Jun
15
phone on the shoulder
Tagged Under : me, photo
I really need a new headset.
I didn’t take a picture of the right side of my face for comparison, but I’ll just assure you that my other ear is not bright red, nor are the buttons of my phone imprinted into my other cheek.
I have a headset that plugs into one of my cordless phones. But with that setup, I can barely hear the people who talk really loud, let alone people like the very quiet scientist I just interviewed. What I want is a headset that plugs into the corded phone, between the phone and the handset. I have a feeling the good ones cost a lot of money. I had a really good one at my last job, but I’m just too darn moral to steal office equipment. Sigh.
I have this one: http://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-KX-TCA60-Hands-Free-Headset-Headband/dp/B00007M1TZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1245100325&sr=8-1
It works just fine.
Hey, Helen,
How about using a kind 0f Blue-tooth, hands-free phone?
You know, the kind that are used for teleconferences?
. Bill R
Yeah…I’ve been having trouble with my wireless keyboard, which makes me wary of using another wireless/bluetooth device, but I may have to go that way.
Helen,
Which brand of wireless keyboard do you have?
I have a Logitech, which works fine until the batteries get weak!
Have you checked or changed your batteries lately??
That might solve that problem.
i hope that didn’t hurt. i use the headphones on my iPhone for hands-free goodness . . . but i don’t know if that’s quite the solution you’re looking for.
(damn, i ended my sentence with a preposition. i need to stop that before school or my journalism professors will slap my knuckles with a ruler. is that practice still used?)
The rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition is stupid and should be ignored. To quote my favorite book on writing, Fowler’s Modern English Usage: “The fact is that the remarkable freedom enjoyed by English in putting its prepositions late and omitting its relatives is an important element in the flexibility of the language.”
Ooh, I like that quote. I may hold onto it for future uses.
Fowler’s is great. I look for it every time I’m in a used book store – I’ve given copies to several friends.
Usually he’s more crotchety than that.
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