Any Car Rental contacts?

[Paully_44]

used an old method.....ROAD MAP. Those things are amazing....and it lets people know you can navigate .....then there is always a lensactic compass......

saw those in a museum once.

[Pastor Gary]

As for gps........sissy! I just went on a trip to Tampa and back, went straight to my hotel and the boat, used an old method.....ROAD MAP. Those things are amazing....and it lets people know you can navigate .....then there is always a lensactic compass......

GPS...bahhh humbug! Give me my Atlas......or read road signs... wow!!!!

Luddites.

[dolfan]

As for gps........sissy! I just went on a trip to Tampa and back, went straight to my hotel and the boat, used an old method.....ROAD MAP. Those things are amazing....and it lets people know you can navigate Give me my Atlas......or read road signs... wow!!!!

THANK YOU DR. RON!!!! The oldest, most tried and true GPS system on the planet is the map/atlas and watching where you're going (read the signs). Google Maps is good, too.

My theory: GPS will spell the end of guys getting where they want to go without assistance. These technologies --- ALL technologies, including basic handwriting --- have impacts on our abilities to process rational thought that fall victim to the law of unintended consequences.

Consider the legend of Thamus.

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis, there was a famous old god, whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis is sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters.

Now in those days the god Thamus was the king of the whole country of Egypt; and he dwelt in that great city of Upper Egypt which the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god hiimself is called by them Ammon. To him came Theuth and how his inventions, desiring that the other Egyptians might be allowed to have the benefit of them; he enumerated them, and Thamus enquired about their several uses, and praised some of them and censured others, as he approved or disapproved of them. It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts.

But when it came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus replied:

“O most ingenius Theuth, the parent or inventor of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a paternal love of your own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is not an aid to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many thing and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.”

Here's my own view: Linear writing without images, road maps and directions without female voices telling us where to turn. And, yes, I am a Luddite to some degree. True.

[Pastor Gary]

Here's my own view: Linear writing without images, road maps and directions without female voices telling us where to turn. And, yes, I am a Luddite to some degree. True.

And, to be consistent, you scrawled your post on a slate with a piece of handmade charcoal (by lamplight, of course) and had it delivered by Pony Express using a Choctaw Indian Guide navigating by sense of smell.

[Dr. Ron]

Yes pastor g.....and he used letters that make words and I'll bet he used typing skills learned in a school house..........sorry pal .....your attempt didn't make it.

I have no disdain for modern technology.......I am afterall on a nice laptop,,,,however, I still use a legal pad and a "pen" to work with every day. It keeps me in touch with something very real.

My son uses a legal pad and pen to write songs and still uses a white board to work schedules from. He believes he writes better when he has to "write".

So, I pray that nothing replaces the good old map.....and to be honest, I hate that voice on the gps.,,,,reminds me of my mothe in law in the back seat.........

Hope you guys get the sarcasm

[Pastor Gary]

Yes pastor g.....and he used letters that make words and I'll bet he used typing skills learned in a school house..........sorry pal .....your attempt didn't make it.

C'mon... I know you are not too slow on the take to catch the irony of a guy writing on a modern computer, on an internet board, bemoaning the woes of the use of technology.

[dolfan]

Here's my own view: Linear writing without images, road maps and directions without female voices telling us where to turn. And, yes, I am a Luddite to some degree. True.

And, to be consistent, you scrawled your post on a slate with a piece of handmade charcoal (by lamplight, of course) and had it delivered by Pony Express using a Choctaw Indian Guide navigating by sense of smell.

How did you know??!!

[A2JGirl]

So, I pray that nothing replaces the good old map.....and to be honest, I hate that voice on the gps.,,,,reminds me of my mother in law in the back seat.........

My husband got a gps for his birthday, and the first time I called him while he was driving, and I heard a woman's voice, I freaked... but only for a moment.

But you can download all kinds of cool celebrity voices! Personally I can't wait to get the voice of KITT. Or Darth Vader ("I sense in the force that you must turn left *labored breathing*")

[Billy n NC]

Sorry but the thread is hijacked already.


My brother travels a lot . He uses a Garmin GPS . He took our Dad out to lunch one day and my dad was a bit curious about it . My brother took Dad over to a Circuit City and bought him one.

I had read about them but had never seen one in a car and working. My dad and I was in his truck running some errands. He took the GPS screen and plugged up and keyed in my address. The device was way kewl. even the maps/ pics matched the real route ie lakes etc.

But what caught my attention was listening to my Dad talk about it. It was a new toy. His has a female voice . He said he loved to confuse her. He said someitmes the command would be to turn right at the next street. He would turn left just to confuse her.

It was just a kick listening to him He is 72 years old and playing away..

[Ilovebigcats]

If you will call Terry Lowery, pastor of Old Hickory church, he will likely loan you his church van. It is very nice ........and you can advertise the church as you travel....wow./

It is nice. I saw it the other day driving to a friends house.

[Pastor Gary]

If you will call Terry Lowery, pastor of Old Hickory church, he will likely loan you his church van. It is very nice ........and you can advertise the church as you travel....wow./

It is nice. I saw it the other day driving to a friends house.

I reserved a car today from Budget Nashville Airport, so my travel plans are all set. I do appreciate all the input and leads.

[Dr. Ron]

Ah......Billy ....you have finally made the right statement about the gps....
TOY! That is it man.....

Actually my associate pastor has one. We used it recently to go to a funeral....it got us lost as a goose. We came back a different route and saved about 30 minutes. That's a lot of gas!

[dolfan]

Sorry but the thread is hijacked already.


My brother travels a lot . He uses a Garmin GPS . He took our Dad out to lunch one day and my dad was a bit curious about it . My brother took Dad over to a Circuit City and bought him one.

I had read about them but had never seen one in a car and working. My dad and I was in his truck running some errands. He took the GPS screen and plugged up and keyed in my address. The device was way kewl. even the maps/ pics matched the real route ie lakes etc.

But what caught my attention was listening to my Dad talk about it. It was a new toy. His has a female voice . He said he loved to confuse her. He said someitmes the command would be to turn right at the next street. He would turn left just to confuse her.

It was just a kick listening to him He is 72 years old and playing away..

I can hear it now:

"You just don't listen anymore."

"You think this is funny? Well I don't!"