Re: [C] Robotics
  By: Neil Heller to Snaphook{at}Swbell.Net on Wed May 05 2004 02:50 pm

 > TO: SNAPHOOK{at}SWBELL.NET
 > 
 > That reminds me of an experience I had once.  I was working on a system
 > whereby a telephone call could be made to an electric meter and interval
 > data (usage data for an 'interval of time') was downloaded.  We set the
 > electric meter set to sample interval data every five minutes, then
 > attached the meter to the dwelling of a company executive.  The
 > executive could tell when his spouse used a major appliance by the spike
 > in electrical usage.  He would call his wife three or four times a day
 > to remind her to turn off the clothes dryer, the greenhouse lights, you
 > name it.
   I would have expected him to receive a phone call, but from his WIFE's LAWY
ER, as most women would be nice enought to FILE FOR DIVORCE under those
grounds... Lord knows, if I was married and had to put up with a wife like
that.... I'd tell her to find another place to live where she didn't have to
worry about people turning things on....

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