So common they’re apparently given away as tchotchkes. I guess it’s just a bigger battery than the one in the phone. Since I never go anywhere I don’t actually have that much use for it, but I still think it’s a cool, simple solution to a real problem for most people. Certainly when I lived in the world my cellphone battery always seemed to be going flat at exclusively the wrong moments.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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Interesting indeed, but I do wonder why there simply isn’t a bigger/better battery in the phone to start with? I’ve carried my little TracFone for nearly a year now – just in case of an emergency, but since I hadn’t been using it to make phone calls or anything, I only had to charge it infrequently. Checked it at least once a week, or when I needed to travel, just to be sure.
Now, with my new hearing aids, I can actually understand what people are saying on the telephone, so I will use it more. Will have to check the charge more often.
My best guess is size and weight. This recharger is small enough to be handy, like a cellphone, but it’s half as wide, twice as thick and almost as heavy as the phone. Put them together and we start moving back toward phones with the dimensions of bricks.
Congrats on the new hearing aids, BTW!
Does your new pad ever go dead at inconvenient times or in inconvenient places? That gadget will probably charge that also.
Probably. It has the same connector, so I don’t see why not.