Archive for July, 2007

There is a great new group in town: Refresh BCS. It’s a wonderful gathering of designers, photographers, programmers, and others who want to elevate the quality of such works in our community. Last month, they brought Google in to speak. The July program promises to be just as wonderful.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/asyouwishbcs/sets/72157600820260045

…Lori’s lost and it can’t be found!

Lori loses her bluetooth headset on a pretty regular basis. It’s expensive so she usually tucks it in a safe place and then forgets which safe place she used. It’s been missing for a day or two at a time before, but never for several in a row.

This week, after being out with some friends, she missed it. She could remember a certain point when she for sure had it, and then had a faint memory of putting it in a certain spot, but couldn’t find it. Yes, she looked in the pocket of the pants she wore that night. Sadly, it was not there.

Then, when trying to make a phone call on Friday, the phone “saw” it. She looked for it, but then left to go meet some friends before she found it. The next day, she tried again. She dialed the As You Wish phone number and waited for the voice mail to pick up or the bluetooth headset to engage. She narrowed it down to a few feet between the kitchen and dining room, but still could not find it anywhere. After Emil suggested it might be in the room above her, she tried looking upstairs. It was then that it no only engaged, but she could hear her own voice (the outgoing message of the voicemail) faintly. By this time, Emil was upstairs, reacting to the huge pile of clothes on the floor, where Lori had been going piece by piece through them all, “Whatcha’ buildin’?” But, it was then that we both heard the voicemail coming from the closet. The headset was in the laundry. Apparently, it had been in the pocket from the pants that night, but fell out when the pants went into the laundry. It was light-side down and speaker-side up, so it was hard to see, but fairly easy to hear.

The NEXT day, on a photo shoot, Lori lost her phone. Yes, a Treo 650 smartphone was the next gadget to go missing. Luckily, after some panic and the thought of shopping for a new phone, Emil and Lori found it about 10 steps from the last place she knew she had it. It had bounced out of her camera bag and was laying on the sidewalk in the middle of campus untouched and in full sun. Luckily, it had not rained again since she dropped it.

So, the stress of her week has taken a toll on her technology, too. Emil has helped resolve a lot of this with a new hard drive, a new back-up method, and a new monitor.

So, like the song by local songwriter, Jenny Morgan, we’ll say a little “Prayer to St. Anthony”.