Sometimes, I swear, if I didn't have vicarious adventures, I wouldn't have any adventures at all. Pathetic, I guess, but there it is. Fortunately for me, my brother Sparky (the electrician) is off on quite the adventure, and thanks to modern technology and his unhealthy obsession with electronic doodads, he's taking me along.
Having recently married off his number two son, Sparky took off on a motorcycle trip. The first leg of his trip took him from Southern California up here to Seattle, mostly following Highway 1 along the coast. An 1100 mile warm-up, shakedown kind of thing. He spent a couple of days here, checking over his bike and messing with his GPS, then took off on the real adventure. From here, he's off through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, to Yellowstone and the Continental Divide Trail, and over the next couple of weeks, somehow, back home.
The techie stalker thing comes in because he's wearing a little doohickey (my voice recognition software, about which more later, suggested "too geeky", and while it's not what I was after, it's eerily apt) that tracks his location and displays it on Google maps in near-real time. (I don't mean to shill for this place, but if you're interested, it's this.) So I know, for example, that earlier today he got a spot at Norris Campground, then he stopped at the Canyon Visitor Education Center and the Canyon Village Gen. Store, and now he's at Old Faithful. And at 8:44:32 a.m. on Wednesday he was at the Oasis Bordello Museum in Wallace, Idaho. Not really. He probably stopped for gas. At a gas station right next to the Bordello Museum. But still, is that creepy, or what?
Now, I'm all about technology. I'm sitting in a power chair, talking to my computer, using a head-tracker mouse. I'm first in line when it comes to taking advantage of technological advances, but I'm sometimes confronted with the downside. The same technology that I use to stalk dead people makes it possible for me to stalk my brother. The same technology that I use to talk to my computer makes me write really stupid things.
Here, for example, is my latest batch of Dragon-isms, collected over the last couple of days:
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9 months ago
Your VoicRecSftwr has Tourette's Mild e.g. no swearing; It's all about YOU, isn't it? lol
ReplyDeleteI guess it would be creepier if he didn't know the stalking capabilities he was providing by sporting the device.
ReplyDeleteHey, down the road soon we'll all have our chip installed which will have gps info, our banking data so we can swipe the body part at the store and... I'm guessing that the first stab for justification of this sort of thing will be used for wandering dementia patients or something along that line. But, hey I'm letting my imagination go or am I?
Yikes about the Dragon-speak! I must say that I've always felt privileged when you leave a comment on my blog since I know it required a fair amount of effort. But egads -- I'm truly amazed that they make sense and are punctuated properly!
Have fun stalking the bro.
Years and years ago when Patti tried talking with computers in the pre-dawn of that technology you cannot even imagine how weird it got. I so wish now I had kept some fragments of that 'communication' or lack thereof. Eventually it was simply abandoned her particular MS speech symptoms between slurring and lack of volume control simply made it impossible - throw in expletives and well it was like cursing with Spock.
ReplyDeleteCaregivingly Yours, Patrick
Oh, I "hear" you. Similar issues w/my VAS. I'd comment using it but can't figure out how to turn it on. I'm suddenly hungry for potato chips.
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