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We're doomed.

Thu Nov 9, 2006, 3:02 AM
  • Mood: Stumped
  • Listening to: "Grace Cathedral Hill" - The Decemberist
  • Reading: I Am Not Myself These Days (Josh Kilmer Purcell)
  • Watching: VH1 music videos in the morning
"Let the robot holocaust commence: robots think we taste like bacon.

Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy to the right: a metal man gastronomist, "an electromechanical sommelier", capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses...like "tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was."

But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.

Absolutely horrifying. Like cows, once robots taste blood, their hunger for human flesh can never be satiated."
- from The Wired Blog

From South Coast Today

Apparently, I was tagged?

Fri Aug 25, 2006, 6:25 PM
Choose twelve of your original characters in any particular order (NO PEEKING AT THE QUESTIONS AT THIS STAGE!). Then, answer the questions that follow and don't forget to tag a couple of people when you're finished.

1. Vince
2. Kevin
3. Amber
4. David K.
5. David C.
6. Elijah/Artiste
7. Aaron
8. j3ph
9. Ari
10. Sarah
11. Abby
12. Alke

01)Who would make a better college professor, 6 or 11? What subjects would they teach?
...Shit, neither of them. Eli would kill things with his demeanor, and Abby's a little off the deep end of ADD and No Common Sense-ry. Anyway, he'd teach art classes and she'd teach... track. She'd coach the bloody track team.

02) Do you think 2 is hot? How hot?
Kevin? Nah, more cute than hot. Chelsea's Hale rather disagrees with me, but he's more kicked puppy cute.

03) 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Alke, being a futuristic general bitch, sends j3ph, who found out, courtesy of too much tequila, how to download things to his brain, out to find the secret plans for the ever-present rebels' next move. It succeeds with him only contracting a minor computer virus.

04) What is or would be 9's favorite book?
Ari's quite the little literati, actually; he doesn't have one favorite book, but several boxes of favorite books. Of them all, though, he remains rather fond of Middlesex and Hamlet.

05) Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
Oh, definitely Kevin swearing it to Eli. Eli would intimidate the poor boy into it.

06) For some reason, 5 is looking for a roommate. Should he share a studio apartment with 9 or with 10?
Definitely Sarah; David and Ari are both gay, and David's rather attractive, if also a junky, which might wind up with accidental cheating and Ari would guilt trip about it.

07) 2, 7 and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
They have it on Alke's starship, in her private quarters. She and Aaron discuss politics, which Kevin weighs in on with his pathetically uninformed opinion.

08) 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
They both end up laughing too much to actually duel.

09) If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would she/he get it back?
Vince wouldn't steal j3ph's stuff, period; j3ph is all creepy and he doesn't bathe that frequently.

10) Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
Erm... "My Brother's Keeper," wherein she gets her drug-addled, rebel-joining younger brother back on the side of the royal family and he gets his frequently drunk, pornographer younger brother to set his life in order.

11) What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
Certain demise if they don't work together. David's a stoner; Vince hates that passionately, especially since he and David are both gay and David's into crystal meth, which is making AIDS into a gi-huge-ic problem for the gay community again. They'd need to be threatened with doom t work together.

12) If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
Probably quite well, unless he got into my mother's stash of booze. He's an unassuming, yet incredibly self-destructive, guest.

13) If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
Take care of my sister for a while so I don't have to. Make sure she doesn't burn the house down.

14) Does anyone on your friends list write or draw 11?
Someone could probably try...?

15) If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Kevin would go with David C. because they're cousins and they're closerthanthisclose.

16) What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
"FREEEEEEEDOM!" Because, even though he is a drunken, anti-Semitic nutter, Mel Gibson's Braveheart cry wins.

17) If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
"Jesus Online" by Bush, or "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" by Gorillaz

18) 1, 6, and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Alke and Eli would have a bitch-fight over it; Vince would pleasantly turn his attentions to something with shrimp in it.

19) What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
He wouldn't try; he likes his women younger and straight.

20) What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Hopefully, possession (heroin or pot); most likely, something that's less of a "we're going to punish you" arrest and more of a "just come sit with us to calm down" arrest.

21) What is 6's secret?
He really doesn't blame his brother for everything, just most of it.

22) If 11 and 9 were racing to a destination, who would get there first?
Abby. Ari's all scrawny, weak, and would wind up being carried there by either Sarah or his boyfriend.

23) If you had to walk home through a bad neighbourhood late at night, would you feel safer in the company of 7 or 8?
Aaron. j3ph talks to people on the street and engages them, but Aaron's incredibly protective of the people he loves, and he has to love me; I'm his author.

24) 1 and 9 reluctantly team up to save the world from the threat posed by 4's sinister secret organization. 11 volunteers to help them, but it is later discovered that he/she is actually a spy for 4. Meanwhile, 4 has kidnapped 12 in an attempt to force their surrender. Following the wise advice of 5, they seek out 3 , who gives them what they need to complete their quest.

-What title would you give this fic?
"Bitchfest" And, ohbytheway, Alke would kill or incapacitate almost everyone. Just so we're clear on that.

-Name three people on your friends list who might read it.
I hope to god you all have better things to do. I know I do.

-Name one person who should write it.
...No one?


And, yeah. Feel free to do it if you want, but screw tagging. It's DA, not LJ. :P

Well that was fun...

Thu Aug 24, 2006, 10:58 AM
Don't let your siblings put vegetable oil on the back-burner.

Ever.

...Ask me how I know.

If I were a man...

Mon Jul 31, 2006, 9:08 PM
I'd sleep with Rufus Wainwright.

And probably Alan Cumming too.

And my incredibly pretty, scathingly witty, and very gay RA.

'Nuff said. My taste isn't questionable, just geared away from reproduction or satisfaction at all. (I always fall for gay guys and straight girls. Unfair entirely.)

summertiiiiiiime...

Mon Jun 12, 2006, 5:07 PM
And the livin' is eeeeasyyyyyyy.

Life is good right now. Really, really good. :D

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