Nowhere to Hide

 Hiding is an important skill to master.  Most children learn it growing up playing hide and seek, but children aren’t very adept at conceptualizing the true importance of invisibility.  The skill is often lost during the formative school years, but that is when I excelled at hiding.  I figured out how to hide in school so that I could have more recess and naptime than the other students.  Sure, this resulted in being left behind after hours on more than one occasion, but I learned how to activate the cafeteria’s ovens, so I could always have dinner.  Even as a child, I was ahead of the rest in maximizing my productivity through frequent periods of discovery.

Secrets have been hidden in books since books were first created out of stone.  Then as now, people don't read much.  It was understandable when dropping a book on your foot would result in multiple fractures, but paper has taken mass out of the equation. Medical care has improved a bit since then as well.  Some items in need of hiding are too large to be placed in books.  This is why it is important to know how to hide things in plain sight.

You’re probably thinking the same thing I am right now:  reactive camouflage.  That tech is the new black.

We used to have a sign just like this one for marketing purposes, but we found that we received too many unsolicited flyers for services we couldn’t utilize.  The backlog that resulted from getting back to all of these people to decline each of their respective services was interfering with our revenue streams.  Plus, the unwanted increased scrutiny prevented us from maximizing our classified projects.

We have been toying with placing signs around the area directing tourists and gawkers to our competitors so we can keep them busy with that instead of innovating new products.  AcMo needs all of the help it can get to stay in front of the competition.

Sometimes we have to conduct our business without being seen by the general public.  The solution to this is our adaptation of Vantablack, but field trials have proven disastrous with all of our test subjects being run over by unsuspecting motorists.  Therefore, we are looking at adapting new technologies to keep our operatives safe from harm and off of busy roadways.

As always, every solution contains inherent problems.  Unless we can figure out how to move the entire windowpane, a person can only remain hidden by staying stationary, not to mention what happens when the operative’s eyes are open.  That makes it totally obvious something is amiss.  A moving windowpane would be great except a floating window draws too much attention.  Attention becomes a bane as more of it is acquired.  Our special services work best when attention is diverted from our primary purposes.  That’s why we study magic, despite what I wrote yesterday.  Magic is the best form of distraction marketing available.

This has been the only safe way we can watch movies these days.  You can't hit what you can't see.  I think.  While testing of this new free movie service is ongoing, I have been encouraged by the results up to this point.  We are looking into pursuing opportunities in empty seat disguises for even more venues.  It could be the next major product to come from AcMo’s innovation labs.