This reminds me of the first time a poster on rec.boats.paddle mentioned taking a cell phone on a river trip so he could do phone tech support if necessary. He got a ton of crap for presuming to despoil the pristine wilderness environment with the noxious ringing of a phone, yada yada yada. His response was similar to Craig's: I can be on the water with my phone, or I can sit at home. No brainer. And if you don't want to be "tethered" it's still possible to plead "no service." Which I did yesterday, as a matter of fact ;) Steve Craig Jungers wrote: > There are two ways of looking at this. You can decry the loss of privacy and > moan about being connected 24/7/365 with no escape. Or you can think about > how you are no longer tied to an office desk and telephone or, in my case, a > server room. Because I'm tethered to a new device I'm no longer tied down > and I will be happily working (and charging for it) from a classic 25-foot > sport fishing boat anchored in a quiet cove in the San Juan Islands of > Washington State. > > I can live with that. -- Steve Cramer Athens, GA http://www.savvypaddler.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Apr 27 2009 - 08:40:29 PDT
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