More Creepiness from the Robotics World

As if the Japanese Mini-Me dolls weren’t creepy enough, David Hanson of Dallas TX has created a robot Einstein bust that is, in essence, more human than human. It reads human emotions, responds with it’s own, and is soon planned to be able to decipher a genuine smile.

He’s created the robot to be pseudo-empathic, reading people’s facial expressions and reacting accordingly with his own. He’s managed to recreate 42 facial muscles with motors that make many of them more versatile than actual human muscle.

Now backtrack a bit to the Mini-Me doll… it can mimic your voice and perform basic intelligent functions… combine that with the intelligence of Hanson’s Einstein head, then the ultra-intelligent robots that Honda are building which can dance and such…don’t you see the next step as being a ME REPLICA? They already have life-like latex anatomically correct love dolls which look completely real, with the combination of the previously mentioned technologies, we’re only a few decades, if that, from having fully functional and intelligent life-like robots, just like in Artificial Intelligence.

We’re on our way, and I’m caught somewhere between excited and morbidly afraid. I’ve seen the Animatrix too many times to be comfortable with this idea.

Check out the article here.

Dear god I miss this woman.

When I was young, there was a huge stink in my tiny town of Roswell, NM over the book “Daddy’s Roommate”, which told the story of a child whose parents were divorced and the father now lived with his gay lover “roommate”.

From what my southern Baptist mother said about the book my little head was filled with pictures of the devil sodomizing a child’s father as he watched, cities crumbling under the strong arm of the homosexual, and general debauchery and non-biblical behavior. I was “into” the Bible at that time.

Then, as I got older and figured out “Holy shit, I’m gay! Everything makes SO much more sense now!” I went to the library and read the book, and found it to be a really touching story which I could see giving a lot of comfort and understanding to the growing number of kids that find themselves in that situation.

Sarah Palin, however, does not share my opinion. She made insinuations about banning books during her mayoral campaign but the McCain party claims no books were ever banned. Her former campaign manager Laura Chase suggested that she read the book, that it was “a sensitve book about showing love for additional family members”.

Douchebag Palin CRINGED.

Considering she’s a “turn homo into hetero” nut, I can imagine this wouldn’t be her favorite book. But CRINGING at the idea of opening her horizons to MODERN situations by reading a book about unconventional families?

All I gotta say is…

FUCK THAT BITCH.

Read more here.

BTW I stole the Sarah Palin GIF up there from this site. http://kingsgatenews.com/blog/2008/08/29/sarah-palin-is-no-hillary-clinton/ if they see this and want me to take it down I will but it seemed fitting and made me piddle.

CREEPY ASIAN DOLL!

DEAR GOD when I saw this it creeped me out probably more than anything else I’ve found online. I may actually have nightmares from this toy, f’real y’all.

In Japan they’ve developed a robot that will look JUST like you. Well, a weird muppet version of you at least. It’s like a possessed my buddy that looks like you, like Chucky mixed with that guy from that one x-files episode that could eat people and take on their appearance. “My Buddy” always freaked me out anyways, my oldest Nephew had one when he was a kid and that thing messed with me, bad.

It’s got a web cam, microphone, and speaker built in so it will learn your voice and read you the news and weather using it. And not just that, I can see some major fetish value here. How many net pervert pigs out there would TOTALLY get off on a doll of themselves watching them diddle and broadcast to all their little net pig friends? Juts like the vibrating Harry Potter witch’s broom that moms were stealing from their kids, everything will eventually get used for some strange, wholly unconventional and impure purpose.

I see FAIL written all over this. I can totally see the You-bot evolving to some kind of intelligence and becoming jealous of its owner and taking them out with a kitchen knife in the middle of the night. Those things can go to hell and die for all I care.

Another Classic Band Revamp FAIL.

Yet another classic band revamp FAIL. JD Fortune, the guy that won the stupid little contest to find the next lead singer for INXS is now homeless after the band inevitably failed. Check it out here.

Credence Clearwater Revival tried to do that. It was one of the first concerts that I went to. They played after a New Mexico State University game, and after my hag Amber and I rushed the field to bring down the goal post and nearly got trampled, CCR-R played. That’s Credence Clearwater Revival – Revisted for those of you who didn’t pick up on that.

Anyway, we crowd surfed, we moshed, we smoked a joint with some college kid whose mommy and daddy most likely unwittingly purchased. It was a great time, but all the same it was like going to a Pink Floyd light show when the band isn’t actually playing. It’s like going to see the King Tut exhibit to see the mummy but all you get is the crap they kept his organs in.

The only band that did it right was Sublime. After we lost Bradley, Aaron and Bud formed Long Beach Dub All-Stars, which was basically Sublime without Bradley but they didn’t claim to be Sublime, they were a totally new incarnation.

Remember that computer interface Tom Cruise used in Minority Report???

Remember the user interface that Tom Cruise used in Minority Report? Well with iPoint 3D you can do just that. Using a keyboard-like device which can be mounted on the ceiling or built into your coffee table and two firewire cameras to pick up hand and finger gestures make it the ultimate wireless mouse.

Remember how we could only dream of things like this. We were stuck with things like keyboards and mice and other things that require hands. If I could only take a snapshot of all the things I have currently and send it back to myself 20 years…

Like my PSP – a hand-held device like a game boy that you can watch full length movies on, listen to music, and – gasp – access the internet. Yes, I know iPod touch is cooler but lets stick to the point here.

And iTunes, this would have been my prayer. I was one of those kids that bought singles on tape before you could really but them on CD’s. I always thought music ala carte would be absolutely awesome. I used to buy the full CD for one stinkin song, then I’d get tired of it and by that time the CD was too scratched to sell. Now all the music stores are shutting down, people are losing jobs, but oh well, I can get “I hate this part” without buying the entire Pussycat Dolls CD.

Yes I just admitted to buying that song.

Bite me.

Check out the article here : iPoint 3D

And I Thought MY Teachers Were On Crack...

I know that we all called some of our teachers crackheads, but this guy really takes the cake. William Horseman, a teacher somewhere ‘over the pond’ fessed up to smoking crack for several months. He said his reasons were problems at home, stress, yadda yadda yadda… but the kicker is, they let him keep his job!

While hooked on crack he fell asleep during lessons, field trips, amongst other behaviors unbecoming of someone molding the leaders, or crackheads, of tomorrow. But of course, he said he was sorry and learned his lesson, so the powers that be said “Ok, we’ll give you a mulligan. Don’t screw it up this time!” Of course he’s under review, and his employers have to give regular evaluations of his performance, but still if you’re dumb enough to smoke crack and fall asleep while teaching a class you deserve to be cleaning grease traps at Mooby Burger.

I’m all about second chances. I’m all about recovery. But when it comes to kids there should be a no tolerance policy, right? I know a police officer that was busted for having cocaine in his desk and it ruined his life. Sure he was protecting the public, keeping our streets safe and what not but what about teachers? Shouldn’t we expect to have ANYTHING less than a crackhead teaching out kids?

Check out the full article here: Crackhead Teacher

Tell That Biatch to BE COOL

THIS BITCH WENT CRAZY.

Personally I have never missed a plane. I’ve come very close before, on a southwest flight one time I ran through the velvet rope just as they were closing it. Another time I was drunk as piss eating my Pizza at the wrong gate. But both times I made it.

Now I understand there is a lot of fun stuff to do and buy in airports, many of them are like malls now so it’s easy to get caught up shopping, but how the HELL are you going to get so distracted shopping that you miss your plane? Go to the freakin MALL when you get home and save a few bucks for Jebus sake.

This woman did, and then threw a complete fit about it. Instead of just going to the ticket counter and seeing what arrangements can be made to accommodate her absolute retardedness, she beat on the counters, rolled on the floor, and from the looks of it at one point went behind the counter and tried handling up on things herself.

To top if off she’s Chinese so you can’t understand a syllable of the inane babble that you probably wouldn’t be able to understand anyway, except for her screaming “This is inhumane!”. The kicker was it took her husband plus airport staff to tell her that the next plane would be leaving in a couple hours.

Just watch, you’ll laugh.

Drunk Monks Recycle

A group of monks in northeast Thailand don’t just like to drink – they like to get creative when they drink. Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew AKA The Temple of Many bottles is comprised completely of glass bottles with concrete reinforcement.

Not only is it made out of old beer bottles, the materials used for the first building were collected by the monks themselves – an apparently they like Heineken. After that the authorities began donating bottles which lead to the construction of their 20 building compound.

I can see why this would be one of the new leading tourist attractions in Asia, I want to go party with THESE monks. I’ve been “Jimmy Buffet Drunk” (and cracked my skull in the process) but these hard core peace loving freaks get “lets drink so much we can build a temple out of the bottles!” drunk!

You have to admire their conservation efforts though, even the mosaic of Buddha they have in the temple is created out of recycled beer caps. Call it conservationist, call it what you will, but I call it drunken genius.

I think it’s funny that in Texas we build sculptures of Elvis out of beer cans and in Thailand they build temples out of Heineken bottles. I freakin love Asian culture.

Read the article here: Drunk Monks Recycle

Doucebag almost cool video FAIL.

This guy... is that guy.

I only posted this so you can all say "what a douche".

This is what happens apparently when you try to drive on Salvia.

Desperate and Lonely

DAILY, on my many escapades through the internets, I get a lot of messages. Maybe about 1% of those are from decent guys that I would possibly consider hanging out with in person, and the other 99% I can safely say, in all of my humility, I am WAAAY out of their league.

I have this issue where I have to respond to messages I receive, if for no other reason to just be friendly. The problem is the internet consists of desperately lonely people, and bored assholes that thrive on rejecting people because they’re insecure. I am not desperately lonely, just desperately BORED. I don’t like meeting people, I barely make time for the friends I have. The LAST thing I need right now is another friend to feel guilty for neglecting. But I love to chat and be net-social…

The problem with desperately lonely people is their desperation seeps from their pores. You can just tell that they need another person in their lives to justify their reason for being on this planet. I ALWAYS respond no matter how pathetic the person may seem even if I don’t find them attractive. However since they’re used to the assholes thriving on rejection they mistake this positive attention for affection, get obsessed, then get upset when you don’t return their feelings.

I’m so sick of talking to guys online who flunked social skills it’s not funny. Maybe I am the one shooting out of my league. I think I’m witty, social, not to mention a pretty hot cookie to boot. Every day I pray to god that this isn’t all just an illusion and I’m not a 5’5” fat man with bad skin and high self esteem.

Make the bad memories go away!!!

Apparently a drug has been created to erase bad memories. That’s right folks, forget AIDS, forget cancer, there is now a cure to “unsee” something. Finally you can take a pill and *poof*, no more 2girls1cup, 2guys1horse, or that foul woman having explosive diarrhea in the hot tub.

Beta blockers, usually given to heart disease patients, are now believed to have memory erasing properties. Basically the tests conducted have shown that the test subjects taking beta blockers are less skiddish when startled. What I gathered from the article is during the tests they’re shown creepy videos of spiders then given beta blockers. After that the scientists scare the hell out of them for a while and see if they blink.

So what would a world be like if we could just pop a pill and totally forget what happened? I could see it getting totally out of control, like popping a Memory Eraser after banging the ugly chick at the bar.

Personally I think the traumatic experiences we have in our lives are what make us stronger, you gotta confront situations instead of popping a pill to forget whatever traumatic experience you had.

Check out the article here: Pill To Erase Bad Memories