I am CuTRis

I was laid off last Monday, along with many, other talented people, because the company is in trouble. After buying other companies and other software products, it routinely uses layoffs to temporarily make the finances appear better. While this looks good in the short term, it's misguided. The abandoned workers did nothing wrong, and in fact, they were necessary to maintain quality. When an organization gets too large to provide the wonderful customer experience that they talk so extensively about, cutting staff in favor of AI and offshore solutions, will ultimately lead to more dissatisfied customers and subscription cancellations. There is still no substitute for human talent. I can write better than Claude, and I provide higher quality customer service than Forethought can. I am skilled at writing and effective communications, technology support, customer service and streamlining workflow. If anyone knows of an employer in need of this type of experience, drop me a message. I...

I just had my first preliminary phone interview with an AI "personality." This "ship" just got real...

One of my customers was wondering why some data wasn't showing up the other day... we checked everything and we weren't getting complete records from their information system. So we asked them to check on that and today they told me the record was dated 2924. So the good news is, if no one would have found that, it would have corrected itself in 900 years.

I like it that in our technologically advanced society, you still use a toothpick to see if the banana bread is done. Shouldn't there be some kind of an electronic, computerized gadget that you connect to the bread to get a reading out on the scope?

I had a cool job and then COVID-19 arrived. I did technical support for the Minnesota Historical Society. Mostly I worked at the History Center, but I worked at several other sites as well. I visited nearly all of the sites with my family in the 3 years I was there. I was hired to support phones (VoIP, Centrex) and the AV media in the conference rooms and classrooms. But soon I was doing desktop support (virtually and in person), and lots of things including toning, and connecting Ethernet ports in switch closets. I was in the middle of a phone upgrade at a historic mansion in St. Paul when COVID-19 shut us down. I was furloughed. Then furlough was extended. Now layoff is imminent. The museums are closed. Half the staff--including the entire help-desk has been cut. The organization is now in survival mode. But I enjoyed it while it lasted. Now, I am displaced by COVID-19 and looking for another cool job...

CuTRis Invents Rectal Scan Security UnAssociated Press March 24, 2020 Having heard about Retinal scan security, CuTRis took it a step further and created the first Rectal scan security system. It was initially embraced by a few eccentric individuals, but most people had difficulty using it when others were in the room. Thus, in the end, the project has been s crap ped.

Shitfuk Institute By Kevin J. Curtis Copyright 2019               He was employed in the lowest of the low jobs known to humankind. He worked the help-desk at the Shitfuk Institute. While others on the upper floors enjoyed rank and status, the help-desk worked in the basement below the basement. Cleaning up technological messes was their primary focus. Each day, new work and responsibilities were given to the help-desk team with no thought or planning. Data was important to management, so they manipulated the numbers with great zealousness.                He had joined the Shitfuk Institute two years earlier and was originally proud to be part of Shitfuk Industries, headquartered at 456 Bada Bing Road. The corporation had been created a hundred years earlier by a retired army major named, Hugh G. Shitfuk. Major Shitfuk had been instrumental i...

A large format Smartphone without a phone app.

We were lucky enough to be given a tour of the SPRUCE Project in the Chippewa National Forest, North of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. Our tour guide was W. Robert Nettles IV, SPRUCE Project Operations Manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory . I went into the site fueled primarily by my lifetime of interest in the natural environment; as well as my interest from volunteering as a park ranger in the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge. However, by the time I was done, my interest in technology, from over 10 years as an IT professional, was thoroughly peaked! Definitely off the "beaten path," in a spruce bog in Northern Minnesota, this site boasts an incredible array of scientific equipment that is supported by an amazing technological infrastructure! There are control sites and some of the chambers have added heat, carbon dioxide, or both. A lot of equipment and experimental testing goes on 24/7, 365 days per year. These guys know their stuff. The 10 chambers are connected ...

My wife's idea of a "perfect closet." My (IT Nerd) idea of a "perfect closet."

WARNING: I went to see the movie IT , and "it" has nothing to do with IT (Information Technology) !

I'm building a NUC. It is a PC that is roughly 4" x 4" x 2" (or maybe smaller). The hard drive and memory are purchased separately and this little unit has a 250 GB hard drive and 16 GB of RAM. It comes with built-in WiFi and that hard drive looks like a memory stick and (of course) there is no cooling fan.

One of the replaced output tubes from my 1965 Fender amp. https://www.facebook.com/GoodGuysProAudio/

"Airborne & Space Vehicle Digital Computer", manufactured by Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962. http://collections.mnhs.org/cms/display.php?irn=10335143

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I have a collection of Vinyl LP Records . I finally found my preamp (since moving several years ago); and now I can play my collection!