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Automated Office Delivery with Helium Blimps
Blimp Dude writes "Anyone who likes blimps might want to check out this automated blimp delivery service built by some guy at HP Labs. I personally think this is the future... Now I want WebBlimp to deliver groceries directly to my 29th floor apartment window."
now we can go looking in trees for our paycheck
If you, like me, are tired of having to manually deliver documents or other items within your office building, and if your building has high ceilings, good lighting, and minimal air currents, then you will inevitably reach the same conclusion I have: An automatic helium blimp delivery service.
Okay Helium Jim Jones, whatever you say. Just don't send any Kool-Aid my way.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
For God's sake! The disasters this could cause! Remember the Hindenberg!!!!
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Wake me when they come up with a 'Lawn Dart' delivery system.
Now THAT would be useful.
All kidding aside, though, cute, but how useful would this be?
The opposite of progress is congress
A large round object an no goatse link? Heresy!
the baloon should be filled with hydrogen and painted with highly flammable red paint. -eek
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Unfortunately The Pentagon turned off the GPS as the coffee destined for a buddy across the room passed over the bosses lap...
First victim claimed.
Oh, the humanity! Post it notes are erupting in flames!
can afford Helium. The big problem is that M$ patented helium blimp technology solutions. Using Hydrogen will avoid the patent disputes of course and therefore is the preferred solution.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
Don't these guys watch monster garage? wimps!
Just kidding it's pretty and I liked the music.
No wait, now i'm just kidding :)
Liberty.
...useless innovation of the Dot Com era is dead. This is a REAL sign of a recovery.
We've had a blimp deliver items around the office for years now... His name's Robert, and he likes McDonalds a little bit too much.
If you, like me, are tired of having to manually deliver documents or other items within your office building, and if your building has high ceilings, good lighting, and minimal air currents, then you will inevitably reach the same conclusion I have: An automatic helium blimp delivery service.
;-P
nope. rfc 1149, "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers"
same dependability as the blimp though: not very dependable.
so has this guy written the rfc for the intraoffice blimp protocol yet? no!? what kind of nerd does he think he is!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Check out this new electronic mail thing. we've started using around the office, and our blimp use is down like 80%, it's just a superior technology...
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ME: "Leetle Buzzy Robot, give this to Ted in Accounting."
Leetle Buzzy Robot: "BEEE WWHOOP Bee BOOO"
ME: "Koo Koo Katchoo!"
Leetle Buzzy Robot: "ZZZZZzzzzzzzz......"
MOMENTS LATER...
TED, On Phone: "Uh, Dude? Why is there a Radio Shack monster truck banging into my wastebasket with a post-it-note that says 'Impotent' on it?"
ME: "I know nothing."
Explosions are not a danger but beware The Horror of Blimps
I'm afraid I'd have to decline to use any sort of blimp delivery system. Sorry.
You have not mirrored it on 127.0.0.1, I checked the link and nothing... I am so annoyed that I am going to set the slapper worm on the http server on that IP, yes 127.0.0.1 is going to die!
Why the heck is my system going mental? Why is my net slowing down? What's happening, is 127.0.0.1 counter attacking me? That does it I am going to DOS that server and see what it does to me! Right N.........
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
That's just a subset of the hurling things through a window - much better to wrap the letter around a block of ice (it melts you see, causing confusion and merriment) or a frozen lasagne (or dish of your choice) which becomes unfrozen (unless you throw it into a freezer, which would be odd) and thus causes the required hilarity.
Throwing a thawed, frozen lasagne is plain silly and should be avoided. In part because it's quite hard to tie a letter to a soggy lsasgne. Maybe if it's al dente you might get away with it...
I think I am off topic, sorry
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