![]() ![]() It was innocent enough, at first going from the Best Care Anywhere… NOTE: Click any of these to biggie size, by the way.įrom there, I started playing. At first it was the usual sort of thing you’d probably expect from me: (Taken during our 2017 trip to the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, NY)Īnd why have just any starfield as a backdrop when you can have one from the animated Star Trek series? I hinted a bit about this the other day in a piece I wrote about working from home, but since then? Yeah, it’s gotten worse. ![]() In and around all of this, I’ve been having a bit of fun with one of Zoom’s personalization features, the “virtual background.” Rather than broadcast a video feed of me sitting at my desk with my whiteboard on the wall behind me – which may or not contain various sensitive scribblings about projects in progress and so on and so forth – I can just insert myself into any real or imagined place in the universe. Okay, so maybe that sort of thing isn’t happening with everyone. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just Zooming away, thrilled with the ability to project a professional image from the waist up while everything below the camera level is an unfiltered party zone filled with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze! Some of the warnings are legit and – at least as they’re telling it – the folks behind Zoom are doing their best to address and improve the various security concerns. Indeed, more and more of us are diving into the app and using it as a sort of virtual conference room, despite stories of hackers and other ne’er do wells crashing such environments for their own amusement as well as the numerous warnings that Zoom’s security features are about as helpful as a fishnet condom. ![]() ![]() The new normal is that those of us fortunate enough not to be furloughed or laid off during the current insanity communicate with our co-workers using email, texting, Skype, and…of course, Zoom. ![]()
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