Posted on 07/15/2019 12:24:04 PM PDT by Gamecock
Officials believe that they have found the remains of actor Charles Levin, who went missing almost a week ago, in rural Oregon.
Levin, best known for roles including “Seinfeld” and “Annie Hall,” was reported missing by his son on July 8 after not hearing from him for several days.
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Any chance that...Nah!
Sounds like a cardiac event.
It is a rare jerk who will leave his dog to die.
But ‘hollywood’...
Followed his GPS to his death like that Cnet guy some years ago? Poor dog didn’t make it either.
Driving a Fiat? That’s called suicide.
I was an early adopter of GPS, quickly learned it was science, not magic, and that I needed to keep and use a dead tree map to supplement it. Whenever I take a long trip, like from TN to CA last summer, I take a dead tree map with me and use it to decide on the route I’ll take. Works really well along with GPS.
Hard to beat the old dead tree map -if- you know how to read one and know how to navigate. I can tell you from my experience in the Army and with the boy scouts ... most dont have a clue.
“I was an early adopter of GPS, quickly learned it was science, not magic, and that I needed to keep and use a dead tree map to supplement it. Whenever I take a long trip, like from TN to CA last summer, I take a dead tree map with me and use it to decide on the route I’ll take. Works really well along with GPS.”
indeed. i always printout study paper maps on any new route that I’ve never been on before, and use GPS mapping to help remind when when and where to turn ... but i NEVER, EVER trust the GPS mapping end-to-end ...
too many times i’ve had GPS mapping order me to take a turn that I know will lead into wilderness deadends when the opposite (correct) turn will lead me to a major town just a couple of miles away ...
I have crossed the country 3 times with a Garmin GPS on my motorbikes over the last 12-14 years.
All of that on secondary roads, the route was planned online and converted into GPS files uploaded into my device.
Never had an issue that could not be resolved by a reboot.
I am sold...
That said reliance on GPS KILLS your map-reading/using ability.
I have a garmin in my car and have since about 2006(on my 3rd), I also use Waze when I’m going somewhere strange. I tend to lean toward Waze because it’s traffic aware(and police) and when they both agree, I know its right. I still usually print out directions.
I recently drove from Frankfurt to Saarbrucken and I took my trusty 2597lmt with me because I was unsure if Waze would work with my data and all that. Good thing because at some point Deutch telekom cut me off of data on the one day.
Got it up to 133mph on the Autobahn. Woot.
Poor dog.
Yeah, the guy that played Jon Voight was pretty realistic... /s
Spent part of a summer with a couple of friends driving 10k miles all over the US with nothing but a Delorme Road Atlas.
“Got it up to 133mph on the Autobahn.”
Was anyone passing you? While living in Switzerland we visited Germany often, enjoyed the autobahn though my wife was unhappy when I hit 150 mph (kids thought it was great), though that was just for a very short time. Daylight, wide open roads with lots of clear road ahead. Routinely drove about 100-120 mph, and would get passed by folks appearing to be going 140-160 mph.
They keep touting this guy as a “Seinfeld actor”. He had one small bit role in a Seinfeld episode. I’m thinking even he didn’t feel it defined his acting career. He’s been in a list of things going back to the 70’s, many for longer stints than his Seinfeld appearance.
Fix It Again, Tony.
taxcontrol wrote: “Hard to beat the old dead tree map -if- you know how to read one and know how to navigate. I can tell you from my experience in the Army and with the boy scouts ... most dont have a clue.”
Reminds me of my land navigation courses at Benning. Most don’t have a clue. We must have done land navigation six or seven times. The same dozen would get lost every time. The course was bounded by hardsurface roads. If you’re lost, just pick a direction, walk till you find a road, sit down, cadre will be by shortly.
I did know one artillery commander who would have every third field exercise without GPS, just maps and compass. Really pissed his troops off.
Hard to beat the old dead tree map -if- you know how to read one and know how to navigate. I can tell you from my experience in the Army and with the boy scouts ... most dont have a clue.
When I looked him up earlier, I thought maybe that was him.
I was thinking that was like 1993.
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