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Today’s retro A&J is more antediluvian tech humor from barely five years ago. Presumably today they would both have a smart phone and would both be entitled to their own set of facts. Speaking of smart phones, I’ve discovered a strange phenomenon. My new phone has about four times the square footage of my old flip phone, but I’ve noticed it’s easier to lose! Maybe because it looks like a dozen other gadgets lying around the house. I’ve give some thought to what we discussed yesterday, the future of our retro feature, and I think I have come up with some ideas. I hope you’ll find them rather painless once implemented. Maybe we’ll run some experiments next week.
220 responses to “On Pretty Good Authority”
Yesterday, I learned how to set Bullet’s cruise control and sync my phone to his audio system. Today I learned how to turn on his radio. At this rate, I should have all systems mastered sometime in early 2018.
Debbe, I suspect you and I would do this if we could. As well as others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55GAUgjpDQA
You were blessed, Trucker.
Ghost, great song. Mindy, well said and my sympathies. Trucker, that reminds me of when the guy asked me if he ran the light and I said, “Well, you hit the third car crossing the intersection.” I turned to the cop and told him he might want to do a breathalyzer.
Ghost do you want to go through life with just the NSA knowing where you are?
In the movies that always seemed so sad when the hero cou,d never be found and had to run if he wer
I bet Bullet has the rear view camera like Trigger does and the same e gps. The camera works but I don’t have gps synced after nine months. When you figure it out will you do all my systems?
_My truck is smarter than my phone.
Trucker glad you are ok. When airbag went off it broke daughters a r m and ribs, not wreck. Sorry about your lost vehicle. Yes, I am right near Flying J. Tony who is trying to retire says I am only civilian he knows that acts .Ike a trucker. I was so depressed I ate a chocolate dipped chocolate cone and had another one for desert. Dairy Queen
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T-Ron
I’m sure it does not seem like it right now, but – – – BOY! Were you LUCKY!
Steve Moore
Wife had a minor-looking one car accident that totaled our old Corolla. The airbag did go off, with one odd consequence: she lost hearing for a short bunch of frequencies in her upper hearing range, both ears, the frequencies of the explosion in the enclosed air of the car. Lesson: if you’re going to have an accident, lower a window a bit to avoid the sudden increase in pressure. Peace,
I think that I will plan on having all of my accidents in the convertible then.
Jerry,
Had my future wife been in a convertible when she and a good friend of mine [he was driving] had a flip-over accident in summer ’49 or ’50, there’d have been no wedding. I’ve been leery of convertibles ever since.
He, sadly, is now in the grip of Alzheimer’s.
Peace,
Love the “anteloupe” comments, folks!
Thank you in the present for the soup recipe, Ghost, and in advance for the icebox pie. I have an acorn squash sitting on the counter that I will try substituting for the pumpkin. On your persistent health crud: you’ve been through hell these last few years and your body is letting you know that it’s finally safe to be less than super-human. I think your friend will find comfort in your sharing your Mom’s things with her.
Hugs and more hugs, Mindy. She sounds like one of the best.
Jackie, I know there are others who care, too. Let them know where you are at least once a day!
TruckerRon, thank God you’re all right. I will think of you when I’m tempted to sneak a peek at an incoming text while at a light. I’m used to driving alone and find even talking on hands-free speaker while driving a distraction; I just won’t do it.
Jerry, I live up north from whence the snowbirds migrate. Convertibles are practical here only part of the year (aren’t they cold in winter even with the top up?), but they sure do look like fun.
Thanks for the empathy! 🙂
It’s tempting to say that dealing with the insurance companies will be harder than going through the wreck, but that’s not true. I’ll take frustration with bureaucracies over that moment of terror and the hours of shock… and so far the two companies’ representatives have been professional and empathetic. Having the other driver be cited probably helped with that. And while the other guy’s company didn’t come right out and say so, it sounded like my contact with them 5 hours after the incident was the first they had had.
One thing that helped my sanity was the deputy sheriff asking, based on my last name, if I was related to “Gunny” — Yep, he’s a second or third cousin. I’d met Carlos just once at a funeral when I was about 5 years old. He was the only “adult” (I think he was 16 or 17) who came outside to watch over us little kids who would actually relate to us. I remember him pushing me on a swing and talking about going to become a Marine when he was old enough.
The DS was happy for the meeting, he’d been a sniper for 6 1/2 years and had also served in Corps.
Thanks, Smigz dear. (Remind me to ask about that screen name sometime.) No, I don’t like to admit I’m not Superman, but I realize even he had his Kryptonite.
I vaguely remember coughing a lot last night after I went to bed, but never being awake enough to get up and take any cough syrup. (Thanks, dangerous narcotic Benadryl dope pills!) However, the congestion is better this morning and at least the cough is no worse. Seems as though it may be a seasonal allergy attack, which I used to have pretty regularly, but not in recent years. Hopefully I won’t continue to feel this crummy, since I’ve got places to go and people to see this week. And hopefully the beach bunnies have left (boo!) and the snowbirds have not arrived yet (yay!), lessening the chances of Bullet and me getting run into.
Happy you are OK, TR. On the bright side, we all got a good story about your cousin out of it. 🙂
Smigz
My convertible is warm in the winter even in Chicago weather or I wouldn’t have kept it these several years.
GR6
The creeping crud must be making the rounds. Been down with it all week end.
Dickens and I are awake. It was a restless night, he doesn’t like traffic in halls. I wish benadryl kept me asleep and it doesn’t do much for allergies either. I began taking it at age 8 about time they invented it.
I suspect the hay industry up here affects my allergies but could be all the trees. Lots of pine types.
Looked out window for deer or antelopes. Disappointed.
Yes, Jackie, Bullet has the backup camera (maneuvering a pickup or SUV without one would be problematic, in my estimation), but no GPS navigation feature. That was as I desired, as I am already used to navigating with the Map feature of my smart phone, and the additional cost of the SUV-borne version would have not been worth it to me.
But yes, I have programmed the GPS on a friend’s vehicle, and it’s not that hard. None of the features I’ve joked about that came with Bullet are that difficult to master, it’s just that there so #@&*ing many of them. The Owner’s Manual is 595 frickin’ pages, for crying out loud. (Granted, about half of them seem to have been written by Ford’s Legal Department.) So, yes, I’ll be happy to program yours for you. And I work cheap. Does a big plate of Country Fried Steak sound fair?
Absolutely fair. Breakfast, lunch or dinner or all three? Oklahoma considers it suitable for all meals.
When I sold Lincolns we had to program everything for our customers. I kept explaining that voice recognition had to be their voice, not mine, or it wouldn’t work. That Ford pickup owners manual is so complex and so detailed I kept remembering this because the salesman just dropped off truck in front yard and left.
Having been born in and lived most of my life(except for military and my Auburn years) in Baton Rouge, I knew what the next 365 days would be like for me after LSU had apparently won the game 19 -15 on the final play, so, I immediately turned the TV off and went to have a drink. My son called a couple of minutes later and, while I didn’t really feel like talking, I answered and he said, “Did you have a heart attack?” I answered, “No, I’m just disappointed” He asked me why I was disappointed and then told me that the play was reversed. I couldn’t believe it and I had to go back and rewind my DVR to see the UNBELIEVABLE ending. At least I will have peace and quiet for a year. Praise the Lord for small favors and long live the replay crew!
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IT’S GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER !!!
WAR EAGLE !!!
GO BIG BLUE !!!
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
And, in Oklahoma, a between-meals snack, too, I’ll bet.
Ah, yes, voice recognition. Part of the future I was promised as a teen reading science fiction novels. Still waiting for my flying car (or SUV), though.
Jackie, if you’ve ever mentioned how you ended up in OK, I don’t recall reading it. But it just occurred to me that you live not too far from the geographic center of CONUS. For someone who travels as much as you do, was that planning or merely fortuitous?
domaucan1, it was you I was thinking of when I mentioned the LSU-Auburn game yesterday.
I did mention that, didn’t I, or is it just the cough syrup making me think so?
Hognose, in reference to a Hellenic Army Aviation crew managing to splash their Apache helicopter into the Adriatic during a training maneuver (they survived): “Remember, pilots: you can never beat the World Low Flying Record. You can only tie.”
You know, I’m feeling a bit better. (Thanks, dangerous narcotic Benadryl™ dope pills!) Perhaps I’ll tackle that TV installation, so that I’ll be able to watch some man-child multi-millionaire disrespect our flag and embarrass himself to protest the injustices of a country where it was possible for him to become a man-child multi-millionaire. That would be a good use of my time.
Ghost, I came to Oklahoma after refusing to do so for six months, sitting in Texas. I was given choice of that or divorce. The location was chosen after I said get on Highway 9 and head east until you run into giant Lake.
Yes, I know the location is convenient and I am almost on top of it. I only like Oklahoma a few months of year and some of best ones are coming up. Fall foliage is beautiful time there, as is spring.
They have foliage in Oklahoma?? 🙂
TV hooked up. Turned on. Can change channels. Connected to InterWebNet, but I can figure all that out later.
Nice picture, unfortunately no women’s beach volleyball on that I can find to really check out the video quality. 😉
Found great family owned and run restaurant with five different versions of chicken fried steak on menu. All available for lunch. Sandwich, breakfast with eggs, lunch sized portion, dinner sized portion and steak finger basket. Ranch House Grill.
I assume dinner portion hung off sides of plate. I had great Rueben sandwich with sweet potato fries and tartar sauce to dip. Why can you get sweet potato fries anywhere in west but not in Oklahoma?
Ghost, if connected to InterWebNet, try YouTube for the volleyball. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=women%27s+beach+volleyball+hd