Yes I Am Oblivious
Posted at 5:40 AM on July 21, 2009
by Dale Connelly
(30 Comments)
A special message for today from Rudy Texter, president and CEO of Yes I Am Wireless:
There's suddenly a lot of talk about how "dangerous" it is to use your cell phone in the car. As president of a company that is a cell phone provider, I am very concerned about customer safety. Obviously, it's not good business to let the people who buy our service get involved in collisions. Yes I Am Wireless is opposed to crashes of all kinds. To suggest otherwise is ludicrous.Having said that, I do feel compelled to add that if you do get into a fender bender or worse, isn't it a great relief to know you have Yes I Am's Worldwide Network at your disposal?
Even before your mangled wheels have stopped turning, you can call your 12 closest friends (The Designated Dozen®) at no charge to tell them what just happened, update your Facebook status, send a Tweet to your followers, inform your insurance company that a claim is on the way, call for a tow truck, find a body shop, summon police to come ticket the other driver (who was obviously at fault) and, if you think you need it, you can even call an ambulance!
Well meaning people can certainly disagree about cell phones and driver distraction.
At Yes I Am Wireless, we believe in promoting discussion, although frankly, our busy lives don't always allow us the time and space necessary to have a substantive debate. Often, the most peaceful place for gathering and organizing our thoughts is in the car, on the way home from a busy day at work. And at that golden moment, when all your best arguments are formed and all your powers of observation are focused, who is there to listen?
No one!
That's why, when you purchase a Pocket Savant® from Yes I Am Wireless, you can choose the Cronies and Collaborators Package® (which comes with a free Hands Free Freedom Interface®) , giving you the highly productive option to simultaneously include up to a dozen other people (expressing as many as 200 different viewpoints) in a Yes I Am Mobile TalkMob® Conference Call! Now, no matter what debate you're having, all the stakeholders can ride!
Problem solved!Let's use technology to sort out our feelings about using technology! Yes I Am Wireless is willing to foster the discussion as we move onward from here into the future of everything!
Interesting viewpoint from Rudy, who is a sponsor so I have nothing to add. Do you use your cell phone while the car is in motion?
Comments (30)
no, i (in the rare moment i use it) phone from parking lots. and i don't have 12 friends :-)
Dale, you don't have SuperTramp "It's Raining Again" do you?
happy rain, everyone!
Sorry, Barb.
There's no Supertramp in the library.
I've heard the name but I'm really not familiar with the group. Is this a glaring omission? A scandalous bit of ignorance?
I'm not a good multi-tasker an don't think it would be safe for me to drive and use a cell phone at the same time. There are people who do use their cell phones while driving, of course, and these people make me nervous.
I do like using my computer to keep in touch with people. I guess responding to this blog is an example of using a computer to keep in touch. It can be a little annoying when people who put me on a list and send out emails to me every time they have some thing to send to some one on the list. Cronies and Colaborators on my cell phone? I don't think so.
I will 'fess up to the occasional phone call while driving, but texting while driving just seems crazy (phone calls at 55 mph also make me very nervous, so I avoid those). And I try to be judicious about my phone calls...but I suppose that's everyone's excuse.
(Oh, and Supertramp was a pop/rock group on the 70s. Their big album, which I still have on vinyl somewhere, was "Breakfast in America" which had two hits: "The Logical Song" and "Take the Long Way Home." "It's Raining Again" is also a swell song. It's only scandalous ignorance if you feel you should be totally up on top 40 from the late 70s.)
This is off-topic, but I had to pass along an article from the Contra Costa (California) times. It begins ...
Goat Rescued from Tree
You cannot use cooking spray to take a goat out of a tree.
At least, it didn't work July 1 when 59-year-old Alysia Krafel tried it after one of her goats, King George, got stuck in an oak tree on her property. ...
You can read all the sordid details at
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_12775926. Goat and goatkeeper are doing fine.
But didn't Dale present an artistic vision of goats in trees a few months ago? Life imitates art.
Blue tooth and voice dialing make it pretty easy to have a conversation without having to hold the phone or look away from the road. :-)
Yesterday I commented that Google hadn't honored the moon landing which a graphic. Google is better than that, though. The graphic was up later, which can only mean that they swapped it out at the moment of the anniversary of the landing.
Don't get me started on cell phones and driving!
Or bluetoothing in public, like everyone wants to hear your one sided conversation. These are sore spots for me so I'll keep from ranting.
However, I'm very happy for the rain!!!!
The Subdudes have a great song called Rain on Miracle Mule. It’s a very pretty song that would fit wonderfully in the RH mix.
Do you have any Subdudes in the library? If not can I send a disk for your consideration?
No I Am Not using my cell phone while driving. I hardly use it at all which I spose makes me contemporaneous with Noah. I fear that if I were to drive and yack that I would end up like the poor Weinermobile driver in Wisconsin this past weekend...It's not good to run a bun (with dog) into a house.
I'm still driving a car with manual transmission, so never ever use the cell phone while driving. Probably wouldn't with auto-transmission either, roads today seem to require all my attention.
Does anybody know why google today has the moon landing anniversary graphic up? Is the date in question?
don't have a cell phone and if i did i wouldnt drive and try to dial/talk ; but my daughter does and it's stupid since she has been rearended twice by a cell phone user and i once (crumpled the trunk on my little corolla but they fixed it!)
love the rain - maybe play Singin' in the Rain today? twins and i will be inside ALL day, i think it will be a puzzle day
we have a groundhog that shows up in the trees at times but never seen a goat with him
Good Morning All,
I've used my cell phone while driving a time or 2 with the person on the other end either giving driving directions - a poor person's GPS.
Today the voice in my head is John Hiatt singing "Feels Like Rain" - thank goodness.
Everyone have a wonderful day!
Before the cell phone generation appeared on the earth, a friend of mine used to read and drive at the same time. Said this was possible because North Dakota, where she lived, was so flat and un-populated. Hmmm...
Speaking of rain, do you have the song 'Africa' by Toto? There s a great version of this on You Tube which has the chorus imitating rain, and then thunder, prior to the singing of the song, but I simply hearing the Toto version would be great, too. (I didn't check the playlist - maybe you have already had this on today?)
Thanks!
nah, Dale - no ignorance on your part. i had to look up the group - only remember it because i heard it lots during the hour drive to my work when we lived in Virginia - i worked in West Virginia - and that year it rained a lot so they played the song often.
Don in West St. Paul - thanks for the reference to the goat article - i will warn our herd about the possible consequences of their tree eating
Unlike today's rain, cellphone calls while driving are not welcome. I admit I've done it, but I've sworn off the habit. I'm reformed. And as Mark Twain said, "There's nothing worse than a reformed anything." I'm not about to berate others for making calls behind the wheel, but I'll think dire imprecations of their parentage.
On the other hand, if you could fit "Driving with my knee" in before the show's over, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks for all the good work, Dale.
thank you dale for playing singin in the rain i love the movie and gene kelly
As a 'professional safety guy,' you don't want to get me started on cell phone use while driving. I'll only get preachy. Personally, I don't own a cell phone and I'm of the opinion that it makes good drivers bad and bad drivers really bad.
Y'know, when growing up, I remember my mother telling me not to talk to myself because people would think I was crazy. And, to a certain degree, she was right. I used to talk and carry on conversations with myself while walking around and always elicited stares, points, and whispers. Now, we see people talking to themselves all the time and we don't even blink. Occasionally as I pass a person having an apparent conversation with him/herself and wonder if they're wired to one of their cyborgian attachments or just nuts.
Ironically I just gave my daughter Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" to put on her iPod, and I was listening to it at work yesterday. It came out about this time in 1979, has stood up pretty well. I think their earliest hit was "Bloody Well Right".
Sorry to barge in here like this, but please never play that Brian Setzer song again. Terrible.
I would love to hear the voice of Bart the bear. He is my favorite cell phone user. I mean after all even though the old Morning show was shut down he must still have your phone number on his cell phone. Why haven't we heard from him. Maybe his battery has died, Maybe he will call during the State Fair.
Dale - Sorry, Chief. I didn't realize that I was being deliberately incited for a rant on cell phone use. I let my polite Minnesota nature win out over my more obnoxious nature. (My wife would say that's a good thing.) I guess all I can say it, "Yes I AM oblivious."
I hardly ever use cell phone unless I'm a passenger, but I am guilty of eating while driving which can be just as dangerous. I now have "The Logical Song" floating around in my head just from seeing it mentioned here...
Donnie -- could you also tell us something you DID like -- also useful information to have. And I missed the show so will have to catch the rebroadcast so I can hear this Brian Setzer song.
RE: yesterday's moon question, I have a favorite line from a song... about watching the moon while riding home in the car: "Dad, the moon is comin' home with us..." from Greg Brown's 'Dauthters'.
I was working that summer (between jr. and sr. year of college) in San Francisco, and my roommates and I had no TV, but we must have found SOMEONE with one because I can recall watching a bit of it.
Dale, Mike, and Radio Heartlanders,
Here is an idea for the "automated" part of Radio Heartland. You could devote certain segments to certain types of music.
For example you could have one or two hours set up each day or on certain days to play only local music. You could have a slot set up for Jazz or for Folk or for any thing else that might fit. Just an idea.
Dale, Mike, and Radio Heartlanders,
Here is an idea for the "automated" part of Radio Heartland. You could devote certain segments to certain types of music.
For example you could have one or two hours set up each day or on certain days to play only local music. You could have a slot set up for Jazz or for Folk or for any thing else that might fit. Just an idea.
Dale, Mike, and Radio Heartlanders,
Here is an idea for the "automated" part of Radio Heartland. You could devote certain segments to certain types of music.
For example you could have one or two hours set up each day or on certain days to play only local music. You could have a slot set up for Jazz or for Folk or for any thing else that might fit. Just an idea.
Dale, Mike, and Radio Heartlanders,
Here is an idea for the "automated" part of Radio Heartland. You could devote certain segments to certain types of music.
For example you could have one or two hours set up each day or on certain days to play only local music. You could have a slot set up for Jazz or for Folk or for any thing else that might fit. Just an idea.
Jim -
DUDE!!
I liked the Brian Setzer Orchestra's take on Pennsylvania 6-5000.
Gotta give Brian Setzer credit for keeping the Big Band/Swing sound going, or the Rockabilly sound as well. Brian has been greatly influenced by Eddie Cochran (best known for 'Summertime Blues') and has visited Albert Lea as that is Eddie's hometown.
Maybe you could play Glenn Miller's "Pennsylvania 6-5000" sometime in the next day or two.
just wondering: is Donnie Donna's evil twin brother?
just kidding you two - and you too, Jim.
the only music i never, ever, ever want to hear on Radio Heartland is the soundtrack to "Koyaanisqatsi" - the 1982 film. sorry any of you who liked it. (and it even borders of throat singing and i don't like it! can't explain it....)
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