Caterwauling

ZDNet’s “Will you one day marry a robot?” article caught my eye for a minute, as it examines some dude’s thesis on “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners.” Which, a “wave of the future” is sort of a misnomer when it comes to this, because I have enough artificial partners to start my own polygamist colony right here, right now.

Just goes to show there’s a euphemism for everything. I’m not vibrator-dependent; I’m “intimate with an artificial partner.”

I don’t know that I’d want to marry a robot, as the study suggests may become a reality as they evolve and emotion, on some level, can be incorporated in them. I could make the joke that the robots are going to be more emotive than I am in some situations, but my main fear would be that the poor thing would short-circuit while I’m riding my own personal Trojan horsey. Because, you know, wouldn’t its robot parts rust?!?!

Baltimore Inner Harbor, originally uploaded by dcwriterdawn.

We’re working off-site this week, and this is what I got to see today. The air does not smell like salt or sea or whatever you’d expect — it smells like cotton candy thanks to the Domino Sugar plant being nearby. Our cars are literally coated with powdered sugar every day.

We’re in the midst of a huge idea-fest, and being in beautiful Baltimore (well, this part of it is beautiful, anyway) was just what the doctor ordered, even though these days are e.x.h.a.u.s.t.i.n.g. It’s tiring in a good way, though, because we’re paying someone to take our Big Ideas and make them into Reality.

I would kill to be able to have this view from my own office. Hell, if I were on the water like this, I’d actually try to leave the building once in awhile. 😉

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