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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 8, 2024 7:26:52 GMT -8
How dare you think an independent thought. I don't like wearing watches either. But I made an exception in this case, just to keep my toes in the latest technology. Just as I've used ChatGPT and pretty much just as quickly discarded it. These things have their uses. But I just don't like them.
But as for independent thoughts, I can easily see how these trackers could be used as we morph into a one-party maternal/totalitarian state. We will be fined for doing unsafe things or being in unsafe places (not counting black neighborhoods, of course). In places they are talking about laws where you pay taxes on your car per-mile-driven. And, of course, it's your car that is tracking you as we more and more add "safety" devices as the means. Perhaps that per-mile thing has even been instigated in Nutty California.
But that is where we are headed short of a needed civil war. We are slouching toward that maternal/totalitarian one-party state. I'm not trying to be a pessimist. But how long until you are required to wear a tracking device? Citizens may be forced to, although illegal aliens won't even need I.D. to vote.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 8, 2024 9:16:34 GMT -8
Here's a very weird update on my Apple Watch. Apparently that wasn't a false found signal. Somebody (a yute) called me just now and he's going to bring it by today. He said he was hiking with a buddy around dusk and he saw the green blinking light off to the side of the trail.
I searched twice and didn't see anything. But if it was getting dark, certainly that light would stand out. I, frankly, don't understand how it could have been found given where I know I lost it. Unless I lost it where I didn't suppose I did, which I don't think is likely.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 8, 2024 17:41:55 GMT -8
Here's a very weird update on my Apple Watch. Apparently that wasn't a false found signal
I don't know what is stranger. The place where you lost the watch, or the yute finding it and returning it to you. Good boy.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 8, 2024 17:49:42 GMT -8
A nice white yute named Jacob (about 20) stopped by around 3:00 today and delivered the Apple Watch that he found. He just happened to be hiking on that same trail later in the day with a friend near dusk. I offered him a $20.00 reward but he wouldn't take anything. The green light (rather bright) was still blinking on the watch. And that caught his attention. It was a couple feet or more off the trail in the underbrush. As he said, it's amazing that he found it because the battery wasn't going to last much longer, certainly not for another day. While searching for it I had stuck only to the trail and maybe a hair off to the side. If, as I thought (and I thought correctly), the watch had slipped off my wrist while slinging cut debris onto the side of the trail (I tend to heave it fairly far), there was no hope in finding it in the undergrowth. But at dusk I guess that blinking light really stood out and was a beacon. The light blinks because it is in "active" mode. That is, the watch was actively tracking the trek that I had been on. And it will basically do that until you turn the "activity" off. The bright green blinking light is part of the blood pressure measurement, I think. You don't see it when it's on your wrist because it's on the underside of the watch in the center. If you had been where I had been, there's no way anyone should have ever found it. First, I didn't find it. Second, it was late in the day. I ran across a couple motorcycle riders earlier on the main logging road, but none anywhere near the rather remote trail I was on. It was quite more than one in a million that someone should be on that trail late in the day.
Stranger than fiction indeed.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 8, 2024 18:17:12 GMT -8
Kudos to Jacob. Some people still have morals in this country.
I have a similarly strange story about a long lost ring. Warning!! I might have mentioned this before.
Sometime between the spring of 1975 and winter of 1976, a friend and I were at a disco called Charlie's. While there, I went to the bathroom to have a pee. Afterwards, I took off my college ring to wash my hands. Upon drying my hands I left the bathroom for more drinking and dancing. Unfortunately, I forgot to pick up my ring, which I left on the basin.
Some minutes later I realized what I had done and ran to the bathroom hoping to retrieve my ring. As expected, it was gone.
Between five and ten years later, as I recall, I was talking to my father on the phone from overseas and he told me he had my ring. You can imagine how surprised I was.
As he told it, one day he received a telephone call from some man who asked if I lived there. My father explained that I had moved away and now lived in Singapore. The man then mentioned that he had found my college ring and wanted to return it to me. He didn't want a reward so my father invited him to lunch and he could then give the ring to my father.
It seems the man and his girl friend were spending the day at Lake Tawakoni, a large resevoir northeast of Dallas, and while on the beach one of them saw something shining in the sand. It was my ring. They had the ring, but the only info available to them my college name and the year I graduated. Luckily, my initials were engraved inside the ring. Surprisingly, the man was a detective and followed the trail pretty easily. The man contacted my college and as I was the only KFZ who graduated from my college in 1975 the mystery was pretty easy to solve.
I am still surprised that the guy put in the work to find out who owned the ring and then return it to its rightful owner.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 8, 2024 18:34:02 GMT -8
I figured my return was one in a million. Your ring story is one in a billion. Quite amazing. If Agatha Christie had written that in a plot, I would have rolled my eyes and booed.  |
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 8, 2024 19:34:07 GMT -8
I always found it amazing and had heard of nothing like it before. But over the years, more exactly in the last 10 or 15 years, I have heard one or two similarly amazing stories though.
I still have the ring, but never wear it. It is too big and bulky in any case.
The fact that I was foolish enough to take it off in a restroom is probably a sign that I didn't wear rings often. Otherwise, I would probably have just washed my hands with the ring on.
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