Sleep-E-Head wrote:
No, I have an active social life, I go out more than once a year.
My grandfather used to call New Year's Eve "amateur night" becasue of people like you.
Was your grandfather's name Ned Ludd?
What are the two nights that you go out?
Page two sucks, I don't bother responding after page one. This is an exception.
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asd wrote:
(snip) A watch is now redundant to many.
I don't see many runners looking at their cell phones when they are training or racing, so I doubt that a watch is redundant to many runners.
IllinoisMaster wrote:
asd wrote:(snip) A watch is now redundant to many.
I don't see many runners looking at their cell phones when they are training or racing, so I doubt that a watch is redundant to many runners.
Nice straw man.
Sleep-E-Head wrote:
Was supposed to meet some buddies to run on Saturday morning and got hosed by the iPhone alarm software error. I even took it slightly easy the night before so I could have a decent run. Slept right on through. I'll never trust that alarm again.
You shoulda asked your mom to wake you up.
Candide Runner wrote:
You set two alarms every night? Weirdo.
No, I only set two alarms if I really, really want to be sure to wake up on time. For example, when I'm meeting buddies for an early morning run. When I'm catching an early morning flight. When I have an important job interview lined up.
The point is - you cannot really 100% trust any single device, phone, watch, alarm, or otherwise. Any single device can fail (power outage, iPhone software bug, battery, whatever). So use a backup device if you want assurances. It's pretty simple, really.
god you guys suck
so do I, for that matter
IllinoisMaster wrote:
asd wrote:
(snip) A watch is now redundant to many.
I don't see many runners looking at their cell phones when they are training or racing, so I doubt that a watch is redundant to many runners.
Never seen someone using Nike+?
rhythm runner wrote:
No, I only set two alarms if I really, really want to be sure to wake up on time. For example, when I'm meeting buddies for an early morning run. When I'm catching an early morning flight. When I have an important job interview lined up.
The point is - you cannot really 100% trust any single device, phone, watch, alarm, or otherwise. Any single device can fail (power outage, iPhone software bug, battery, whatever). So use a backup device if you want assurances. It's pretty simple, really.
Bingo, we have a winner.
Also, if your buddies cared about running with you shouldn't they have called you?
Also, your grandfather was a raging alcoholic.
haha YO wrote:
Bingo, we have a winner.
Also, if your buddies cared about running with you shouldn't they have called you?
Also, your grandfather was a raging alcoholic.
Buddies did call. They waited for me.
My grandfather was a 1950's ad man, you're damn right he was an alcoholic. And a damn studly one at that! He is why I went to private schools and have a trust fund.
Ha! My dad was a 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and is now a 2010s ad man and is also a borderline alcoholic. Although he sent me to public schools, he has lent me 10s of thousands of dollars to help me out with legal problems. Yes, I'm a winner.
Man, it wasn't the am/pm.
It was seperate volume kobs for the radio and the alarm.
Why seperate knobs!
Other cell phones have this problem sometimes. I have a very basic phone (ten years old?) and it sometimes doesn't go off. I think it has to do with the uplink. My friend with a different carrier and a different type of phone has the same problems on the same days -- we both set our cell phone alarms to go for a run once and neither of them went off. I wish I knew what caused it. So I set a second alarm (my watch) when I definitely need to wake up.
rhythm runner wrote:
Ha! My dad was a 1970s, 80s, 90s, 2000s, and is now a 2010s ad man and is also a borderline alcoholic. Although he sent me to public schools, he has lent me 10s of thousands of dollars to help me out with legal problems. Yes, I'm a winner.
Sorry you have had such a hard time, he must have been a bad father.
Yeah! My alarm on my iphone hasnt worked the past couple days. Really pisses me off.
Doesn't stop me from running and I didn't assume thats what you said either.
But the Iphone Steve Jobs man should fix this problem. #pissedoff
Haha, almost every single on of my training buddies missed the workout. Luckily, we all showed up, just had to rush our warm up a little. We laughed about it after.
Sad, one little glitch and the running world goes to %$&*!
asd wrote:
rhythm runner wrote:I can't believe you trust a cell phone alarm and don't bother to set a backup alarm like your frickin' watch or an old-fashioned alarm clock. What happens when your cell phone runs out of batteries? Do you oversleep then, too?
I disagree whole-heartedly. That's the whole POINT of using your cellphone as an alarm. You have it charging during the night, but if the power goes out, you don't wake up to a blinking "12:00" alarm clock since it can run on it's own power. A momentary outage doesn't reset it. If the battery IS about to run out, it'll beep, generally loud enough to wake you up so that you can do something about it before over sleeping. Also, a lot of people don't wear watches anymore as their cell phone has a clock. A watch is now redundant to many.
You nailed it 100%. Rhythm runner must either not have a cell phone, or be a frigin F'tard. Everyone charges their phone at night. It's way safer than a regular alarm clock or a watch.
Yes, this glitch got me too. Had my alarm set to go out for 14 prior to a New Years brunch at the country club. I woke up an hour late and only got in 7. Did my 14 the next day, but I was pissed.
Retartalert. wrote:
You nailed it 100%. Rhythm runner must either not have a cell phone, or be a frigin F'tard. Everyone charges their phone at night. It's way safer than a regular alarm clock or a watch.
You generation Y'ers really frighten me with your naive dependence on the things we X'ers invented. You guys are bitching and moaning about your iPhone alarms not working. I suggest a common sense solution, and you call me a retard? Either you're trolling or you need to look in the mirror. I'm not the retard oversleeping appointments. Because I'm not naive enough to trust Apple with my waking. You're runners supposedly - so set your f***:ng watches to beep or figure out a better solution. Buy a rooster. Or program the iPhone yourself, if you're so smart.