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Post by LeoRRC on Dec 29, 2010 17:08:06 GMT -5
Today I said good bye to a dear friend for the last 2 years my BlackBerry Storm. Like the P38 it has gotten a undeserved bad reputation, it was a excellent phone. I had to retire it today and its been replaced with a Bold which I hope will last just as long.
I know this seems sad and a wasted post but its a slow day ;D
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Post by AMCMDisco on Dec 29, 2010 17:39:16 GMT -5
I'm on the HTC EVO - most of the valley here has the Sprint 4G (which I really can't tell much of a difference on, btw) but the phone's been great. Vid chat via QIK, loads of data, fast internet (either viewing as mobile enabled or full web pages), uses any open wi-fi it finds, lots of voice enabled features, all the driod market apps are pretty good, and the GPS is just as accurate as my DeLorme PN for the most part.
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Post by LeoRRC on Dec 29, 2010 19:47:17 GMT -5
You know I'm a BlackBerry person. RIM user for life hahaha
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Post by ronnv on Dec 30, 2010 12:23:26 GMT -5
Well as I'm just sitting here working on a commission and waiting for calls/e-mails on two others - Yes; the commission work continues on past the Christmas holidays (that's a good thing)....
I don't own or ever plan to own a cell phone (I guess that's what the EVO, 4G, RIM, etc is that you guys are talking about) so won't comment on that - - HOWEVER - - ->
Not everyone in this part of Nevada knows how to drive in snow!
Yesterday after shoveling out the driveway; I headed into town to buy a Portable Drive for my PC at about 4:30 - - - I live about five miles from "downtown" Fernley - - - The town has less than 20,000 people but stretches for eight miles - - - Anyway, I was driving down US-50alt at about 35 mph (the road was icey) - There was a late model Ford F250 in front of me - He started to drift just a bit - instead of just steering a little bit into the slide and giving it a bit of throttle, he hit the brakes; went sideways; jumped the median curbing; slid across the oncoming lanes (just missing two cars) and slid off onto the far shoulder
Then along came a firetruck, two police cars, an ambulance and a wrecker with lights flashing - - heading in the direction of Fallon - -
Meanwhile a little Honda passed me doing about fifty - then slid off onto the right shoulder -
I finally got into town and went to WalMart and bought a 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent....
Coming out of WalMart the whole town was at a standstill - All the main roads full of cars just stopped - It appeared that there was a multiple spin-out on the overpass that spans the railroad tracks and the roundabout beyond it - This point is the main intersection to get anywhere in Fernley -
So I went to Jakes Restaurant in the Silverado Casino to have an early dinner and wait it out - - Two hours later the traffic had cleared a bit and I drove home on the little two lane 828 - - which was a sheet of ice - - at about 15mph...
During the two hours at the restaurant it appears that the very wet snow had melted just a bit and then the temperature dropped quickly about 10 degrees and froze everything into a sheet of ice.
Right now it has started snowing again
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Post by discoverylover on Dec 30, 2010 12:46:39 GMT -5
Most people can't drive in the snow, or heavy rains. But they could have bald tires or ones that aren't snow rated also.
Here when it snows, I cruise past people in their 'badass' trucks and many jeep grand cherokees on the interstate. Ofcourse I get passed sometimes too.
Plus I just got some new tires on mine, General Grabber HTS. They do really good in the snow. My dad got the same ones on his 4Runner, and I didn't have any trouble driving in the snow in it.
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Post by AMCMDisco on Dec 30, 2010 17:14:09 GMT -5
Ooo.... don't forget the utter lack of common sense with the people who don't brush off their cars. When they get to speed and the snow flies off creating a white out behind them, traffic loves that... or when they jam the brakes and the snow on the roof slides down the windscreen... just awesome.
I've even seen the guy with one tiny square scraped out of the windscreen and the rest of the window and all around the car completely covered, driving down the interstate...
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Post by LeoRRC on Dec 30, 2010 17:33:22 GMT -5
All this cold talk makes me glad I live in Florida haha
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Post by ronnv on Dec 30, 2010 18:33:13 GMT -5
Yeah but it's awfully boring having just two seasons: Summer and Summer with hurricanes.....
I lived in Hawaii from '53 to '56 where it was 80 +/- 3 degrees year around - - Boring!
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Post by discoverylover on Dec 30, 2010 18:48:09 GMT -5
Yeah but it's awfully boring having just two seasons: Summer and Summer with hurricanes..... I lived in Hawaii from '53 to '56 where it was 80 +/- 3 degrees year around - - Boring! Very True. Sometimes a person just gets sick of sunshine. |
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Post by LeoRRC on Dec 30, 2010 22:43:29 GMT -5
BS haha summer all year around is underrated. But you people wouldn't know there in the North Pole.
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Post by AMCMDisco on Jan 1, 2011 13:27:34 GMT -5
I've been out there doing SAR jumps in P-cola bay in February... it gets some cold on down there!
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Post by LeoRRC on Jan 1, 2011 15:36:28 GMT -5
Its this wind we have that blows all year round. It can be a 70 degree winter day but when the wind starts it drops down to 40. I have no idea why the don't have a wind farm here.
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Post by chaospunk423 on Jan 3, 2011 12:21:52 GMT -5
I have a two wheel drive 1986 diesel Golf with snow tyres that I've been driving to work coz it gets killer mileage. My awd Audi is kind of broken right now. So the storm we got, I did about 35mph all the way to work. I don't like that Golf in the snow. Not at all. But I am at least nice and pull off the road when I can so the couple people behind me can go at the speed THEY feel comfortable at. Was kinda bummed. Didn't see any morons in snowbanks. People around here seem to get it for the most part...
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Post by 03silverfl on Jan 11, 2011 20:01:31 GMT -5
Ron, Could it be that you subliminally, slightly nudged that F250 and again swerved at the Honda, maybe thinking it would cause a situation that might enable a quick, quiet dinner out. Just sayin.......  Honestly, we are getting 4-6 inches of snow right now and in northern-western ohio, where it has never showed before, cough, cough, it seems like there is not one person on the roads that has driven in the snow before. Can't quite figure it out. Snow comes down, common sense goes out the window. As for season, I like four of them. |
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Post by 03silverfl on Jan 11, 2011 20:03:10 GMT -5
As for the original thread topic, I have recently gone from a crackberry to the Droid 2Global. Don't know why i ever used RIM.
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