Tuesday, March 29, 2005

If you've met with me before and you've asked me for my handphone number, you'll know that i don't know my own number. I used to be able to remember my phone number. But that was before i cancelled my line to go Gippy and had since been using SIM cards that are not mine. I know how that sounds, and no, the SIM cards were not stolen. They were loaned to me and either unused prepaid cards or seldom used account cards. The one i'm using now used to be my mom's. And i still pay my own bill : p

But this is gonna change. The not remembering my phone number that is. Coz i managed to chance upon this website Phonespell which helps you readable english language mnemonics. Remembering mnemonics is actually much more easier than a bunch of numbers.

So i began a project of looking through my handphone for numbers which i would like to pop to the mnemonic dictionary. In the end, i decided to turn the project into a crusade. Stored into my handphone was two numbers, labelled "Wrong Number 1" and "Wrong Number 2". Muahahahaha >: )

Wrong number 1 produced the results of : There are no words in 625-xxx-xx. Dam...
Wrong number 2 produced the results of : There are no words in 919-xxx-xx. Double dam...

The reason it gave for having no words was "Everything is working fine, this is not a bug. Some numbers just have such odd combinations of letters and/or too many zeroes and ones that they simply do not have good mnemonics"

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