TV Now

So this is CBS' premiere week (as well as every other station) and so far I've seen a pretty good season opener of NCIS which kinda um stopped the story Line of Tony's love life in a very very dramatic way. on Criminal Minds they set up what is to be the end of Gideon (team leader) literally. An ending shot of him sitting in his cabin holding a gun to his head- kinda set up his death. He was distraught over not being able to protect a college campus from a serial murderer. TV guide also said that the opener and second episode were Patakin's last appearances. It's OK, as long as they don't kill Dr. Spencer Reid I'll probably still watch. Reid is probably one of the most fascinating characters on TV today.

and now we come to this: CSI nine o'clock tonight-the fate of Sara Sydel. will she die? Will Grissom get there on time to save the love of his life who is trapped underneath a car during a rain storm in the middle of the Nevada desert? do any of you even give a shit?

yes even I'll admit that scenario is a bit melodramatic, but considering I watched the entire season last year wondering who that fucking Miniature's killer was (kinda was wishing it was Grissom-they had enough clues pointing to him) and was actually kinda shocked when they revealed it (a schizophrenic girl with an obsessive crush on Grissom) I kinda want to know how this will eventually end. Judging from the previews the last two nights it can't really be that good. I'm also hoping they reveal the outcome of the wrongful death suit against Gregory Sanders. Greg is my character on that show, my second is Sarah. I only want her to die because it would be a fairly twisted death and most original in years.

on another note- I'll probably be watching Reaper on the CW. I'll be still pissing on the name of Smallville for it's continued fucking up of the DC comic mythos. I love Green Arrow-they fucked him up real bad. Now they're going to fuck up Super girl. wtf CW. as long as they don't bring in Batman and Wonder woman. just let the show bow out gracefully before things get even more convoluted than they already are...

Whatever happened to the Rosie the Robot?

She's in Japan.

So I remember being in elementary school and an assembly taking place with local officer Cotton (who was the police liason for my districts DARE program at the time) and his new parter, a silly and fun information that looked like a cross between E.T and B-9 from Irwin Allen's Lost in Space (the series). I thought it was the coolest frikkin thing ever. To an 7 year old in 1988 (and a burgeoning sci-fi geek) the sight of Mike Cotton talking to a robot like would any of us was mind blowing.

So i wake up this morning and go to MyYahoo.com and see what fun filled news and events are going on in the world and i come across this juicy little number: Robots turn off senior citizens. Intruiged I clicked on it and saw this funny little guy. It's called the ifbot bot and it is created by a japanese company called Business Deseign Laboratories. This guys abilities include conversing, sing, express emotions and give trivia quizzes to seniors to help with their mental agility. According to the BDL's website (where they proclaim to be the head manufacturers of Hello Kitty toys) this little punk, which stands about two feet high, also features wheels for movement, a sensor that will move around obstacles, recognition of the user and some of the user's friends. And as if things couldn't get any cooler he also offers a handshake function.

So I looked at other sites and found a whole bunch of robots for personal use including a robot who can literally clean up the streets of crime as it is a body retrieval unit. A trash truck or corpses have you.



now my last example I give you Repliee q2, basically an early version of Lt. Data from Next Gen. I'm not entirely sure what her purpose is but it's really really bad how attractive I find her. I remember reading about her some 2 years ago and everything I hear about her since then has gotten weirder. Apparenlty she can speak 5 human languages, walk a semi human pace (she was said to be around that of a man on crutches. The videos I've seen of her on Youtube seem to support that. What's most striking is her extremely life like appearance and how natural she is programmed to act. enjoy these pictures. And no, the Blade Runner like implications are not lost on me.


Youtube has some amazing video of Repliee q2


My main point with all of these robots is this: they're all Japanese. Alot of the ones I've looked at were all in practical uses around Japan. So i ask again, Where the hell are all of our robots? I was led to believe when I was 7 that the age of robots would be upon us soon enough. damn you cotton...damn you and your robot enticing lies!!!!

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The FIrst one

This is the blog of One, Sean Ross, a common man with a common name. I suppose if you want to look at it that way. In truth, I'm not entirely sure why I decided to post shit here, I have a myspace.com site that i post to on a pretty regular basis. I enjoy the fun I have on it with it's near infinite customability. I like how I have tons of friends (I'm not a friend whore, with the exception of a couple people in other countries and Bands I actually know my friends in real life). I guess what's annoying me about it is the juvenility about the thing. It all feels kinda lame and retarded, like It feels like it's been made for children who have no lives. I feel disenfranchised from it, like I'm someone at a party being thrown by people he has no connection to.

I joined blogger about a year ago as part of a class project and this morning I had to ressurect it for another class project. I think I'll take this oppurtunity to use this as a true outlet for my emotions and feeling and all those other things i should be afraid of expressing as an american straight man. Most of my shit about what i'm doing this weekend and self gossip i'll use for the 'Space, here it'll be private and mature issues. It may not be a revolutionary self discovery or any kind of shit like that, but it'll be something. Hopefully I'll meet some new interesting people who can give some kickass feedback on things, I poromise I'l return some as well. Till then, rock on and take care.

-S