Tuesday, November 27, 2018

I'm just posting this to see you all lose your minds.



This really should just be a vine video. But I am always interested in prosthetics because when I was a kid we had a family friend who got drunk, fell asleep, and pinned his arm between the bedpost and the wall. He woke up to a dead arm and had to get a prosthetic back in the days when you just just had a claw.

So I initially clicked this because I was interested in the prosthetic aspect of the story. But when I saw they had attached this to the robot dog I about died laughing. Because that isn't going to freak anyone out.

So enjoy!

13 comments:

  1. OK, that's officially weird.

    Now they need to use a 3-legged dog (single hind leg, centered), and put Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent puppets on the hands.

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  2. I'm pretty sure Mrs S. is not Sci-Fi nerdy enough to get that. But I am and I do. :-)

    Mr. S.

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  3. Seriously Mr S.? This is what it takes for you to come out of the woodwork? You literally have commented on this blog like 3 times total. That has to be some serious sci-fi nerdyness.

    But he's right I'm basically a sci-fi hostage. And that one you had to pull from the way back machine. I'd never heard of it, so I had to look it up.

    Welcome to the blog Eric!

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  4. Well... when watching the video, the term "centaur" came to mind, and then I recalled a half-baked scheme a friend and I had, many years ago, to build a robot Puppeteer to take to cons.
    So I just couldn't resist.
    (And, just to show how randomly my synapses are firing today, I'll note that "scheme" and "cons" go together if you use enough parentheses. No, I haven't been at the brown rye mold.)

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  5. > I'll note that "scheme" and "cons" go together if you use enough parentheses

    Or as we used to call it:

    Long Incomprehensible String of Parentheses.

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  6. And I will name it G30RG.3 and I will hug it and squeeze it and pet it and upgrade it ...

    Oh, you think that's bad?

    It's better than "HEADLESS ROBOT CENTURION, FINISH HIM!" :-)

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  7. OMG ... MISTER S IS ACTUALLY HERE?

    And ... he tells really horrible Lisp jokes?!

    Well then ... (cdr (car('BAH 'HUMBUG) cdr('PTHBBBT 'HAHAHA)))!

    :-)

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  8. Hell ya he reads me. I'm interesting.

    Honestly I'm really nervous about this whole development. There is a thin line between horrible Lisp jokes and horrible puns. And then I think I lose control of my blog. I don't know how to pretend I can't hear you here.

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  9. Losing control of your blog over LISP jokes is a real possibility; it could be declared critical habitat for the Antillean Green-Tailed Quux.

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  10. Ok, now I'm curious -- what do you guys do using Lisp?

    I originally learned Lisp so that I could write custom extensions to the Interleaf word processor. Then later to write custom EMACS extensions.

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  11. I don't actually do much with LISP.
    Originally learned it freshman year of college, along with ALGOL, because those were the languages used for Freshman Programming. I think PDP-11 assembly was a different class.
    Undisclosed years later, I spent most of a day writing a sort of minimum usable implementation in 6809 assembly, with the vague idea of turning it into a product for the Trash CoCo.
    After that, basically nothing until... 2006? Anyway, a client had a GUI program, used for testing, that talked to their gadget over a serial port and displayed returned status; this had been written in LabView by some earlier consultant, I didn't want to mess with LabView, and they didn't have the development environment anyway. They needed a new version for a new product. So...
    I looked around hastily, and decided to use Scheme and whatever GUI widget set was handy. This led to a quickly-cobbled-together program that got the job done, and a determination on my part to learn some other general-purpose scripting language, which ended up being Ruby, in which I've written all the subsequent variations on that test program.
    (The choice of a new language was driven by a combination of PHP's relative specialization at the time, my dislike for Perl (which has too much syntax, where LISP has not enough syntax), and a randomly-encountered article entitled "Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP.")

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  12. Back in the 90's ("I was in a very famous TV show...") I was working as a Defense Contractor, and we had to deliver software to Mil-Std 2167a, which requires *mountains* of documentation. I decided to automate some of that process by writing Interleaf extensions to fetch source code from the revision control, generate documents from that source code and generate UML-ish diagrams from that source code.

    The source code itself was in Ada.
    The UML-ish diagram generator I wrote in C + Lex. (but no Yacc)
    The Interleaf extensions were in Interleaf Lisp.

    Regarding Scheme: at that time, one of my coworkers was doing quite a bit of work in Scheme/Tk. He seemed to like it.

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