I Can't Get Next to You---Severus

So Seattle is in some sort of Snowpocolypse but I still got to see Harry Potter 7-1. I liked it but this brings me to a song I love. Have you heard the song "I Can't Get Next to You" by the Temptations? I like the Annie Lennox version but the point is, the story is actually beautiful in a kind of melancholy way. It is about a man (or in the case of Lennox, a woman) who has all the power in the world (magic and otherwise) but still can't be with the one he/she loves.....or lusts for. I think that concept is very prevalent in the last Harry Potters. You know, you can't create love, you can't bring back the dead and even if you have magic, no one is safe. Even though it is depressing, I find it kind of freeing.

Well Currently I am listening to NIN Pretty Hate Machine and Trent Reznor totally makes me think of Snape. I love Snape. I guess the song makes me think of Severus.

Fake Mustaches

So, it is a common knowledge that mustaches are funny. Fake mustaches are hilarious.

My husband has a drawer of fake mustaches you buy from 25 cent vending machines in grocery store entrances because "you never know when you might need one." I know this sounds very very creepy but remember when you were a kid and you wanted a quarter so so bad so you could buy that piece of candy, cheap ring or huge sticker from the vending machine. That is what I think these fake mustaches are to him. He has yet to actually use one.

On a trip away from my family, I was talking to him via Skype. This is the year of growing facial hair because he feels it makes him look older. I was staying at a friends house where the resident five year old wanted to talk too. This five year old was very interested in the idea of buying mustaches for 25 cents. Then he pointed at my husband on the computer screen and excitedly asked "is that a fake mustache?"

Are fake mustaches on robots funny? Well, here is a picture. If the mustache is part of the robot's design, is it fake?

Adventure!

Hello Lonely Blog,

I had an adventure today, well as much as I can have one. Though it did not have to due with Robots, I assure you they were in my thoughts...completely.

I started the day at 6am getting dropped off at the Seattle Piers and rode the clipper in a state of half awake. I pretty sure I bought food and tasted the most disgusting coffee EVER made.

I had two goals as I walked off the vessel onto the streets of downtown Victoria for the first time (alone): Find an obscure French comic and get to the Observatory on my own. So I have been to Victoria many times but this was the first time I pushed aside my many illogical fears and just started walking.

Recently I have become obsessed with a comic called "Clues" by a French cartoonist, Mara, I found on deviant art. here is the link

http://kyla79.deviantart.com/

Apparently she got her comics published in France a few years ago and it is a series. However, you can not get them in the US but you can through Amazon Canada....Although, I hoped that since her last post was in 2008, this had changed. Maybe the comic had made it to the New World. It was still in French but I would just make my husband translate them. I wandered the streets for 2 hours, going to 5 books stores. No one had heard of it. This kind of made me sad but I can still order it from Amazon.

I ended up at a great "hole-in-the-wall" Chinese place with free wifi and recorded some thoughts for a robot book...why not?

I took 2 buses (which was way way easier then I thought) to an obscure college and then to the bottom of a small mountain. I walked the 1.5 miles up hill avoiding crazy drivers coming down a winding road. I hate listening to my own thoughts but this time it wasn't so bad. A lot of Robot book thinking.

Next time...maybe a drawing of a robot.

GI Joe but No Robots

So I was just talking to a friend about GI Joe. It isn't about Robots but it sure is nerdy. We all know the phrase "..and Knowing is Half the Battle..GI Joe!" But what the hell is the other half? When will we ever learn it? How will we win the battle without the other half? No wonder the new movie tanked. It was missing something...maybe it was this allusive secret or maybe it was a plot.

Are there any robots in GI Joe?

Paranoid/Neurotic Robots

Hi Fellow Dorks,

I am feeling like we need a new post. Let's talk about paranoid and/or neurotic robots. I really thought the idea of one was original and funny. Then I realized that there are a lot of them. There is C3PO and Marvin from Hitchhikers. There is the one I love, from Futurama, who blows up each time he is startled.

Why do we love Robots that are pretty much just F-ed up humans? I guess it is because we can relate. I sure can. What other robots did I miss?

Let's take a Break

What a difference a day can make. I have decided that taking a month off thesis stuff is what will make me more sane. No talking, thinking, or doing PhD thingys. Also realizing that graduating in Spring isn't so bad. I will do it before I am 30 at least. So this blog has now reverted back to "Just for Fun". We will talk about my thesis at the end of June but till then.......

Did you hear about the synthetic life? Sounds like robots to me.

11 weeks to & A BREAK DOWN

Hi,

I kind of suffered a break down this week. My body is telling me "no more". Or that is at least what the doctor said. I have headaches that won't go away and major fatigue. I don't know how much more I can take. She said something has to go..the job or the thesis. I am very worried. I did send in 6 pages of one chapter to my advisor though so I am technically on schedule. I am sorry to be a downer but I just feel like crap. Don't worry though, I still have robot gossip for you.

Robot Talk:

I take back everything I said about Robots in Space! I didn't know our astronauts would have to hitch rides with other countries and we would NEVER have any transportation of our own in the near future. That is lame. We aren't moochers....at least I don't want us to be. (I am kind of a food moocher)

So I was wrong. If this new Obama plan makes our astronauts "Space Hitchhikers" (even though that is a cool name), I want no part of it.

What do you think?