OT: Technology and Geek Stuff Thread

[Jdoggie]

Its the ADD epidemic.

So many of today's youth have to be moving their mouth so as to mimic the frantic paced media they are hooked on.

If a topic isn't moving a mile a minute, they lose focus.

And that's the cell phones fault, or their manufacturers?

[YT]

Sorry for your loss CG.

I am constantly on my Nextel at work, so when I get home (and am not on-call) I turn it off and leave it off until the next work day. If there are emergencies that I don't have to deal with, they can leave me a message and I'll get it when I turn it on again.

I also have a personal cell that I carry when I go out so my wife can get ahold of me in case of an urgent situation.

I don't do idle chit-chat. I hate that!

[Drew]

I think it's funny when I'm stopped at a traffic light, and as dozens of cars turn left off the cross street onto mine, 9 out of 10 drivers have phones held up to their ears.

[Masspartan]

I've become closer to my brother and sisters because of the cell phone. I call one of them nearly every day now on the way home.

[Newbomb Turk]

a cell phone does allow you to take back some of that lost commute time...... I typically chit chat all the way to work with busy friends whom I would otherwise go weeks without catching up with.

[unknown lions fan]

I really want to get one of those bluetooth earpieces. Man, will I be cool then. I'll wear it everywhere I go.

I especially want one of those models with the blinking blue light on it. Then people will notice me, and they'll think "man, he must be important!"

[Panoptes]

And that's the cell phones fault, or their manufacturers?

Dude, WTF tangent are you running with? I have not once mentioned the manufacturers or the phones themselves as being a peeve of mine. Its the 9 out 10 idiots that YT sees turning left talking on the phone while driving home. Put the F'N phone down for a moment and drive or take a shit. People really can live their life without talking to you for one minute.

[Panoptes]

I really want to get one of those bluetooth earpieces. Man, will I be cool then. I'll wear it everywhere I go.

I especially want one of those models with the blinking blue light on it. Then people will notice me, and they'll think "man, he must be important!"

LOL

Nothing sillier than a rollie pollie of a balding old man running around the golf course with a bluetooth in his ear talking to the Mrs..

[SeattleLionsFan]

In a moot court exercise my first year, one of the "judges" had in a bluetooth earpiece while we were arguing...

Man, I wanted to smack that out of her frickin ear!

[Jdoggie]

It does look silly, but probably much safer and very handy. Don't have one but it would be useful when carrying around the young one.

[Darl McrBride]

Google's announced free wireless broadband. Cool system that uses homes plumbing systems:

http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

I'll post a follow-up and let you know how it works after I've installed mine

[Masspartan]

holy shit ... technology is amazing. To make use of the already installed piping is quite ingenious. My current wireless really stinks. I wonder how the download speed compares.

[unknown lions fan]

One of my friends just got a job as one of the PHD's here in the Grand Rapids area. It's paying nearly six figures a year, and the beta testing happened here because Granholm scored the coup by getting Google into Ann Arbor.

Uber-cool!

[Larsky]

Isn't it interesting how Google has a habit of announcing their most cutting edge technologies on April 1?

;)

[Newbomb Turk]

Microsoft should follow suit with the minimum requirements to run their OS........