T² AND HIS NEW JOB
Most of you know that my oldest grandson Tommy (affectionally known as Tsquared) graduated at the top of his class at ASU in electrical engineering. Since that time he has been working on his Masters in EE at the same school while his wife, also an EE summa cum laude graduate, works for an engineering firm in Phoenix.
Without a doubt Tommy and his friend Mike (fiancé of Tommy’s sister Jordan) are the two best video game players I’ve ever seen. For years they have bought the latest systems and proceeded to master whatever levels they have. The latest purchase has been the Wii system and the games as they come on the market. They are very difficult to buy and in spite of the high price, people stand in line or get on waiting lists to get their copies as soon as they come to the stores.
Mike and Tommy have bought each one as soon as they came off of the line and the last time I was in Phoenix visiting I watched them play Guitar Hero until they had won each level.
But this summer Tommy hasn’t had as much time to play his games because he began an internship for a well known engineering company in the same town. He hasn’t shared a lot about his new job because the company has defense contracts with the U. S. government. But yesterday he called to tell his mom that he officially had the coolest job in the world.
His boss is going on vacation for two weeks and he wants Tommy to get a Wii system (he actually asked him if he was familiar with Wii) and bring it in to work. His project is to “Just play with it and figure out how it works.”
When Tommy had picked up his jaw, he clarified the rules with his boss. “So, you want me to bring a Wii system into work and get paid to play it.”
His boss said, “You got it!”
Oh how I wish someone would pay me to play my computer games!!!
3 comments:
To clarify, it does actually pertain to the project I have been working on since the beginning of my internship- if I explained it to you, you'd agree that we're trying to do pretty much the same thing that the Wii does, only better. Unfortunately (and I've always wanted to say this), I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you. :)
As for the playing, you and I know that there will be much of it. However, my assignment is to research the Wii (via the internet, mostly) and determine it's performance characteristics and limitations; when I told the guy I'm working for that I had one of my own, he said that I could bring it in for "research" if I so desired, which should be awesome. My computer programmer friend has already volunteered to be "Programming Consultant" on my project, should the need arrive.
I'm sure that Mike would agree to help you, also!
I have to say that this kind of "research" is way out of my league. When there is a computer progammer involved thats when I tip my hat (if I'm wearing one) and say adios.
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