Tony is a Geek

Well, this is a turn up for the books and something long overdue for the general public: find out more here: https://opal.withgoogle.com/landing/ Now, you could just go off and do some gold-rush effort and I highly encourage you to do so - THIS is a game-changer.  It really is. As this is "my universe", I'm just going to pull it back to me (yes, very narcissistic, I know, but I don't care).  Here are a couple of articles that I just want to call attention to: https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2020/02/a-week-off-worksort-ofproject-o.html https://tonyisageek.blogspot.com/2020/12/project-o-my-machine-programming-project.html The basic premise was to use NLP (natural language processing) where you, as a non-technical person, could describe what you want an application to be and do.  Then, through the power of automation it would generate a starter-for-10 application from templated code and deploy it onto a Cloud environment, so that you could then see it / touch it / run i...

So, I've had Project 'O' on the back burner now for well over a year, I even started making headway around August 2019 ( for a week, during a vacation )....and well, yep, the usual happened.  I let myself get drawn into doing way too much stuff in the work/work environment and I have to sacrifice all my own inventions or innovations for the sake of the day job.  ( One day, I'll maybe get that changed, but I'm not holding out much hope, but we'll see ) Well, it's another vacation week, where I'm not actually vacationing ( again ), I'm going through a list of things that I wanted to do in 'my time'.  That means: 1) I've purchased a new 3D printer, I've built said 3D printer. I've had 4 failed attempts at printing with the ABS that I purchased 2-3 years ago (? cannot recall when was, but they've been sitting all sealed up in a box along with about 50 servo's that I was going to use for my robot )...spent a few lon...