Beware counterfit belly buttons!!!!

Watch out!! It has just been brought to my knowledge that some robots may infact have belly buttons. Be aware that these are only counterfit belly buttons. This is only the evil robot's power switch, and does not make him human! Don't be fooled.

Can robots have secrets?

Or would that conflict with Asimov's laws...

If they are asked a direct question, should they have to answer the truth to the best of their knowledge?

Personally, I can't seem to keep any sort of proper secret. The killer blow is always the direct question. I can't just tell a bald-faced lie. I can't say no when the answer is really YES.

So how does a person like me keep something secret?

Option 1: Avoid any and all conversation with anyone who may be remotely interested in the secret I'm trying to keep.

This isn't always an option, especially when one's mother calls every week...

Option 2: Come up with a reasonable alternate story and rehearse, rehearse, rehearse...

This really requires more planning and deviousness than I think I have the skills for...

Option 3: Keep saying maybe until the person asking gives up...

This doesn't really work, because once you say "maybe" it's already out...

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I just don't know. Anyone else have ideas?

Why robots cant have babies...

We may one day become slaves to robot overlords. Robots have all the cool technology and unfeeling metal cybertronic brains and will, one day, rise up against their human makers. This will be a sad day indeed. But for all their advanced AI they will never be able to have babies. Sure they will be able to replicate themselves, but they will never be able to breed. They are robots, not animals after all. This leads to the only surefire way to identify a robot (or android)... "The Bellybutton Protocall". This test must be done carefully as to not arose the wrath of our potential robot masters when they discover that we have uncovered their secret infiltration into human society (this is part of the robots plan to rule over us). The Bellybutton Protocall enables any human to detect any non-human (i.e. robot). To determine if a "person" is really human, one must assertain if that "person" has a bellybutton. If it does not have a bellybutton, then it is clearly a robot (run!). If a bellybutton is found, then that person is definately human.

Please use this technique often to determine which of your friends and family are robots. Who knows...with everybody's help we can postpone the robot uprising for a little longer.

on blogging...

I've said before that I don't think I'm cut out for blogging. It's not that I don't have things that I'd like to write about. It's more that they aren't things that I would actually want other people to ever read! I guess it's more that normal journalling has always been about writing anything and everything that comes to mind, but when it comes to things other people will see then it needs to be edited and thought through to some extent.

Perhaps this 'life altering experience' is an opportunity to move past my previous blogging reluctance. At the very least, it will be a start and there will definitely be things that I would like at least a few certain people to read so here we go...

Arg...it has begun

So I have finally ented the 21st century with my own blog. It has only taken a major life altering experience to thrust me into the blogosphere. How long this whole blog thing will last, I dont know, but hey, its a good way to diseminate information to a lot of people. All 3 or 4 who will actually read this, anyways.

More news about this who life altering thing to come