So, I was updating the site yesterday and just happened to notice this Craigslist job posting:
Central Oregon Racing Pigeon Club is working on a project dealing with rfid chips, pigeon clocking and computers. We are looking for a hobbiest with rfid skill that may help us out.
It was intriguing enough I couldn’t resist sending the poster, a Mr. Don Chapin in Redmond, an email asking, in essence, “W.T.F???” His reply:
Our racing pigeons carry a rfid leg band that scan their arrival time on the return from a race. We are trying to capture the read direct to a laptop, time and date stamp the arrival and send on to the internet
Who knew! ‘Had no idea we had a pigeon racing club around here, or that they were so hip and cool. Although maybe that hip-coolness is just a clever disguise for what is really an evil and nefarious organization. Something all-together too SMERSH-like, and we just haven’t clued into their dasterdly plans.
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