Comments on: Late Nite FDL: Design for Living http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:31:59 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ruthie http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-206196 Ruthie Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:24:48 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-206196 <p>Secret to keeping your cell phone bill under $50/month: Remember that it exists for YOUR convenience.</p> Secret to keeping your cell phone bill under $50/month: Remember that it exists for YOUR convenience.

]]> By: Retrogrouch http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-205690 Retrogrouch Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:02:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-205690 <p>Very cool post. Imagine, running a political system like a business. If car companies were political parties, what would the Rs and Ds be? Would the Rs be Cadillac, a subsidary of GM, which is propped up by toothpicks while maintaining the illusion of greatness? Are the Ds Ford, which builds crap and greenwashes itself w/ “the first hybrid SUV?”</p> <p>Meanwhile, Toyota hybrids are flying out the door…</p> Very cool post. Imagine, running a political system like a business. If car companies were political parties, what would the Rs and Ds be? Would the Rs be Cadillac, a subsidary of GM, which is propped up by toothpicks while maintaining the illusion of greatness? Are the Ds Ford, which builds crap and greenwashes itself w/ “the first hybrid SUV?”

Meanwhile, Toyota hybrids are flying out the door…

]]> By: Sid http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-205226 Sid Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:04:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-205226 <p>TRex:<br /> A hundred bucks for a phone you like is nothing to worry about, and you are right about getting something you like vs. crap if you have to carry it around everywhere, I was just ranting aimlessly mostly.</p> <p>I have had cell phones hoisted on me by employers, but shun them as much as I can, of course the big exception to it being that the “house” cell phone travels with the car due to its “birth pangs”.</p> <p>Ofcourse, while I mock the cell phone issue, I will search over the world for Lego sets I want so I should keep my mouth shut and work more on my mullet.</p> TRex:
A hundred bucks for a phone you like is nothing to worry about, and you are right about getting something you like vs. crap if you have to carry it around everywhere, I was just ranting aimlessly mostly.

I have had cell phones hoisted on me by employers, but shun them as much as I can, of course the big exception to it being that the “house” cell phone travels with the car due to its “birth pangs”.

Ofcourse, while I mock the cell phone issue, I will search over the world for Lego sets I want so I should keep my mouth shut and work more on my mullet.

]]> By: Margot http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-205021 Margot Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:23:27 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-205021 <p>RT…I may just have to get one.<br /> I’ve never had a cell phone, never wanted one, except when my car breaks down.<br /> And then…I really need one.</p> RT…I may just have to get one.
I’ve never had a cell phone, never wanted one, except when my car breaks down.
And then…I really need one.

]]> By: Margot http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204982 Margot Tue, 25 Jul 2006 18:08:22 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204982 <p>lotus<br /> That parrot story is too funny! I just laughed so hard and got my foot tangled up in the keyboard wire, it fell off the desk. Damn wires everywhere.</p> lotus
That parrot story is too funny! I just laughed so hard and got my foot tangled up in the keyboard wire, it fell off the desk. Damn wires everywhere.

]]> By: RT http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204864 RT Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:21:15 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204864 <p>I’m a pretty utilitarian guy, the sort who loves driving a Honda Accord because it’ll get me where I’m going fairly cheaply, and will go well past 200,000 miles.</p> <p>I’m not a big cell phone user; just need one really, really badly at infrequent moments.</p> <p>Virgin Mobile, baby. About $50 for the phone, and $80/<b>year</b> for more minutes than I wind up using.</p> I’m a pretty utilitarian guy, the sort who loves driving a Honda Accord because it’ll get me where I’m going fairly cheaply, and will go well past 200,000 miles.

I’m not a big cell phone user; just need one really, really badly at infrequent moments.

Virgin Mobile, baby. About $50 for the phone, and $80/year for more minutes than I wind up using.

]]> By: TRex http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204720 TRex Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:22:23 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204720 <p>Oh, and none of it would make a bit of difference if the phone wasn’t tough and reliable. The research I was doing indicated that this model is extremely durable and easy to use. I do NOT have a hundred dollars to shell out on something that won’t stand up to hard use.</p> Oh, and none of it would make a bit of difference if the phone wasn’t tough and reliable. The research I was doing indicated that this model is extremely durable and easy to use. I do NOT have a hundred dollars to shell out on something that won’t stand up to hard use.

]]> By: TRex http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204719 TRex Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:20:20 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204719 <p>Hey, Sid-</p> <p>There is a part of me that completely agrees with you. Even as I placed the order for my new phone, a grouchy old man in my brain was holding forth at great length about the tomfoolery of dropping a hundred dollars on a flashy piece of technology.</p> <p>And yet, I think it’s important to set the bar high for the objects you allow to accumulate in your life. You use them every day. Why not use something that it makes you happy to look at and hold?</p> <p>And there is a huge difference between fashion and style. Ultimately, I could give a shit about fashion. Fashion is when a whole bunch of people agree upon a particular style. But any one person doing their own thing can have style.</p> <p>Does that make sense? Or does it all sound like, “Blah blah blah blah, Ginger! Blah blah blah blah….”</p> Hey, Sid-

There is a part of me that completely agrees with you. Even as I placed the order for my new phone, a grouchy old man in my brain was holding forth at great length about the tomfoolery of dropping a hundred dollars on a flashy piece of technology.

And yet, I think it’s important to set the bar high for the objects you allow to accumulate in your life. You use them every day. Why not use something that it makes you happy to look at and hold?

And there is a huge difference between fashion and style. Ultimately, I could give a shit about fashion. Fashion is when a whole bunch of people agree upon a particular style. But any one person doing their own thing can have style.

Does that make sense? Or does it all sound like, “Blah blah blah blah, Ginger! Blah blah blah blah….”

]]> By: Sid http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204690 Sid Tue, 25 Jul 2006 15:54:30 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204690 <p>I am glad I had “function not fashion” drilled into me as a youngster. Chasing around the world for a cell phone seems a little, well, insane to me.</p> <p>In terms of cell phones,if you are worried about fashion, they have you exactly where they want you as you will have to stay cool when your current phone is declared ugly. I don’t mean to be rude, as I find Trex’s writing to show alot of intelligence, but I find it nuts to hear sane people jump through hoops and pay more for a phone that may look better than another.</p> <p>OK, rant over, I have to go comb my mullet.</p> I am glad I had “function not fashion” drilled into me as a youngster. Chasing around the world for a cell phone seems a little, well, insane to me.

In terms of cell phones,if you are worried about fashion, they have you exactly where they want you as you will have to stay cool when your current phone is declared ugly. I don’t mean to be rude, as I find Trex’s writing to show alot of intelligence, but I find it nuts to hear sane people jump through hoops and pay more for a phone that may look better than another.

OK, rant over, I have to go comb my mullet.

]]> By: tanbark http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204609 tanbark Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:22:37 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/late-nite-fdl-design-for-living/#comment-204609 <p>As an admitted low-tech redneck, I know they can be useful, and, I’m not too concerned about “style”. </p> <p> I’m a little more worried about whether or not there’s a latent brain tumor epidemic brewing, that just hssn’t have the time to get onto the medical radar screen.</p> As an admitted low-tech redneck, I know they can be useful, and, I’m not too concerned about “style”.

I’m a little more worried about whether or not there’s a latent brain tumor epidemic brewing, that just hssn’t have the time to get onto the medical radar screen.

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