Man, I love nothing more than to come across effed up signs. Some make me angry as I spout off about how tolerant of mediocrity this country is becoming… but some make me just straight up laugh, like this one: Other signs down right scare me. I cross the Canadian border occasionally and the total […]
For just over $100, you can go down to your local computer/consumer electronics store and pick up a nifty little Linksys IP webcam that does a fair job as an indoor security/monitoring solution. However, I ended up using one outside, mounted under the eve of my garage. The only problems I’ve seen with using the […]
For just about as long as I can remember, I’ve worked for myself doing my own thing. Things really started out with a company called The Guild Inc., a dial-up access company back when dial-up was cool and 28.8k modems ruled the day. I dropped out of college (don’t worry, it was only community college) […]
Well, thanks to my own lack of research on the subject, I was spouting off in complete ignorance with my last post. Shortly after publishing my off-base semi-rant, Brad Oldenburg the CTO of ShopperTrak left me a comment (see below). I guess ShopperTrak uses cameras to count people, not RFID to track tagged items going […]
I happened to find myself in the local mall the other day and was pulled into The Gap by the horde I happened to be traveling with that day. As we were exiting, I noticed a little ShopperTrak box above the door and snapped a bad, grainy camera-phone photo of it. Usually these types of […]
One of my pet peeves is bad grammar. In particular, I hate the use of the term “irregardless”, and I hate even more that this word is now accepted by spell checking mechanisms as a real word. It’s not a fucking word. Regarded and regardless are words. Saying irregardless is a combination of irrespective and […]
June 2005 – When did you first become aware of RFID-implant technology? Some time ago…I’d say it’s been a four or five years now. The first time I heard about it, it was the chips dogs and cats get to ID them later. I started thinking at that time about how I might use that […]
An AP article in the WA Post (and picked up by other outlets) today detailed concerns over cancerous cells found surrounding RFID implants in lab animals. I received an email about this months ago back in May from someone concerned about this very thing, and ended up posting about it on my RFID forum because […]
Ripped from the LA Times headlines (pdf), the article states “the bill would prevent employers in the state from requiring workers to have the [implant] devices.” First off, I agree with the bill… nobody should be able to be forced by an employer to have something implanted in their body, RFID or otherwise, to be […]
I just finished a photo shoot with Andy Reynolds for Seattle Metropolitan magazine. He had a few ideas, but the one that was the most fun to shoot was the wheelie shot. We went just down the street from my mothers home to find a little green field to shoot in front of. I then […]
