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You youngsters probably have no interest in the subject, but you will eventually...
How often do you go through your cell phone Contacts, to delete the dead ones? 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Strangely, I don't.
My mother is still in there - though I removed her address and phone number. If nothing else, it means I still get a reminder on her birthday ... it's probably silly of me, but I just don't want to remove them; it's a bit too "final" if you understand what I mean.
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Yes, I understand very well, Griff. It's hard to let go - it's so final. A girl I loved for decades died last year of scleroderma is still alive in my dreams and prayers - her Facecrack site is still alive and well - and I hate to part with her, though I'm still in contact with her kids, who I helped to raise.
Will Rogers never met me.
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about once in a 3 months.
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You're a strong man (or woman) to be able to let go so quickly. Good job!
Will Rogers never met me.
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not a emotional type i guess. My wife does ask me how can i be so detached.
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It's in the blood. Me and my mother are detached as well, and both my father and my wife are regularly bewildered of that.
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Soon after they have gone. But the ones I love live on in my heart.
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I was weeding my phone a couple of months ago, came across a couple that had been gone 2 or 3 years (and several that are still alive afaik, but out of touch or no longer relevant).
I am still pissed at my bro who erased my father's answering machine greeting a day or two after he died. I wanted to save a copy, one of very few records of his orator's voice.
Cheers,
Peter
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Ugh, yeah. I do regret that I don't have any recordings of my parents' voices.
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Fortunately it was not neceassary until now for the lost ones because the partners are still alive and did not use mobile phones.
For the dead phone numbers of the young ones who freqently change their provider:
I have stopped adding them to my contacts.
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regularly...!
And the same for email and facebook etc ... 
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Roger Wright wrote:
How often do you go through your cell phone Contacts, to delete the dead ones?
Dead as in no longer living, or dead as in you doubt the need to ever contact them again?
Either way, I clean house once or twice a year. Try to keep things relevant.
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Not yet!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Had to read through the entire thread before I realized that your use of the word 'dead' was meant in a literal sense and not metaphorical.
With the increase in inexpensive storage space, I only remove contacts which I can't remember any details about. If a person has passed away, they are still in there. If I look through the list and see their name, it is a reminder of the good times we shared.
Otherwise any contact I made over the course of my life or career might be useful down the line, even if I need to make an effort to track them down. On the other hand if it is a person that I don't wish to associate with any more, I move them to the blocked contact section instead.
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As soon as I think of it - sometimes it's within hours or days. Certainly within a couple weeks.
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Never...I don't own a cell phone.
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Never. That's because I never add any in the first place. I have just 3 contacts, (wife, home, boss) and the phone won't answer to any call not in the contact list. 
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So, you're never going to answer if I call again? 
You're still in my contact list, BTW, but I may have to delete you for not saving my number. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I just saw this on Big Bang Theory. I've only had to delete one for a colleague since I didn't know her family and had no reason to call them.
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So I took my favorite C64 game loaded it up in C64 emulator and captured ~1 minute of game play (frame by frame), then I ran captured sequence through an algorithm I've been working on and got this result
Though it's slow as hell, it took ~20 minutes to create this map 
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It would work better if you did not capture and encode a video. Instead, you could try to process each frame with the help of the graphics processor on the fly. And you could lower the frame rate to give it more time. Shirley you don't need so many almost identical frames.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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