Tony is a Geek

Okay, so I have resisted the whole drone thing for long enough. I was watching a vanlife youtuber who was comparing 3 drones and this was a cheap version that is basically for people who just want to tinker, use it for 5-10 mins and fly it into things and not have it break - or wound you. Oh ans be <£200. oh and be very light, so it is under the weight for requiring you to do the online drone license exam thingy (not that that is too difficult, more common-sense than anything else). I also kind of need one now for some things I want to do myself, so whilst I was in an Amazon Prime delivery location, purchase it I did. It arrived. It is small! It is quite robust. Those blades are well covered / protected.  I bought the extra gimble protector cover too - as I did see that was a thing to get - there is NO obstacle avoidance on this device, so it will fly into things, so well worth protecting the camera. It did take a bit of faffing about to get the App to install onto my ZFold 4 d...

I was invited to do some work at the new IoT Watson offices in Munich : Highlight Towers After work, I was invited for a meal...I was told there was an interesting guy who was going to join the team.  Anyway, due to some error with the restaurant booking, I had the pleasure of being on a 4-person table with John Cohn for the entire evening. I'm not sure who was the geekier / nerdier.  As you can imagine, Arduino's, MQTT, Pi's, Robotics, all-the-IBM stuff and a ton of other stuff was talked about and laughed about.  It was a great evening and helped me to realise, I should stay as I am and not "become what management structures" think I should be. Continue to have fun and actually do that rare thing: ENJOY what you do.  If you do not, stop doing it, do something else.  I know I have fun & actually enjoy what I do. Look forward to some "fun" postings over the next year - rather than "an IBM sales blog" (as a good Friend recently...