Thursday, May 14, 2009

Covies of Quail

Plugging in...

What do covies of quail and computers have in common? The Tutor will give you a minute on this one. Think. Harder. Thinking?

The hard "C" sound comes to mind. Computer, covey, quail. An illiteration. Anything else?

Basically, you're right. Not much else; unless one decides to automate 34 years of quail hunting data currently hand-written in log books. That was the gist of a recent inquiry. "Can you help us automate the hand-written log books of our quail hunting" dating back to 1975? Umm [thoughtful pause], yes, OK, can do.

The Tutor hasn't seen the logs yet, and hopes the data is legible. There's not much in the way of affordable automation technologies capable of scanning bound, hand-written log books into digital form, capable of being further manipulated into statistical, meaningful data, along with colorful, relevant graphs. What a mouthful. It won't be a quick process (think lots of data entry here), but the possibilities are endless, once the information is in an electronic form.

Watch out quail, we're coming to track you in more ways than you could possibly imagine!

ALWAYS REMEMBER: before calling for help - is it plugged in, and is it turned on?

Unplugged

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