Posthuman Blues

My "ambassadorship" with Sprint expired. No more cool high-end cellphone. (I get to keep the phone, just not the service. Unless, of course, I want to pay for it, which I don't.) So I tried to reactivate my old Nokia through Virgin Mobile. After two days of wasting entirely too much time dealing with sheer unapologetic incompetence, I figured it would be easier to get a new phone -- so I wound up with the Kyocera Oystr, a phone that's so laughably un-rugged and minimal that it's almost endearing. But it's a hell of a lot better than beating a path to a payphone when I'm in an airport.