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Marcus G. Daniels

now that's walking the talk!

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-woman-who-ate-chernobyl-s-apples

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Steve Smith

Re: now that's walking the talk!

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-woman-who-ate-chernobyl-s-apples

And of course there was the precedent of Eve's behaviour regarding apples!

Interesting contrast to this woman who was an "early" internet video sensation:

http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

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Steve Smith

Optimizing cell phone plans...

Even though I secretly snicker when well-funded folks here worry about
the last nickel on their cell phone plans, I just got "skooled" by ATT
on this topic.

I normally run a 1GB "family share" plan over 2 phones and pay a
whopping $120/month for this. My wife hardly uses HER phone at all and
my use can be sporadic (days without a call or txt) since we don't get
coverage at our house. I've dabbled with other options, the closest to
a good deal being "prepaid plans" from T-mobile but their data coverage
out of town seems weak (i.e. while I'm traveling where I use it as a
hotspot for my computer). A prepaid plan at $2/day for "unlimited
everything" comes out to about $120 for two phones if used every day.
Neither my wife nor I has the patience or willpower to leave our phones
off for days at a time and all it takes is a single incoming txt message
to trigger that day's charges... so on average we could do a little
better, but probably not much.

I just checked my current data usage since when traveling I can rack up
2-3 GB overages (@$20/GB) easily. In the process I discovered that
their 3GB "family share" plan quoted at $90/month. Of *course* the
prices are going down and the services are going up to be competitive,
and of *course* ATT wasn't going to tell me that automatically.

I *think* I just saved $30/month on my basic plan and put myself close
if not entirely under the data limit when on the road... and if I
thought I needed 6GB regularly, I could now have *that* for the original
$120.

So, I guess I understand why some here revisit their cell plans
regularly in what I previously felt was a bit of "first world
hand-wringing". I've probably forked over a few hundred dollars to ATT
in the last year or so, unnecessarily?

- Steve

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Sarbajit Roy (testing)

Re: Optimizing cell phone plans...

My own data plan in India gives me 2GB+unlimited Facebook/Twitter/Whatsapp.
It costs me about US$2 per month. The provider also gives free access
to many websites
using Facebook's "internet.org", but there is a huge uproar here
because people say it violates something called "net neutrality"

Sarbajit Roy

On 4/23/15, Steve Smith <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Even though I secretly snicker when well-funded folks here worry about
> the last nickel on their cell phone plans, I just got "skooled" by ATT
> on this topic.
>
> I normally run a 1GB "family share" plan over 2 phones and pay a
> whopping $120/month for this. My wife hardly uses HER phone at all and
> my use can be sporadic (days without a call or txt) since we don't get
> coverage at our house. I've dabbled with other options, the closest to
> a good deal being "prepaid plans" from T-mobile but their data coverage
> out of town seems weak (i.e. while I'm traveling where I use it as a
> hotspot for my computer). A prepaid plan at $2/day for "unlimited
> everything" comes out to about $120 for two phones if used every day.
> Neither my wife nor I has the patience or willpower to leave our phones
> off for days at a time and all it takes is a single incoming txt message
> to trigger that day's charges... so on average we could do a little
> better, but probably not much.
>
> I just checked my current data usage since when traveling I can rack up
> 2-3 GB overages (@$20/GB) easily. In the process I discovered that
> their 3GB "family share" plan quoted at $90/month. Of *course* the
> prices are going down and the services are going up to be competitive,
> and of *course* ATT wasn't going to tell me that automatically.
>
> I *think* I just saved $30/month on my basic plan and put myself close
> if not entirely under the data limit when on the road... and if I
> thought I needed 6GB regularly, I could now have *that* for the original
> $120.
>
> So, I guess I understand why some here revisit their cell plans
> regularly in what I previously felt was a bit of "first world
> hand-wringing". I've probably forked over a few hundred dollars to ATT
> in the last year or so, unnecessarily?
>
> - Steve
>
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