But what can robot/Princess/Daughter/Whimsey do about the wrecking crew? On the other hand, she must have a lot info on all the members of Whimsey corp, and some bank account numbers….
There’s a story about Marilyn walking down the street and going completely unnoticed until she started walking like, well, Marilyn Monroe. Suddenly, people were recognizing her, asking for autographs, etc.
I suspect that Nick will get his remote body back when this story arc is done: the Princess is just using it to do things she can’t do normally.
Whether Nick will end up with any identity uncertainties as a result of the experience – well, that’s for Jeffrey and Shaenon to know and us to find out – later_.
We only have The Princess’ word that Nick is OK, and a Corporate Entity might have a different definition of what “OK” means than a normally Corporeal Entity (although Nick is a Discorporate Brain, he does have a Brain/Body connection to his Tiltrotor).
Nick’s not a brain — he’s a helicopter. His brain/body connection is as important to him as yours is to you (given that this setting has people able to move brains in and out of people).
I predict Nick will come zooming in himself — not through drone-based telepresence — and say “I told you you should let me fly us!”.
That’s the thing, isn’t it? She’s not WhimsyCorp: she’s a *thing WhimsyCorp does*, just as a human mind is a thing a human brain does. WhimsyCorp may do other things too, that are not her, and that may do things she dislikes (like this).
The other things WhimsyCorp does are part of her, in the same sense that your heartbeat is part of you. Whether she likes it or not, however, is another issue.
She seems to be assuming that she can just walk up to the wrecking crew and order them away. We’ve already seen there’s a few “gaps in her education”….
I’m beginning to believe the “Princess” will order the wrecking crew to SPEED THINGS UP! New equipment/software is now available, and dumping the old (bleep) is part of the process.
Can other people see the comic itself? I’m only seeing these comments, plus a message on the left side about there being no widgets in the sidebar, and then an error message at the bottom that says “Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_cp_theme_layout() in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-content/themes/skinhorse/sidebar-right.php on line 7”
Hang tight, guys. We see the problem too. Now it’s just a matter of fixing it. In the meantime, check out today’s strip on the GoComics mirror: http://www.gocomics.com/skinhorse . Thanks for your patience!
In the last panel, the presence and position of Princess Whimsy’s philtrum made me see her tongue and inner cheek as big, bloaty lips, and now I can’t unsee.
Aaand now I want a spleen Happy Meal…
Ow, my spleen!
mnem
I might need that someday!
See? That’s what happens when you forget to include Raquel Welch in a white wetsuit. Poor sales of Happy Meals.
Would’ve sold better if it were vented.
But what can robot/Princess/Daughter/Whimsey do about the wrecking crew? On the other hand, she must have a lot info on all the members of Whimsey corp, and some bank account numbers….
Bank account numbers, knowledge of confidential e-mails, access to the security systems . . .,
If she can’t give herself authority outright, the potential for blackmail is immense.
In my head, she has a breathy princess voice now, a little like Marilyn Monroe, but less naive.
Marilyn Monroe played naive characters, but she herself was very intelligent and savvy.
Yes, indeed she was, but the “Marilyn Monroe” persona she put on included a breathy, naive-sounding voice.
There’s a story about Marilyn walking down the street and going completely unnoticed until she started walking like, well, Marilyn Monroe. Suddenly, people were recognizing her, asking for autographs, etc.
It would be convenient if all corporations had a humanoid embodiment. Then we would have someone to arrest.
+328,304,691
It is actually surprising that a sapient human embodiment corporation isn’t acting significantly more sociopathic, yeah.
Give it time, I suppose.
I suspect that Nick will get his remote body back when this story arc is done: the Princess is just using it to do things she can’t do normally.
Whether Nick will end up with any identity uncertainties as a result of the experience – well, that’s for Jeffrey and Shaenon to know and us to find out – later_.
We only have The Princess’ word that Nick is OK, and a Corporate Entity might have a different definition of what “OK” means than a normally Corporeal Entity (although Nick is a Discorporate Brain, he does have a Brain/Body connection to his Tiltrotor).
Nick’s not a brain — he’s a helicopter. His brain/body connection is as important to him as yours is to you (given that this setting has people able to move brains in and out of people).
I predict Nick will come zooming in himself — not through drone-based telepresence — and say “I told you you should let me fly us!”.
That’s the thing, isn’t it? She’s not WhimsyCorp: she’s a *thing WhimsyCorp does*, just as a human mind is a thing a human brain does. WhimsyCorp may do other things too, that are not her, and that may do things she dislikes (like this).
The other things WhimsyCorp does are part of her, in the same sense that your heartbeat is part of you. Whether she likes it or not, however, is another issue.
She seems to be assuming that she can just walk up to the wrecking crew and order them away. We’ve already seen there’s a few “gaps in her education”….
I’m beginning to believe the “Princess” will order the wrecking crew to SPEED THINGS UP! New equipment/software is now available, and dumping the old (bleep) is part of the process.
If you don’t know this song, you’ve never watched “Batman: The Animated Series”.
(TUNE: “Am I Blue”, Harry Akst & Grant Clarke)
Wrecking crew, wrecking crew,
I must go tell them now what to do!
Tell them “Shoo! Job is through!
Just ignore all those calls from HQ!”
Just like that time
Upon the silver screen,
I told them “I’m
Now off to see my spleen,”
(icky scene)
But today, I can say,
“Go away, shame on you, wrecking crew!”
Well, no, I’ve never seen the Batman series, but I certainly know “Am I Blue”—it’s a classic. As is your filk.
I know it from “The Last Emperor.”
Actually, I believe that the relevant episode you’re thinking of was on Justice League Unlimited.
Not to take away from the filk, which is up to your usual high standards, but just for accuracy’s sake. And my own OCD.
Suddenly I’m reminded of “The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body.”
Which of them? I know there was at least two.
BRAIN: Are you pondering what I’m pondering?
PINKY: Yes, I think so! But if they called them “Sad Meals”, the children wouldn’t want to buy them!
Error messages–
Can other people see the comic itself? I’m only seeing these comments, plus a message on the left side about there being no widgets in the sidebar, and then an error message at the bottom that says “Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_cp_theme_layout() in /home/shaenon/skin-horse.com/wp-content/themes/skinhorse/sidebar-right.php on line 7”
Yeah, I’ve got the exact same thing, Nonie. From the looks of it, we’re watching a layout change as it occurs!
Or Whimsy’s bulldozers have hit the server room and the webserver’s going belly-up again.
Same for me.
Same here.
Same here, and it was working fine this morning. Maybe all the cybernetic shenanigans of the strip have given the server fits.
Same thing here at 8:13 PM ESD.
I don’t see anything, not even the error message
Yep. Had to go to GoComics for my SH fix today.
so where’s the comic? invisible to me.
I don’t see it either. Not any of them. I checked back all the way to the beginning to be sure,
ah. little thing says “fatal error call to undefined function is_cp_theme_layout” and something about the right sidebar.
Hang tight, guys. We see the problem too. Now it’s just a matter of fixing it. In the meantime, check out today’s strip on the GoComics mirror: http://www.gocomics.com/skinhorse . Thanks for your patience!
In the last panel, the presence and position of Princess Whimsy’s philtrum made me see her tongue and inner cheek as big, bloaty lips, and now I can’t unsee.