He Blinded Me With Science

Last night Jack called me from his hotel room in Dallas and we talked while he ironed his shirt.

"I'm trying to remove the RFID tag," he explained.

I know what RFID is, and so I let him talk. I didn't know that there's a tag on each individual item; I thought it was only the cartons or cases, and the loaded skids, that were tagged. But OK.

When he said FPGA I knew it was not golf he was referring to, so I waited until the phrase field programmable gate array crept into the conversation, and then I listened as he explained what an FPGA is, and how it works. Lest you think, Gentle Reader, that this was a dull conversation I can assure you it was no such thing. Jack has a flair for rhetoric.

He's talking nerdy to me again, and in the Jack and Sass universe, that's a promising prognostic.

In the next story, Sass remembers an old boyfriend's car.