A Cuddlier Robo-Dog…
Boston Dynamics has creeped some people out with their robotic dog intended for security or military applications that looks like it might be a best friend for a T-800 Terminator.– -How, oh how, to make the uncanny Robo-dog more user-friendly, more acceptable? The answer is simple; make a furry out of it!
There!- – Isn’t that nicer? Less menacing now, our Robo-pooch looks almost like something out of Disney! You could be lulled into a false sense of security and might even invite its presence, until it can get within 30 feet of you and perhaps deploy its flamethrower attachment. Then it’s all over except for the screaming.- -Talk about an infiltrator unit! 🤖
Acceptance of robots is all about presentation, after all. So enjoy this little dance of the robot stripped down and dressed-up models. Just ask yourself, do you trust your dog?- – Do you, really? 🙀
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May 6, 2024 at 6:51 pm
The only robo-dog (or is that “candroid”?) that I’ve ever trusted is Doctor Who’s K-9.
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May 6, 2024 at 6:54 pm
Seriously, though: do you think they’ll ever invent a robo-fox?
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May 6, 2024 at 10:58 pm
I can only hope! 🎆
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May 6, 2024 at 9:38 pm
One more thought for today. Have you ever considered doing a mini-article about the gradually increasing meaninglessness of the Triple Crown?
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May 6, 2024 at 11:02 pm
I would first want to see Rainbow Dash and Applejack as contestants… 😄
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May 7, 2024 at 5:26 pm
A video game and a Kellogg breakfast cereal???
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May 7, 2024 at 5:29 pm
Oops! Silly me. I was thinking of “Candy Crush” which always reminds me of Skittles (“Crush the rainbow! Taste the rainbow!”).
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May 11, 2024 at 4:44 pm
Just read on-line that Mystik Dan (winner of the 2024 Kentucky Derby) will be competing in the Preakness (2nd leg of the Triple Crown) after all. Which is good for the hard-core horse-racing aficionados because–as I said last time–any Kentucky Derby winner who only competes in one of the other two races renders all three meaningless!
And that’s been precisely the case, for one reason or another, the last ten years or so.
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May 11, 2024 at 7:22 pm
This is so! And will you be going to see the new “Planet of the Apes” movie? 🦍🦧
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May 12, 2024 at 1:47 pm
I saw it at my hometown multiplex, Opening Night, as a matter of fact! 🙂
It’s both a sequel to “War for the POTA,” and a prequel to the twist ending of Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of the 1968 classic that started it all! 🙂
By that, I mean it is set (and I quote): “Many generations after Caesar’s death.” And to say that a lot of his visionary philosophies haven’t been faithfully followed would be putting it mildly. 😦
More than that I refuse to say so as not to spoil it for you. ;-D
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May 12, 2024 at 8:02 pm
I thought that you would go ape for the day! 🦍
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May 13, 2024 at 1:54 am
GOOD ONE! 🙂
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May 20, 2024 at 2:06 am
Further update: Mystik Dan came in second, behind Seize The Grey, in the 2024 Preakness Stakes. So, it’s pretty much meaningless to watch the Belmont Stakes (Triple Crown leg #3) three weeks from now.
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May 21, 2024 at 1:28 pm
On a less-sporting note: have you ever been awakened at six in the morning by one of those telemarketers whose caller-ID is a long-string of numbers prefixed by one or two consonants?
Well, this one I serenaded, using inspiration from “Far Away Places” (a 1948 torch song first done by Margaret Whiting and covered ten years later by Bing Crosby).
“Far-away people with strange-sounding names keep on phoning me.
Trying to sell me crap I don’t want. Calling endlessly!”
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May 21, 2024 at 1:32 pm
Of course, I used a harsher synonym for “crap” in order to get my true feelings across. 😉
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May 22, 2024 at 5:19 pm
My telemarketers start at about 8:30 in the a.m. I wait to see if they leave a message, and block them the next time they call if they don’t… 😼
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May 23, 2024 at 4:11 pm
In the immortal words of Teddy Roosevelt:
“Bully, sir! Bully!”
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May 23, 2024 at 4:28 pm
P.S.—I, of course, use that in the grammatically obsolete sense meaning “very good” or “blustering-but-jovial.”
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May 23, 2024 at 7:25 pm
As Teddy Roosevelt said on San Juan Hill, “CHARGE!” 😸
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