mustard seed

honestly? after movies like I, Robot and Eagle Eye , i can't see why anyone would even think about pursuing the whole "let's try to make a machine act like a person" thing. i'm pretty sure all this does is teach people to rely less on their own actions and responsibilities. i know the thinking is "well if we can get a robot to do these things, then we can think about bigger and better things and it's actually better for everyone!!!" it's actually not. a lot of why i think this has to do with outsourcing. getting robots to do things for us just reduces the need for human jobs. people will say things like, "well, you just get someone to run the robot or technology etc." problems with that: 1. it makes the person who is running the thing actually lazier (i.e. toll booth people. all they have to do is like, push a button and take your money), which contributes both to an obesity epidemic as well as intellectual scarcity. when all someone h...

this morning i woke up and set out on an epic quest: do. homework. i obviously failed. but where your brain isn't concerned with one thing, it finds itself involved in another. three analogies for the way my soul/mind works (er, the way things sort out in my brain): 1. quilting : patching together all the threads of things that are input into it through day-to-day life. snippets of conversations, school readings, internet news reports, bumper sticker slogans, pre-instilled cliche adages, biblical truths, song lyrics, simple observations, etc, etc, etc, eighteen trillion factors of input from all five sensory organs. these things are sewn, some are used as threads, others as fabrics, others as bunting, others tossed aside as scraps... but all used to patch together my understanding of all that i know. that's really huge and general ("understanding of all that i know")... but... what else do i say there? i like the word "patch" partially because it reminds me...