Happy Birthday HAL!

According to This Day in History, from the Computer History Museum, the HAL 9000 Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic Computer was activated.

"Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you."

Why can't my boss do something interesting like this?

Financial Manager fakes emergency call, parachutes out of private airplane.

I like the fact that the guy has that sort of "I'm an ex frat boy" look, or maybe like that one actor on "CSI: Miami" And with looks and a wife like this:



Naturally when it all starts crashing down he'll come up with a brilliant plan like:

• Fake an emergency call from my Piper Malibu that my windshield has caved in, and I'm bleeding heavily. Avoid getting any blood on upholstery.
• Put plane on autopilot, parachute to ground, while meanwhile, air force jets notice no one is in plane.
• Walk up to sherif deputies wearing flight equiment, and ask to be driven to hotel. Give actual ID in case of questions.
• Go into hotel with good surveilance cameras
• put on black knit cap.
• Run into woods
• ????
• PROFIT!!!

You know, with a brilliant, cunning intellect like that, I wonder why his agency ran into trouble.