Miata Mailing List: June 1995, Message #87
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   From: Aengus 
Subject: Re:  THIS SERVICE
   Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 23:26:07 -0400

albabe@wam.umd.edu (Alex M. Postpischil) said:

> Mike Currens wrote:
> You don't have Wireless Email in your Miata???
> 
> You will....   :^)
> 
> *****
> Hmmmm, _I won't_!! Nor will I have a phone, a beeper, pager, or electronic
> device (other than the stereo) that will interfere with my enjoyment of driving
> or of the Miata. If other people want to be accesible by wireless devices on
> their vacations at the beach or while driving (and hopefully not wrecking)
> their cars - more power to them. But no thank you, I enjoy my free time. And
> implying that I _will_ have such devices is making a HUGE assumption about
> what I will allow to run my life (and it won't be a machine)!!!
> 	Please note: this is not a flame (hell, I hope not even a spark)! Tis
> but my opinion, and everyone knows that cliche about opinions....
> -alex-
> :-)

OTOH: I carry my phone (which, along with my briefcase, _constitutes_
my office) fairly often in the Miata.  It makes the difference between
sitting at home, or a client site, working (or checking the list :) )
at the computer, and hitting the backroads while the sun is shining. 
If it rings, well, that's a nuisance, but at least I've had all that
driving beforehand.

Then there was the time when I was sailing through the tide rips in
Discovery Channel -- no, not in the Miata -- holding (desperately)
onto the tiller with one hand and the gunwale with the other, and the
phone rang; it was a salesguy from DEC wanting to discuss my server
needs...

To inject a more technical note into this, has anyone installed a
cellular phone mount in their Miata?  I just carry my flip-phone, but
occasionally think it would be nice to *not* need a hand for the
phone, a hand for the wheel, and a hand for the shifter.  But where
would one put the damn thing?

Aengus "who can be reached at 604/727-8176 quite often" MacIntosh
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