{"id":15977,"date":"2009-10-11T13:59:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15977"},"modified":"2009-10-11T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T22:09:00","slug":"two-fisted-existential-robot-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/two-fisted-existential-robot-tales.html","title":{"rendered":"Two-Fisted Existential Robot Tales!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We played “Happy Birthday, Robot!<\/a>” this morning. The results were … a tug of war between hope and horror, aspiration and anxiety …<\/p>\n

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Happy Birthday, Robot!<\/p>\n

Robot has a red, beeping antenna, and large Frankenstein shoes with brass knuckles. He walked alone, but not lonely. He was blue and wore a hat.<\/p>\n

Robot was not very happy. The sun shined ironically on robot’s smiling face, and the sun felt good. <\/p>\n

George Robot knew not the source of his angst. His painted smile hid his fear, but his eyes watched the ruins around him.<\/p>\n

“Robot! Be unafraid, but tie your camel!” came a voice from above.<\/p>\n

Robot took stock of his lonely life. “Why?” robot cried. But nothing replied. “No!”<\/p>\n

Robot began to split his clown-like body and personality so he would no longer be lonely. Mitosis being what it is, he only got two halves insstead. He then saw a pile of robot parts and plans to match pieces. Robot was happy and no longer scared or sad.<\/p>\n

Robot and roBot walked together down the road. Robot cried, “I MADE IT MYSELF!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Last line (which was on a separate piece of paper) added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We played “Happy Birthday, Robot!” this morning. The results were … a tug of war between hope and horror, aspiration and anxiety … Happy Birthday, Robot! Robot has a red, beeping antenna, and large Frankenstein shoes with brass knuckles. He walked alone, but not lonely. He was blue and wore a hat. Robot was not … Continue reading “Two-Fisted Existential Robot Tales!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5764,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/21\/robot_robot.html","url_meta":{"origin":15977,"position":0},"title":"Robot-robot","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 21-Jul-04 9:01am","format":false,"excerpt":"Is it my imagination, or is there a similarity between the famous Queen \"News of the World\" album cover robot (itself derived from a famous sf pulp magazine cover) and...","rel":"","context":"In "Media & Culture"","block_context":{"text":"Media & Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32797,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/09\/robot-combat-league-neither-rocksem-nor-socksem.html","url_meta":{"origin":15977,"position":1},"title":""Robot Combat League" neither rocks'em nor socks'em","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 9-Mar-13 2:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, it sounded pretty cool. 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