![]() ![]() He looked quite calm, though he said nothing.īut with a full load of cargo, your hull is riding low in the water and causing a heavy drag. `Look beyond me at that distant light don't take your eyes off of it, not for a second, and say over and over,I will live.'Ĭolonel Dodd's face appeared above the rampart. Her hands burned on my neck, fingers forcing their way into my collar. The whole story was there, embedded in various numerical codes and general bank gibberish, which any fool could see. on Friday, the money was gone on some untraceable path. The transaction assuring this withdrawal had been set up the preceding night. Gregor at Friday noon, and then been immediately withdrawn from his account. The twenty million wired to Georgetown for the use of Raglan James had indeed reverted back to Mr. Lestan Gregor still existed but he was virtually penniless. ![]() I went into the computer again and tried to access the accounts of Lestan Gregor, the alias who had wired the twenty million to the Georgetown bank. And with each telling to another person, with each little verbal confrontation-'David, you've gone crackers'-it became ever more uncertain and vague. Why, two days later I doubted I'd even seen it. And until Apple updates its thinking, I’ll think I’ll pass on the Apple Watch Ultra.Maybe, Zabrinski agreed.Tell the captain that last message, Curly. If a small set of independent developers can make an app that takes the right approach to being active, why can’t Apple?Īfter all, you would think that a trillion-dollar company would have the resources to build a device reflecting the most up-to-date fitness thinking. It lets you take rest days, set your status to sick or injured, and generally encourages a more realistic fitness outlook. I’ve written about this before - about how the Gentler Streak app beats Apple at its own game. Judging by the Apple Watch Ultra, that’s not likely to happen any time soon. ![]() While this has undoubtedly made me fitter, I wish my wearable took a different tack. I own an Apple Watch, and I work out every day because I’d lose my streak if I didn’t (and I’m too competitive to let that happen). Take the scientifically encouraged step of having a rest day, and your Apple Watch will punish you by breaking your streak. But it never slows down and acknowledges that that might not be the best approach. It wants you to push yourself hard every day, breaking your previous personal bests at every opportunity. If recovery days are good enough for professional athletes, they should be good enough for the rest of us. When you take a day to recover, your body has time to heal before the next round. These days, it’s accepted that people need to rest after strenuous exercise to avoid overworking their bodies. It’ll just ruthlessly end your streak as though you were just too lazy to continue it. ![]() But if you get put out of shape while using the Apple Watch Ultra, it’s not going to cut you some slack. Mountain climbing and scuba diving are hardly accident-free zones filled with cushions and kittens. In fact, the Apple Watch Ultra is going to be used in situations where injury is more likely. Should your wearable chastise you for not exercising when you’ve broken your leg? I don’t think so. Sometimes you get injured or sick and can’t work out through no fault of your own. The issue, of course, is that real life doesn’t often work like that. ![]()
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