Bob's hearing is acute and directionally accurate. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Ann Sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > As being a victem of one of the former kind I'm also glad to hear of that > success story - especially told so nicely. > > Late to comment as I had company all day yesterday - a rare event that > required hours of prep the house, the actual visit - (an annual tradition of > watching the Masters Golf tourney) - and the clean-up and recovery. > > I still am not quite grasping how you managed it (from computer at home?) > but never mind, my cell-phone tracking device only works in my apartment and > involves calling the number from my landline and listening for the ring. > > ann > > > On 4/13/2014 20:46, Ken Waller wrote: >> >> Bob -after the recent stories on this list of high tech snafus it was >> really great to hear your story of high tech success - wonderful! >> >> Kenneth Waller >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob W-PDML" <p...@web-options.com> >> Subject: OT: Apple doesn't fall far from the tree >> >> >>> In three weeks I'm cycling the Sarsen Trail >>> <http://www.wiltshirewildlife.org/sarsen-trail/bike_it> with a friend. >>> I don't normally cycle off-road, and my bike is a lightweight tourer, >>> so I thought I'd better try it out and perhaps borrow an off-road one >>> if I didn't think my audax would stand up to it. >>> >>> So today I took off the mudguards and rack, fitted some cyclocross >>> knobbly tyres and headed up to Oxleas Wood, some ancient woodland >>> about 5 miles from where I live. >>> >>> I put my wallet, iPhone, camera, glasses, bike lock and a book in a >>> nylon stuffsac, which I then put into a seat bag. My plan had been to >>> reward myself afterwards with a nice cup of tea and a good read in the >>> wonderfully badly-kept-secret cafe they have up there, with >>> magnificent views east - I believe it's the highest point in London. >>> >>> It was a dark and stormy night. The woods were dark and deep. No. It >>> was a beautiful spring day. My bike looked really cool, the woods were >>> lush and green. The forest floor was a cliche of bluebells, so I kept >>> stopping to take pictures. It was a bit of a drag fishing the camera >>> out of the seatbag each time, so I decided to strap it, in its CCS >>> case, to my belt, and went off charging around again. >>> >>> Half an hour later, I realise I didn't close the seat bag. My >>> favourite wallet, my credit cards, driving licence, Oyster card, £75- >>> cash, iPhone, glasses, bike lock (£100!) and Marivaux are gone. >>> >>> Dilemma. Rush home and cancel everything, or try to find it. I spent 3 >>> fruitless hours randomly searching the Ice Age undergrowth, like some >>> sort of Hansel & Gretel, lost in there. Trees and leaves and sodding >>> bluebells all look the same after a while but you soon get to know all >>> the empty beer cans, bits of bog roll and pre-loved condoms in the >>> whole fucking forest when you're stressed out of your mind. >>> >>> So I gave up and came home. On the way of course some fuckwit in a car >>> decided he was the only fuckwit who should be allowed on the road and >>> we ended up in a shouting match which finished in comedy when he said >>> "you wouldn't say that if I wasn't in this car", to which I wittily >>> reparteed "get out of the fucking car then", and he drove off. >>> Marivaux could have learned some things from me. >>> >>> I cancelled my cards, and was looking on the iPad for a way to disable >>> the iPhone when I found this Apple thing called, er, Find my iPhone. >>> Hmm. Wonder what that does. So I tried it and it showed that it was >>> still in the woods, and let me set it to lost, so hopefully it >>> wouldn't let anyone else play with it and find all my dark secret >>> things. I was resigned to losing the cash. >>> >>> Now, I hope someone from Apple gets to read this, because it's a great >>> app, but it would be even greater if it told you the coordinates of >>> the centre of the circle where your iPhone is, and the radius of the >>> circle. >>> >>> So, I opened my GPS programme, which is called ExpertGPS and is pretty >>> good <http://www.expertgps.com>, and by squinting a bit and finding a >>> couple of reference points on the maps, made a stab at a waypoint for >>> the lost phone, as well a waypoint for a reference point on the ground >>> which marked out a line to follow. I then loaded the waypoints onto my >>> GPS, and cycled back to the woods. >>> >>> It took another hour of searching, but this time methodically, and I >>> found it. >>> >>> It felt like a miracle. I made a waypoint on the GPS where I found the >>> stuff, and when I got home again compared the actual position with the >>> one I'd crudely made based on the Find my iPhone result. They were >>> only 17 metres apart, which I think is not bad under the circumstances. >>> >>> So at the moment I love Apple. >>> >>> I hate Dell though, because the screen on my laptop seems to have >>> failed. Guess I'll have to replace it with a Mac. >>> >>> Oh, and the bike performed superbly. >> >> >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions.
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