Short Stories The Time Travelers Notebook – MedBotRX Jon Hillenbrand, April 9, 2017October 16, 2019 In 2019, a hospital on the north side of Chicago was instructed by a court ruling to put warning labels on their elevator doors. “This facility is co-run by an Artificial Intelligence. Ride elevators at your own risk.” The origin of this is very interesting. Apparently, around this time, AI was…
Fake Cooking Blog The perfect ingredients Jon Hillenbrand, August 8, 2015October 16, 2019 In my last post, I talked about my reasons behind starting my own restaurant in NYC. The Underdog Kitchen was described by the NY Times as, “The hottest new experience in the city worth visiting in person if not on Twitter.” A 23 month waiting list means that I’ll be…
Photography Crowdsourcing Jon Hillenbrand, June 30, 2012December 30, 2015 I love the term “crowdsourcing”. In a nutshell, it involves giving a problem to an undefined group of people to solve, similar to outsourcing but specifically to an undefined group rather than a specialized party or team. Companies can do this on the web in order to create solutions to…
Photography Metrics Jon Hillenbrand, October 2, 2010October 17, 2019 Some people I work with don’t care about anything other than successful numbers. As someone involved in creating artwork for a living, it’s difficult to mesh with that metrics-based world. But I do keep track of almost everything I do at work so just for fun, here are some of…
Photography Thoughts on Thoughts Jon Hillenbrand, September 29, 2010October 17, 2019 I am Captain Insomnia. My super power is the ability to stay awake forever. Sometimes I just can’t get my brain to shut the hell up. It’s probably clinical and can be treated with a pill which will destroy other parts of my life. Fuck, anything I write seems self-servingly…
Photography Hooked up Jon Hillenbrand, May 18, 2010October 17, 2019 Funny how things work in the Corporate World. After 5 years of being blocked, Flickr was recently freed from the shackles of Big Brother’s proxy at my work. All it took was a single phone call from someone obviously much more important than I. Now, instead of having to bring…
Photography Fortune’s Fool Jon Hillenbrand, May 4, 2010October 17, 2019 Maybe it was the lateness of the hour, but at the end of the work day today, the cleaning woman showed up and started speaking with such prophetic wisdom that I found myself listening intently to every sentence in her half-Haitian-half-English tongue. She’s just like an oracle in the old…