sure it is... it's in southeastern utah and SW colorado. lottsa places here where my cell wont reach. not to mention, great 2 lane roads, scenery and virtually NO traffic!! shhhhh don't tell anybody.....
I was born into this ****.. I have always had a computer. I finally got a cellphone in December, and it only really helps me get in touch with girls..
never had one,,never will,,,, no need for one,,,if im not home, im at the shop usually,,if not, you can leave a message,,,,real simple,,and i like it that way.. the one drawback is that there are less and less payphones now,,,,
Just got home this evening AFTER DARK after a 70 mile cruise in my technology challenged '34 coupe. I sure wish I would have put halogens in the stock headlights, because driving in the dark with 10 candlepower is SCARY! I did have my cell phone with me though!
Fab 32..best of luck with the knee op. Suspect you"ll be on the pesky computor and not in the garage for a while. Both at once? Well, you'll only be sore once!!
It still can be done but you got to get into the wilderness I suppose. Every summer my brother fishes for salmon in Prince William Sound, Alaska (I used to also.) The salmon run along the shores at this point so we get alot of cabin time. Only access is by float plane or boat. No electricity, camp cook stoves, "running water" is the stream nearby, one radio station, dump in the outhouse, and phone is the marine operator. Puts everything we take for granted into perspective. I've been itching to go back recently. Sometimes this technology and the rat race drive me berserk.
I'm posting from the otherside... I work on computers all day as an animator. I have built systems and tear them apart. Software manuals are my preferred reading material (second to car manuals). I have a cell phone with a camera, internet access, and email. But... all my vehicles are 6 volt with dual point dist. and that's the way I like it.
My former job (tow truck driver) furnished a cell phone. I went through quite a few of them............thrown, smashed, tossed on the ground and intentionally run over (I have a slight temper). It's been over four years now since I left that job and I still reach for my hip when I hear that Nextel connect beep on someone's phone. I hate cell phones.
You can look at cell phones, computers and the like as nuisances to complicate our lives, or as I preffer to look at them as, useful tools in my ****nal that I utilize to help myself in whatever I'm doing. With my laptop, I'm able to take and organize notes and ***ignmets for cl*** in ways I would not have been able to with a pencil and paper. I can process more information at a rapid pace. I can be productive regardless of where I am, and I'm not tethered to my apartment. I can study while having breakfast at Starbucks. Email and the internet keeps me in touch with friends all over the world, helps me find parts I'd never have found otherwise, keeps me in touch with school and cl***mates, and keeps me up to date on news and hockey scores. Its also a source of virtually endless knowledge and information Cell phones have bailed me out when I've broken down and keep me in touch with everyone i know. I carry 3000 songs in my pocket with my iPod. Technology RULES
I agree with what most of the guys are saying. Cell phones are good for emerencies, your daughter away going to school. I might get a cell phone when I go to the Nationals next time just in case. I dislike the new car radios with a million features, I like five push ****ons and a c***ette or cd player. Ipod I have no idea what it does or how ithey work. CRUISER
Aren't we all being "asymilated (sp?)" by modern technology? Talk about old school, I used to have webtv. Scary, huh? I hate cell phones that have all the ********. It's a ****in phone. At least that's all I want it for. I won't argue the value of a cell phone as I've made thousands of $$$ by keeping one on. But all the net, camera, ipod, gps,dishwasher, whatever that's happening, I don't want it. I won't use a gps either. I refuse. I read a map. I don't want my sense of direction ****ed with. I'm happy with my PC as well. I can communicate with all of you wonderful folks. I'm hooked too. I learn on here, this board and many others. It too has helped me make plenty of $$$ for work and play. But I'd bet if I had to, I could do without either one.
Technology is like any other tool. You don't (or shouldn't ) use a hammer to drive in a screw (comments welcome). But they sure do come in handy taking care of a nail. I grew up with no 'puters, cell phones or in-ter-net-thingy. Party lines on the telephone (3 long, 1 short. remember that stuff?). When my father p***ed away, his insurance agent was on vacation for a 3 weeks (small town) and we couldn't get a hold of the insurance companies that held policies for dad. The internet saved our bacon with the funeral home, death benefits for mom and stuff. After wrecking my back (being younger and 'tougher') I got "into" computers. After 14 years working on the critters I now (for the last 10 years) teach others how to keep them going. To me, technology is like theory. If you can't show me a practical applicantion... it's useless. Best place for blackberries is in wine or jelly.
My wife and I use cell phones exclusively. We don't even have a land line phone in the house. Remember, just because it rings (or beeps, or plays Inagadadavida, or whatever) that doesn't mean you have to answer it. I carry mine in my pants pocket and can't get to it when I'm driving anyway. Whoever it is, I'll call 'em back later. As for computers, I use the Internet all day every day as part of my day job. And the first thing I do when I get home is fire up the PC. I read several boards like HAMB, I use e-mail to keep in touch with friends I have all over the country, I check the weather before trips, I use MapQuest, I post photos. I freelance for a couple of magazines and they only way they will accept my stories and photos is digitally over the internet. For my race photography, I gave up film like a bad habit almost ten years ago. I can shoot hundreds of photos without giving it a second thought. With film the cost was always in my mind as I was loading yet another roll. And now I can sit at my desk with my feet up using Photoshop rather than spending hours standing on my feet in a hot, smelly darkroom. I'm 61 years old and I love modern technology and embrace it. Remember, these things are just tools, no different than a 7/16 wrench. The benifit or detriment is all in how you use them.
the techno stuff is great, to a point. but try finding a cellphone that does ONLY phone calls - nearly impossible! Today it's tough not to have a cell phone or computer but that doesn't mean we should be tethered to 'em. Face time still works best. One thing I hate is to have someone I've taken time to see in person tells me 'excuse me while I answer a phone'. I will NOT wait for someone to talk on the phone after I've come to see them. I've walked out of many parts stores etc. because they were too busy answering phonecalls to wait on someone in the store with cash in hand. I told wifey that the next generation of kids will probly pop out with 'cellphone elbow' - unbendable and with hand in close proximity to their ear. .
Having just returned from a cross-country trip with 8 hot rods and two race cars on trailers, cell phones were the only way we could keep the group somewhat together. Being able to communicate hotel stops, breakdowns and general "where the "F" are you," Made it a lot easier. I still hate the darn phones, but won't take off in my roadster without it.
I enjoy technology to a certain degree. I just got a cell phone back in June as my commute is longer. It's a simple pay as you go phone and nothing more. It's piece of mind when driving my old car. I can't figure out the texting craze though. Why the hell would I want to spend all that time trying to type a sentence with that little numerical keypad? I do love my laptop (I'm on my deck having a coffee and enjoying the weather while I type this) and my SD/USB compatible car stereo. A 2gig card holds a lot of songs. I hid it behind a tissue dispenser in my old Pontiac: Todd
Amen to that. I was kind of raised in a computer family. My mom worked as a graphic designer for a huge banking firm, so I learned to use my first Mac at age six or so. And my dad's a Unix admin and the main backup guy for the Hubble. We've got about five computers in the house (give or take a few piles of HDs and RAM). I also used to work for a custom-computer shop. But when it comes to cars, even my relatively new daily drivers, less is more.
Admittedly, there are times when cellphones ****, like when you're trying to take a dump in peace, or snuggle up to the GF, but HEY, you DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER IT! Jocko you iza dinosaur! My phone has my address book, calender, & most importantly, a camera. Lots of times I forget to pack a camera & this fills in very nicely at a lot of rod shows, etc. With 2G of memory, I can snap decent pics for hours. BTW- I think that EVERY woman should have one for emergencies & that ANY guy that doesn't give his wife one deserves to get nagged until he does.
Although I fix things technological for a living, I've recently been involved in a discussion you may find interesting. I'll be 35 on the 7th, and I really believe that folks my age are part of the very last generation that could get by without all the newer tech and not miss a beat. My kids are 3. They've probably watched 3 commercials in their lives, thanks to the TiVo and the iPod. They'll never change a channel on a TV without a remote. They'll likely never use a telephone without wires (well, maybe in this house, as I collect and restore Western Electric stuff). They'll have always had the ability to have popcorn in 3 minutes, and won't view a fallout shelter as anything but a p***ing curiosity. It was a discussion with them actually, that brought this up between my friends. "Hey dad... what's that?" "It's an Atari 2600. It's rad." "Well, what's that on the TV?" "That's a guy." "No, that's a dot." "No, it's a guy." "Dot." "Guy." "This is stupid. Where's the xBox?" Go figure. I'm a Mac consultant, but I collect and restore old tech, from 100-year-old phones, to the jukebox in my dining room, to the old radios all over the house. It's weird how the yearning for a simpler time and wishing our lives were as simple manifests itself. ~Jason
Ever watch movies made as recently as 1989 or so and see record stored with real records in 'em, and offices without computers? Not that long ago, but the world sure does move fast! ~Jason
I have records still and a record player,and i also have eight tracks, not only that i have reel to reel machines and the tapes that work with them. I have a digital camera,and i still have a nice film camera that i use. not only that,i'm converting my eighties honda from an old obsolete carburator from the eighties to even more old and obsolete carburators from the 70's. I think eventually there will be a backlash on this much technology. It's turning this nation into a bunch of couch potatoes.
There are no lines,except inlines, within miles of my home. (water, phone, power, cable, etc.) We make our power,have satellite tv and internet, and cell phones. The first phone I ever used was on an 8 family party line. It was a big wooden box on the wall and you had to turn a crank and talk to the operator to make a call. That phone was high tech to my granddad. I still have it. When PCs first made their ways into schools we older teachers were often accused, by the younger more politically correct and technically advanced educators, of being "afraid" of new technology because we didn't understand it. I'm not afraid of anything I can turn off or shoot! But last week in Wendover, at the Inliners International Picnic, we put a Gm TBI run by Megasquirt on the 270 GMC in my '53 Chevy pickup. It was just a demo and was soon removed but I thought about it a lot. I'm an old school kind of guy. I'm not going to use that on the '53 but I am building a '68 flatbed with a 292 6 that is turboed using a '81 Firebird turbo setup. I am going to use the TBI from an '89 GMC that will also donate it's 700R4,fuel tank & lines, under hood wire harness and computer connecter, box, and several sensors. This is fairly high tech but it's still a traditional junk yard dog made with used parts and a computer board that I put together. Just because much of the new tech today is electronic doesn't mean that my grandfather's phone or Henry's ***embly line wasn't. Isky's cams and Hilborn's injection were high tech along with all we think of as "old school/traditional rodding." The tradition is how we use the new stuff to fill our needs. My cell phone has features that will never be used.
I used to be afraid of the newer technologies. I now embrace them, at least the ones I have. First, I love my Ipod. I have about 1200 songs at my finger tip, all of them great,with no *****ic disc jockeys or advertisments. If I want to listen to a particular album, it's right there. A gendre of music? No problem. All this in a package smaller than a pack of cigarettes. I have a player at work, I'll carry my tunes with me. Mowing the yard goes faster with my tunes. All this AND it doesn't skip, crackle, or hiss. Leave it in the car and it doesn't warp. I appreciate my cell phone. My wife can visit family that is out of town and I don't worry about her running into problems. Plus if the beer is running low, have her pick up some on the way home. Geeze, what would life be like with out a computer? Got a question about anything and it can be answered in no time on the 'net. Besides, shouldn't cordless drills along with the rest of its' kind be considered new technology? Who wants to go back to corded tools? I'll take the new technology, thanks. It may take me a while to learn it, but I'll give it a try.
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