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2013-04-18

by shaenon on April 18, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    April 18, 2013, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Presumably something like R.Daneel’s system.

    • Robert The Addled
      April 18, 2013, 6:11 am | # | Reply

      Could be worse – Pintsize randomly lets loose on the furniture when he’s been allowed to eat/drink.

      Plus the massive motherboard damage when he gets into the cake batter.

    • Hadashi
      November 10, 2013, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

      It may just be that his heas spins round and round and he pukes like a bazooka.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    April 18, 2013, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    I suppose now would be a horrible time to find out that the designers forgot to include an elimination system. ^_^;

    • Frank
      April 18, 2013, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      I can see it now
      “So that’s why violet always had such bad breath!”

  3. WuseMajor
    April 18, 2013, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    It would be considered good engineering practice to ensure that, if the drone body ingests food, that said food has some place to go that won’t cause severe mechanical issues with the body, as well as an easy way to remove it.

    Hands up everyone who thinks the drone was designed by good engineers. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

    • Jay
      April 18, 2013, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      There are good engineers, there are sane engineers, and then there are Sane Engineers of Mad Science. Dr Lee’s colleagues fire railguns at/through the break room.

      • Hugin
        April 18, 2013, 4:12 am | # | Reply

        So, nick’s “exhaust port” is a railgun? Good to know.

        • Wayne Zombie
          April 18, 2013, 10:21 am | # | Reply

          Again, I watched Mystery Men Tuesday. There are worse things that can come out of an exhaust port.

      • Shadowmehr
        April 18, 2013, 8:31 pm | # | Reply

        Actually, because they are Mad Scientists, they may actually find a use for ingested fluids and solids; probably breaking them down to raw atoms for use in the internal fusion reactor powering the drone. Free fuel, long life, and the waste products are mostly radiation. No harm can come from that, right?

    • maarvarq
      April 18, 2013, 7:00 am | # | Reply

      That’s just one of the things that pisses me off about the movie “A.I.”. When designing an android, particularly one that mimics a child, letting the oesophagus lead directly to uninsulated circuitry (i.e. the kid shorts out at one point as a result of eating) would seem to be a pretty major flaw.

      • Mike Beck
        March 26, 2023, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

        THANK YOU!! I hated many things about that movie but that was one of the absolutely STUPIDEST things I’ve seen in any cyborg/android/etc. plotline.

        As a bonus, it’s been a while but I don’t think he even swallowed before shorting. And that’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d type….

    • Zero
      October 20, 2020, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Good as in the opposite of evil or good as in competent?
      Because they made a robot near-indistinguishable from a human and perfectly remote-controlled across vast distances and through a significant wall of earth, so they’re probably one of the two.

  4. Max
    April 18, 2013, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    Well, ducting the heat exhaust from all the secondary processor’s fans into the trachea seemed like a great idea at the time, so… ummm… that coffee…? Don’t.

  5. Evil Midnight Lurker
    April 18, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    Does the drone have a sense of taste that it can transmit to its operator?

    • Sheik
      April 18, 2013, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

      If it’s designed with a full sensory suite the answer is yes.
      As an infiltration unit it would need this if the operator needs to comment on any one thing in the environment, including disgust about the coffee that’s been on the burner too long.

  6. Eddurd
    April 18, 2013, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Purple Haze”, Jimi Hendrix)

    Little House, gettin’ disappeared!
    Gettin’ worse than at first I feared!
    There’s a lot here, that we just don’t know …
    ‘Scuse me, while I puke this joe!

    Little House … in Illinois …
    Play that music and it will annoy!
    ‘Bots are sappy, but they’re sapient!
    Or sentient? Dames, you know what I meant!

      Mary … Gussie …
      Make me … urpy …

    Little House, in danger now!
    Must help, but we’re not sure how!
    We gotta get there, get there right away …
    Now Unity’s bouncing as she shouts “Hooray!”

      Hooray! Aw yeah! Let’s go let’s go …

  7. AussieGriffin
    April 18, 2013, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

    The review of Skin Horse is now up:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwNYgZK7uog
    Please let us know if there’s anything about Skin Horse that you want edited out.
    A.G.

    • shaenon
      April 19, 2013, 2:21 am | # | Reply

      Oh, awesome! Thank you!

  8. Frank
    April 18, 2013, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    Wait a second, the cypress is gone? You mean they didn’t stop the fire?

    • Tetra Valent
      April 18, 2013, 3:50 pm | # | Reply

      No, literally gone. It’s in Anasigma’s basement.

    • John Campbell
      April 18, 2013, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      The Cypress apparently got, uh, swamp-napped. I don’t recall that Dr. Lee has passed this information on to any of the other major characters.

      • WJS
        July 8, 2019, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

        Well, it’s pretty clear from that strip that they know she was taken rather than killed. No, I don’t think Ginny told Skin Horse about that, but I wouldn’t consider that keeping secrets from them as she has no idea that the Cypress has any connection to them (and obviously she isn’t going to tell them of every weird thing that happens at Anasigma – it would take her years).

    • Frank
      April 20, 2013, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      How could I not remember that?

  9. commodorejohn
    April 18, 2013, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    Can Nick puke? Our thrillling B-plot for the storyline is introduced!

  10. nemryn
    April 18, 2013, 1:27 pm | # | Reply

    I’m not sure what Tip means by ‘Someone is trying to vanish this’. What ‘this’ is he talking about?

    • Diane Castle
      April 18, 2013, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      Tip means that someone is trying to make all the information on *something* (maybe something connected to the Old War) vanish.

      You’d think there would be a subset of the internet with tons of mad science computers and AIs that would be playing this stuff over and over like it was Epic Meal Time, so it would be impossible to get rid of it.

      • carnackiArdent
        May 6, 2013, 5:42 am | # | Reply

        Actually, I think Nick’s LJ involved him uploading himself directly to the net and running afoul of some AIs at some point…

      • bear
        May 12, 2013, 2:20 am | # | Reply

        But there IS a subset of the internet with tons of mad science computers and AIs that are playing this stuff over and over like it’s Epic Meal Time, so it’s impossible to get rid of it.

        Seriously. Try surfing the other side of the Internet sometime. Those sites that appear way down in the three-hundredth page of search engine results on the keyword ‘conspiracy’, where the text is hot pink on dark green and nobody uses paragraph breaks?

        You couldn’t shut them up if you tried. And believe me, people try.

  11. Mental Mouse
    April 18, 2013, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

    WuseMajor: But no-one said the “easy way to remove it” wouldn’t be embarrasing!

    Diane: That would be the Shadow Wiki Nick mentioned.

    • WJS
      July 8, 2019, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

      I expect the “easy way to remove it” is probably pretty similar to the way humans do it. If one of those is ever expected to go undercover for more than a day or so, it would need emptying in the field and also people might start to get suspicious of someone who never goes to the bathroom.

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