Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Robot attacks Japanese Prime Minister
Robot attacks Japanese Prime Minister
Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday. A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact. T63_artemisThe robot has been patrolling the mall for a year now, disturbing the doughnut dunking of real rent-a-cops, with high-pitched alarms whenever it spots ‘suspicious behaviour’. So, either the strain of meeting a Japanese icon was too much or Koizumi was spotted with his hand in the Pick n’ Mix. Mammoth_project2Either way, it’s really just as well the PM didn’t meet the 30ft tall fire-breathing Tokyo destroyer
(pictured) or the king of them all, Robosaurus.
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Wasn't there a movie like this? Westworld? Batman? I, Robot (or, as we fondly refer to it, "CGI, Robot")?
And I thought *I* needed sleep. 'night.
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Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday. A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact. T63_artemisThe robot has been patrolling the mall for a year now, disturbing the doughnut dunking of real rent-a-cops, with high-pitched alarms whenever it spots ‘suspicious behaviour’. So, either the strain of meeting a Japanese icon was too much or Koizumi was spotted with his hand in the Pick n’ Mix. Mammoth_project2Either way, it’s really just as well the PM didn’t meet the 30ft tall fire-breathing Tokyo destroyer
(pictured) or the king of them all, Robosaurus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wasn't there a movie like this? Westworld? Batman? I, Robot (or, as we fondly refer to it, "CGI, Robot")?
And I thought *I* needed sleep. 'night.
Thursday, August 11, 2005
Just fuzzy
I don't have much to say at the moment. My boss is on vacation, his associate is giving me the occasional project, and basically I'm just answering phones, organizing papers, fooling with my digital photos and watching the thermometer continue to rise. (At 11:09am the Weatherbug thermometer already read 88 - four degrees higher than it was all day yesterday. Ick.)
Did you ever hear this thing? "Moses supposes his toeses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously." What is it? It's not a nursery rhyme, a limerick, a haiku or a saying. It came to me for no reason tonight, although I can't think of an actual reason that it would *ever* come to me. What does it mean? What is its purpose? Why am I asking all these rhetorical questions? What is the purpose of a rhetorical question, anyway?
'night.
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Did you ever hear this thing? "Moses supposes his toeses are roses but Moses supposes erroneously." What is it? It's not a nursery rhyme, a limerick, a haiku or a saying. It came to me for no reason tonight, although I can't think of an actual reason that it would *ever* come to me. What does it mean? What is its purpose? Why am I asking all these rhetorical questions? What is the purpose of a rhetorical question, anyway?
'night.
