I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.

Buffy ,'Potential'


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Sparky1 - Apr 12, 2013 11:52:26 am PDT #18446 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Kate, I think a zoo membership is a great thing for kids who are new walkers (no cars! Lots of other kids to look at!), and if it easy for you to get over there and you have a membership then you never feel like you have to make a day of it - you can just go for a couple of hours. We have the panda and seal schedule memorized so we can pop over.

Also, DC's zoo is open at sun-up, so that when she wakes up at 6 am on a Saturday we can go see the animals and there is almost no one there.


§ ita § - Apr 12, 2013 11:56:29 am PDT #18447 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I mean, isn't a vibrator basically sort of a robot?

Not unless you define different vibration patterns as "tasks" that are "programmed". I think robot brings a lot of motion and programmability with it. Most of those people are probably requiring more C3PO than R2D2, although also more Maschinenmensch than either. Looks matter.


Burrell - Apr 12, 2013 11:56:55 am PDT #18448 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I feel like in the absence of further information, the house cleaner/caregiver is Rosie from The Jetsons, and the sex robot is Jude Law from AI.

In THAT case, I'm in.

Works for me too.


brenda m - Apr 12, 2013 11:58:42 am PDT #18449 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I feel like in the absence of further information, the house cleaner/caregiver is Rosie from The Jetsons, and the sex robot is Jude Law from AI.

Yup, sign me up.


Kate P. - Apr 12, 2013 12:00:45 pm PDT #18450 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

Kate, I think a zoo membership is a great thing for kids who are new walkers

Oh, good call. She's not walking yet, but I don't think it's too far off. (She's just discovered she can stand on her own, and she LOVES it. Which also means that I found her this morning standing on top of her little stool, holding onto the wall. I see some tumbles in our future...)

And I just realized that I don't actually have to make the decision by the time her birthday rolls around, because it's not as though she'll have any idea about her birthday presents anyway. So I can wait a few months longer, until whenever she seems ready. But we'll still go next weekend to see what she thinks of it.


Dana - Apr 12, 2013 12:02:20 pm PDT #18451 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

I was just telling shrift last night that I was ready for the days when robots handle customer service. They can't be worse at it than the humans.


-t - Apr 12, 2013 12:05:00 pm PDT #18452 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Yay zoo!

I t heart Gigolo Joe for that little "Why do you do that?" "It's what I do" conversation. I never actually thought about the whole robot sex question that is obviously part of his job. Huh.


Amy - Apr 12, 2013 12:05:15 pm PDT #18453 of 30001
Because books.

And I just realized that I don't actually have to make the decision by the time her birthday rolls around, because it's not as though she'll have any idea about her birthday presents anyway. So I can wait a few months longer, until whenever she seems ready.

This!


Sheryl - Apr 12, 2013 12:06:50 pm PDT #18454 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"

Timelies all!

My folks are here on their annual migration North.


Trudy Booth - Apr 12, 2013 12:14:46 pm PDT #18455 of 30001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Niece is three and has loved the zoo for at least the past year.