My first retarded tech mini-project

[Choop]

why don't you contact sparkfun (from doc's second link) and see if they can do you one like you're talking, it'd be heck of easier than trying to rig it yourself

[Nabubrush]

Not tryin' to throw stones, A-Cap.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Not tryin' to throw stones, A-Cap.

No.
No.
Do not even try to explain now.
I am clearly way butt hurt about this and there is no way our internet friendship will ever be the same.

[AugustWest]

No.
No.
Do not even try to explain now.
I am clearly way butt hurt about this and there is no way our internet friendship will ever be the same.

Ha ha!  You don't even know how much an antique phone weighs!

Philistine.

[CortJstr]

At my last apartment we needed a land line for the buzzer. You could have the buzzer call any number you wanted  but it didn't make much sense to have it ring my roommate's cell phone because she was often in Chicago. And it didn't make sense for it to ring mine because I was at work when roommate was home.

So since we had a land line I used it all the time. The phones themselves were way more comfortable to talk on, never ran out of battery, and sounded better. And since I have Google Voice none of my friends needed to learn a new number. Now that I live alone I won't pay $20/month for that convenience but I might pay $5 bundled w/ my cable service.

[pmcd9]

I'll Call You Back

[Nabubrush]

I'll Call You Back

I Just Called

Seriously, though - when you lose your shit, it's way more fun to slam that receiver down about ten times on a real, honest-to-God phone, all clanging and jangling and then breaking. Also, you can't use a cellie as a garrote.

[smick]

Once upon a time, I was on the phone with someone while driving. 

They had said something super awful to me.  (I don't remember clearly, but certainly awful things were said back and forth.  I was younger and burned hotter then.)  It was one of those Kill Bill/Ironsides moments where I saw red, and the only thing that would, could pay was the phone.  So I threw it directly out of the car window.



Or... I would have, had the window not been rolled up.  Instead I mashed it up against the window with a *PONK* noise, and it landed in my lap.  The person on the other end still yelling, and me all stewing in impotent rage.


Certainly slamming a phone down would have been better, were the option telephonically available to me.

[lprkn]

Obviously, the answer is 10-pound red analog phone mounted in your center console.

Never get a ticket for talking on your phone. ever

[Choop]

how bout one o' these

[fanta]

there is a product for sale I saw somewhere recently that is basically an adapter that is an RJ-whatever jack (the size used by telephone handsets, which is slightly smaller than the size used by a wall jack) connected to a standard size co-axial plug of the variety that most cell phones have a jack for.  So you could have your cell phone in your pocket, and be talking on the old-fashioned handset.

[Arachno-capitalist]

Thanks for that fanta.