The exercise:
Write two haiku about: man vs machine.
Folding machine at work decided it had folded and stuffed enough surveys this morning. Trying to get it serviced but we're probably within reach of the end to just let it do the folding for us and we'll do the envelope stuffing to finish things off.
2 comments:
Ah, my guess yesterday wasn't too far off! I didn't know there were specialised machines for folding and envelope stuffing, but it doesn't surprise me -- it's definitely something I could people wanting to automate and the specific operations seem small enough that it should be possible to mechanise it. The stuff part strikes me as trickiest as the envelope has to be opened somehow by the machine to accept the paper... and I bet people try to overfill the envelopes from time to time too.
Off to the UK today, which will be a relief as Malta's temperatures are getting close to 30C at the moment. The current plan, assuming nothing goes wrong, is to be out of Malta altogether at the end of July to avoid the horrible summer.
Man vs machine
Man versus machine?
Better is man and machine:
Let the cyborgs rise!
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Machines do my job,
But I can out-think them all...
Sabotage results.
Greg - yes, it's quite something. Papers stacked in trays at one end, envelopes at the ready at the other. Programmed to take so many from each tray per each envelope. And you're quite right - the issue was the envelopes getting caught in a certain spot (the servicing fixed that, but we're also due to get a new machine next week).
And, well, seven pages per envelope was a lot but there was nothing we could do about that, as the survey (4) and backgrounder (3) were provided to us by the contractor doing the boundary study.
Gone for the length of the heat, or gone permanently?
Hah, I like both of these a lot. Though I can feel a full story coming on out of the second, so I shall select that as my favorite this week :)
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