two days ago, i got my google voice invite. woo-hoo! i had requested one a few weeks ago and then promptly forgot about it.
so i clicked to accept link and then it asked me what phone number i wanted. you could put in numbers or letters, so i tried to spell something catchy. i fed phrase after phrase into the window, but selection after selection was unavailable. i even tried dorcky-0, which is what mrs. noz's phone number used to be back in the late 1990s, but it had been taken too. the more i tried, the more pressure i felt. google voice accounts were being activated across the country (not to mention numbers handed out to new phone customers). with each moment the pool of available numbers got a little smaller.
eventually i came up with ax-4-noz, which actually worked. sure, it was pretty lame, it had a number after the "z", and was in an area code that had no connection to anything in my life. but it was the best i could come up with on the spot. (when i clicked to accept the invitation, i wasn't expecting to have to make up a phone number). and now i have a hotly coveted google voice account.
if only apple/AT&T weren't being such a dick about it, it would be even cooler. (see also dave's 90 second tech video)
