It looks like it's getting shallower. It's still sorta there, though, and I still haven't figured out what in the hell it's from.
On another weird note, I got a call today which I didn't answer because I was trying to take a nap. When I got up and checked the caller ID, it said:
507-000-0000
UNKNOWN NAME
Now, I asked around in some of the chatrooms, and one person said he'd gotten some 000-000-0000 calls, but it sort of sounded like that was the way his caller ID box displays private numbers. [My caller ID displays them as a series of dashes and the words "unknown caller."] It seemed like it almost could have been a political call, probably from a local office that uses the 507 area code [which is the area code for the part of Minnesota where I live].
The funny thing is this: A Google search for the last seven digits turned up a slew of engineering sites, a bunch of pages for businesses whose phone numbers were not listed, and an entry at the blog Shape of Days, in which the blogger mentions having gotten a call from a 202-000-0000, which is the number of the White House and also, I understand, the Secret Service.
So would anybody else use that number? Is it reserved for presidential use, and if so, is this somebody calling to tell me to vote for Bush? If so, it's a good thing for them I didn't pick up. I don't think they'd have wanted to hear what I think of that. I wouldn't think any of the cell phone companies would use the 000 prefix, and I know no land lines would.
Anybody else get any calls like this?
sbt/sbc
Posted by Frida Peeple at October 30, 2004 02:43 PM