2014 Steeplechase headcount.

Yeah there's a bike lane, but too what from what and why? It's flat as a pancake.

Don't forget your tervis. Having to hammer down rum drinks to beat the ice melting is great, but not before brunch.

I must have missed that memo.... why, pray tell, not before brunch?

Speaking of ice melting, are you up there in that snow-belt crap Karl?

It's Muma/Ingram Mr Chairman 🙂

Hammering drinks down before ten, doesn't make for a very functional afternoon in my experience. <img src="<>/laugh.gif" alt="laugh" title="laugh" height="15" width="15" />

We're in the ice box right now. It is way colder than it should be, it should be about 20º warmer than it is. We haven't gotten squat for snow though. Enough to be annoying, and that is about it. Buffalo NY got hammered though! I'm glad we don't have to deal with lake effect stuff here, just brutal, horrible, life sucking cold. It'll warm up in no time though. This shouldn't last much more than four or five more months...

Holy cow was what Buffalo just went through amazing or what!? I once lived in Cleveland and a 10 degree shift in the wind coming across the lake (while it was not frozen over) usually meant the difference between 3 feet or 3 inches. I can't imagine what 6' of snow is like to deal with. I read a report that the Buffalo Bill's stadium is planning to try and remove 220,000 tons of snow so they can host their game on Sunday. That is a LOT of dump trucks.

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I was in Chicago for the

blizzard of (I believe)'78

. Being a yoot at the time, they sent my scrawny butt up to the roof to clean the heater exhaust so carbon monoxide wouldn't back up into the house.

I'm sure it was

lake effect

snow too. It was half-way up the front door.

I'm so glad I presently don't have to know what a storm door/window is or how to use it... <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

but wouldn't the hot exhaust from the heater take care of melting the snow that might block it?

Or it melts just enough to make a dome/cap of ice.

WHERE THE

F

WERE YOU WHEN I COULD HAVE USED THAT INFORMATION??? <img src="<>/smile.gif" alt="smile" title="smile" height="15" width="15" />

now I feel like a total dumbass... They were probably sending me up there just to see what kind of idiot I could become flopping/sliding all over the roof (thank GOD it wasn't a steep pitch).

Ahh to be 14 again...

Really!? I go out of town for a couple of days and you whiney b!tches start crying about the weather? Steeplechase is only weeks away princesses do what you gotta do, Ricky thinks he owns this one, it's gonna sting a little when you guys get beat by a skinny Yankee white girl and and old fat man... maybe that's why the Karl's won't come and play! It makes sense now.

Lucky it was just that.... you could have been nominated for something while you weren't paying attention...

Just got an email from Eric, the Roberts are in on their ARC 22. Eric had trouble getting his iPhone 4 to track. Could someone with an iPhone 4 try it out? Make sure you have the latest version. Below is a link:
http://kws.kattack.com/GEPlayer/GMPosDisplay.aspx?FeedID=1384

Kattack had an issue with one of their updates but they resolved it. If there are any other issues, I would like to resolve them before the event.

Laura had the same problem with her iPhone at Corpus. We never got it working, even the supplied phone wouldn't work.

What was the date of the Corpus race? Was it an iPhone 4?

Both my iPhone 3GS & iPhone 5 work fine.

I think the new OS on the iPhone 6 was the issue and didn't work with the app.

That was the understanding but Laura hadn't updated yet...she was doing everything right - it just wouldn't work.

It worked fine with my Android phone (I'm not making an endorsement...I hate my phone).

I kinda like my android 🙂 Gramps is tracking, my house is doing .8 knots.

I absolutely love my Android phone - its superior to any Apple product in every way shape and form - and it works just fine for displaying these tracking pages 😛

Problem Solved! Turned out that once Eric updated his phone to the latest IOS version it worked.

And it's less filling....

To each their own. Part of my problem is probably that Samsung does their own thing with the Android OS. My Bluetooth pops and skips when playing music in my truck (the current Android update is supposed to address that but Samsung is still f'in with their version of it and won't release it until next year sometime). The phone will occasionally ring and if I happened to be doing something at the same time the call came in, the screen freezes up and I'm stuck listening to a ringing phone and no way to answer it. Same thing happens sometimes when trying to hang up a call and I can't hang up. When I hit the back button inside the messaging app, it acts like the master back button on the face of the phone and will take me completely out of the messaging app instead of up a level inside the app. Yeah, I know, jailbreak it, load other messaging apps, etc. etc. ...but I want my smart phone to be a smart phone - not another hobby.

And then I proof read that and scare myself with how much that sounds like something Gramps would post.

+1

+2

Even though the droids had better tech, my iPhones run much better than my droids ever did.

I used to have to yank a battery on the droid once a week, sometimes more. The iPhone has required that exactly zero times in 3 years.

Great, thanks for the help. I deleted the tracks. If anyone else wants to set up their phones, let me know when you want me to clear the tracks.

One of my clients needs me to work on Saturday and I might have to miss the Steeplechase. The more we get set up in advance, the less issues raceday.

We all have technology horror stories.

My iPhone 5 that I have to use at work (it sits on a dock on a desk and it has exactly one app installed) has to be rebooted every 24 hours or else my bluetooth headset refuses to connect when receiving a phone call (placing a phone call is fine mind you). The stupid pop up windows on it are directly over top of the

End call

button so if you manage to be a half second late hitting

hide

then it hangs up on the call instead.

Anyways. Your back button complaint is a common one - the functionality isn't properly implemented by app developers everywhere. There are literally 10,000 messaging apps on the play store that you don't need to root your device for..

Sorry for the topic divergence. I'll go back to playing with my Moto 360 smartwatch now (that I'm developing sailing apps for) 😛

I just turned my tracker on for Steeplechase (on an app that works quite well on the Samsung).

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. . . . because you can't.
😛

lol, wait... what!?

1 week away b!tches! Beat downs coming! Yep, looking squarely at you Ricky. No particular reason, just because.