GreatCall is advertising mobile phones for “Baby Boomers and their parents” with big buttons, easy-to-read displays, and simplified UI. This is ingenious, and I expect they’ll be quite successful.
One of the phones features three big dial buttons. Although the middle button is configurable (along with a contact list: do-it-yourself, ask a friend or […]
Tag Archives: driving
As simple as driving
February 18, 2007 – 2:02 pm
Santa drives with the top down
December 22, 2003 – 12:00 am
Unseasonably warm weather today meant I got one last day of driving topless, while listening to my extensive playlist of nothing but Carol of the Bells.
Cursed
December 8, 2003 – 12:00 am
My Miata today subjected me to unscheduled maintenance for the first time (clutch hydraulic hose burst). Kristan was kind enough to follow me to the mechanic and let me borrow her car for the day, so I subsequently dropped her off at work.
I hadn’t even gotten off the side street for her office before […]
Puppetry
November 23, 2003 – 12:00 am
Forget LoJack, just let Big Brother install a remote control, in case your vehicle ever becomes a threat
to homeland security. [via Qaddisin]
Smash
July 10, 2003 – 12:00 am
After more than a decade of driving, I’ve finally hit someone. A woman who started to accelerate into traffic then stopped, while I was re-checking for oncoming traffic and, finding none, accelerating and not stopping.
No one is hurt, the damage to my car is just under my $500 deductible, and hers is even more […]
Intoxicated Pachyderms
July 8, 2003 – 12:00 am
Picture a herd of elephants. Drunken elephants. They are all heading in roughly the same direction, although it’s unclear if they have a destination in mind. Being drunk, they aren’t very efficient about moving forward, and often swerve towards one another and make course corrections with no apparent purpose. Occasionally, one […]
Thanatos drive
June 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
I’d like to send a message to the gentleman who was driving a white Caravan westbound on I-64 to Brentwood south this afternoon with Missouri license 074 LGR: Just because your life isn’t worth living any longer does not grant you the right to endanger the rest of us, asshole.
Zoom zoom
June 15, 2003 – 12:00 am
Mazda’s Rev It
Up event was impressively done. I’m impressed at the resources they’re putting towards wooing driving enthusiasts. Unfortunately, we only got two competitive runs, and my second was a complete fiasco (hit cone, slowed for course worker on the track, litter from previous driver flew in my face, shifted up too far…). […]
Slower traffic keep right
April 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
Highway 40 (I-64 if you’re not from around these parts) has a little curve through the Hi Pointe neighborhood. It’s not much of a curve, but it is cut through a ridge and under an intersection, which means massive retaining walls and a series of overpasses.
Apparently, this intimidates people, because they all slow down […]
