El Reg sent me out “On Call”

For you not familiar with the vernacular, I submitted a true story of strange work happenings to the Register, to their “Back Office From Hell”  “On Call” series. I got a message back from them that today they might actually run it. Check it out: Drug cops stopped techie’s upgrade to question him for hours. About everything (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/29/on_call/) Cheers! Rando

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Initial Retail Packaging Experiments

And here we have the first two prototype retail packages of “2018-027-101 4CELNK-YR OR3V Kit v0.1” Six of the large, three of the small, with 40 bands (2-3 each is typical). Note the trick logo…see? Wires….snort snort…we’ll get a better one soon 😀. These are going to a gentleman and his wife, for their twin gaming rigs, down in Oklahoma. Cheers! Rando.

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Hire a robot, obviate a job?

What if I told you it’s possible to get on the other side of “finding a job” by hiring a robot? Okay, that sounds weird. But, hear me out. Reality has it that jobs are being replaced by robots of various forms, for good and bad. Regardless of the rates of change, some jobs are being replaced by robots. Well, what if those people turned around and then found ways to also use robots to their economic advantage? Surely at least some of them would beg, borrow or steal that technology to leverage to their advantage, right? Cheers! Rando

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