Bought a pedometer today!

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casioculture@gmail.com wrote:
> Found it at a £1 store. Basic design; you attach it to your belt and
> it counts the shakes (well, supposedly steps, but it really just counts
> the shakes), and it has a button to reset. I suspect it's woefully
> inaccurate and wildly overshoots; could I have made 208 steps in the
> kitchen while preparing a sauce?! Already got hiking shoes. Sometime
> soon I'll take my digicam and go on a hike. And sometime next year I'll
> get an epson 4990, a medium format camera or a 4x5, a camping-like
> small rucksack for it, and maybe even a mountain bike!
>
> Sounds like a second childhood looming!

Before someone tells me off here for cross-posting to 35mm, I still got
a bunch of 35mm cameras needing some exercise too!

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[BnH] wrote:
> don't forget to grab a GPS receiver too
> * incase you get lost *
>
> <casioculture@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Found it at a £1 store. Basic design; you attach it to your belt and
> it counts the shakes (well, supposedly steps, but it really just
> counts the shakes), and it has a button to reset. I suspect it's
> woefully inaccurate and wildly overshoots; could I have made 208
> steps in the kitchen while preparing a sauce?! Already got hiking
> shoes. Sometime soon I'll take my digicam and go on a hike. And
> sometime next year I'll get an epson 4990, a medium format camera or
> a 4x5, a camping-like small rucksack for it, and maybe even a
> mountain bike!
> Sounds like a second childhood looming!

Sounds as if he's lost control of his Should-I-Post-Or-Not process.

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"[BnH]" <b18[at]ii[dot]net> wrote in message
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> don't forget to grab a GPS receiver too
> * incase you get lost *
>
> <casioculture@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1119298462.756684.51200@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
> Found it at a £1 store. Basic design; you attach it to your belt and
> it counts the shakes (well, supposedly steps, but it really just counts
> the shakes), and it has a button to reset. I suspect it's woefully
> inaccurate and wildly overshoots; could I have made 208 steps in the
> kitchen while preparing a sauce?! Already got hiking shoes. Sometime
> soon I'll take my digicam and go on a hike. And sometime next year I'll
> get an epson 4990, a medium format camera or a 4x5, a camping-like
> small rucksack for it, and maybe even a mountain bike!
>
> Sounds like a second childhood looming!
>
>

NO NO NO !

In future he will market his photography sessions to his customers by the
number of steps he expects to take during the assignment. And if he goes
over sends a bill for excess steps! :-)

Gerrit

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casioculture@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Found it at a £1 store. Basic design; you attach it to your belt and
> it counts the shakes (well, supposedly steps, but it really just counts
> the shakes), and it has a button to reset. I suspect it's woefully
> inaccurate and wildly overshoots; could I have made 208 steps in the
> kitchen while preparing a sauce?! Already got hiking shoes. Sometime
> soon I'll take my digicam and go on a hike. And sometime next year I'll
> get an epson 4990, a medium format camera or a 4x5, a camping-like
> small rucksack for it, and maybe even a mountain bike!
>
> Sounds like a second childhood looming!

A simple, inexpensive GPS receiver will keep track of your trip distance
much more accurately *and* can help you find your way home!

As an aside - the GPS can record a "track" of time-stamped waypoints
which you can combine with your digital camera's EXIF data to enable you
to pinpoint where you took each photo.

-Dave

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> They should combine it with a compass, and give it an electronic
> memory....Then it could tell you how to get back home....Take 2,356 steps
> NNW, then 4,323 steps S, then..........

I actually got some digital shoes from the gadget shop just like that. They
used to steer you home if you were drunk. After a while the shoes got
bored. I started waking up in different places. One day the shoes walked
out on me. They wotwired a car and drove off. They only got to the end of
the junction though, they couldn't steer you see. I went to a priest about
saying i felt really awful that i had been such a bad role model for them.
He said not to worry they are in a better place now.



you see, even shoes have soles

bwhahahhahahhaha!!!!