Examples of using your tech skills in real life?

[minestrone]

Because you'd fail a CRB or because you'rea lazy git?

Hey, my paw prints are all over the disclosure system, they let me work on that so...

Becasue I am lazy and I have about 100 things I should be doing. Hardly get time to do anything I want to these days.

[Platypus]

"In real life" I suppose it depends on how "real", e.g. I've never "saved the day" by using my skills.

But, I had fun with this brain teasing puzzle a couple of years ago:
http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...as-puzzle.html

I've fixed various things with a soldering iron, electrical and jewellery (the latter impresses the ladies!)

A couple of weeks ago I updated my list of DVDs by extracting DVD titles from all my Amazon "order confirmation" emails. Whether maintaining a list of one's DVDs counts as "real life" is debatable!

Yonks ago I had fun pinning a spoof Wikipedia article to the pub notice board, to confirm some local hearsay/folklore. There were several gasps of "wow it really must be true then" !

I create pub quizzes in seconds using Excel.

Photoshopped some amusing images recently to create personalised coffee mug gifts.


If only I didn't have this day job, it really gets in the way of the fun stuff

[BlasterBates]

I built a neural network to predict the stock market but it was f****g useless.

It was actually fun at the time.

[CodeCobbler]

I wrote hello world in C++ that prints to the screen 1000 times in a loop. Was a bit buggy tho.

[KentPhilip]

I built a neural network to predict the stock market but it was f****g useless.

It was actually fun at the time.

But did it predict the timing of your farts though?

[Diver]

I wrote hello world in C++ that prints to the screen 1000 times in a loop. Was a bit buggy tho.

and if you step them out a few spaces on each line and scroll then they do a diagonal run up the screen.


I did it in BASIC at Dixons many many years ago when they first put home PC's on display. looked brilliant!