i prophesy eat-tanks in our time
PeacefulI often wonder what it'd be like to hermetically seal myself away from the world for 15 years (alternatively, to be comatose) just to be blown away by changes that I discover upon re-entry into the waking world. It'd be sort of a cure-all for those days when you trudge through life feeling like there's nothing new under the sun, that we're all just gifted but irredeemably stupid apes with petty, lizard-brained lives.
But I don't have to do that, because I'm safe in the knowledge that every once in a while I'll wake up to a world that has taken the first crucial steps in creating CANNIBAL ROBOTS!!!! [link]
Commence your lurching, ecstatic dances of gleeful doom, as I did.
I'd hate to think that sheer pragmatism led to this design. I would much rather believe that, during their time off from the la-BOR-atory, some bright spark was eyeball-deep in some sci-fi crap when they suddenly jumped to their feet, spilling their cheetos and grape soda all over the floor while shouting "CORPSE HARVESTERS!" and furiously drawing schematics and formulas on post-it notes.
The world needs some mad science. Even if it's couched in the most analytical, layman-proof language, I rejoice every time I hear about atom-smashing and robotics, and hope against hope that in my lifetime some previously-shunned mad genius will be behind the podium at a press conference offering tasty morsels like "building the ultimate beast" or "SMASHER-DEVOURER MK.IV is NOT a flawed creation!" Those are news bites I can get behind.
You may be right to think I'm making too much of this, but the world needs dreamers, visionaries, and people to get excited about today's science fiction being tomorrow's boring reality.
Besides...if that doesn't have you hopping, there's always Cat Shit One: [link]
ja, mata
Devious Comments
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"If I were not an atheist, I think I would have to be a Catholic because if it wasn't the forces of natural selection that designed fish, It must have been an Italian."
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
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Madness is a word used by those who do not understand
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"I wouldn't worry about it. I've paid more than $5.50 to make a mistake for two hours." -me
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That will be all. For now. --_--
That cartoon... @_@ wtf... morbidly curious...
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"Who am I? I'm the most bad-ass high flying soap bubble of 'em all!" - Sakata Gintoki, Gintama Volume 3, Chapter 22
I can't wait for the day when a plump grandchild and I are reading Peter Pan and we come to the explanation of Captain Hook's namesake. The child will look at me and think, "But why didn't he just grow a new one?" and I'll reply, "You'll have to open your mouth and speak, young one. Granddad has trouble thinking clearly into his neural implants."
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I had a rough childhood. I remember my old man giving me a bat on my tenth birthday...the first time I went outside to play with it, it flew away.
-Rodney Dangerfield
Is it wrong to want things that are terrible?
-Dinosaur Comics
and my pets would totally be all over my keyboard, but as it's high on a desk and they're dogs, it's not a problem...they just lay under the desk, causing me to forcibly remove them so that my chair is near enough to work...
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I'm a cautionary tale, not a role model.
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