Because I've always assumed ham was an acronym, upon further research (googlin') I found out it is indeed not an acronym. Learn something new every day (I also feel quite foolish at the moment). I did get a response from a few operators and they told me it would be impractical because your speeds are generally limited…

I believe you're on to something with a HAM setup. It's been a while since I was interested in HAM but I believe done correctly you don't even need that powerful a transmitter. Though I don't think the radio unit itself would be very portable. I'll forward this question on to an old HAM I know and relay a response…

"Can you hear me now?" "Hello?" "H-h-hello?" "It's getting really cold out here... this is not good"

Decided to skim the comments and see if it was posted... saw it was. Was upset I didn't have an original idea. Beat me by an hour!

Steve definitely sounds like a good tech. Any mechanic/shop that is trustworthy will tell you when it's not worth putting money into it anymore. Sometimes people heed that advise, other times people put $6,000 into an 82 Chevette (I'm not making that up).

I haven't personally booked a flight in years, we have someone at our office that handles most of the travel arrangements. But when I was shopping around for a flight to fly my parents to Hawaii for there anniversary I used Travelocity to find the best flights (since most airlines flight finders are terrible) and…

Holy crap I remember when I called my mom at work because me and my brother were fighting (my brother was 16ish and I was 12ish), she was in a meeting, she had to step out to deal with it... We were both grounded for a week and our N64 was taken away for MONTHS. Lesson learned.

Where I work we have a pretty good system set up for non-work conversations. If a phone rings or an email client dings the conversation is essentially put on pause and we both go back to work, when we have another free moment we pick back up where we left off. It seems like the people you're working with don't…

Lock your office door. I travel quite a bit for work, 2 weeks a month I'm on the road (spaced out a day here a day there). My office has a great view of Center City Philadelphia, and I've worked very hard to have an office with a view. Well, when I first started in my position I would come back from a trip and notice…

Or worse yet the project is taking longer then initially expected so they jump in at the 11th hour, criticize everything you did, change how it's being done (causing more work and more delays), and come out smelling like roses because they "jumped in and got it done". My manager did this to me ONCE, afterwards I sat…

I'm young (mid-20s), I text, I'm jive with the hip-hop as the kids call it. But dammit cell phone manners have always pissed me off. Vibrate gets my attention in my pocket as good if not better then an audible noise. My phone is always in my pocket so it's never off vibrate. If I'm talking to a client or in a meeting…

In his defense we don't do it on purpose, our brains do it automatically. I was staring at a girls butt in yoga pants the other day, she caught me... I didn't even realize I was doing it (I was on a conference call on my cell). I respect women, I don't think they're just "pieces of meat" but dammit sometimes they're…

Not to go too far off-topic but have you heard of SMC Fan Control? It hasn't been updated in a year or two but you can find it around the web, I used to use it on my MBP as a way to crank the fans up when I wanted to cool the laptop down, I'm sure it could aide in the fans being stuck on high as well. Just a thought…

As a seasoned business traveler I have a few tips. First, status is everything, not to toot my own horn but if your a Diamond level flyer on Delta you can just about guarantee if the flight is overbooked you're seat is safe, and you're probably getting a bump to first class. Same applies to status with hotels and car…

I rarely laughed, unless the customer went into denial about the car they bought, I was usually more concerned. We only thought stuff was funny when we didn't care about the customer, and we didn't care about the customer when they were total dicks or immediately assumed we were rip-off artists. Oh, another pro-tip,…

Yeah... I read that in a sarcastic tone straight from the get-go, none of this re-reading stuff to get the context to figure out if it's sarcasm. Well done sir, well done indeed.

Works the same as the old system so far as I can tell...

The article states it weighs 661 pounds... it's not going anywhere.

I used to use the doctor analogy, would you ever go to your doctor and say "I have cancer, when should we start the kemo?" before any test are preformed or any professional has given a diagnosis? No? Then why do people get ahead of themselves on auto-repair? Even if you are pretty good at diag, the second opinion…