Comments on: hold music

By: The Unspeakable

The Unspeakable — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:16:00 +0000

You’ll never give me my money’s worth.

By: cherry blossom

cherry blossom — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:14:00 +0000

yeah, those were the days. we couldn’t afford it either, justin – i think it was a gift. a real splurge. i don’t remember problems with the batteries, although the current one i have seems to be corroding the batteries.

have you seen the new merlin that hasbro has brought back? it doesn’t look nearly as cool. it has actual buttons instead of the presspads. what were they thinking?

also, just a note…the $1200 tenori-on pricetag is beyond me, too – this is one of the first pieces of equipment i have purchased for my new NASA sonification research, so it actually belongs to you, the taxpayer. i promise to do something novel and scientific with it so you get your money’s worth.

By: stacey

stacey — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:03:00 +0000

I loved Merlin. We could never keep it in batteries though.

I tell you a game I could never do is that tile game where it's all mixed up and you have to get it in order. I will never figure those out.

Merlin, however, just the picture makes me all warm and fuzzy. That yummy red color. The comforting sharp angles. sigh.

By: The Unspeakable

The Unspeakable — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:29:00 +0000

Tire swings and the skeletons of animals entertained me, and I think I played that Merlin guy once at a cousins house who had a cocaine dealin’ dad. he liked Phil Collins.

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:47:00 +0000

We were too poor for me to have a Merlin when I was a kid.

By: The Unspeakable

The Unspeakable — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:56:00 +0000

I could easily go for a trivia game while on hold. I love those flights that have the trivia game included on the television on the seat back in front. It’s fun to compete with the entire plane and see your seat number at the top of the winner’s list– because you’re insanely brilliant at trivia. Ahh.

$1200 is a little too rich for my blood when it comes to buying a toy like the Tenori-on. I’d rather have moon boots and can of beans.

By: Carlos Anaconda

Carlos Anaconda — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:15:00 +0000

Cant you already do this if you put your cell phone on speaker phone mode and play games/music/etc on the same phone while you wait?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:08:00 +0000

that is a good idea... you'd want to give people the option, of course, but if you're stuck waiting for something else and decide to get some business done, it could be nice.

you could actually get companies to implement this if you showed them that (a) it resulted in more compliant customers and (b) they could use customers' progress through the games as a datamining application.

creepy but not necessarily a bad idea, especially for tech support centers.