Comparative Reality

Dan provides interesting, if annoying, truths.

I certainly knew that the little "signal bar" display was almost meaningless, just from my own experience. Walk around inside my office, and you'll see the bars flicker all over the scale. Doesn't seem to mean much. And they'll even show up inside the elevator, where I've seen more than one person lose their connection when the doors close. So I treat them as a very vague guideline.

Plus, of course, we're way the hell out on the bay, anyway, a few miles east of 101. If not an actual dead zone, it's at least in a trough between cell phone towers.

As for the battery life meter...well, I'll be at full charge, make one call, and then be at half charge. And then, a while later, it will show full charge again. Obviously, it's due to the powerful battery-charging field generated by my molten iron core.