Backlog: PieNet.
Jan. 28th, 2007 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
napoleonherselfI have been too lazy to post the last few days, so I'm going to make a couple catchup posts in quick succession to hit the highlights, so to speak. This one is about a phone conversation I had with mecha on um Thursday I think. I will copy-paste from IM.
[19:58:16] The Jennybork: I was telling him about the assignment I'm going to have in one class, where we'll be split into groups and each group has to write an interface to do something with "phidgets", which are things like LEDs and motion sensors on little circuit boards that plug into computers via USB.
[...]
[19:59:11] The Jennybork: He decided that what my group should do with the phidgets is make a system whereby a program running on his computer monitors his work in, say, a word processing program, decides when he has been working hard enough to deserve a break,a nd then sends a signal via phidget to light up an LED...
[19:59:36] The Jennybork: The LED will signal a Lego Mindstorms robot to trundle over to a mini-fridge and signal another Lego Mindstorms robot...
[19:59:55] The Jennybork: The second one will open the fridge, give pie to the first one, and close the fridge. The first pie-bot will bring the pie to him at his desk.
[20:00:03] The Jennybork: He calls it PieNet.
[20:00:14]![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emsworth: Errr. Wow/
[20:00:18] The Jennybork: Apparently if I do not help build it then PieNet will, from the future, send back a Piemanator to kill me.
[20:00:20] The Jennybork: Yeah, wow is right.
[20:00:20]emsworth: Could that actually work?
[20:00:25] The Jennybork: Actually, possibly.
[20:00:27]emsworth: What size pie is he thinking of?
[20:00:41] The Jennybork: A slice, on a paper plate, plastic-wrapped with a plastic fork in it, so there's no dishes to take back.
[20:00:50]emsworth: And not all that heavy.
[20:00:55] The Jennybork: Yeah.
[20:01:06] The Jennybork: He is bizarrely insistent that my group has to build PieNet for him.
[20:01:13]emsworth: Wow.
[20:01:15] The Jennybork: Or else he will murder them.
[20:01:26]emsworth: And he's not on medication?
The people I already told via IM about this said the following:
[20:02:34]emsworth: Tell him he blew my mind.
[20:12:50] m************: is he on any medication that might be affecting his mental capabilities?
[20:21:49] d***************: YES
[20:21:50] d***************: PIE
[20:21:54] d***************: FROM A ROBOT
Let me tell you it is pretty peculiar to have a phone conversation where for almost an hour someone is waxing enthusiastic about a system whereby robots bring him pie before he even consciously realizes that he needs it.
[19:58:16] The Jennybork: I was telling him about the assignment I'm going to have in one class, where we'll be split into groups and each group has to write an interface to do something with "phidgets", which are things like LEDs and motion sensors on little circuit boards that plug into computers via USB.
[...]
[19:59:11] The Jennybork: He decided that what my group should do with the phidgets is make a system whereby a program running on his computer monitors his work in, say, a word processing program, decides when he has been working hard enough to deserve a break,a nd then sends a signal via phidget to light up an LED...
[19:59:36] The Jennybork: The LED will signal a Lego Mindstorms robot to trundle over to a mini-fridge and signal another Lego Mindstorms robot...
[19:59:55] The Jennybork: The second one will open the fridge, give pie to the first one, and close the fridge. The first pie-bot will bring the pie to him at his desk.
[20:00:03] The Jennybork: He calls it PieNet.
[20:00:14]
emsworth: Errr. Wow/[20:00:18] The Jennybork: Apparently if I do not help build it then PieNet will, from the future, send back a Piemanator to kill me.
[20:00:20] The Jennybork: Yeah, wow is right.
[20:00:20]
emsworth: Could that actually work?[20:00:25] The Jennybork: Actually, possibly.
[20:00:27]
emsworth: What size pie is he thinking of?[20:00:41] The Jennybork: A slice, on a paper plate, plastic-wrapped with a plastic fork in it, so there's no dishes to take back.
[20:00:50]
emsworth: And not all that heavy.[20:00:55] The Jennybork: Yeah.
[20:01:06] The Jennybork: He is bizarrely insistent that my group has to build PieNet for him.
[20:01:13]
emsworth: Wow.[20:01:15] The Jennybork: Or else he will murder them.
[20:01:26]
emsworth: And he's not on medication?The people I already told via IM about this said the following:
[20:02:34]
emsworth: Tell him he blew my mind.[20:12:50] m************: is he on any medication that might be affecting his mental capabilities?
[20:21:49] d***************: YES
[20:21:50] d***************: PIE
[20:21:54] d***************: FROM A ROBOT
Let me tell you it is pretty peculiar to have a phone conversation where for almost an hour someone is waxing enthusiastic about a system whereby robots bring him pie before he even consciously realizes that he needs it.
