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Re: [rtlToronto] rtlToronto/beep1
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Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:38:29 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Jeff Van Winden writes:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang writes:
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> > Hey Guys I'll be there shortly,
> I have to make a brief detour, to get some more Batteries...
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> It appears that my robot, which is fully opperational (for once), has an
> undocumented feature, AS I have been driving to work, on icy streets****
> I have had to yell some profanities to the drivers who decide to pull in
> front of me when I am 10 meters from there driveway....
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> Every time I swear the bot beeps... It turns out that the John Barns sensor
> that I used also has a voice recgonition pattern that filters out the swear
> words.... its #BEEP$BEEP#BEEP$BEEPing anoying, It has also disabled the off
> button...
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> Anyway, I'll be there in about 3 hours. (it took me 2:15 to get to work,
> regularly a 30 minute drive)..
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> Jeff VW
> ***** Mississauga's snow removal contracts expired on the weekend.
> @BEEP#BEEP$BEEP%@BEEP#BEEEEEP$BEEEEeeeeep%beeee.....$ There goes the Battery...
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> Jeff VW
> >
> > Calum
So I get on the highway by Burlington street, start heading into work.
Actually woke up early si I was on the highway nice 'n early.
But the traffic starts backing up right at the foot of the Skyway bridge...
10 km.h up one side of the skyway, down the other side--great when your'e
driving standard--stopping on the Skyway with icy roads, but I digress...
Finally get to the 403/QEW Toronto split, still doing 10 km/h max...
I'll say this, on a good say it takes me 10-15 min to get to work--it ain't
that far away...
I've already been in my truck for an hour this morning.
(got to listen to a whole set of Derringer in the morning on Q107, including
Maureen Holliway and 'Tool of the Day'--was a good one today... but again,
digression...)
So I'm at the split, and I notice far ahead, after the curve, that the
traffic is moving smoother--ahhh, the accident is just up ahead. So I
finally get there. Know what it was?
An overturned car.
Now this may be a legit rubbernecking incident for some (I'm no
rubbernecker/slam on brakes kinda guy, but that's just me)
But not only did this overturned car have 3 inches of snow on it (signifying
to me that it's been there for a *long* time*, but the overturned car was on
the other side of the other highway! Idiots! Surrounded by them!
No emergency vehicles, nothing too distracting--just a snow covered
overturned vehicle "half a mile away". But idiots were slowing down to have
a boo!
I must be getting old--traffic is just bugging me now.
Dave K
- who, if having Jeff's 'bot, would have wasted a ton of batteries this
morning...
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| (...) I have to make a brief detour, to get some more Batteries... It appears that my robot, which is fully opperational (for once), has an undocumented feature, AS I have been driving to work, on icy streets**** I have had to yell some profanities (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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