Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Harry Veeder wrote: At least you weren't forced to learn how to dial a rotary telephone! ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjlLb0tqGsfeature=related I love this! It is fascinating, and thought provoking. And it is quality work, too. It is an old-fashioned but still slick and well done.

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: But they still had some difficulty understanding the concept of dialing, what was waiting for the dial tone and pushing the dial all way around to generate the correct number of dial pulses. Did you know that you can

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Did you know that you can still pulse dial with the hookswitch? You have to be consistent and fast but it can be done. Easier than Morse code. Ha! A repeated hook switch flash, as they call it in the phone biz. I didn't know you could pull that off. It reminds me of

RE: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Lawrence de Bivort
Captain Crunch, and then there were tone voice whistlers, and blue, black and red boxes -Original Message- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:jedrothw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 5:58 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com; vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 03:37 PM 10/26/2009, Jed Rothwell wrote: I would not be surprised if they eventually discover that power lines are also deleterious. That is another thing that skeptics have dismissed. It is foolish to imagine that we understand biology in any depth. Cancer has increased in all age groups

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 06:40 PM 10/26/2009, Harry Veeder wrote: At least you weren't forced to learn how to dial a rotary telephone! I think that the phone networks still recognize the dial-interrupt signals, so one should be able to dial any landline phone by tapping on the hook button. Nice to know if the

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-27 Thread Terry Blanton
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: It reminds me of the early days of DTMF when people -- including some now high and mighty industry leaders -- were involved in ripping off the phone company with tone generators. Some guy was reportedly able to do this

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-26 Thread Terry Blanton
Last email I have is: dsk...@myexcel.com but here he is on Twitter: http://twitter.com/jeffkooistra Do you tweet? Terry On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Jed Rothwell jedrothw...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone in touch with Jeff should please tell him to get in touch with me. The e-mail address I

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Do you tweet? Hey, do I look like a canary? I don't honestly know what tweeting is, other than the avian variety. Based on Doonsbury comics I gather tweets are dull . . . Yes, I confirm that. I just clicked on http://twitter.com/jeffkooistra and the messages are not

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-26 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 26, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote: This looks like yet another high tech fad I shall skip, like cellphones and dot-com investments. Likewise. You may be interested to know such people are now being called cell refuseniks or just refuseniks, but not to be confused with

Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra

2009-10-26 Thread Harry Veeder
At least you weren't forced to learn how to dial a rotary telephone! ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjlLb0tqGsfeature=related Harry - Original Message - From: Horace Heffner hheff...@mtaonline.net Date: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:43 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:Need to reach Jeff Kooistra