Monthly Archives: January 2009

ConTech: SNEAK PEEK! (the future of pee)

I was recently invited by a high-ranking source at a powerful company (i.e., one that is only almost bankrupt) to view a prototype of the urinal of the future. Although it has not yet been announced, legislation (expected to pass handily through congress) will require all current urinal technologies be replaced nationwide by 2020, for [...]

Update: January 26, 2009

It seems like it’s been a long time since I updated the ol’ “blog”. Yes… It seems that way indeed.

Ode to Floyd

A few weeks ago I received the 250th comment on this here blog. Floyd wrote: this is a fine blog. … very apropos. In my head, I had promised a gift to the person who left my 250th comment. Then, with my fingers, I promised a gift to Floyd. As a PROFESSIONAL WRITER, you know [...]

Robot Genesis: The Sacred Text

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Also, robots. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was all up in here. And God said, “Let there be light”: and there was light. God saw the light, and it was good. And God said, “Let there be robots”: and there [...]