If you’ve ever seen the Robin Williams movie “Bicentennial Man”, you may recall the opening scene: a quiet suburban neighborhood is the setting as a delivery van pulls up to the door. A box is signed for, dragged into the house, and carefully pried open revealing a gleaming robot which promptly goes into demo mode. I couldn’t help but be reminded of that movie yesterday when, working from home, the UPS guy rung the doorbell. I signed for a nondescript cardboard package, dragged it upstairs, and pried it open to reveal a gleaming white robot which promptly went into demo mode. That said, my robot looks more like an over-sized smoke detector and doesn’t do much beyond vacuum the floors. But still, having a robotic maid scooting around our living room could prove handy in the coming months. It’s amazing what you can spend your reward points on these days. As an aside, we don’t usually name our appliances but (having watched far more than my fair share of science fiction) it just doesn’t seem fitting to have a robot without a moniker of some sort. I thought maybe “Kryten” would be fitting. |
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one.more.thing: a.red.dwarf.moment >> Watching Red Dwarf last night I was reminded of a quote from the show that relates to Herr.Bush's National Homeland Security color coded warning system: Rimmer: "Step up to red alert." Kryten: "Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb."
