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timex gps weirdness

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  1. I thought I'd noticed a few times lately that the stopwatch timer was acting weird. I twice thought
    that I looked when the watch said
    10:30, then moments later it would say 10:05. But the final value would always seem correct. This
    happened again tonight. I was certain the timer was at 17:30, then later it was about the same. I
    wondered if it compensated for its errors, and sure enough, I watched the timer rollover from
    17:59 to 19:00. So it screwed up but corrected itself.

    Could this just be a low battery? Anyone seen this?

  2. On 3 Mar 2004 19:33:52 -0800, [email hidden] (Kerry Neilson)

    Quoted message said:

    I thought I'd noticed a few times lately that the stopwatch timer was acting weird. I twice thought
    that I looked when the watch said
    10:30, then moments later it would say 10:05. But the final value would always seem correct. This
    happened again tonight. I was certain the timer was at 17:30, then later it was about the same.
    I wondered if it compensated for its errors, and sure enough, I watched the timer rollover from
    17:59 to 19:00. So it screwed up but corrected itself.

    Could this just be a low battery? Anyone seen this?

    It's a little-known fact that GPS systems disrupt the space : time continuum. Thus you can, in
    actuality, be in two different places and in two different times simultaneously.

    I suggest that you purchase a large ball of string. Tie one end of the string to your front door and
    carry the ball, unwinding it as you run. That way, if the infernal GPS machine whooshes you into
    another dimension, all you have to do is follow the string back to your original time and place and
    you can log onto rec.running to [censored] about the thing again.

    OTOH, you could throw away the GPS and get back to real running.

  3. "Pris Stratton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

    Quoted message said:

    OTOH, you could throw away the GPS and get back to real running.

    Along with your HRM and other such fripperies that real runners don't need. ;-)

    Tim

    (ps How are the dreams? Galvanically ovine?)

  4. Tim Downie said:

    (ps How are the dreams? Galvanically ovine?)

    The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the
    meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

    Philip K [censored].

  5. "Tim Downie" <[email hidden]> wrote in
    :"]news:[email hidden]:

    Quoted message said:


    "Pris Stratton" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

    Quoted message said:

    OTOH, you could throw away the GPS and get back to real running.

    Along with your HRM and other such fripperies that real runners don't need. ;-)

    Then I guess you and I are not real runners. Gotta love that GPS. ;-)

    Phil

    --
    There's somebody at every dinner party who eats all the celery."
    -Kin Hubbard

  6. Pris Stratton said:

    The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the
    meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

    Philip K [censored].

    Very nice.

  7. On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:14:17 GMT, joe positive <[email hidden]>

    Quoted message said:
    Pris Stratton said:

    The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control
    the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

    Philip K [censored].

    Very nice.

    You disapprove, Karen?

  8. Pris Stratton said:
    joe positive said:

    On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 16:26:58 +0000, Pris Stratton <[email hidden]> wrote:

    [very nice Phillip K [censored] quotation went here]

    Quoted message said:
    Quoted message said:

    Very nice.

    You disapprove, Karen?

    No. I said "Very nice." This means, um, "very nice." In other words, I liked the quotation. Thanks
    for posting it.

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