Archives for July 25, 2018

Robots

Frigging amazing. I remember how auto workers (in the 80s?) were (rightly so) afraid that these robots would be taking their jobs. It turned out that people were needed to program them (what you just saw was pretty good programming at work), AND people who could fix them when they broke. The only issue I had with this one’s programming was that “he” didn’t scoop up the bottle cap from the floor … [Read more...]

Books/movies – watch movie, read book or via versa?

True story time. I “found” a new sample book on my kindle the other day. Obviously I downloaded it myself, but don’t remember when nor why, since I didn’t recognize the title. Started to read the sample, got to the end of it and felt the book was worth spending ten bucks on it, and bought the full version about a week ago. Went back to the kindle store and learned a new movie is coming out … [Read more...]