That reminds me of the time we were asked to provide a security monitoring system for a nuclear site in a remote part of Russia. The task was pretty simple from a monitoring standpoint - a single-entrance bunker. The Russians wanted it to report all the way back to Moscow, however, so we asked about telecommunications. This was back in the days of modems, so we first asked about telephone lines. They told us that the site had a telephone. When we asked what type, we were told it was a hand-crank field telephone. Since we didn't have a robot arm capable of hand cranking the telephone, we declined to build the monitoring system.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> SIPR: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (send NIPR reminder) On Jan 10, 2015, at 7:13 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: I’m not sure this is Bluetooth compatible, but perhaps you could make a backpack out of it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-western-electric-telephone-wall-hung-wood-hand-crank-volume-control-329w-/121538621404?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c4c442fdc You certainly could charge all your USB devices with one of those magnetos. (No, don’t do that – they will blow up!) More like run a microwave with a few of them and a friend or two. From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 5:54 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question Marcus, Telephone? You mean that black thing that hangs on the wall? With the round thing on the face of it that goes click-click-click when you turn it? Can it DO that? N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2015 4:04 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] clueless technology question “Why not use your phone and get an app that will make your music available.” http://gizmodo.com/apple-watch-will-play-music-on-bluetooth-headphones-no-1634369364 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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