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Cody Dawg · Sep 11, 2006, 08:48 AM

United Airlines Flight 351 Atlanta to San Francisco on the ground in Dallas...

Anyone know anything about this?

Nerves or something else?

analogika · Sep 11, 2006, 08:52 AM

Does every single diverted plane send you into a nervous tizzy?

Cody Dawg · Sep 11, 2006, 09:01 AM

No, not really. It is 9/11. But of course that does matter to people like you.

RAILhead · Sep 11, 2006, 09:18 AM

Can't find anything anywhere.

Sky Captain · Sep 11, 2006, 09:21 AM

Propably a medical emergency.
It happens all the time.
I had a kid faint once. I had to make an emergency landing in Charlotte North Carolina.
They had EMTs waiting.
THe kid hadn't eaten and was diabetic.
He was fine after recieving treatment.

baw · Sep 11, 2006, 09:33 AM

Planes are diverted everyday.

badidea · Sep 11, 2006, 09:33 AM

They found a BlackBerry-Computer (whatever that is) which didn't have an owner!

rickey939 · Sep 11, 2006, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by badidea

They found a BlackBerry-Computer (whatever that is) which didn't have an owner!

Wow.

Mastrap · Sep 11, 2006, 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by badidea

They found a BlackBerry-Computer (whatever that is) which didn't have an owner!

Get with it, Euroboy

starman · Sep 11, 2006, 10:06 AM

ZOMG! A diverted plane on 9/11?!

Gossamer · Sep 11, 2006, 11:53 AM

How's that possible? Surely one person would have been like, "sweet, free blackberry!"

starman · Sep 11, 2006, 12:15 PM

Maybe someone dropped their iPod in the john?

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by badidea

They found a BlackBerry-Computer (whatever that is) which didn't have an owner!

Some computer-dohickey that is really popular with american yuppie types. It workes like kryptonite on coolness.

V

Gossamer · Sep 11, 2006, 12:51 PM

A lot of the big-wigs here at ISU were getting them until they found out they couldn't sink with Exchange, which we just switched to. So now a lot of them went with the Motorola Q. But I can see where they'd be handy; all of your calendar info, ability to send and check email (a lot of these people live out of their email), and have a phone. But their jobs warrant something like this. It's a different store when Greg who works at McDonalds gets one.

RAILhead · Sep 11, 2006, 01:06 PM

And story.

analogika · Sep 11, 2006, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

No, not really. It is 9/11. But of course that does matter to people like you.

You hateful ****.

Stradlater · Sep 11, 2006, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

You hateful ****.

She said that is does matter to you!

Stradlater · Sep 11, 2006, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

A lot of the big-wigs here at ISU were getting them until they found out they couldn't sink with Exchange...

Everything but the kitchen sync, eh?

analogika · Sep 11, 2006, 01:10 PM

Hateful and stupid, then.

Mastrap · Sep 11, 2006, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Some computer-dohickey that is really popular with american yuppie types.

Don't knock it until you've tried it. It saves having to schlepp a laptop around and you still have full access to mail and kinda access to the web.
Apart from that, it's a tool. If you've got to rely on your tools to be cool you're doing something badly wrong.

bstone · Sep 11, 2006, 01:32 PM

Originally Posted by Sky Captain

Propably a medical emergency.
It happens all the time.
I had a kid faint once. I had to make an emergency landing in Charlotte North Carolina.
They had EMTs waiting.
THe kid hadn't eaten and was diabetic.
He was fine after recieving treatment.

Couple years ago we were dispatched to the runway at O'Hare Int'l Airport in Chicago to pick up a sick person on an airplane.

Was the coolest EMS call I've ever had. The guy was fine but the airline wanted to be sure. I just was so thrilled about a plane pulling up right in front of our ambulance. It was soooo cool!

Dark Helmet · Sep 11, 2006, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by badidea

They found a BlackBerry-Computer (whatever that is) which didn't have an owner!

Blame Canada.

badidea · Sep 11, 2006, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

How's that possible? Surely one person would have been like, "sweet, free blackberry!"

Well, in certain places, at certain times, pocket computers are bombs, dollar bills on the street are anthrax traps, t-shirts you can't read are worn by terrorists and ...

Gossamer · Sep 11, 2006, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by Stradlater

Everything but the kitchen sync, eh?

Oops...good catch.

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

If you've got to rely on your tools to be cool you're doing something badly wrong.

No.. it is impossible to be cool with a Blackberry. Even the name is un-cool. It's like wearing a bowtie.

Never was cool, never will be.

Don't tell me.. that if I rely on my clothes to be cool I'm doing something wrong

V

ghporter · Sep 11, 2006, 04:49 PM

A Blackberry is a leash that suits place on lower-level executives. They become instantly accessible 24/7-and addicted to the things. Somehow the suits manage to convince these folks that they are really productive when typing emails on tiny keyboards or reading them on a tiny screen. I've seen supposedly very intelligent people fall for this. Kryptonite on coolness? No. More like an albatross around the neck. Blackberries are horrid things.

Mastrap · Sep 11, 2006, 05:15 PM

I disagree. I own my own company - hardly lower level - and having a BB allows me to stay on top of things without being tied to the office or having to carry a laptop with me. Used properly they promote freedom rather than take it away.

Mastrap · Sep 11, 2006, 05:20 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

No.. it is impossible to be cool with a Blackberry. Even the name is un-cool. It's like wearing a bowtie.

A Blackberry is neither cool nor uncool, it's a tool. It's a largish phone with excellent email capability and a decent web browser. GPRS means that the speed is acceptable. What that has to do with it being cool or un-cool escapes me. They have no social cachet the way an iPod might have. It's like saying a hammer is un-cool.

Useful, they are. Extremely so. I use google maps frequently for directions on the move. Forget about having a GPS in your car, the BB does nearly as good a job. A very capable web browser means that I have access to the net whenever I have a cell signal. Meaning, and this is just one example, I could find a decent B&B in Eastern Ontario from a small lake in Northern Ontario, book a room and get directions on how to get there from the BB. No laptop, no wireless, no modem.

But hey, whatever. As I've said, if you have to rely on your personal gizmos to be cool, you're doing something wrong.

Gossamer · Sep 11, 2006, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Used properly...

There's the key to nearly every gizmo.

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

A Blackberry is neither cool nor uncool, it's a tool. It's a largish phone with excellent email capabilty. What that has to do with it being cool or un-cool escapes me.

A pocket protector is neither cool nor uncool, it's a tool. It protects your shirt from leaking pens and is an excellent place to have a pocket-calculator. What it has to do with being cool or un-cool escapes me.

Dude, you don't have to get it. It just.. ain't no babe-magnet. A Blackberry is a geeky thing. Geeky things are not cool. No matter how practical.

V

Gossamer · Sep 11, 2006, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

A pocket protector is neither cool nor uncool, it's a tool. It protects your shirt from leaking pens and is an excellent place to have a pocket-calculator. What it has to do with being cool or un-cool escapes me.

Dude, you don't have to get it. It just.. ain't no babe-magnet. A Blackberry is a geeky thing. Geeky things are not cool. No matter how practical.

V

IDK about that...how geeky were the iPods when they first came out? Now what girl doesn't want one?

Mastrap · Sep 11, 2006, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Dude, you don't have to get it. It just.. ain't no babe-magnet. A Blackberry is a geeky thing. Geeky things are not cool. No matter how practical.

Maybe where you live. Here every second person has one, including babes. They are totally mainstream.

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

But hey, whatever. As I've said, if you have to rely on your personal gizmos to be cool, you're doing something wrong.

Oh I agree. That's because I don't rely on gizmos to be cool, quite the opposite. The only effect a gizmo has is negative on one's coolness. Some more than other. The best gizmost are the ones that have no effect. No gizmo is going to add to one's coolness. Ever.

You got it the wrong way. It is not the gizmo that makes you cool, in fact I can't think of a single one with *that* ability.

However some gizmos are so mainstream that they're no more noticable than a wristwatch. GSMs, laptops and iPods to name but a few.

V

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Maybe where you live.

In my entire contintent.

V

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

IDK about that...how geeky were the iPods when they first came out? Now what girl doesn't want one?

Not that I'm disagreeing with the gist of what you're saying, iPods were never that geeky. They were shiny, kind of appealing, not practical for any other purpose than to play music and then only if you had a Mac. I still didn't get one until it was safely popular.

Geekness factor of the iPod is lower than on a practical device, such as one that is plastic, black, with a weird keyboard, combines e-mail and telephony.. and is called some weird name (i.e. blackberry)

Practical things are often geeky. Geeks can't see that because they're so practical (like those objects they covet)

V

analogika · Sep 11, 2006, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

In my entire contintent.

V

Speak for yourself, nature boy.

BTW, the iPod was most decidedly geeky back in 2001 when it came out. I dare say most anybody who knew back then what an mp3 was (at least in YOUR continent) was a geek, let alone who actually had enough to need a portable player for it...

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

Speak for yourself, nature boy.

BTW, the iPod was most decidedly geeky back in 2001 when it came out. I dare say most anybody who knew back then what an mp3 was (at least in YOUR continent) was a geek, let alone who actually had enough to need a portable player for it...

Ho ho hum

Yeah yeah, I know the iPod was geeky, that's why I didn't get one until they were starting to be cool

V

Gossamer · Sep 11, 2006, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by voodoo

Ho ho hum

Yeah yeah, I know the iPod was geeky, that's why I didn't get one until they were starting to be cool

V

So what you're saying is that you're so afraid of others thinking that you're uncool that you'll give up potentially useful amenities?

voodoo · Sep 11, 2006, 08:33 PM

Originally Posted by Gossamer

So what you're saying is that you're not a geek?

Yep.

V

analogika · Sep 11, 2006, 08:35 PM

Only on MacNN™.

turtle777 · Sep 11, 2006, 09:06 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

United Airlines Flight 351 Atlanta to San Francisco on the ground in Dallas...
Anyone know anything about this?
Nerves or something else?

?

-t

forkies · Sep 11, 2006, 09:11 PM

my thoughts exactly, mr. what_the_heck, my thoughts exactly

analogika · Sep 11, 2006, 09:18 PM

I went there in the very first reply to this thread, and what I got was a rather spiteful

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

No, not really. It is 9/11. But of course that does matter to people like you.

turtle777 · Sep 11, 2006, 09:20 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

I went there in the very first reply to this thread

Maybe she didn't get the message

-t

Wiskedjak · Sep 11, 2006, 11:31 PM

Diverted aircraft threads are becoming the new "Apple Store is Down" threads ...

Dakar · Sep 11, 2006, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Wiskedjak

Diverted aircraft threads are becoming the new "Apple Store is Down" threads ...

Perhaps we could create a mega-sticky for both...

11011001 · Sep 12, 2006, 02:10 AM

Originally Posted by analogika

I went there in the very first reply to this thread, and what I got was a rather spiteful

Edit: I'm on your side.

ghporter · Sep 12, 2006, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

I disagree. I own my own company - hardly lower level - and having a BB allows me to stay on top of things without being tied to the office or having to carry a laptop with me. Used properly they promote freedom rather than take it away.

Note my added emphasis. Few Blackberry users use them properly. I was not kidding when I talked about seemingly smart people going bonkers over their Blackberries--I was in a Wing-level staff meeting once and at least 2/3 of the squadron commanders in attendance were paying more attention to "taking care of emails" than to the Wing commander-something the Wing commander did NOT appreciate. It was ugly, to say the least.

besson3c · Sep 12, 2006, 07:40 AM

Do you think we could add something about Tony Danza's latest wardrobe addition to this mega sticky being proposed?

Dakar · Sep 12, 2006, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by besson3c

Do you think we could add something about Tony Danza's latest wardrobe addition to this mega sticky being proposed?

To qualify, multiple threads need have been made.

So maybe we can include ebay scams.