately, based on 3 bad experiences in the last couple years, I have to turn my thinking around -- and either stay in or be constantly wary.
Posted by: san | 03/15/2004 at 03:37 PM
Ok. Thanks for clearing that up.
I hope you get it back. (Isn't there a way to track a cell phone using its IMEI or something..??)
Posted by: alfredt | 03/16/2004 at 06:48 AM
You can, but wireless providers won't do it.
Posted by: Hal | 03/20/2004 at 08:31 AM
Maybe all your stolen phones are transferred to Finland and sold (cheap) here. Just bought mine a week ago. 100+ euros, not bad price for a phone with GPRS & Bluetooth, and an ALMOST PDA. ...anyways, I recommend you to do following:
1. lend your friends n-gage, get an insurrance (you can show your friends phone as it was yours if the insurrance salesman does not believe you own one)
If you already have/had an insurrance, proceed straight to 2.
2. next day call back to insurrance office and tell them someone stole your phone. Get one for free. Or then just move on to QD. (though it sucks compared to the old version... no MP3, no radio...)
Best wishes from Finland. (yess, our (Nokia) company actually makes those gamedecks which are not suitable for playing nor calling xD )
/antti
Posted by: lindstorm | 05/22/2004 at 10:19 AM
I just lost my n-gage last monday. It sucks. I never realized how much I would miss it. Yeah talking sideways sucked, but once I got a BT headset it was great. Now all I have is my 6820, which I love too, but I can't play Tony Hawk on it when I'm waiting at the mall for my girlfriend to try on clothes, or when I'm waiting at the doctor's office or the DMV. I don't even know when I lost it really, I got up for work looked for my phones and my palm pilot and I couldn't find it. I re-traced my steps but it was no use. And for all you nay-sayers, I do enjoy it more than my Gameboy Advance SP just because THPS, Sonic-N, and Monkey Ball look and play as well as a home console, plus try playing against other people accross the world while listening to your MP3s without having another gadget in your pocket to make phone calls or go online.
Posted by: Serge | 11/05/2004 at 08:19 PM
jpb ppyt psycholog zdrowa ywno nieruchomoci projektowanie stron agencja reklamowa soczewki kontaktowe nauka angielskiego agroturystyka opony klimatyzacja domy opieki akupunktura hydraulik projektowanie wntrz soha jpk paa ki wypadki tfrd jh sw jft pp fdr
Posted by: outsider | 04/11/2006 at 08:51 AM
Thanks for your advice and presentation very interesting
tRucks samochody seo tools directory publikacje seo tools pozycjonowanie
seo tools motoryzacyjne directory dmoz dmoz euro trucks.
Posted by: camions | 12/30/2006 at 02:59 AM
soczewki | soczewki kontaktowe | soczewki kontaktowe | soczewki | podrczniki | korepetycje | stancje
Posted by: Pablo | 02/20/2007 at 01:33 PM
projektowanie stron projektowanie stron wrocaw
nieruchomoci Szczecin domy Szczecin
ceramika ceramika
apteka internetowa tanie leki
zarzdzanie nieruchomociami zarzdzanie nieruchomociami Warszawa
czci samochodowe auto czci
meble biurowe meble gabinetowe
stomatolog szczecin dentysta szczecin
diety odchudzania
ubiory ciowe odzie ciowa
spa spa
odzie uywana hurtownia odziey uywanej
pozycjonowanie pozycjonowanie
konferencje hotel szczecin
sztuczne kwiatysklep z sztucznymi kwiatami
nieruchomoci Szczecin Szczecin
sztuczne kwiaty projektowanie stron wrocaw
nieruchomoci Szczecin mieszkania Szczecin
Posted by: Tasiemka | 10/19/2007 at 07:16 AM