With my old Blackberry, I had P1 messages being signaled with a bell, so that whenever an e-mail came in from my boss, it would ring. I soon got to where I was dreading the "gong of doom."

So with my new one, I changed it to a sonar ping sound (it's a "ping," get it?). It seemed like a calmer sound, no Pavlovian twitch when the bell rang.

Only now I feel like I'm in Run Silent, Run Deep, trapped in a submarine below, hearing the destroyer criss-crossing above, searching for me on sonar, readying the depth charges ...

It's been a long week. :-)

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So, 20,000 bullet points under the sea change?

Now of course you will just *have* to download the Theme song to Victory at Sea as your time to go home alarm. :)

Maybe the theme to Ice Station Zebra ...

... Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea ...?

Great, and now I can't get images or Ernest Borgnine (SP?) from the Poseidon Adventure out of my head. Gah!

On another note altogether I recently got a graphic novel version of 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea. It was a good version that I gave over to my son, who promptly didn't read it . . . however it did a really good job of explaing that during their time on the Nautalis the travelled 20,000 Nautical Leagues around the world, not that they went 20,000 Leagues DOWN. (since Leagues are distance, not depth .. .) It got props from me on that alone.

Yes -- I think most people (who aren't familiar with what a "league" is, or never heard of "Twenty League Boots" in fairy tales) think it's all about depth.