31.1.05
Sports! Robots!
The WaPo provides linked-ness, this morning:
- Maryland is showing itself to be the most exciting and frustrating kind of team, this year - one that can turn in a mediocre effort against mediocrities, and then turn around and beat any team in the country. In consecutive games, the Terps have now beaten Duke - in Durham - and Georgia Tech. Potentially frustrating to watch, this is also the sort of team that other teams absolutely hate to play in the next two months.
- The Orioles are getting Sammy Sosa, and the WaPo sees an opportunity to slam Peter Angelos. To be clear - I hate Peter Angelos with a burning passion. And I don't particularly like Sammy Sosa. But this trade seems to me the right kind of gamble - one with pretty low risk. Sosa only has two years on his contract, and even a diminished and injured Sosa hit 35 homers last year, which would add a good deal of punch to an already-potent lineup, to say nothing of a rejuvenated Sosa. Jerry Hairston had lost the second-base battle, and would've gotten sullen being switched around in the outfield - and, of course, has yet to play an entire season without getting injured. So, even though I wish they'd gotten a solid pitcher or two, this is not bad, necessarily.
- Advances in nanotechnological medicine. This, I don't even pretend to understand, but I did just finish The Diamond Age, which was awesome.
- Killer robots.
perma-linky posted by jkd : 11:30
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okay, seriously? killer-fucking-robots? i'm glad to see that the army's decided it's time to live in the future. but shouldn't these things look a little better? and what happens when one of them breaks down in the field and is captured? i mean, i guess you'd have the same problem with a dead soldier dropping their weapon, and maybe The Enemy can do less with a captured robot-machine gun as opposed to a captured hu-man machine gun, but still.
i guess at the end it's no different from using remote control gliders to bomb enemy encampments/schools without endangering pilot's lives, it's just a bit farther down that slippery slope. oh well, start the countdown to robots with guns, rockets and and an option for exposed radiation to sterilize anyone it's fighting against who doesn't get shot. ooh! and a spoiler, spinners, and some friggin' hot neon piping.
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i guess at the end it's no different from using remote control gliders to bomb enemy encampments/schools without endangering pilot's lives, it's just a bit farther down that slippery slope. oh well, start the countdown to robots with guns, rockets and and an option for exposed radiation to sterilize anyone it's fighting against who doesn't get shot. ooh! and a spoiler, spinners, and some friggin' hot neon piping.
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