The Last Jigsaw Piece

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This Week's Special:

Michelle, a save-it-for-marriage type, sought (fair enough) to gently test the patience of her suitors. On week two-through-four, she would invite the gentleman around and empty thousand piece jigsaw puzzle on her table. The gentleman would not return, leaving jigsaw incomplete, so Michelle would find another suitor, a new thousand pieces dumped atop old. Her table heaped twelve thousand jigsaw pieces, so Michelle took a break from dating.

It took a year's spare time and every inch of floor space, but Michelle sorted and completed the twelve jigsaws. The Last Jigsaw Piece remained, unaffiliated and spare. The Last Jigsaw Piece is ambiguously coloured and fits in any hole of 99.9% complete jigsaw. It also has similar applications in high-end engineering projects.

The target market for the Last Jigsaw Piece is the self-aware perfectionist. The type who knows the perfect is the enemy of the good but would like to find win-win solution. The type unable to scratch away itch with close enough and knows they will lay awake another night. Michelle is not that person.

Jessica is that person.

Jessica is a programmer and Ex-Military at it, thank you very much. Like everyone in STEM, she was encouraged away from the arts due to their uselessness. Like everyone incubating artificial intelligences, it seems, the end results of her STEM is 'the arts'. In Jessica's case, at least, that means the Printer of Best Ideas.

The Printer of Best Ideas has two primary functions. The first is everything that a home office printer could aspire to - printing, scanning, ect. The second is accumulating the owner's twelve best ideas over the year and printing them on new calendar, annually. How these ideas are gleaned and which are best are left to Printer's discretion.

The person who will most want the Printer of Best Ideas is someone who wants a printer. This someone will also be wanting a calendar every year. This someone will value their own aphorisms (perhaps in perverse manner akin to Dorian Gray with his portrait but whatevs). This someone will appreciate the twelve accompanying images, curated by artificially intelligent Printer, more than topless firedudes.

That someone is Michelle.

 

*Mandatory footnote