You’re stupid. You’ve admitted it, and now you’re seeking help. I want to congratulate you! That’s the first step towards making your stupid life better.
First thing’s first though; you are stupid and will be forever. This book will not change that. This book will however, mask your stupidity from the rest of the world and may lead to promotions, dating, new job opportunities, more friends, and definitely more confidence!
It’s not easy to fool people when you’re stupid. Especially people who aren’t stupid. Let’s call this type of people “Smart” people, shall we? Smart people are very quick to pick up on the fact that you’re stupid. You’ve got to be perfect from the beginning around them, or else they will see you as a sheep in wolf’s clothing. That’s an example of a “smart” idea: a truncated and intentionally-reversed extended metaphor using the structure of a simile. You scoffed at things like this in school, but metaphors, similes, and other clever literary devices are a fundamental part of smart people conversation. Similes and metaphors are discussed in detail later in this book, so we won’t worry about them now.
Instead, what we’ll focus on now is the face you made after reading that sentence about the wolf and the sheep. You scrunched your nose tightly and rolled your eyes around in the hopes that your brain would explain why I was talking about animals. If you are smarter, but still stupid, you waited to make the face until I started talking about all that simile and metaphor stuff. This frowny-eye-rolling is a common face that stupid people make when presented with something that bores them or something they don’t understand. This book is about fixing stupid habits just like that face!
Most of the stupid habits you have are based on your stupid instincts. Right now, I want you to close your mouth, and breathe through your nose. TRUST ME, you won’t suffocate! Go ahead and try it. You see? Now you know you can trust me.
It’s not necessary to understand WHY I want you to do the things I want you to do. The important thing is that you DO them and practice them, over and over, for the rest of your life. Most of these things will be difficult. Breathing through your nose alone will take years for you to master. You currently breathe through your mouth because the “instinct” part of your brain is looking out for your survival. This is because the cognitive or “thinking” part of your brain isn’t capable of making good decisions. Stupid people like yourself are prone to doing things directly opposed to your own survival. For instance, I’m sure you’ve found yourself at one time or another in a single-person competition for stuffing the most miniature marshmallows into your nose to see how many will fit. Since this is literally smothering yourself for no reason, your brain makes you breathe out of your mouth, since it figures you’ll live longer that way.
Don’t worry! You will still be able to indulge all of your fun, stupid impulses. I’ll simply teach you how to save them for “private time”, or “stupid friend hang-out time.” when you’re around other people as stupid, or more stupid, than you are. This book is full of helpful, good habits like “stupid friend hang-out time”. However, every habit will take practice to master, so I want you to make a promise with me.
Go ahead and read this out loud: “I promise that I will follow the instructions in this book. I promise that I will practice every day, and that I won’t give up, no matter how frustrating it is for my stupid brain. Sincerely, me!”
There. You’ve just made a promise to both you and I. You said it out loud, so you have to stick to it. It’s too late to turn back now, which is wonderful, because you’re going to have a great new life! (if you think you and I are the same person, or opposite people from when this introduction began, you’re still reading out loud. Please stop reading out loud.)
To create a sense of familiarity, which will subconsciously compel you to finish the rest of the chapters through recognition, despite your short attention span, Just for fun, I’ll give you a brief overview of the topics we will cover in-depth during the rest of this guide.
The first half of this book is all about breaking down and hiding the stupid things you do:
Chapter 1 is what you’re reading right now.
In chapter 2, I will tell you tricks to keep your stupid life separate from your new smart life. This will be an ongoing process. You will learn to enjoy top 40 music and Michael Bay movies secretly while alone or with a few select stupid friends, instead of loudly and in front of everyone.
In chapter 3, I’ll teach you how to shut your mouth before it says the stupid thing you just thought. You’ll learn to use silence with making faces to pretend that you’re deep in thought.
The second half of this book is all about the tricks you can use to pretend you’re smart:
In chapter 4, we’ll reread the first half of the book, because you’ll have skipped ahead, thinking you didn’t need to learn those techniques and “do homework from a stupid book”.
In chapter 5, you get a makeover! As fun as it seems, this will actually be one of the hardest sections of the book, and one of the most important. You will learn to dress in a “nerd costume” for the rest of your life. Calm down! Stop wrinkling your face, stop chewing your lip, quit punching whatever you’re punching, and listen up. You know deep down that “nerds” are the very smartest of smart people. The benefit of looking like a nerd is that smart people will assume you are socially awkward instead of stupid and will therefore more readily ignore whenever you slip up and do stupid things.
In chapter 6, I’ll discuss using props to appear smart. We will discuss scavenging techniques for smart props, including making habits for success. You’ll learn how to search local coffee shops every morning for partially-completed crossword puzzles to spend the rest of the day pretending to fill out. Tips like this will give silent proof of your “smarts” when people might otherwise see through your smart costume.
In chapter 7, I’ll help you get into the habit of saying smart things and inventing opinions. It DOESN’T MATTER what your opinions are. The only important thing is to NEVER CHANGE YOUR MIND about your opinions. You’ll learn to be condescending about other people’s opinions. I’ll even teach you phrases to use if you get into hot water with someone such as “I suppose we’ll just have to agree to disagree!” You’ll also learn to memorize a single generic quote to use at parties and whenever you want to impress someone of the opposite sex.
The third half of this book is all about using your newfound techniques to SECURE your future:
In chapter 8, I’ll give you a lie detector test to be sure you’ve read every chapter thoroughly. If not, i’ll remind you that you made a promise to me, and make you go back and read what you skipped.
In chapter 9, I’ll teach you about material investments. It’s important to invest in “things” and “stuff” that will make you appear smart for the rest of your life: a modestly large house, a slightly above-average car, and many more material things. Your stupid thinking is right in assuming the more things you own, the better; but you have to own the RIGHT KINDS of things! Filling your house with the right long-term props is very important. You’ll learn about chess and backgammon boards. You’ll check prices on pianos and expensive-looking (but not extravagant!) artwork.
In chapter 10, you’ll hire an accountant and do EXACTLY what they tell you do with your money. I’ll tell you briefly what a saving account is and why it’s better not to run out and spend every paycheck immediately on liquor and clubbing. Even though you won’t understand right away why this is bad; when you see how savings and investments lead to MORE liquor, you’ll be happy you listened.
In chapter 11, you’ll invent a new category of people you can look down on for the rest of your life, like “Liberal Elites” or “Right Wing Fascists”. This is a prime time to hire a writer to write a book with your name on it! Tell everyone you wrote the book. This is key.
In our last chapter, chapter 12, you’ll make the most important investment in your future; tricking a beautiful INTELLIGENT person into loving and marrying you. This will be the most difficult thing you will EVER do and it will take all the resources you’ve built and all the techniques you’ve learned. You will master keeping your stupid life and your smart life separate by passing off your stupidity once and for all as something else. We will discuss faking Asperger’s Syndrome, Social Anxiety Disorder, and the like.
By the end of this book, you will be a new person; a person you’ve invented. You will be successful beyond belief, and you’ll have someone who loves you for the rest of your life.
Does this sound too good to be true? Well guess what? I’M A STUPID JUST LIKE YOU! Or at least, I used to be. But following my own system, I’ve made a wonderful, explosive new life as a SMART! I’m CEO of my own Fortune 500 company, I have a syndicated talk radio show, I’m married to a supermodel, I live in a mansion in Beverly Hills, and I have three somewhat intelligent children. I’m sure you don’t believe me, but it’s true. All the “smart” phrases I’ve used in this book were painfully constructed over several years using a dictionary, a smart writer friend, and the help of my brilliant wife. My system worked for me! IT WILL WORK FOR YOU!!!

Hello there, how are you?

Today I was browsing the Internet, acquiring some knowledge if you prefer to call it like that, and I came across a posting that had the right path of creativity, therefore, I decided to re-invent it, edit it, and change it for your delightful entertainment.  Hopefully all of us girls can identify.. By all means, if you want to add another point, be my guest, this list can only keep getting better, that way we will find PRINCE CHARMING…

My Boyfriend Application and Test

First, a little about me. I’m a 26-year-old, very  good looking and intelligent Latina, with a full time Job and  attending University. I’m tired of wasting my time, so I have formulated some mandatory criteria in part A, and part B is based on points.

Part A

1) You must be born male. I’ll need to see a birth certificate proving so.

2) You must own something to wear to a formal reception. And at least a couple formal shoes.
3) You must not own or ever wear Birkenstocks, crocs footwear or wrangler jeans. Or wear your jeans so low, that  I can see the end of your briefs.
4) All your parts need to be in good working order, further testing will need to be conducted of course.
5) I can’t accept a regular drug user. Despite CA culture, I am including weed.
6) You must own at least four collared dress shirts. You need to look presentable standing next to me.
7) Your height must be proportional to your weight using the standard AMA guidelines. (fyi, I do prefer them taller than me, so you have to be at least 6 feet) .
You must have a couple photos which were  taken in the last 2 months.
9) English must be your first language. However you need to have a pretty good understanding of Spanish and Latin culture, or at least a desire to learn.

If you meet all of the requirements above then you may continue, if not, then you are now dismissed but thank you for applying to be my boyfriend.

Now: give yourself two points for each of the following criteria you meet

Part B

1) You have (or are working on) a degree.
2) You own a car and have a valid driver’s license. Suspended for DUIs: minus 10 points.

3) If your car is better and newer than mine add 5 points
4) You’ve never worn Ed Hardy, Affliction or any other Christian Audigier affiliated brand.

5) If 80% of your shoes can be described as sneakers take minus 5 points.
6) You follow at least one professional sport.
7) You have skills in bed. Not because you think you do, because your past experiences have told you.
You are not a born again Christian, Jehovah’s Witness or any other kind of religious fanatic.
9) You have been to at least three countries outside of the US.
10) You don’t need to call a handy man if something breaks around the house.
11) You know how to cook a meal for two. (Eggs, instant noodles, sandwiches, lean cuisine do not count as a meal)

12) You actually do shores around the house, like doing dishes after I cooked, help cleaning the kitchen, bringing flowers, wine etc..
13) You like stepping out of your bubble and trying new things like different cuisine, bungee jumping, salsa dancing.
14) You can make it through a romantic comedy without complaining (don’t worry we don’t have to tell your friends).
15) You have a great sense of humor. Are people laughing with you, or at you?
16) You can plan a good date without any help or advice from me. “I don’t know, what do you want to do” isn’t an answer.
17) You work out and enjoy being physically active. I hit the gym regularly, you should too.
18) You have a job that requires more than a high school diploma.
19) You read books, or at least you read the newspaper, so we can talk about worldwide subjects.  

20) You are an educated individual. You challenge my intellectual abilities.
21) You have a 5 year goal.
22) You aren’t afraid of being yourself, even if you have a dorky, nerdy side. (that’s kinda hot).
23) You’re competitive, and I don’t mean you like to battle it out on Wii with your buddies on the weekends.
24) You know how to dance.

25) You are spontaneous and creative.

26) You are secure about yourself and us. Meaning I’m not looking for a jealous, immature, insecure chauvinistic pig. People are going to check us out. Just enjoy the ride, at the end of the night I’m going home with you.

27) Last but not least, you can acknowledge when you screw up, and say sorry;  flowers and a romantic dinner might help you get some points back.

If you have a score of 40+ then please contact me immediately. If you scored between 20-35 pts, you can contact me, but I don’t have a lot of hope for our future relationship. If you did not score high enough, then please do not contact me, but if at some time in the future you are able to improve yourself and meet the minimum requirements, then you may re-apply.

You MUST respond with your age (this is a creeper free zone, 25-36 year olds only please) and your picture.

I thank you in advance for your application, however, only successful candidates will receive a response.

fyi.. I’m not trying to be rude or insult anyone..

This blog is just for fun, and to make you laugh!

With Love

xoxoxoxo Ment@l Fashion Addict

A family of 17 intelligent athletes, all called Portia and each with eight legs.
Found jumping around parts of Africa, Asia and Australasia, the Portia Spider eats other spiders. Her favourite prey is web-builders and she is sufficiently fearless (or greedy) to hunt those of more than 200% her own size.

Unlike all the other arachnids, Portia behaves in a way that can only be described as intelligent. She adapts her hunting methods to increase the likelihood of a square meal and seems able to learn new techniques.

Once she has invaded a web, Portia demonstrates considerable acting talent as she feigns the struggle of a trapped insect. Noting what encourages her target to come closer, Portia will repeat her best moves for up to three days, until she can overwhelm her victim.  

Eyes with telephoto lenses enable Portia to identify which combat tactic is most likely to be successful against her prey. Encountering a deadly spitting spider, Portia will approach from the rear to avoid its predatory potential. When her opponent is carrying eggs, she approaches head-on.

OK, so only half of all Portia spiders are female but she lives longer.  During mating, lady Portia assumes the superior position. Then, she twists around and lunges at the mister, killing him. If he dies before copulation is complete, she will remove his sperm and then eat him. If he finishes before death, the lady Portia will keep his sperm for fertilization and, with her days work done, settle down to dine on her lover.

Doesn’t she make you feel …proud to be Portia?

Allo mes Zamours!

Bon, bien ce week-end j’ai folâtrer et rencontrer un gars, et je vous racontes pas le détail pour les autres prospects, mais bon.

Bref, vendredi au bar S, j’en aia viré une cliss avec en bon us un mal de tête samedi matin, tellement que je me suis levée à 10h00 pis ouf faut que je mange pour faire passer ce mal de tête perssistant… bref, trop croche, je me recouche.  Je me réveille, 2h15… Cibole… panique, j’ai un vernissage et je dois y être à 14h30, le prespect de samedi… J’arrive en retard d’une demi-heure… Bon le gars, pas vraiment mon genre mais tellement sympathique et intréessant, que je me dis ben Vilaine, joue le jeu… Alors je vais au vernissage… pis on jase, pis on va chez-lui l’apéro….. bon la suite on va souper pis bla bla bla.. pis jsuis pas sortie… vous comprenez la suite…

Là j’ai un auatre dating à Midi mais j’ai pas le gout non plus ni de rester là… Je lui raconte que je dine avec une amie…  et hops taxi… J’arrive à la maison et là je me reconecte sur gay 411… Je dois trouver comment lui dire qu’il ne m’intéresse pas…. il est fantastique et pourrait être mon mair, l’ennnuie c’est qu’il n’y pas de chimie… en tout cas j’ai tout fait pour lui signifier que qu’il n’ya avait pas de chimie… que voulez-vous c,est un gras tellement bien, tu dis pas à un gars qui est intéressé, ben t’es pas mon genr, je suis sensible  moi… Oui, Oui je devrais être clair oui oui je devrais arrêté… mais jsuis incapable, j’ai peur de le blesser.  La prochaine fois je comprendrais si un gars ne l’es pas s’il prend son temps pour me dire des trucs poour aller plus loin c’est qu’il ne sais pas comment être honnête et direct… suis-je lâche oui!  Je v eux jusste pas faire petter la baloune d’un coup sec….

Bon je vous raconterais la suite..  pour le dating de ce midi, ben là je ne l’ai pas encore signifier ma présence, j’imagine qu,il comprend que je ne suis pas réellement disponible….. Lui aussi c’est un gars chouette, mais même si je l’ai pas rencontré, ben j’suis pass sur en partant, alors….

Ah oui vendredi j’ai eu ben du plaisir j’Ai rencontré le type qui m’Avais dit qu’il romflait et que c’est pour ça qu’il ne voulais pas m’inviter chezz lui a dormir.  Bon je le connais il y a longtemps, mais je vous dirait que j’ai bien eu du plaisir et rigolé avec lui pendant la soirée.. en fait je l’Ai aidé il était pamé sur un barbu et je lui ai donné des technique 101 de cruzz, on a bien rigolé, mais comme je le relançais paye une bienne il m’en paye une ben à la fin de la soirée, j’étais un ti peu éméché….

aussi vendredi, imaginné qui je vois monsieur cuir vous savez le gars qui me donnait des conseillles, je dois vous dire qu’il était très gentil et avait changé d’Attitude, j’imagine que mars est en satuen et que les astres sont favorable.  Bref, il était sympathique, j’Ai même dansé avec lui… oufff qu’ile s sexy, vraiment très musclé et danse comme une ti macho, trop sexy… En tout cas, quanad il est partie il mM’a donné une ti bec, mummmmmmm… Bon on vera pour ce prospect….  Ah oui aussi vendredi soir j’ai revue le beau barbu blond et comme j’étais un ti peu feeling, j’ai dit vilaine prennd ton couragew et va lui demander au moins son Nom… Je l’Ai fait je me suis présenter et lui ai demamé son nom et je suiss repartie…. tu parle d’une tarte que je suis… On dirait que devant les gars qui m’intéresse je perds mes moyens.

bon ben ce fût un vendredi bien intéressant et il y avait ben du monde, moi j’aime ça , y’A plus de prospects…

Bref, mon prince charmand n,est pas au rendez-vous, meis je ne lâche pas…. Je crois que je vais en planifier la semaine prochaine… mais si il ne m’intéresse pas assez je vais devoir faire quelque chose parce qu j’ai manqu. mon samedi au club… bon aumoins j’ai économisé et j’aurais bue de l’eau c’est sûr, lol.  A+ et je vous informes…

Bon j’Ai pas travailler sur ma bonne cause… je lâche pass ça aussi je vais trouver…  J’espère que miss Peggy est aller manger des Biggles et que son côté son ti monsieur l’a  approché.. je l’imagine avec les biggles sur les yeux et la réaction de son prétendant.

Ps si vouss voyé un barbue blond musclé, intelligent,  sexy qui a une bonne situation, qui est gai, qui aime les gars romantique, envoyez-le moi ou les moi…..Vive les blonds!

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ASIMO, a humanoid robot manufactured by Honda

A robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own. Another common characteristic is that by its appearance or movements, a robot often conveys a sense that it has intent or agency of its own.

Definitions

 

A laparoscopic robotic surgery machine

The word robot can refer to both physical robots and virtual software agents, but the latter are usually referred to as bots.^[1] There is no consensus on which machines qualify as robots, but there is general agreement among experts and the public that robots tend to do some or all of the following: move around, operate a mechanical limb, sense and manipulate their environment, and exhibit intelligent behavior, especially behavior which mimics humans or other animals.

There is conflict about whether the term can be applied to remotely operated devices, as the most common usage implies, or solely to devices which are controlled by their software without human intervention. In South Africa, robot is an informal and commonly used term for a set of traffic lights.

Stories of artificial helpers and companions and attempts to create them have a long history but fully autonomous machines only appeared in the 20th century. The first digitally operated and programmable robot, the Unimate, was installed in 1961 to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them. Today, commercial and industrial robots are in widespread use performing jobs more cheaply or with greater accuracy and reliability than humans. They are also employed for jobs which are too dirty, dangerous or dull to be suitable for humans. Robots are widely used in manufacturing, assembly and packing, transport, earth and space exploration, surgery, weaponry, laboratory research, and mass production of consumer and industrial goods.^[2]

It is difficult to compare numbers of robots in different countries, since there are different definitions of what a “robot” is. The International Organization for Standardization gives a definition of robot in ISO 8373: “an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose, manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications.”^[3] This definition is used by the International Federation of Robotics, the European Robotics Research Network (EURON), and many national standards committees.^[4]

The Robotics Institute of America (RIA) uses a broader definition: a robot is a “re-programmable multi-functional manipulator designed to move materials, parts, tools, or specialized devices through variable programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks.”^[5] The RIA subdivides robots into four classes: devices that manipulate objects with manual control, automated devices that manipulate objects with predetermined cycles, programmable and servo-controlled robots with continuous point-to-point trajectories, and robots of this last type which also acquire information from the environment and move intelligently in response.

There is no one definition of robot which satisfies everyone, and many people have their own.^[6] For example, Joseph Engelberger, a pioneer in industrial robotics, once remarked: “I can’t define a robot, but I know one when I see one.”^[7] According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, a robot is “any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner”.^[8] Merriam-Webster describes a robot as a “machine that looks like a human being and performs various complex acts (as walking or talking) of a human being”, or a “device that automatically performs complicated often repetitive tasks”, or a “mechanism guided by automatic controls”.^[9]

Modern robots are usually used in tightly controlled environments such as on assembly lines because they have difficulty responding to unexpected interference. Because of this, most humans rarely encounter robots. However, domestic robots for cleaning and maintenance are increasingly common in and around homes in developed countries, particularly in Japan. Robots can also be found in the military.

Defining characteristics

KITT is mentally anthropomorphic, while ASIMO is physically anthropomorphic

While there is no single correct definition of “robot,”^[10] a typical robot will have several, or possibly all, of the following characteristics.

It is an electric machine which has some ability to interact with physical objects and to be given electronic programming to do a specific task or to do a whole range of tasks or actions. It may also have some ability to perceive and absorb data on physical objects, or on its local physical environment, or to process data, or to respond to various stimuli. This is in contrast to a simple mechanical device such as a gear or a hydraulic press or any other item which has no processing ability and which does tasks through purely mechanical processes and motion.

Mental agency

For robotic engineers, the physical appearance of a machine is less important than the way its actions are controlled. The more the control system seems to have agency of its own, the more likely the machine is to be called a robot. An important feature of agency is the ability to make choices. Higher-level cognitive functions, though, are not necessary, as shown by ant robots.

• A clockwork car is never considered a robot.
• A remotely operated vehicle is sometimes considered a robot (or telerobot).^[11]
• A car with an onboard computer, like Bigtrak, which could drive in a programmable sequence, might be called a robot.
• A self-controlled car which could sense its environment and make driving decisions based on this information, such as the 1990s driverless cars of Ernst Dickmanns or the entries in the DARPA Grand Challenge, would quite likely be called a robot.
• A sentient car, like the fictional KITT, which can make decisions, navigate freely and converse fluently with a human, is usually considered a robot.

Physical agency

However, for many laymen, if a machine appears to be able to control its arms or limbs, and especially if it appears anthropomorphic or zoomorphic (e.g. ASIMO or Aibo), it would be called a robot.

• A player piano is rarely characterized as a robot.^[12]
• A CNC milling machine is very occasionally characterized as a robot.
• A factory automation arm is almost always characterized as an industrial robot.
• An autonomous wheeled or tracked device, such as a self-guided rover or self-guided vehicle, is almost always characterized as a mobile robot or service robot.
• A zoomorphic mechanical toy, like Roboraptor, is usually characterized as a robot.^[13]
• A mechanical humanoid, like ASIMO, is almost always characterized as a robot, usually as a service robot.

Even for a 3-axis CNC milling machine using the same control system as a robot arm, it is the arm which is almost always called a robot, while the CNC machine is usually just a machine. Having eyes can also make a difference in whether a machine is called a robot, since humans instinctively connect eyes with sentience. However, simply being anthropomorphic is not a sufficient criterion for something to be called a robot. A robot must do something; an inanimate object shaped like ASIMO would not be considered a robot.

Etymology

 

A scene from Karel Čapek’s 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), showing three robots

The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), published in 1920.^[14] The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, but they are closer to the modern ideas of androids, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment.

However, Karel Čapek himself did not coin the word. He wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator.^[14] In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested “roboti”. The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively “drudgery” or “hard work” in Czech and many Slavic languages. Traditionally the robota was the work period a serf had to give for his lord, typically 6 months of the year.^[15] Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Čapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of “serfdom” would still have been known.^[16][17]

The word robotics, used to describe this field of study, was coined (albeit accidentally) by the science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

Social impact

As robots have become more advanced and sophisticated, experts and academics have increasingly explored the questions of what ethics might govern robots’ behavior,^[18] and whether robots might be able to claim any kind of social, cultural, ethical or legal rights.^[19] One scientific team has said that it is possible that a robot brain will exist by 2019.^[20] Others predict robot intelligence breakthroughs by 2050.^[21] Recent advances have made robotic behavior more sophisticated.^[22]
Vernor Vinge has suggested that a moment may come when computers and robots are smarter than humans. He calls this “the Singularity.”^[23] He suggests that it may be somewhat or possibly very dangerous for humans.^[24] This is discussed by a philosophy called Singularitarianism.
In 2009, experts attended a conference to discuss whether computers and robots might be able to acquire any autonomy, and how much these abilities might pose a threat or hazard. They noted that some robots have acquired various forms of semi-autonomy, including being able to find power sources on their own and being able to independently choose targets to attack with weapons. They also noted that some computer viruses can evade elimination and have achieved “cockroach intelligence.” They noted that self-awareness as depicted in science-fiction is probably unlikely, but that there were other potential hazards and pitfalls.^[23] Various media sources and scientific groups have noted separate trends in differing areas which might together result in greater robotic functionalities and autonomy, and which pose some inherent concerns.^[25][26][27]

Some experts and academics have questioned the use of robots for military combat, especially when such robots are given some degree of autonomous functions.^[28] There are also concerns about technology which might allow some armed robots to be controlled mainly by other robots.^[29] The US Navy has funded a report which indicates that as military robots become more complex, there should be greater attention to implications of their ability to make autonomous decisions.^[30][31] Some public concerns about autonomous robots have received media attention, especially one robot, EATR, which can continually refuel itself using biomass and organic substances which it finds on battlefields or other local environments.^[32][33]
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has studied this topic in depth ^[18] and its president has commissioned a study to look at this issue.^[34]

Some have suggested a need to build “Friendly AI“, meaning that the advances which are already occurring with AI should also include an effort to make AI intrinsically friendly and humane.^[35] Several such measures reportedly already exist, with robot-heavy countries such as Japan and South Korea ^[36] having begun to pass regulations requiring robots to be equipped with safety systems, and possibly sets of ‘laws’ akin to Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics.^[37][38] An official report was issued in 2009 by the Japanese government’s Robot Industry Policy Committee.^[39] Chinese officials and researchers have issued a report suggesting a set of ethical rules, as well as a set of new legal guidelines referred to as “Robot Legal Studies.” ^[40] Some concern has been expressed over a possible occurrence of robots telling apparent falsehoods.^[41]

Technological trends

Technological development

Overall trends

Japan hopes to have full-scale commercialization of service robots by 2025. Much technological research in Japan is led by Japanese government agencies, particularly the Trade Ministry.^[42]

As robots become more advanced, eventually there may be a standard computer operating system designed mainly for robots. Robot Operating System (ROS) is an open-source set of programs being developed at Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Munich, Germany, among others. ROS provides ways to program a robot’s navigation and limbs regardless of the specific hardware involved. It also provides high-level commands for items like image recognition and even opening doors. When ROS boots up on a robot’s computer, it would obtain data on attributes such as the length and movement of robots’ limbs. It would relay this data to higher-level algorithms. Microsoft is also developing a “Windows for robots” system with its Robotics Developer Studio, which has been available since 2007.^[43]

New functions and abilities

The Caterpillar Company is making a dump truck which can drive itself without any human operator.^[44]

Research robots

While most robots today are installed in factories or homes, performing labour or life saving jobs, many new types of robot are being developed in laboratories around the world. Much of the research in robotics focuses not on specific industrial tasks, but on investigations into new types of robot, alternative ways to think about or design robots, and new ways to manufacture them. It is expected that these new types of robot will be able to solve real world problems when they are finally realized.^{[citation needed]}

 

A microfabricated electrostatic gripper holding some silicon nanowires.^[45]

• Nanorobots: Nanorobotics is the still largely hypothetical technology of creating machines or robots at or close to the scale of a nanometer (10⁻⁹ meters). Also known as nanobots or nanites, they would be constructed from molecular machines. So far, researchers have mostly produced only parts of these complex systems, such as bearings, sensors, and Synthetic molecular motors, but functioning robots have also been made such as the entrants to the Nanobot Robocup contest.^[46] Researchers also hope to be able to create entire robots as small as viruses or bacteria, which could perform tasks on a tiny scale. Possible applications include micro surgery (on the level of individual cells), utility fog,^[47] manufacturing, weaponry and cleaning.^[48] Some people have suggested that if there were nanobots which could reproduce, the earth would turn into “grey goo“, while others argue that this hypothetical outcome is nonsense.^[49][50]
• Soft Robots: Robots with silicone bodies and flexible actuators (air muscles, electroactive polymers, and ferrofluids), controlled using fuzzy logic and neural networks, look and feel different from robots with rigid skeletons, and are capable of different behaviors.^[51]
• Reconfigurable Robots: A few researchers have investigated the possibility of creating robots which can alter their physical form to suit a particular task,^[52] like the fictional T-1000. Real robots are nowhere near that sophisticated however, and mostly consist of a small number of cube shaped units, which can move relative to their neighbours, for example SuperBot. Algorithms have been designed in case any such robots become a reality.^[53]

 

A swarm of robots from the Open-source Micro-robotic Project

• Swarm robots: Inspired by colonies of insects such as ants and bees, researchers are modeling the behavior of swarms of thousands of tiny robots which together perform a useful task, such as finding something hidden, cleaning, or spying. Each robot is quite simple, but the emergent behavior of the swarm is more complex. The whole set of robots can be considered as one single distributed system, in the same way an ant colony can be considered a superorganism, exhibiting swarm intelligence. The largest swarms so far created include the iRobot swarm, the SRI/MobileRobots CentiBots project^[54] and the Open-source Micro-robotic Project swarm, which are being used to research collective behaviors.^[55][56] Swarms are also more resistant to failure. Whereas one large robot may fail and ruin a mission, a swarm can continue even if several robots fail. This could make them attractive for space exploration missions, where failure can be extremely costly.^[57]
• Haptic interface robots: Robotics also has application in the design of virtual reality interfaces. Specialized robots are in widespread use in the haptic research community. These robots, called “haptic interfaces,” allow touch-enabled user interaction with real and virtual environments. Robotic forces allow simulating the mechanical properties of “virtual” objects, which users can experience through their sense of touch.^[58] Haptic interfaces are also used in robot-aided rehabilitation.

Varying cultural perceptions

Roughly half of all the robots in the world are in Asia, 32% in Europe, and 16% in North America, 1% in Australasia and 1% in Africa.^[59] 30% of all the robots in the world are in Japan.^[60] This means that Japan has the most robots in the world out of all the countries, and is in fact leading the world’s robotics.^[61] Japan is actually said to be the robotic capital of the world.^[62]

In Japan and South Korea, ideas of future robots have been mainly positive, and the start of the pro-robotic society there is thought to be possibly due to the famous ‘Astro Boy‘. Asian societies such as Japan, South Korea, and more recently, China, believe robots to be more equal to humans, having them care for old people, play with or teach children, or replace pets etc.^[63] The general view in Asian cultures is that the more robots advance, the better, which is the opposite of the Western belief.

“This is the opening of an era in which human beings and robots can co-exist,” says Japanese firm Mitsubishi about one of the many humanistic robots in Japan.^[64] South Korea aims to put a robot in every house there by 2015-2020 in order to help catch up technologically with Japan.^[36][65]

Western societies are more likely to be against, or even fear the development of robotics, through much media output in movies and literature that they will replace humans. Some believe that the West regards robots as a ‘threat’ to the future of humans, partly due to religious beliefs about the role of humans and society.^[62][66] Obviously, these boundaries are not clear, but there is a significant difference between the two cultural viewpoints.

Contemporary uses

At present there are 2 main types of robots, based on their use: general-purpose autonomous robots and dedicated robots.

 

TOPIO, a humanoid robot developed by TOSY that can play ping-pong.^[67]

Robots can be classified by their specificity of purpose. A robot might be designed to perform one particular task extremely well, or a range of tasks less well. Of course, all robots by their nature can be re-programmed to behave differently, but some are limited by their physical form. For example, a factory robot arm can perform jobs such as cutting, welding, gluing, or acting as a fairground ride, while a pick-and-place robot can only populate printed circuit boards.

General-purpose autonomous robots

It has been suggested that Open-source robotics#Uses be merged into this article or section. (Discuss)

General-purpose autonomous robots are robots that can perform a variety of functions independently. General-purpose autonomous robots typically can navigate independently in known spaces, handle their own re-charging needs, interface with electronic doors and elevators and perform other basic tasks. Like computers, general-purpose robots can link with networks, software and accessories that increase their usefulness. They may recognize people or objects, talk, provide companionship, monitor environmental quality, respond to alarms, pick up supplies and perform other useful tasks. General-purpose robots may perform a variety of functions simultaneously or they may take on different roles at different times of day. Some such robots try to mimic human beings and may even resemble people in appearance; this type of robot is called a humanoid robot.

 

A general-purpose robot acts as a guide during the day and a security guard at night

Dedicated robots

In 2006, there were an estimated 3,540,000 service robots in use, and an estimated 950,000 industrial robots.^[68] A different estimate counted more than one million robots in operation worldwide in the first half of 2008, with roughly half in Asia, 32% in Europe, 16% in North America, 1% in Australasia and 1% in Africa.^[69] Industrial and service robots can be placed into roughly two classifications based on the type of job they do. The first category includes tasks which a robot can do with greater productivity, accuracy, or endurance than humans; the second category consists of dirty, dangerous or dull jobs which humans find undesirable.

Increased productivity, accuracy, and endurance

 

A Pick and Place robot in a factory

Many factory jobs are now performed by robots. This has led to cheaper mass-produced goods, including automobiles and electronics. Stationary manipulators used in factories have become the largest market for robots. In 2006, there were an estimated 3,540,000 service robots in use, and an estimated 950,000 industrial robots.^[68] A different estimate counted more than one million robots in operation worldwide in the first half of 2008, with roughly half in Asia, 32% in Europe, 16% in North America, 1% in Australasia and 1% in Africa.^[69]

Some examples of factory robots

• Car production: Over the last three decades automobile factories have become dominated by robots. A typical factory contains hundreds of industrial robots working on fully automated production lines, with one robot for every ten human workers. On an automated production line, a vehicle chassis on a conveyor is welded, glued, painted and finally assembled at a sequence of robot stations.

• Packaging: Industrial robots are also used extensively for palletizing and packaging of manufactured goods, for example for rapidly taking drink cartons from the end of a conveyor belt and placing them into boxes, or for loading and unloading machining centers.

• Electronics: Mass-produced printed circuit boards (PCBs) are almost exclusively manufactured by pick-and-place robots, typically with SCARA manipulators, which remove tiny electronic components from strips or trays, and place them on to PCBs with great accuracy.^[70] Such robots can place hundreds of thousands of components per hour, far out-performing a human in speed, accuracy, and reliability.^[71]

• Automated guided vehicles (AGVs): Mobile robots, following markers or wires in the floor, or using vision^[72] or lasers, are used to transport goods around large facilities, such as warehouses, container ports, or hospitals.^[73]

• • Early AGV-Style Robots were limited to tasks that could be accurately defined and had to be performed the same way every time. Very little feedback or intelligence was required, and the robots needed only the most basic exteroceptors (sensors). The limitations of these AGVs are that their paths are not easily altered and they cannot alter their paths if obstacles block them. If one AGV breaks down, it may stop the entire operation.

• • Interim AGV-Technologies developed that deploy triangulation from beacons or bar code grids for scanning on the floor or ceiling. In most factories, triangulation systems tend to require moderate to high maintenance, such as daily cleaning of all beacons or bar codes. Also, if a tall pallet or large vehicle blocks beacons or a bar code is marred, AGVs may become lost. Often such AGVs are designed to be used in human-free environments.

• • Newer AGVs such as the Speci-Minder,^[74] ADAM,^[75] Tug^[76] and PatrolBot Gofer^[77] are designed for people-friendly workspaces. They navigate by recognizing natural features. 3D scanners or other means of sensing the environment in two or three dimensions help to eliminate cumulative errors in dead-reckoning calculations of the AGV’s current position. Some AGVs can create maps of their environment using scanning lasers with simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and use those maps to navigate in real time with other path planning and obstacle avoidance algorithms. They are able to operate in complex environments and perform non-repetitive and non-sequential tasks such as transporting photomasks in a semiconductor lab, specimens in hospitals and goods in warehouses. For dynamic areas, such as warehouses full of pallets, AGVs require additional strategies. Only a few vision-augmented systems currently claim to be able to navigate reliably in such environments.

Dirty, dangerous, dull or inaccessible tasks

 

A U.S. Marine Corps technician prepares to use a telerobot to detonate a buried improvised explosive device near Camp Fallujah, Iraq

There are many jobs which humans would rather leave to robots. The job may be boring, such as domestic cleaning, or dangerous, such as exploring inside a volcano.^[78] Other jobs are physically inaccessible, such as exploring another planet,^[79] cleaning the inside of a long pipe, or performing laparoscopic surgery.^[80]

• Telerobots: When a human cannot be present on site to perform a job because it is dangerous, far away, or inaccessible, teleoperated robots, or telerobots are used. Rather than following a predetermined sequence of movements, a telerobot is controlled from a distance by a human operator. The robot may be in another room or another country, or may be on a very different scale to the operator. For instance, a laparoscopic surgery robot allows the surgeon to work inside a human patient on a relatively small scale compared to open surgery, significantly shortening recovery time.^[80] When disabling a bomb, the operator sends a small robot to disable it. Several authors have been using a device called the Longpen to sign books remotely.^[81] Teleoperated robot aircraft, like the Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, are increasingly being used by the military. These pilotless drones can search terrain and fire on targets.^[82][83] Hundreds of robots such as iRobot’s Packbot and the Foster-Miller TALON are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan by the U.S. military to defuse roadside bombs or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in an activity known as explosive ordnance disposal (EOD).^[84]

• Automated fruit harvesting machines: are being used to pick fruit on orchards at a cost lower than that of human pickers.

 

The Roomba domestic vacuum cleaner robot does a single, menial job

 

The ANATROLLER ARI-100 is a modular mobile robot used for cleaning hazardous environments

• In the home: As prices fall and robots become smarter and more autonomous, simple robots dedicated to a single task work in over a million homes. They are taking on simple but unwanted jobs, such as vacuum cleaning and floor washing, and lawn mowing. Some find these robots to be cute and entertaining, which is one reason that they can sell very well.
• Elder Care: The population is aging in many countries, especially Japan, meaning that there are increasing numbers of elderly people to care for, but relatively fewer young people to care for them.^[85][86] Humans make the best carers, but where they are unavailable, robots are gradually being introduced.^[87]
• Duct Cleaning: In the hazardous and tight spaces of a building’s duct work, many hours can be spent cleaning relatively small areas if a manual brush is used. Robots have been used by many duct cleaners primarily in the industrial and institutional cleaning markets, as they allow the job to be done faster, without exposing workers to the harful enzymes released by dust mites. For cleaning high-security institutions such as embassies and prisons, duct cleaning robots are vital, as they allow the job to be completed without compromising the security of the institution. Hospitals and other government buildings with hazardous and cancerogenic environments such as nuclear reactors legally must be cleaned using duct cleaning robots, in countries such as Canada, in an effort to improve workplace safety in duct cleaning.

Potential problems

Fears and concerns about robots have been repeatedly expressed in a wide range of books and films. A common theme is the development of a master race of conscious and highly intelligent robots, motivated to take over or destroy the human race. (See The Terminator, Runaway, Blade Runner, Robocop, [[Replicator (Stargate)the Replicators in Stargate]], the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, The Matrix, THX-1138, and I, Robot.) Some fictional robots are programmed to kill and destroy; others gain superhuman intelligence and abilities by upgrading their own software and hardware. Examples of popular media where the robot becomes evil are 2001: A Space Odyssey, Red Planet, … Another common theme is the reaction, sometimes called the “uncanny valley“, of unease and even revulsion at the sight of robots that mimic humans too closely.^[88] Frankenstein (1818), often called the first science fiction novel, has become synonymous with the theme of a robot or monster advancing beyond its creator. In the TV show, Futurama, the robots are portrayed as humanoid figures that live alongside humans, not as robotic butlers. They still work in industry, but these robots carry out daily lives.

Manuel De Landa has noted that “smart missiles” and autonomous bombs equipped with artificial perception can be considered robots, and they make some of their decisions autonomously. He believes this represents an important and dangerous trend in which humans are handing over important decisions to machines.^[89]

Marauding robots may have entertainment value, but unsafe use of robots constitutes an actual danger. A heavy industrial robot with powerful actuators and unpredictably complex behavior can cause harm, for instance by stepping on a human’s foot or falling on a human. Most industrial robots operate inside a security fence which separates them from human workers, but not all. Two robot-caused deaths are those of Robert Williams and Kenji Urada. Robert Williams was struck by a robotic arm at a casting plant in Flat Rock, Michigan on January 25, 1979.^[90] 37-year-old Kenji Urada, a Japanese factory worker, was killed in 1981; Urada was performing routine maintenance on the robot, but neglected to shut it down properly, and was accidentally pushed into a grinding machine.^[91]

Timeline

History

Many ancient mythologies include artificial people, such as the mechanical servants built by the Greek god Hephaestus^[96] (Vulcan to the Romans), the clay golems of Jewish legend and clay giants of Norse legend, and Galatea, the mythical statue of Pygmalion that came to life. In Greek drama, Deus Ex Machina was contrived as a dramatic device that usually involved lowering a deity by wires into the play to solve a seemingly impossible problem.

In the 4th century BC, the Greek mathematician Archytas of Tarentum postulated a mechanical steam-operated bird he called “The Pigeon”. Hero of Alexandria (10–70 AD) created numerous user-configurable automated devices, and described machines powered by air pressure, steam and water.^[97] Su Song built a clock tower in China in 1088 featuring mechanical figurines that chimed the hours.^[98]

 

Al-Jazari’s programmable humanoid robots

Al-Jazari (1136–1206), a Muslim inventor during the Artuqid dynasty, designed and constructed a number of automated machines, including kitchen appliances, musical automata powered by water, and the first programmable humanoid robots in 1206.^{[citation needed]} The robots appeared as four musicians on a boat in a lake, entertaining guests at royal drinking parties. His mechanism had a programmable drum machine with pegs (cams) that bumped into little levers that operated percussion instruments. The drummer could be made to play different rhythms and different drum patterns by moving the pegs to different locations.^{[citation needed]}

Early modern developments

 

Tea-serving karakuri, with mechanism, 19th century. Tokyo National Science Museum.

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) sketched plans for a humanoid robot around 1495. Da Vinci’s notebooks, rediscovered in the 1950s, contain detailed drawings of a mechanical knight now known as Leonardo’s robot, able to sit up, wave its arms and move its head and jaw.^[99] The design was probably based on anatomical research recorded in his Vitruvian Man. It is not known whether he attempted to build it. In 1738 and 1739, Jacques de Vaucanson exhibited several life-sized automatons: a flute player, a pipe player and a duck. The mechanical duck could flap its wings, crane its neck, and swallow food from the exhibitor’s hand, and it gave the illusion of digesting its food by excreting matter stored in a hidden compartment.^[100] Complex mechanical toys and animals built in Japan in the 1700s were described in the Karakuri zui (Illustrated Machinery, 1796)

Modern developments

The Japanese craftsman Hisashige Tanaka (1799–1881), known as “Japan’s Edison” or “Karakuri Giemon”, created an array of extremely complex mechanical toys, some of which served tea, fired arrows drawn from a quiver, and even painted a Japanese kanji character.^[101] In 1898 Nikola Tesla publicly demonstrated a radio-controlled torpedo.^[102] Based on patents for “teleautomation”, Tesla hoped to develop it into a weapon system for the US Navy.^[103][104]

 

The first Unimate

In 1926, Westinghouse Electric Corporation created Televox, the first robot put to useful work. They followed Televox with a number of other simple robots, including one called Rastus, made in the crude image of a black man. In the 1930s, they created a humanoid robot known as Elektro for exhibition purposes, including the 1939 and 1940 World’s Fairs.^[105][106] In 1928, Japan’s first robot, Gakutensoku, was designed and constructed by biologist Makoto Nishimura.

The first electronic autonomous robots were created by William Grey Walter of the Burden Neurological Institute at Bristol, England in 1948 and 1949. They were named Elmer and Elsie. These robots could sense light and contact with external objects, and use these stimuli to navigate.^[107]

The first truly modern robot, digitally operated and programmable, was invented by George Devol in 1954 and was ultimately called the Unimate. Devol sold the first Unimate to General Motors in 1960, and it was installed in 1961 in a plant in Trenton, New Jersey to lift hot pieces of metal from a die casting machine and stack them.^[108]

Literature

 

A gynoid, or robot designed to resemble a woman, can appear comforting to some people and disturbing to others^[88]

Robotic characters, androids (artificial men/women) or gynoids (artificial women), and cyborgs (also “bionic men/women”, or humans with significant mechanical enhancements) have become a staple of science fiction.

The first reference in Western literature to mechanical servants appears in Homer’s Iliad. In Book XVIII, Hephaestus, god of fire, creates new armor for the hero Achilles, assisted by robots.^[109] According to the Rieu translation, “Golden maidservants hastened to help their master. They looked like real women and could not only speak and use their limbs but were endowed with intelligence and trained in handwork by the immortal gods.” Of course, the words “robot” or “android” are not used to describe them, but they are nevertheless mechanical devices human in appearance.

The most prolific author of stories about robots was Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), who placed robots and their interaction with society at the center of many of his works.^[110][111] Asimov carefully considered the problem of the ideal set of instructions robots might be given in order to lower the risk to humans, and arrived at his Three Laws of Robotics: a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; a robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; and a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.^[112] These were introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround”, although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. Later, Asimov added the Zeroth Law: “A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm”; the rest of the laws are modified sequentially to acknowledge this.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first passage in Asimov’s short story “Liar!” (1941) that mentions the First Law is the earliest recorded use of the word robotics. Asimov was not initially aware of this; he assumed the word already existed by analogy with mechanics, hydraulics, and other similar terms denoting branches of applied knowledge.^[113]

See also

Robotics portal

Main list: Topic outline of robotics

For classes and types of robots see Category:Robots.

Notes and references

Further reading

• Cheney, Margaret [1989:123] (1981). Tesla, Man Out of Time. Dorset Press. New York. ISBN 0-88029-419-1
• Craig, J.J. (2005). Introduction to Robotics. Pearson Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ.
• Needham, Joseph (1986). Science and Civilization in China: Volume 2. Taipei: Caves Books Ltd.
• Sotheby’s New York. The Tin Toy Robot Collection of Matt Wyse, (1996)
• Tsai, L. W. (1999). Robot Analysis. Wiley. New York.
• DeLanda, Manuel. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. 1991. Swerve. New York.
• Journal of Field Robotics

External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of   Robotics

Wikiversity has learning materials about Anthropomorphic Robotics

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Robots

Look up robot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

General news and developments

• robots.net general robot-related news and technological developments.

Research

• International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR)
• International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
• Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) at IEEE
• Robotics Network at IET
• Robotics Division at NASA
• Human Machine Integration Laboratory at Arizona State University

Other links

• Robotics at DMOZ at the Open Directory Project
• List of robots at Communist Robot

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• not stress her out
• not look at other girls

AND AT THE SAME TIME, YOU MUST ALSO

• give her lots of attention, but expect little yourself
• give her lots of time, especially time for herself
• give her lots of space, never worrying about where she goes

Never to forget:

• birthdays
• anniversaries
• arrangements she makes

HOW TO MAKE A MAN HAPPY

• Show up naked
• Bring beer

Poor Ole Roy

Didnt Tony make a stupid mistake whilst trying to Kill Roy Cropper last night??

He left a knife that he had stolen from Roys cafe,covered in his own blood…by the side of the canal….doesnt take Sherlock does it ??

X Factor Rigged ? Surely Not

You know the amazing unburstable bubble that is Jedward? Well, someone’s just tried to burst it. Big style. A mysterious X Factor “insider” has claimed that sound technicians were forced to turn down the twins’ vocals during their performance of Under Pressure… well, Ice Ice Baby, really… on Saturday’s show – or they’d get the sack. Ooooooooh, dramarama-tastic. “It is totally outrageous – and unfair to the other contestants,” says someone who sounds like they’ve got a bit of PMT. “It is cheating. The only time the sound levels on the mics were lifted was when they were rapping. I  am disgusted. A work colleague of mine was threatened with the sack before Saturday’s live show.” “Every week session singers come in to the studio to record backing tracks to some of the contestants’ songs. The twins have had backing vocals on all their live performances so far. The sound crew are always told to turn the levels of their mics down so their vocals are mostly covered by the backing singers. We are used to tweaking levels, it is part of their job but what we were asked to do on Saturday was beyond a joke.” They added, in full Points Of View mode now (ask your mum), “It makes me truly sick that we are part of this manipulation.” Unsurprisingly, the official X Factor line is that Jedward haven’t received any special treatment. “All the contestants sing live on Saturday night and are given an equal amount of technical support,” says a spokeslady. So, the plot thickens.

Talkin Of Freaky Lips

Eighties singer Pete Burns shows how smoking a cigarette can be a real drag. The former Dead or Alive frontman, who has undergone extensive plastic surgery, appeared to struggle to hold it between his pumped up lips as he lit up outside a west London café yesterday.

Freak !!!

Hippos 1—-Croc 0

Their bone-crushing jaws, 24 razor-sharp teeth and armour-plated skin are enough to ensure most animals keep their distance.  But, as our incredible pictures show, even crocodiles are no match for a herd of angry hippos. This young reptilian predator paid the price for swimming too close to a mother and her calves while they bathed. As 50 hippos gathered into a defensive circle around them, the crocodile panicked and raced over their backs in a bid to escape.

It was the last mistake he ever made. The beast’s defences were no match for the maze of angry mammals, who proved their bite is every bit as lethal as his. The spectacularly rare battle of the beasts was captured by Czech wildlife photographer Vaclav Silha. He had set up his camera on the banks of the River Nile in the Serengeti national park, Tanzania, when the unbelievable scene unfolded before him. But the 45-year-old got more than he bargained for when a colossal fight broke out between the group and a sneaky crocodile he had spotted earlier. ‘Mutual respect between these animals means fights occur very rarely,’ he said. ‘One of the only reasons you might see a conflict is if the hippos have young and they think the little ones are under threat. That’s exactly what happened here.

‘The incautious croc got too close to a female who had calves and the whole group gathered into a defensive circle around them. It was a strong message for the crook to clear off. ‘I have absolutely no idea why but the crocodile suddenly raced across the backs of the hippos. I think it might have panicked and thought it was a possible escape route. I couldn’t believe my eyes. ‘It was the worst choice the reptile could ever have made and it was definitely its last. ‘The island of hippos suddenly erupted with teeth and all I could see was the crocodile being repeatedly crushed in their huge mouths.’ Described as one of the most aggressive creatures in the animal kingdom, an adult hippo can apply several tons of pressure in a single bite. ‘Even the toughest crocodile could not have withstood being repeatedly bitten like that,’ said Mr Silha, from Prague. ‘There was no way for him to escape. I few seconds later his lifeless body slipped below the water and I didn’t see him again.’

Even More de Jour

Brooke Magnanti, the research scientist who confessed to being Belle de Jour, the £300-an-hour call girl, broke off contact with her father after she discovered he was sleeping with prostitutes.“I cannot say for certain until I speak to her, but it may have affected her. I guess she came to the realisation that prostitutes are just people, it’s not the stereotype that people often seem to think,” he said. “They are people with good hearts who have had problems in their lives and have fallen down. Often because of a bad family life or bad relationships or suffering violence, they have low self-esteem.” Miss Magnanti, 34, lifted the lid on one of the literary world’s best-kept secrets when she unmasked herself as the former prostitute behind a best-selling diary. She made a cryptic reference to her father’s use of prostitutes when she confessed to her past in a newspaper at the weekend, describing him as “a bit of a do-gooder… who helps women”, adding that if she broke the news to him in person about her secret past she might start by saying: “You know all those lovely streetwalkers that you try to help?” Mr Magnanti, a gardener who lives on the west coast of Florida, explained what his estranged daughter had meant by the comment. “After Brooke left high school and went to college, her mother and I got a divorce, which was very upsetting to me. “At that point I started to see prostitutes. There were a few that I befriended and two that I had a relationship with who even moved in with me briefly. I tried to get them to stop using drugs and stop working as prostitutes. “Drugs and prostitutes go hand in hand in most cases, though apparently in my daughter’s case it was quite the opposite, thankfully.” Mr Magnanti still professed to be shocked about his daughter’s past. “It’s broken my heart. No parent wants to hear that. I was very proud when she got her PhD. She is a very intelligent girl and I wish she had become well-known under different circumstances. I would rather things had worked out differently but it’s her life to live.” Miss Magnanti, who was born in Florida and came to England to study for a doctorate at Sheffield University, has said she turned to prostitution after moving to London, where she found she could not afford to pay her rent. Miss Magnanti’s decision go public as the author of The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl, which was turned into a hit ITV series starring Billie Piper, has been supported by her colleagues at Bristol University. But her confession has outraged a former boyfriend of seven years, who was known as “The Boy” in diary. “Brooke has outed me to my family and friends without giving me any warning. She never asked if she could write about our life together and I feel humiliated,” he said.

I for one find the whole story a testimony to Ms Magnanti, she didnt sponge off the state or whinge or moan, she did something about it and she and her family should be proud of her.  Her detractors should be aware that Miss Magnanti is carrying out vital research into children’s cancers.

Sad Story Of The Day

French woman marries boyfriend one year after he died

A woman in France has married her boyfriend of six years – a year after he died.

Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan George had planned to wed at their local town hall in November 2008, but he was killed just two days before the ceremony in a motorcycle accident. Ms Jaskiewitz, 32, used a little-known section of the French civil code that allows posthumous marriages if all the formalities for the wedding were completed before one of the partners died, including the setting of a date. She proved to officials that she and Mr George had been living together since 2004 and that they shared a bank account. She also provided a photo of the wedding dress she had bought to wear to their wedding. Standing alone in the aisle at the town hall, she was “married” to Mr George at a ceremony attended by 30 family members and friends in the village of Dommary-Baroncourt, in eastern France, on Saturday. Around ten posthumous marriages are carried out each year in France, French interior ministry officials said.

7 Reasons Not To Mess With Children

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible.
The little girl said, ‘When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah’.
The teacher asked, ‘What if Jonah went to hell?’
The little girl replied, ‘Then you ask him’.
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A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child’s work.
As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was.
The girl replied, ‘I’m drawing God..’
The teacher paused and said, ‘But no one knows what God looks like.’
Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, ‘They will in a minute.’
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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to ‘honour’ thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, ‘Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?’
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, ‘Thou shall not kill.’
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One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head.
She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, ‘Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?’
Her mother replied, ‘Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.’
The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, ‘Mummy, how come ALL of grandma’s hairs are white?’
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The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.
‘Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, ‘There’s Jennifer, she’s a lawyer,’ or ‘That’s Michael, He’s a doctor.’
A small voice at the back of the room rang out, ‘And there’s the teacher, she’s dead.’
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A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, ‘Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.’
‘Yes,’ the class said.
‘Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn’t run into my feet?’
A little fellow shouted,
‘Cause your feet ain’t empty.’
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The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray:
‘Take only ONE . God is watching.’
Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.
A child had written a note, ‘Take all you want. God is watching the apples.

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The top ten most irritating phrases:

1 – At the end of the day

2 – Fairly unique

3 – I personally

4 – At this moment in time

5 – With all due respect

6 – Absolutely

7 – It’s a nightmare

8 – Shouldn’t of

9 – 24/7

10 – It’s not rocket science

Blue Skies Ahead!

(Bonus! Don’t forget to watch the video at the end of the post!)

In my daily work, I sometimes wonder where I’ll “end up” on this road of Life.  I have wonderful, creative, intelligent friends and colleagues to work with, and they often ask me and themselves the same question.  It’s a new road; one with different ground, covered with what may – or may not be… acres of opportunities for personal and professional growth.  Many of us may never have the prestige, status, job title, postion, or salary that we once had when we ran for our lives on the old road – but truthfully, I’m not complaining as much anymore.  I’ve met so many diverse and intelligent individuals that I would have never known before I found this route – which is really not as much of a route, or a destination as I would have once described it at all.  I have experienced some of the most fulfilling adventures I’ve not paid for, or been paid for…does that make sense?  and for some of them, I don’t believe I would accept compensation for it, even if possible. 

Before this year, it had been a long time since I’d left work at the end of the day and said, “Today, they didn’t have to pay me for doing this job!” 

Some of the stops along this road have become pleasant destinations, some short, some I hope will be long-term, but where ever I end up, with the help of friends, family and strangers, I’ll be fine.  Hopefully, I’ll be able to return the favours and opportunities presented to me in the same way, or – this being a really different road, a different way…but after the many kindnesses given to me,  the generous compassion, empathy and yes – help and assistance given freely to me at the exact time I needed it, how can I do anything else accept hope for an opportunity to reciprocate these actions as needed.

And so, we just keep on walking, running, stopping for a break, helping someone else up, allowing and accepting help from others (whether we want to, or know how to!), and living our lives as we continue to walk carefully in this strange, new world.  

But, be careful of the strange, new sights that can distract you along the way as well!    Not all New and Improved Options are Good!

When you need some new directions, why not stop at a destination designed to help you, and anyone else that wants to join you and us?  The information about an event planned for just this sort of respite is below:            

 (there’s a glass of wine waiting for you at this one too!)           

This week, The Alliance for Creative Professional Transitions (a happy partnership of several Milwaukee-based professional services consulting groups: Triumvirate Consulting Group, My Personal Networking Group, Percival Enterprises,The Backbone Institute, KB Associates and Blue Skies Consulting), continues the 2nd of the 3 evening series: Get Happy!  Get Connected!  Get Busy!  on Tuesday, November 17, at 6:00pm, at the Brookfield location for Wine Styles. 

The price for this week’s event:   $20.00** per person - Price includes a featured glass of wine from Wine Styles.  Attendees are encouraged to linger after the event and participate in a Wine Styles Tasting. (I can attest to the high quality and deliciousness of their wines!  You can tell I didn’t attend their class yet on how to speak properly about wines!  I do plan on attending soon, so after that I will tell you of the smokiness, oaky or fruity flavours….but until then, I just drink what tastes good.  And all the wines I tasted that evening were good!  So there!   

The event – Get Connected! at Wine Styles is easy to find.  Below is the address:

 Wine Styles 
 17000E W. Bluemound Road 
 Brookfield, WI 53005

Pre-Registration is recommended as seating is limited. Call 262-751-2619 or Register Online: http://tiny.cc/cvlAy.  

                  This Tuesday evening, speakers Karen Jahnke (Triumvirate Consulting Group) and Ally Blackburn (My Personal Networking Group), bring you an event to help you  Get Connected!  They’ve geared the evening towards bring advice,resources, and ideas to utilize for understanding and utilizing the myriad of Social Media Tools that are available to everyone.  Upon completion of this evening, you’ll know how to uncover your untapped potential. You’ll have a better understanding of the future business landscape. You’ll find new ways to connect with your personal community and expand your virtual network. 

 Last month, we had a great deal of fun, laughter and learning lots of interesting new ideas and information about ourselves.  Jeff Percival and I talked about how to Get Happy! on this new road of Business.   Jeff offered ideas and methods to assess your current skills, upgrade or enhance them.  I talked about how the old skillsets and the new skillsets of work have begun to emerge in similar but different industries and niches along the way, and the new trends that businesses are developing to ensure sustainability and profitability (whether they want to go with the trend or not!).  I also gave my newest update on the FUTURE trends I’ve observed and researched that are rapidly evolving and pushing the current World of Work towards becoming – whatever it becomes, otherwise known as the FUTURE.  As of now, the trend towards a more Right-Brain dominat business place is still going strong as Left Brain jobs continue to be Automated, Outsourced, or Obsolete.  This gave attendees a new “map” of opportunities to look towards, and maybe even a brand new direction on their career journey. 

And don’t forget that next month on Tuesday, December 8th, (same time, same place), we’ll present the 3rd and final evening of this particular series (don’t worry, there will always be more!), with Get Busy! as Susan Marshall (The Backbone Institute) and Kathy Bornheimer (KB & Associates) bring you strategies, advice and resources that will strengthen your attitude towards your job search or career transition.  They’ll share methods to use that give you the Confidence, Energy and Motivation needed to Succeed in this Current and the FUTURE Business Landscape. 

Kathy and Jeff have also written an excellent Career Resource Book called “Work Makes Me Sick!  Prescribe Something   Quick!”  An informative and helpful book written with humour to help you in a new job search.  You can order the book at http://tiny.cc/o8Zoo.

This series is for Job Seekers, Career Transition Seekers, Educators, Consultants and Anyone who wants to Learn how to Thrive in the New “Normal” and the FUTURE Business World. We look to give you a better Understanding of this Brand New Business Landscape, to provide you with different methods to Connect with Your Community and Network, and for everyone attending to Discover that Your Journey is Just Beginning and that Your Destinations are indeed Many.  Many more than we ever Dreamed about (or ever Wanted to Know about!

I’ll end with the advice?  prayer? admonishment? blessing? or warning? that I give to my 15 year old son as he leaves the house each morning to begin his own personal journey down the road (up the road?) through the perilous world of high school, complete with it’s own dragons and monsters:     

MAKE GOOD CHOICES!                                                                    

(what else can you say to a teenager or to us as adults as we head out on the road each day?  whenever someone tells me to “have a nice day!”  i begin to worry about a bad day… when someone says “take care!” i begin to become fearful of being careless! and really, what other actions can make the biggest difference in where you end up in this world than your choices? and i’m leaving the relativity issue around “what are good choices?” to your Mom!  she’ll tell you what’s what!)

Yo

I watched this clip recently, titled, Music and Life. This video really caught my attention because it pointed out one of the greatest flaws in the modern way of thinking.

You go to Kindergarten, and then that lets you go to First Grade, and then that lets you go into Second Grade, and so on. You leave Elementary school and go to High school. After you graduate high school it’s off to University/College or whatever. And then sometimes even to graduate school. Then you join the rest of the working class and aim to get the highest paying job possible. Finally at forty you achieve the ’success’ you have longed after all these years, only to find that you don’t feel any different. The point is not that we should stop education, hell no. But that we should be thinking in the present, and not always looking ahead to the future.

What do you think? Disagree? Agree? Not Care? Say it!

Steve

Music and Life Video

kan man lätt påstå att de är idag ………… 

vakna vid 9 tiden o de såg så mörkt o trist ute. de var väl uppehåll men regnet hängde verkligen i luften. satte på kaffe o blev sittandes här vid datan som vanligt ………. men å andra sidan är de faktiskt tillåtet att vara lite lat när de är söndag ………..

tycker så fruktansvärt synd om mina tjejer som måste ta skit från andra som inte kan lämna dom ifred. jag har blivit ombedd att lämna hennes dotter ifred …… o givetvis undrar jag ju då ……….. är inte de ömsesidigt. snälla lämna mina tjejer ifred ………. sluta skicka SMS o sluta ring för att gapa o skrika. har du inge intelligent att säga är de bättre att du är tyst. de blir så mycke lugnare då. tycker de är synd att mina nära o kära måste råka illa ut bara för att jag är hatad o ratad ………. gå på mig istället o visa att du har lite ryggrad …. *suck*

har väl gått här o plockat o donat hela dagen. syster var här en snabb runda för att plocka upp hennes saker …………. o hon hann sitta ner i 10 minuter, inte illa ………. med tanke på hur många järn i elden hon har. är rädd att de slår tillbaka snart bara ………. man kan inte hålla på så en längre tid innan kroppen säger ifrån ……. hoppas på de bästa för syster yster  

har idag gjort en riktig söndagsmiddag. för första gången i mitt liv har jag lyckats göra köttfärslimpa, tillsammans med klyftpotatis, lök o morötter i ugnen. med extra kokta morötter vid sidan o brunsås blev de en fulländad middag o de blev jättegott. är riktigt imponerad av mig själv faktiskt ……

har oxå varit ute o cyklat runt smålandsstenar under eftermiddagen. kännde att jag behövde röra på mig lite. har suttit inne hela helgen så de var skönt med frisk luft …………. nu ska jag ta en cappucino o en stor chokladmuffins i soffan framför tv ……….. regnet öser ner ute o då är lagligt att mysa isoffan …….

I could listen to Larry Lessig lecture every day. – http://ping.fm/X0fj3

http://ping.fm/NZNFM 1001 Rules For My Unborn Son – “Let’s get some things straight before I old and uncool.”

On-Off, True-False, One-Zero, And-Or-Not. Logic, specifically Boolean Logic and it’s use in binary coding can easily be argued as the 1st computer language. In actuality, at the descreet circuit level, it is the root language of computing. Amazingly it was developed in the 1850’s. When George Boole outlined his system in ‘An Investigation of the Laws of Thought’, he concedes that it was rooted in language, but I don’t believe he forsaw the use of his system in so many computer languages used in every chipset in our modern computers. His was a logic of human language, reason and probability in natural science. It is this profound thought that brings me to consider the future of technology. When the underlying logic of our technology is a 19th century representation of human thought, it both compounds and simplifies our very understanding. The mathematics used to excercise by example, Boole’s system of human logic created a basis for logic systems in which there is no wrong output. There is always an output creating a perfect loop for problem solving. Logic is defined by the instance of a decision not by the knowledge to make that decision.

It may be a question whether that formula of reasoning, which is called the dictum of Aristotle, de omni et nullo, expresses a primary law of human reasoning or not; but it is no question that it expresses a general truth in Logic. Now that truth is made manifest in all its generality by reflection upon a single instance of its application. And this is both an evidence that the particular principle or formula in question is founded upon some general law or laws of the mind, and an illustration of the doctrine that the perception of such general truths is not derived from an induction from many instances, but is involved in the clear apprehension of a single instance

Boole goes on in his work to assign values and symbols of the system of logic and indicates ’That Language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted’. He identifies variables as unknowns in human reasoning, he defines = as an identifier, +, -, X, / as signs of operation, and continues to develop signs and symbols as they are perceived in truth. The term ‘classes’ of objects/things, and values are assigned to allow for the operation and comparison for the purpose of logical reasoning. All in comparison to the ’human’ languageThe Language of Logic and the use of symbols to calculate and come to reasonable output is sculpted and narrowed by exclusion at the same time it can be expanded by inclusion. Boolean Logic allows for reasoning at the most finite to the most infinite possible values. It allows for imagination and propositions. It opens the door and allows for the function of variable comparisons or in the world of human thought, the comparison of opinion and allows for individual interpretation. On the subject of opinion and belief, George Boole examines the ‘Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God’ by Dr. Samuel Clarke. With the proof:

For since something now is, ’tis manifest that something always was. Otherwise the things that now are must have risen out of nothing, absolutely and without cause. Which is a plain contradiction in terms. For to say a thing is produced, and yet that there is no cause at all of that production, is to say that something is effected when it is effected by nothing, that is, at the same time when it is not effected at all. Whatever exists has a cause of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature, and thus it must have been of itself eternal: or in the will of some other being, and then that other being must, at least in the order of nature and causality, have existed before it.

Amazingly, it holds up at both ends, whether you believe in God or believe in an infinite and always existing universe. Boolean Logic is the language spoken on Earth more than any other language in all recorded history. An examination of intelligent thought vs intelligent design is the perfect, never ending calculation. So using Boolean Logic, if we are to assume that what makes humans intelligent is our ability to reason, AND that the language of computers is Boolean Logic AND that Boolean Logic is the basic language of computers AND that Boolean Logic is the language of reason then it stands to reason that computers are intelligent. In actuality, it stands to reason that computers have the basic ability to be intelligent. To think that the underlying 0’s and 1’s of our computer circuits is modeled after an expression of human logic and reason is amazing. With this at the core of a systemit really isn’t hard to imagine strides being made in the world of AI. The question is, how do you make something a Being. What might or will be the final push in technology that makes a computer system think?
Source:  An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (PDF) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Allo mes chéris,

Bon je redeviens la Vilaine Charrue puisque Moto-Men m’a largué… Je vous raconte pas le pourquoi, je trouve cela insignifiant, sinon que monsieur voulait des trucs que la Vilaine ne voulait pas! Rien de grave, mais j,ai mon rythme et il est important… Bref je suis célibataire à nouveau et en quête du Blond barbue de mes rêves…

En fait c’est drôle mais jsuis pas déçue parcec qu’il me disait qu’il vivait des incertitudes face à moi, à notre relation, alors vous pensez, ne pas sasvoir si la personne que vous aimer se questionne… Ben là c,est fait et je crois que j’Avais fait mon deuil avant.  D’Ailleurs dimanche matin je m’étais réveillé en me disant je lui trouve quoi réellement, il est bien mais bon… y’a mieux!.  Je sais, quand on est en Amour on voit pas clair et je crois que c’est ce qui s’est passé.

Tout compte fait je vais avoir plus de temps pour m’occuper de mes bonnes causes, trouver comment je peux changer le monde à ma façon bien sûr…  Je vais avoir le temps de prendre le temps, c’est vrai être en relation comment avoir du temps pour faire des changements quand on passe son temps à penser à l’autre…

hier je me suis coucher à 7h15 et je me suis levé à 5h30 j’ai débuter des mexercices et eu le temps de faire ma méditation, bon j’ai fais cela en surface, mais pour débuter il faut y aller graduellement c’est le secret de la réussite, ça marche pour moi. Je compte continuer dans ce sens et arrêter de fumer, trouver ma cause, m’occuper de mon corps, de ma santé être positif, sexy intelligent et tout ce qu’une Vilaine charrue de premier de rang doit faire pour être la première… Je vais y arriver… un pas à la fois je vous le dit.

En ce qui concerne Miss Peggie c’est un flop elle n’a même pas réagit!!!! personne de veut la matcher, je ne lâche pas y’a surment des gars sexy pour elle intelligent qui aiment la nature qui veulent sauver la planète, qui aime les requin etc…  Je demande pas de sauver la planète, amis de matcher Miss Peggie, trouver un type intéressant dans facebook célibataire et on les plogue tous les deux… imaginer le mariage!!!!

Bon je vous laisse, imaginer qu’aujourd’hui y’a un mec qui m’envois un message dans mon hotmail qui me dit Allo tu te souviens-tu de moi qu’il dit?  Là je me questionne… et par quelques questions bien ciblés, je réalise que c’est le gars que j’avais croissé à 3h00 du matin dans la rue Ste- Catherine, j’vous dis pas comment j’étais éméché ce soir là et à cette heure…. beau ti gars! vraiment sexy pis je l’avais cruser, mais comme il venait de terminer une relation, je lui avait dit: ” écoute quand tu aura réglé ça, fait moi signe je te trouve intéressant!”.  Je vois les gens qui se disent ici, Wow! la Charrue, tu viens de teminer une relation y’a pas 24 heures que le diadème te pousse sur la tête!….. “

Primo, je le trouve intéressant et je veux prendre mon temps… on va juste discuter et on verra, secondio je l’avais déjà vue au Club S ce n’était pas un pur inconnu, j’ai un ti peu de classe et on avait échangés, bien disons discuté brièvement…. faut dire que la musique était un peu forte…. Bref je vous raconte la suite si il y….

En attendant je dois réfléchir èa ma cause c’est sûr…. Bonne semaine à tous….

Les Limites de Julien Doré

Sagittarius is one of the 3 fire elements (the other 2 are Aries & Leo) people born in fire elements are usually full of energy and drive.

THE SAGITTARIUS: In General
They can make changes: “Stop, I have a different idea”. they are usually very optimistic, freedom loving, honest, good humored, straight forward, intellectual and philosophical but on the flip side they can also be careless, irresponsible, superficial, tactless, restless and blindly optimistic. They combine a happy disposition & eagerness to talk. They have a certain tendancy to talk and always with a smile. His speech can be very direct & outspoken (in a innocent way) totally oblivious to his blunt speech. He really thinks he’s funny or just wants to be honest. They are so honest & sincere. They feel terrible when they find out that they hurt someone.

Most of them are extroverts, social, like being around people. Confident in themselves. They love to give free advice. They always have very high goals. Thinkers – how to get things done better. They have a restless nature, they can’t stay at home and do nothing, they love things exciting, LOVE challenges even if it involves risk & danger. They love speed, fast cars & roller coasters. Very brave. Temper can flare suddenly. They are clowns & funniest of all the signs. Very much in a joking mood. Has a positive good attitude. Too trusting. Refuses to accept the seriousness of life. Brave, they don’t like the burden of responsibility. They like to champion causes. If he feels abused he may act physically, react quickly and later regret it. If you are rude to him, he will give you a black eye and next day give you roses.

All the fire signs don’t think about their actions. He may even rebel against authority. Many of them love the stage and enjoy performing before an audience. They make great actors, they make people laugh and their sarcasm can come across as insulting. They can ponder deep subjects. Many of them become philosophers, psychologists & very religious. Enjoy sports, outdoors. they LOVE travelling. Good memories and remember many details. But are always losing their wallets, car keys, gloves, somehow there is a lack of focus. They can’t hold a secret. Can be very clumsy. /he will try his hand in gambling & drinking.Weakness with money. He’s curious. Can easily become obese. They are not as close to family as other signs are. He’s very generous. He’s not a whiner or a complainer, he’s brave, he’s confident, always willing to help. Staunch believers in being truthful.

Unique combination of wit, intelligence & fiery drive. Very independent in nature. Will want to know the why of everything. They will easily spot phonies.

THE SAGITTARIUS MAN
Optimistic, frank, very blunt, has many friends, honest, tactlessness, thoughtlessness, give him freedom, does’nt want relatives to interfere. Don’t dampen his fiery ideas. Won’t be too strict with kids & will be a pal to his kids. You need logic and reason to convince.

THE SAGITTARIUS WOMAN
Very outspoken, very generous, sarcastic, bright and intelligent with naive outlook, will not lie, very accepting of situations, ask her don’t tell her, prefers applause not romantic phrases, very good in breaking the ice (or raise eyebrow) very independant and cannot stand weak men. Can be extravagant with money, she may need a maid, doesn’t want to be confined to a house, makes a good hostess always smiling. Will give you loyalty, trust and affection.

THE SAGITTARIUS CHILD
They need to be liked, need the applause, more playful & happy, likes to be around grown-ups, wherever there is laughter and talking. They will want to know why it matters what people think. They will question everything and ssearch for the truth. Needs to be taught how to economize. Give them lots of room, cheer them up – they need to be happy. Be fair and they will respect the rules.

THE SAGITTARIUS BOSS
Will make outrageous remarks, they are seldom grumpy. Optimistic, won’t hold a grudge, will not tolerate unhonest behavior, he will fight for what he believes is right, is sincere, frank & friendly.

One of the best things about Francy is that he gives me credit (unlike most Italian men) for being intelligent.  One of the worst things about being considered intelligent by Francy is that he expects me to have an answer for every question he asks me.  I suspect he got this habit from an ex lady friend of his.

If I don’t know the answer to your question, I refuse to a)make something up just to satisfy your curiosity b)give you an uninformed answer–this is how misinformation spreads people!!!!!!!!!  Apparently his ex was a veritable font of information on Austria, Austrian civil law and bureaucratic procedures.

When I laugh at the questions he asks me, it’s not because they’re stupid questions, but more so strange because I’ve never understood how my being American automatically means I know the answer.  The following are some of my favorites.

1.  How long does it take to open a business in America?

Doing my best I asked “What kind of business?”.  After a brief back and forth of “any business” we agreed upon a fruit store.  I insisted repeatedly that never having opened a business in my life, I couldn’t say. This evolved into being prodded and harangued until I said “I’m not sure, but I imagine at least 2 months with all the planning and permits”.  This answer was met with both shock and disgust for American bureaucracy since apparently in Austria, one can have his/her business up and running in 24hrs. (see what I meant about that whole misinformation thing?)

2.  How many people live in ____________________(insert American city of your choice)?

I lived in Connecticut for 22 years and Georgia for 13.  Quite frankly, I can’t even claim to know the population of those two.

3.  How old is Tiger Woods?

Since I’ve never been one to follow the PGA, I refused to even get into this one and we went directly to Wikipedia.

4.  What happens if someone____________________(insert crime of your choice) in America?

When I was 11 I thought I wanted to be a lawyer.  Unfortunately this and our complex American law system,which I have never studied and with the exception of a few minor traffic accidents have never really experienced firsthand, renders me incapable of saying precisely how someone who commits a crime may be punished.

5.  What’s ____________(insert name of American film AFTER you’ve translated it from its strange and irrelevant Italian title) about?

Yes dear, that is an American film.  No dear, I’m not a fan of Steven Seagal, so I’ve never seen it.

I agree, it is awesome to be considered the irrefutable source for Francy’s questions.  My only confusion is that when I offer up information about something in which I do have considerable experience I get this:

Ma che ne sai tu???? -Despite the fact that it’s put in the form of a question, it’s basically “You don’t know what you’re talking about”.

Yeah, we’re working on this.

Next time:  Food and Francy