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Murtha’s Clone Wars

March 10th, 2008 | Category: General, Living in the Sci-Fi Era

Did anyone see in Wired about the Army’s $200 Billion Robot Army? It seems that Rep. Murtha (D-Pa) wants another $20 billion for a clone army. Well, at least that’s how I misread the title of the article. It actually said “Reboot” rather than “Robot.” I guess I got overexcited about a $200 Billion robot project. Anyway, isn’t a mistake like this how Terry Gilliam’s Brazil got started?

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Robot Builder Websites

March 10th, 2008 | Category: General, Living in the Sci-Fi Era

Wow! What I am always amazed at is finding people like myself. Of course, I am merely an appreciator of Robot art. In my searches for Robot art, however, I came across something equally as cool: Robot Builders. Please check out some of these sites…. really amazing stuff.

  • Fred Barton Productions
  • The Giant Robot Project (Very Cool)
  • Kelly Krider’s site
  • Chris Lee’s R2-G4 Website
  • Chip Luck’s R2-D2 Website
  • Albin Johnson’s R2-KT Web Site
  • Astromechbuilder.com
  • R2D2 Central
  • DarkJedi’s Resin Parts
  • Cory’s my.astromech.net R2 page
  • Washington DC R2 builders
  • Mark’s mechanical men
  • Michael’s R2 droid construction project
  • Imperial Droid works
  • Jerry Green’s R2 Site - EXCELLENT !!!
  • The infamous Purple Robot
  • Cole Horton’s (300mm Dome tutorial) R2 Blog
  • Victor’s R2D2 Building Diary
  • Paul’s R2-D2 Project
  • Trooper TK3002 Blog (built a bender)
  • Matt’s R2 Building Blog
  • Jason Thomas R2D2 and prop builde
  • IU-D2 Building blog
  • Chris Romines R2-A1 blog
  • Chris Lee’s R2 Blog
  • ARTOO-DETOO DOT NET - NICE
  • pixelFiend’s blog
  • “The GeekWhiteNorth” robot builder
  • Jonathan Higgins R2 blog
  • Calvin’s R2 blog
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    RoboCop 1.0 - The Bum Bot

    March 07th, 2008 | Category: Living in the Sci-Fi Era

    http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/03/06/bum.bot/index.html

    Now we are seeing Robots autonomously patrolling the streets to spray the homeless with water like dogs doing it in the road.  This bum-bot is further evidence that we are living in the Science Fiction era with tinges of RoboCop, 1984 and 2001: A Space Odessey (in that the robot has one big red eye).

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    Note to Starbucks - Don’t Make Me Change My Language

    March 07th, 2008 | Category: Living in the Sci-Fi Era

    Ever since they took 3 hours off last week for a nationwide training, it seems that Big Brother Starbucks is requiring that I participate in thier doublespeak. I refuse! When I order a medium coffee, I want a medium coffee. You can call it tall, grande, supremo or some other made up language, but we all know what I mean. I want a medium coffee. On top of that, it seems that if I ordered an iced supremo quad shot, splenda caffee latte frappacino, they would expertly translate that into a tasty hot beverage. But as soon as I utter the word ‘medium’, you act like that word does not even exist. I refuse to participate in your fascist word-smithing and will happily walk a couple of extra blocks for a coffeeshop that does not participate in such dictatorial tactics.

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