modern technology

Thursday, March 04, 2004, at 07:12AM

By Eric Richardson

Walking to Carl's, I noticed two facilities people looking at a TV monitor. I thought that was kind of odd; while there's always filming going on at USC, usually it's not the maintenance people doing it. Looking closer, though, they were using a tool called a SeeSnake. Aside from the monitor, they also had a spool of cable, one end of which was stuck down into a presumably clogged drainage pipe. That end contained a camera and a light, and they were using it to scope out the source of the blockage. That's cool stuff. I want one.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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