Fun With Callwave: #3 (Surflexus Style)
Thursday, May 01, 2008
As you may recall, I have a hilarious voicemail service named Callwave. In essence it turns your voicemail into a text message...or at least it tries its darndest. It turns out every voicemail becomes comedy in a cell phone. I absolutely love it.
Yesterday my boy Surf called me and left a voice message. First off let me just say congrats to Mr. Surf on his TOC seat. I know first hand that man can play some poker. He knows when to put the pressure on and he's not afraid to put his entire stack on the line given the right scenario. That makes for a fierce competitor and, on occasion, a monster chipstack. So kudos to you Surflexus.
Back to the voicemail...and I hope you don't mind me throwing it out there for all to view Surf, but I loved it. Here is what Callwave translated to text:
...load what the WCSIN over here man and I'm getting makes responses anything from that say gays thing I've ever heard, all the way down to that makes no sense so oh I don't know man among even if you Will Cross we'll see.
And now what he actually said:
I tried your What The WTF? thing over here man and I'm getting mixed responses...anything from that's the gheyest thing I've ever heard all the way down to that makes no sense...so I don't know man...I'm going to give it a few more tries and we'll see how it goes.
First off, God love the man who takes a moment out of his day to call a brotha up and actually tell him he's trying out one of his signature lines. For those that don't know What The WTF?, just read here. I was in a meeting with my boss at the time he called and when I saw it was him calling I pretty much knew I was going to enjoy his message. Then when I got a chance to listen to the message,he came through in the clutch and left me laughing all by myself in my office. It's a weird thing when you are in your office all by your lonesome, laughing it up, meanwhile people are walking by thinking you're an idiot. Gotta love it.
I sent Mr. Surf a text back in response to his voicemail as follows:
What the WTF! "For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who don't, no explanation is possible."
I think that pretty much sums it up.
Here are a couple of other lines I throw out there on occasion that usually make people do a double take. I need more, so if you have any ideas, send them my way...
"What doesn't kill you will certainly put you in the hospital."
It's total bullshit...if it is close to killing you...it won't make you stronger. It's gonna put your ass out. I'm just being realistic. Yeah, it's lame, but deal with it.
"Stick a knife in me...I'm done.
I love it when people correct me by saying, "it's fork." Yeah thanks, I wasn't sure. Seriously, if I'm done when someone pokes me with a fork, then I'm a sissy. Now a knife on the other hand...now I'm done.
Oh wait, this is a poker blog.
Poker.
There...I qualified this as a poker post.
Until next time, may the felt be with you.
Labels: Fun With Callwave
posted by TripJax @ 9:03 AM,
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Fun With Callwave: #2 (GCox Style)
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Work is kicking my ask, which is why I'm just getting to my first post of the week today. I'm gearing up for Vegas like it's my job. Blogdamm I can't wait! ChickJax and I are flying in Friday morning and should be perusing the IP lobby at or around 11:00am. Look for us folks 'cause we're new to the Vegas scene.
In lieu of posting any poker stuff, which has been rather meh for me lately, I'm gonna do another Fun With Callwave post. If you missed my 1st one, or if you just wanna know what the hell I'm talking about, check here. This particular call was from none other than your friend and mine, Mr. GCox25. I called him drunk off my ask on Friday night and he returned the favor Saturday night. Unfortunately I was nursing a sickness (I swear it wasn't hangover related) and was passed out when he called. Enjoy.
The GIST As Texted To Me:
...City you can call me when you're good and let up last night but I can't call you when I'm getting drunk tonight what rod yeah I'm in the parking lot of because was bar add - for travel like in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma thought I'd give you a call for a little doll shot but apparently you're busy so I will - let you go talk to you - to probably before Thursday but if not Thursday or Friday zebra.
My Initial Take After Reading The Text, But Prior To Listening To The Voicemail:
~ I knew right away he was on to me for calling him on Friday, but not catching him on Saturday. I couldn't figure out what "rod" meant though. Figured he was calling me a "dillrod" or something.
~ When I read parking lot, I figured he was at the lake house bar parking lot taking a shot. During Okie-Vegas #1 we would leave the bar and hit the parking lot to hit the Southern Comfort bottle since they didn't serve liquor in the bar. Good times.
~ To hell with dial-a-shots, we're taking Doll Shots now. That's gotta involve taking shots off of strippers or something.
~ I really need to talk to GCox25 about his Friday zebra.
The Actual Voice Message From GCox25:
"Uh Trip...this is GCox in Oklahoma City...so you can call me when you're good and lit up last night, but I can't call you when I'm good and drunk tonight...what the fuck! I'm in the parking lot at the Crows Roost bar at Fort Cobb lake in the middle of nowhere Oklahoma and thought I'd give you a call for a little dial-a-shot, but apparently your busy so I will let you go...talk to you probably before Thursday, but if not probably Thursday or Friday...see ya bro...bye."
So the system turns "see ya bro," into "zebra." That's gold, Callwave, gold!
Gotta love it.
Zebra,
TripJax
Until next time, may the felt be with you.
Labels: Fun With Callwave
posted by TripJax @ 2:06 PM,
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Fun With Callwave: Call # 1
Thursday, November 29, 2007
I'm pretty busy today, and not much in the mood to write about poker, so I'm going to introduce a new series of posts I plan to do here every so often. This has nothing to do with poker, but I still want to do it on this blog. If it gets annoying - and you guys just have to let me know in the comments - then maybe I'll start a new blog just for these types of posts. 'Cause that's just what we need in this world...one more friggin' blog.So anyways, the series of posts are born from an idea my buddy brought up to me recently. A few months ago I signed up for a service by Callwave. In essence it is just a free voice mail service that gives you an alternative to your current cell phone voice mail. I love our Alltel service, but I despise their voicemail. I did some research a while back and determined Callwave was the best available - and free - option out there.
One of the features of Callwave is their Vtxt GIST. Rather than butcher explaining what their GIST feature is, let me just pull the explanation straight from their site.
~ VtxtSM GIST is a new CallWave feature, currently in Beta release, that transforms voicemail into readable text. It is designed to provide the key words and phrases of a message – the gist – to enable you to decide if you need to call back right away, wait until later, or ignore the message entirely. Our automated system transcribes your callers' messages and delivers them to your cell phone as SMS text. You can read and search your voicemail on your Phone Page.
Now let me first say that I love this service. Most of the time I can read the quick text and know whether I need to call a person back right away, or even at all. While it does add more texts to my service plan, the voice minutes I save each month more than make up for it. Plus, under the plan I'm on, I have plenty of texts to use each month and I never exceed my limit. Okay lets just tell the truth...I'm not very cool, so I don't get many calls in a day.
Here's the thing about the service that is prompting this and future posts. Sometimes the "gist" is way off from what the person was trying to say on the voice mail. And sometimes it is just plain hilarious. So much so that, at times, I avoid answering my phone just so I can see what Callwave makes of the voice mail.
Now don't get me wrong, like I noted above, I LOVE the service. It is so much better than Alltel's service and, most importantly, it is FREE. So if you hate your current voice mail service, then check these guys out. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this series of posts I will call, Fun With Callwave. Here is the first message I got this morning. This one is rather tame, but still...
The GIST As Texted To Me:
...chicken which'll punk ass to see if you want to go get some long sometime this week a next - get back in touch with me and I want to know if you did playing poker lately and - how you doing I'm in they don't.
My Initial Take After Reading The Text, But Prior To Listening To The Voice Mail:
~ What the hell is a chicken which'll and why is it a punk ass?
~ There's a good chance I don't want to get long with anyone...that sounds kind of dirty.
~ I'm in they don't? Okay.
The Actual Voice Message:
Yooooo....what's up dog...just checking in with your punk ass to see if you want to go get some lunch sometime this week or next. Uhhh...get back in touch with me...and uh...I want to know if you been playing poker lately and uh...how you doin'. Alright man...later.
Like I said, this is a tame one, but it gives you a taste of how their software can butcher parts of a message and even add stuff that wasn't even close to being in the actual voice mail, but still somehow effectively let me know what the gist of the message was. Successful and fun!
Until next time, may the felt be with you.
Labels: Fun With Callwave
posted by TripJax @ 11:48 AM,
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