Monday, June 20, 2005
Cell Phone Standards
Okay, if you know me, you will know that I hate hate hate cell phones. I pretty much think that they are cheap imitations of real communication devices like the military uses. I mean, think about it. You use a cell phone and there are certain places where no matter how hard you try, you can't get a decent signal. So it seems that if you want to get decent service from a cell phone, you have to investigate which service provider gives the best coverage for your area, costs the least, and gives you the best customer support. Generally, I would say that does not include T-Mobile. Geez! I hate that company. Their service, as far as I have seen, bites hard. My wife's cell phone is a T-Mobile phone and every time she calls me or if I use the phone to call someone, it is always at least a little bit garbled. Most of the time, I have to ask her to repeat herself two or three times just so that I can understand what she's saying.
Solution to the problem: Standardize all cell phone communications by giving each phone a 50 megawatt transmitter. Yeah, you'd only have about 5 seconds of talk time without plugging in, but you'd be able to hear everything. In fact, it would obsolete those stupid towers that carry the cell phone calls (that obviously don't transmit with enough power either.)
Another possible solution: Turn all cell phones into satellite phones that work off the GPS satellites. I mean come on! Last time I checked, there were 53 specific GPS satellites in orbit and they cover a very good percentage of the earth's surface. Doing this would also drive the current cost of satellite phones way down.
Anyhow, yeah, I'm really irritated at cell phone providers because of their lack of decent service.
Solution to the problem: Standardize all cell phone communications by giving each phone a 50 megawatt transmitter. Yeah, you'd only have about 5 seconds of talk time without plugging in, but you'd be able to hear everything. In fact, it would obsolete those stupid towers that carry the cell phone calls (that obviously don't transmit with enough power either.)
Another possible solution: Turn all cell phones into satellite phones that work off the GPS satellites. I mean come on! Last time I checked, there were 53 specific GPS satellites in orbit and they cover a very good percentage of the earth's surface. Doing this would also drive the current cost of satellite phones way down.
Anyhow, yeah, I'm really irritated at cell phone providers because of their lack of decent service.
Friday, June 03, 2005
A Very Moving Experience
I think I will start this by saying that I have decided that hosting my own blog has been somewhat difficult. Reasons for saying this: 1) IP address changes when the power goes out, 2) server updates rendering my site unreachable, 3) people have to keep up with what's going on more actively than they do if I host a blog on community source. So, in that vein, I am back in business resuming the blogging activity on Blogspot. I have so much enjoyed blogging on the band site because it is such a fun forum to have discussions. It's also a great place to post information as to what's going on in the world.
This blog will mostly be a record of what is going on in the life of the Schill clan.
So, the current news: We're moving. Yeah, we started on Thursday and it's been a semi-fun adventure. Only semi-fun because I have not really been able to be involved in it. I've had to be at work most of the time, but thanks wonderful sisters-in-law and some of my own siblings, it's been a fairly enjoyable experience. The only problem that I had was Thursday night, I went to Kristin's parents' house to pick up her computer and other related things and immediately got put to work moving some of her stuff out into the garage. I hadn't planned on that so it put me quite a bit behind schedule. No matter! I am not dealing with it now. Tomorrow, I have to take the truck down to Heber City to pick up a desk and that should be a fun little venture. Maybe my brother will want to come with me.
Right now, the apartment is littered with boxes and crap here and there and nothing is in any particular order. That drives me nuts so the next few days will be mostly devoted to putting the house in order. It drives Kristin nuts too, so it's very urgent to get it all picked up! :)
Along with this blog will be coming other side attractions like our Disneyland trips and an update to Jason's Assault on the Media. Also, there will be a Motorcycle Diary that will chronicle first, my attempt to repair our little Yamaha and get it running like it was in its heyday.
Check back!!
This blog will mostly be a record of what is going on in the life of the Schill clan.
So, the current news: We're moving. Yeah, we started on Thursday and it's been a semi-fun adventure. Only semi-fun because I have not really been able to be involved in it. I've had to be at work most of the time, but thanks wonderful sisters-in-law and some of my own siblings, it's been a fairly enjoyable experience. The only problem that I had was Thursday night, I went to Kristin's parents' house to pick up her computer and other related things and immediately got put to work moving some of her stuff out into the garage. I hadn't planned on that so it put me quite a bit behind schedule. No matter! I am not dealing with it now. Tomorrow, I have to take the truck down to Heber City to pick up a desk and that should be a fun little venture. Maybe my brother will want to come with me.
Right now, the apartment is littered with boxes and crap here and there and nothing is in any particular order. That drives me nuts so the next few days will be mostly devoted to putting the house in order. It drives Kristin nuts too, so it's very urgent to get it all picked up! :)
Along with this blog will be coming other side attractions like our Disneyland trips and an update to Jason's Assault on the Media. Also, there will be a Motorcycle Diary that will chronicle first, my attempt to repair our little Yamaha and get it running like it was in its heyday.
Check back!!
