The battle between red and bluedates back hundreds of years, but also dates forward into the future as far as the eye can see. I remember a few of the battles, but the one I recall the most is the battle of Blood Gulch. A small ravine with walls of rock nearly vertical to produce a perfect habitat for secret research. It couldn’t have been much bigger than two football fields, but the enemy was…

In the battle between two translators we find a fierce competition between speech to text, vs speech to signs. The money sits on the side with the typists as we all ponder if knowing ASL has an advantage over Keyboard Typing if the patient then becomes blind before deaf.

Telling from memories there are some people that swam without sight. Every judge would lean out of the way so the swimmer could…

The Ease of Making Robocalls

The above video hits all the key points of spoofing and scam calls, while also being a good laugh. Hopefully videos like this can help spread awareness of the tricks that are being played on phones.

Spoofing has been around for decades, I even spoofed my name in Starcraft to copy certain names, add color to my real name, or make it…

Interesting Job: Eye in the Sky

In all of my travels there is one thing in common with every business, they all use surveillance cameras. Managing these cameras is just one step in protecting a company’s assets, but there is a major difference between active surveillance and passive surveillance.

The casinos are a well known industry for hiring people to sit in a room and monitor a collection of monitors. Each employee is…

Interesting Jobs: Alpha Tester

I have always had the dream job of being a tester. Most jobs have these positions under different names, but they all fall under the umbrella term of Quality Assurance.

Testing things has always been a way to explore new things. Each time something is sent past my desk it had to be broken in a number of different ways, and sometimes it breaks in ways that were unexpected. Learning is a primary…

I have been pushing carts for years now, but cartography and cartology are a little different. Making maps is quite interesting, and I have a strong passion for wanting to explore as much as possible.

Taking a blank piece of paper and turning it into a detailed and accurate map requires exploration, attention to details, and of course the ability to draw. Every map starts with a single point.…

I think it was about time that the story of how the miners of 49 made so much damn money. My grandpappy was a miner out in the hills of California.

Theodore would have a smile from ear to ear to here how he managed to pull off the biggest heist in the west. Everyone thought he just had really bad bowel issues when he was going to the bathroom every 30 minutes. Lo and behold my grandpa was…

It was a special take on the battle royale genre that worked for a while, but the development team was either running out of supplies, or they wanted to grow faster.

So what was great?

The game allowed for players to say whatever they wanted, form teams with who ever they wanted, and backstab who ever they wanted. A small community…