Taiwan's largest telephone company.
My cordless phone is wonderful except that now that I live in the countryside, there is one bird that I often hear, but haven't seen yet, whose call and repetition rate is almost an exact match for the ring of my phone. This common phone ring sound perhaps might even have been modeled after him, like the chirping doorbell common here in Taiwan.
Nice idea, but it fails when you actually live near the original sound sources. Even after several years of this, often I go running for the phone, only to find it was in fact just the bird. Or, finally realizing that it must be the phone, and not the bird, and making a mad dash to answer the call before they give up.
Abroscopus albogularis (Rufous-faced Warbler) might be the bird. If I slow down a tape of bird calls, it matches.
How to carry a cordless phone conveniently for hours outdoors? I found using a fanny pack, with the phone's telescoping antenna replaced with an equivalently long, flexible insulated (e.g. speaker) wire, hanging limply down, worked well. One won't trip over the wire either, unless hiking up steep slopes. My antenna is 300(speed of light) / 49(Mhz) * 1/8 wavelength ~= 75 cm long.
Someday I'd like to do a table of the history of some phone numbers, e.g., Dongshi Township office:
106 ??
2106 ??
(045) 872106 19??
(04) 5872106 1990?
(04)25872106 2001
phonecombo: print all the letter combinations (2=ABC, 3=DEF ...) of a phone number. Example: input: 25854780, output: AJTJGPT0 ...
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