9 October, 2006

So, earlier this week, I blogged about Cellfire, and how it was unavailable for Sprint PCS users (or anyone not on Cingular, for that matter).

Fortunately for me, the rest of my family are all Cingular customers, so they let me use their phone to test out the service.

It’s actually pretty easy. They send a 71kb applet to your phone that you run. Feed it a zip code, and it connects to grab all available offers in your area.

I just need to get my aunt’s phone working, so she can use it on hers. I put it on her husband’s phone at the time. Now, if only Hollywood Video was closer to us…

I’m expecting to see some great offers pop up around Thanksgiving, though (hint: Get Subway and Quizno’s on the ball next!). It’s gotta be something good to get the ball rolling.
Either way, Cellfire is actually pretty sweet.

So, for some reason or another, I was reading Livejournal.

There’s a community there called lj:found_objects: — People talk about some of the stuff they’ve found.
Last night, there was an entry on another community, called lj:customers_suck:, which pointed over to Found Objects.

All I can say is, Go read this entry: Fo Rizzle.

I’d like to state the following, while you read that:
That ticket is real — we sell that exact kind of ticket where I work. It’s called “Lucky for Life”, which is a $20 ticket.
The blur across the bottom is absolutely necessary: With Florida Lottery’s scratchoff tickets, there’s a little known fact. If you manage, somehow, to destroy the barcode on the back, the clerk can still redeem your ticket with the row of numbers across the bottom on the front of the ticket, which is why we recommend you completely scratch tickets before handing them over. You never know when you’re going to get the ticket wet, and then find you can’t scratch the thing.
Congratulations to the girl who spotted that ticket and good job on doublechecking those. People often seem to miss obvious winners on $20 tickets, since I had a coworker who got $100 out of a Gold Rush (the other $20 FL Lottery ticket). He even saved it for the guy who had the ticket, because he was a regular of ours. The guy told him to keep the $100 as a tip, for trying to be honest about it.

Now, if only I could find something that good at work. o_o;