Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Monday, November 08, 2010
Is this my punishment for studying Adam Smith?
Pete told us over the weekend that he doesn't want to be a paleontologist after all. Instead, he wants to build robots that will dig up dinosaur bones and discover new species. By having the robots do the digging, he explained, he will have more time to write comic books.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Better than Dracula, I guess
This morning, Pete derived 85% of the text of Frankenstein in 30 seconds:
Pete: Pop, do you know how God created the first people?
Erik: How?
Pete: He took clay in His hands and blew his breath into it, and it came alive. And that was ADAM and EVE!
Erik: Wow!
(Pause.)
You know, Pete, the thing about the first people coming to life is that nobody was there to see it.
Pete: GOD WAS!
Erik: Well. Um, OK, but we can't ask God directly what happened, so we tell that story about how people were created. Isn't it a good story?
Pete: Yeah. Sometime WE could make a ROBOT!
Erik: Uh.
Pete: And then we could have lots of robots that we could CONTROL!
Pete: Pop, do you know how God created the first people?
Erik: How?
Pete: He took clay in His hands and blew his breath into it, and it came alive. And that was ADAM and EVE!
Erik: Wow!
(Pause.)
You know, Pete, the thing about the first people coming to life is that nobody was there to see it.
Pete: GOD WAS!
Erik: Well. Um, OK, but we can't ask God directly what happened, so we tell that story about how people were created. Isn't it a good story?
Pete: Yeah. Sometime WE could make a ROBOT!
Erik: Uh.
Pete: And then we could have lots of robots that we could CONTROL!
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