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Jorge Pereira (CPES), Susana Silva, Duarte Viveiros and João Barbosa (all from CAP)

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Gallery of the Uncommon

"Kick butt, before your butt is kicked."

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Gallery of the Uncommon

Gallery of the Uncommon

ButtKicker

The BIP team went through INESC TEC’s shopping list and the most uncommon thing happened. We found out that INESC TEC’s Centre for Information Systems and Computer Graphics (CSIG) has just purchased a device called ButtKicker.

Until now, INESC TEC lived fully well with the fact that it had a microgeneration inverter called Sunny Boy installed at the lab of the Centre for Power and Energy Systems (CPES). A device with such a harmless and tacky name is enough to be on TV shows like Baywatch… But if Sunny Boy is some kind of Mitch Buchannon of devices, then the ButtKicker is the Sylvester Stallone of electronic gadgets.

The ButtKicker may be just a set of sensors and actuators that jiggle seats, but its name alone promises to wobble even more.

Upon learning that CSIG now owns a ButtKicker, perhaps now the collaborators will start handing in their projects a month before deadline. I guess we could say: kick butt, before your butt is kicked. So don’t take any chances with your deadlines.

This is precious information. There a ButtKicker on the loose at INESC TEC and it can be used at aby moment. So don’t be surprised if one day you get the following e-mail: “We have detected an error on your clocking-in procedure yesterday. Please correct it, or we’ll use the ButtKicker ”; or maybe you’ll find the following sign at the cafeteria: “Please return the dishes to the counter, otherwise we’ll be forced to use the ButtKicker”…

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