At numerous
LAN parties, my friends and I have
pondered the problem of cabling the PCs. You have to
crawl under desks, feed cables up for friends to grab, generally perform uncomfortable
fiddly tasks.
During one of these sessions, after a great deal of
sugar,
caffine,
Jaffa Cakes and
Action Quake 2, a solution was proposed:
The Cable Monkey.
Through
selective breeding,
cloning, and other advanced
genetic engineering techniques, a new breed of monkey could be created. The monkey would have excellent colour and
shape matching abilities, giving it the requisite skill to
wire up a PC in seconds. Due to it's
small size and
flexible body, crawling around under desks would be no problem.
The only real
stumbling block I can see is the problems of identical, non-coloured sockets. If the PC industry is willing to play ball with this new
arboreal technology, then this could be no problem.
Failing that, or for companies that have to deal with
legacy technology, the monkey's learning would have to be
adaptable - perhaps a
cattle prod could be bundled in with the "
Professional" model.
I got as far as proposing a patent. Then someone threw a
bagel at me.
"One word: interns."
I'll prove them wrong one day...