Is May over already? It seems as though it had just rolled around the corner yesterday. Ah well. Today I submit to you the last two Robot-a-Day sketches.

The first is, as you can probably tell, a robot based on a turbine, not a turban. I do like his shark-fin head. Very aerodynamic.

turbo robo
Champion of the roller derby.

And finally, a robot doing what robots do best– work.

worker

Computers don’t stop us from making mistakes. They help us make mistakes faster.

Robots don’t stop us from making mistakes either. They make our mistakes worse by repeating them.

I was asked to draw a robot based on a turbine.

robe-bot

Instead I drew a robot in a turban. Close enough, right?

May is almost, but not quite, over, and with it, my Robot-a-Day challenge. The last week has been busy and tense, and I’m not only glad it’s over, but am also glad to have had a third day this weekend. In addition to partially clearing a path through the Secret Laboratory, I also caught up with Robot-a-Day.

astromech   duster  beetlebot  sub  All My Circuits

Only three more to go!

crazyeyes

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet…"

Were I a Great Blogger, I’d have something witty to say right now. Perhaps I’d verbally paint wicked caricatures of my coworkers, making certain to disguise each by adding the equivalent of a ridiculous fake moustache, French accent, or other funny hat. Or, maybe I’d tell a story about a shopping/bar-hopping adventure that ended with equal parts puke, bruised ego, and buyers remorse. Or, maybe I’d tell you in gruesome, intimate detail of a recent infirmity, whether due to virus, bacteria, burrito or alchohol poisioning. Or maybe I’d express my considerable outrage over the things my city, county, state and Federal governments do in their effort to better "represent" me.

Is it that I’m just not that sort of blogger? Or, worse, am I That Sort Of Blogger? Am I, perhaps, the sort of blogger that pops up every few weeks, raving about his newly broken computer? Maybe I’m the sort of blogger that daily posts a sentence or two about how his day went, perhaps dropping the name of another blogger he accompanied on a shopping/bar-hopping adventure? Am I just That Sort Of Blogger that periodically performs a link dump with little or no explanation?

Maybe. Or maybe I just haven’t yet discovered my rightful place in the blogger heirarchy. But if it’s not to ridicule my coworkers, if it’s not to recount my few and unremarkable adventures, if it’s not to express my considerable discontent with the government, and if it’s not to just wave from the crowd, then what is it?

Cyclopean Watcher

"Do you ever have the feeling… that you’re being watched?"

In reading 50 Short Science Fiction Tales, I couldn’t help but notice how tame and dated time had made those tales seem. Factor in the length, and the seemingly compulsory twist endings, and I feel almost as though I’d been reading The Science Fiction Joke Book. This is not by any means to say I haven’t enjoyed the book. Vintage science fiction is fun to read for its odd speculations that never bore fruit: book-film readers, binary-coded police reports, atomic light bulbs, tube-based teaching computers, and all sorts of other, wonderful ideas that seem half-baked by today’s standards. Of course, some ideas never seem to go out of style, such as robots that carry out their programming long after the need has passed. Thus I present to you the twentieth Robot-a-Day, the Keeper of the Volcano.

tiki robo

The Keeper of the Volcano had been quiet for generations, just listening to the earth move, but on the day it finally spoke, nobody understood.

Today’s robot is a helmeted android. Something odd is happening with his mouth. He came out looking as though he either has buck teeth or a bad moustache.

android

What do you think?

Postfix: The Definitive Guide

…another robot.

beep boop

"Beep. Boop."

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