{"id":121,"date":"2005-05-26T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/glue-and-microchips\/"},"modified":"2005-05-26T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-26T11:11:00","slug":"glue-and-microchips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/glue-and-microchips\/","title":{"rendered":"glue and microchips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I dreamed that I had been involved in an industrial accident involving elmer&#8217;s glue.  I survived, but ended up being coated in a damage resistant layer of some exotic polymer.  And it made me look really shiny when it got wet.  So, since I was now more durable than the average person, I was recuited to go on a special mission.    I took a series of cabs across town to a confernce center\/hotel and was supposed to sneek inside the adjacent building.   I found a service entrance and managed to slip into a stairwell, but I could only go up so high before I was forced to exit onto the main floor. <\/p>\n<p>The building turned out to be some kind of training center\/ school &#8211; and very high security.   The stairwells were locked so I couldn&#8217;t use them to go up any further and the elevators only had &#8220;down&#8221; button, unless you had a key.  The floorplan had a hallway around the offices in the center and I made a couple of loops trying to find a way up further when a woman noticed I wasn&#8217;t supposed to be there.    She confronted me and asked what I was doing.  I thought about it for a moment, then told her the truth. <\/p>\n<p>There was a transmitter on top of the building that was close enough and powerful enough to a signal from the radio tower nearby.  That radio was going to generate a pulse of energy as a test, but it would start a chain reaction that would destroy the atmosphere.  If I could get to the roof in time, I would be able to install a tiny microchip in the transmitter that would not only block the signal, but cause it to bounce back.  The equipment I had with me would allow me to track where the signal bounced to &#8211; and I could then call in that location and get them stopped from trying it again. <\/p>\n<p>She was skeptical, but reassured when I showed her all my equipment and told her that the transmitter was part of the cable tv system for the hotel next door and wouldn&#8217;t disrupt her building.  I also told her that she could come and watch me work. <\/p>\n<p>So, she agreed and took me to the roof in the elevator.  I was in the process of installing the chip when I woke up.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think it&#8217;s weird too&#8230;  Back to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7938355-111710680874490539?l=approximatelyequalto.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I dreamed that I had been involved in an industrial accident involving elmer&#8217;s glue. I survived, but ended up being coated in a damage resistant layer of some exotic polymer. And it made me look really shiny when it got wet. So, since I was now more durable than the average person, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_bluesky_dont_syndicate":"","_bluesky_syndication_accounts":"","_bluesky_syndication_text":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderofwade.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}