LOL what the everloving heck is this, it's the weirdest thing I've ever seen an IBM logo on. Spoilers: it's legit. I have it, it works, it does precisely what it says on the tin, and I love it.

Takeapart thread coming soon.

@jgeorge following because I work at IBM and we have an internal IBM history community that loves unpacking where these weird objects came from. Please share more soon!
@mekki @jgeorge 🤔 how random?! … This almost seems useful as a way to be reminded to check a thing now and then (stir the onions). Or perhaps useful for performing random sampling?
@benjohn @mekki Your guess is as good as mine or anyone else's. Random sampling is a good idea. My thinking would be more of a "hyper focus interruptor" to keep from going off into the weeds on a problem, but then again I have a problem with hyperfocus so that would be MY use case for something like this.

@jgeorge @mekki that’s a really neat use, and makes me think of pomodoro technique.

I was just trying to think of a UI to control it! If it was Poison noise, you could control the expected events per hour, say.