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Jan 6, 2007

Phone Hell

Years ago, I had a webcam on this site, which was trained on me during various hours of the day – ah, such heady days of being young(ish), innocent(ish) and not minding sharing your bad hair days with the world.

Anyway, I recently re-discovered a little animation I made with a series of cam images taken while I was on the phone on hold to a call centre somewhere. Thought I’d post it here again.

phonehell.gif

The crappy resolution was the result (I assume) of trying to compress the file so that it downloaded quickly on 56.6kbps. Of course, these days it’d have been a bloat-tastic youtube clip, and bugger the download experience.

My, how times have changed.

*NB, it’s just possible that I might have been hamming it up for the camera. A bit.

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3 Responses

  1. Melissa says:
    January 6, 2007 at 2:54 pm

    Hi, that’s very funny…

  2. Px says:
    January 6, 2007 at 3:25 pm

    I’ve spent several days on the phone with vendors this week. While I didn’t have a camera to ham it up for, I definitely felt that way internally.

    Oh, for the record, I’m the cat helmet guy you posted about last january. I found your site via my referrer links.

  3. Wendy says:
    January 9, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    The crappy resolution only adds to its charm.

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