January 8, 2007
A Boy and His Robot
Tiger and Mr. Roboto. Photo by Trudie Mattay.
That’s my longtime friend Tiger on the right. His dad put together Mr. Roboto, his mom took the photo, and just last night this is what Tiger wrote me:
To this day, I am grateful to my wise parents and their robot gift to me, and I still very much want a robot to do all the work I don’t want to do because some tasks are — NOT fun! And FUN is what I need MORE of, ya know, cause I — LOVE — FUN!!!!
Examples: I need a robot to do the data entry on a MicroSoft Access/Excel spreadsheet, to clean the toilet and shower, and to create dull reports that say nothing, mean nothing, result in nothing — and are filed in cabinets no one would ever want to open — or even purge, even in 2010!
THANK YOU, ROBOTO!
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Footnote: Tiger is the friend who went to all the crazy holiday parties in the Greater Los Angeles area. He does like his fun.
did Mr. Roboto go? or was he relegated to chores?
Deron, I will have to ask Tiger about that. I bet Mr. Roboto went to some of the parties. Southern Californians don’t seem to get uptight if your date is a robot.
Is that really _____?
Cooper, that is indeed the person you knew as _____ Mattay when he knew you as _____ Renner.
(The photo, however, dates from a time before we all became acquainted.)
Las Vegas of Memory Lane
Deron, I am rapidly concluding that you are the “unacknowledged legislator” of the Las Vegas of Whatever.
Just in case there’s some of y’all don’t know, that was Percy Bysshe Shelley.
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Las Vegas of the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World
“Las Vegas of the Unacknowledged Legislators of the World” — A/K/A “clusterflock”?
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