Thursday, October 09, 2008

Damn Stupid Phone and It's Damn Stupid Ringtones

With Shannon out of the house at a get together with friends and couleges I took it upon myself to spend tonight doing something stupid that was an utter waste of my time. After many various considerations mostly involving graphic novels, list making, or drinking an entire bottle of whine I zeroed in on a different sort of plan. I decided to assign rign tones to all the people in my phone who actually call me on a regular basis. After looking into it I saw that there were only about 10 people who I feel are likely to call me on a semi-regular (at least once every 1-2 months) basis. So I went about picking songs for each of them. This lead me to the encrediblly fun task of assigning what song I most identified that person with. I had gotte through the entire list and assigned them songs and was ready to prepare my phone. Now most people would simply go to the ringtone application on there phones and download them. BUT, that is not an option for me, do to my incrediblly bizzare taste in music and my complete unwillingness to pay $1.99 per download. So I had planed to simply play the songs off of the computer and record them using my phones record feature. I did this with my first song. Than when I attempted to set this as a ring tone I found it could not be done. This is because my damn stupid phone has two folders for sound files. One is labled "sounds" and the other is labled "ringtones". All sounds you record on the phone are saved as "sounds" and you can only assign "ringtones" to be ringtones for various individuals. And I have been unable to find away to transfer sound files between the two folders. Therefore, all my planning is for nothing. But I didn't want my work to completely go to waste, so I have decided to publish my decisions on what person = what song here:
Callers who got ringtones in alphabetical order:
1. Anna (My Boss) - The Factory, Warren Zevon
2. Brian (Brother in Law) - Free Will, Rush
3. Dan (Friend) - Comfort Eagle, Cake
4. Jeff (Friend) - Squash That Fly, Fu Manchu
5. Kelli (Sister) - After the Goldrush, Neal Young
6. Mom's Cell Phone (My Mom) - Small Town, John Melloncamp
7. Parents (This call would probobly be from my mom, but she already has one so I gave it to my dad) - That's the Way that the World Goes Round, John Prine
8. Phil (Friend) - Don't Ask Me Why I Drink, Mojo Nixon
9. Shannon (Wife) - Let's Go Dancing, Drivin' n' Cryin"
10. Zach (Friend) - Cattle and the Creeping Things, Hold Steady