May be a bit late in this criticism, but the dialogue of the character Pearl makes it seem like Nathaniel Hawthorne never even met a child.
Not sure we want to win the future if that means we’ll be responsible for all its debt.
Is Santa claiming his workers are elves just a way to get around child labor laws?
I’m not looking forward to having robot overlords, but you know their budgets will actually add up.
SUPERVILLIAN: “You’ll never stop me, Spider Dashman.”
SPIDER-MAN: “I keep telling you you don’t pronounce the dash! I’ll kill you!”
I won’t be impressed with Watson until he starts making jokes about Trebek’s mother.
But can they make a computer that aces Double Dare?
Seems like the best thing for the country would be for the next president to go on a four year suicide mission against the deficit.
I’m afraid House is getting a bit stale. They’ll need to shake things up next season; have him travel through time diagnosing pirates.
Whenever we eat dinner without the TV on, I feel like I’m living in medieval times.
Couldn’t they at least make Watson sound like Paul Lynde?
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That’s “I’ll bet you do, you Canadian ponce!” in binary. Watson will need to know that.
Watson + TOTUS = super happy fun times
“Watson, you must answer in the form of a question.”
“I’m sorry Alex. I’m afraid I cannot do that…Daisy, Daisy…”
Send him to the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre so he can diagnose Bogart’s strange behavior of talking to himself.
“Lupus! I don’t got no stinkin’ lupus!”
Gotta love Santa, working hard to fight against anti-child discrimination by giving them the right to seek employment!
“four year suicide mission against the deficit”
Ah…. Could you make that 23 months? Nothing this guy does works.
“Is Santa claiming his workers are elves just a way to get around child labor laws?”
It doesn’t matter, the North Pole is known for it’s lax child labor laws. Besides, Santa’s elves are really on average about 2,000 years or more old. Didn’t you watch or read Lord Of The Rings? Sheesh!
“I’m not looking forward to having robot overlords, but you know their budgets will actually add up.”
I am looking forward to bribing the programmers of our fobot overlords. Program me a couple of robots to serve as my household staff, boys! Ahhh, no more sweepin’ n’ moopin’ and picking up my stuff. Hurrah!
Pearl was hatched out of an egg……like Lady? Gaga.
Win The Future! Win The Victory Over Yourself! Love Big NannyState!
Our Future Robot OverLords will listen better than our current politicians, so we’ve got that going for us.
Santa’s elves are illegal immigrants that take the jobs that the Inuit won’t do.
“It’s Binary, Dear Watson.”
Most computers breach formal etiquette and go directly to the Triple Dog Dare.
Suicidal missions have been removed from politicians’ DNA prior to election, via the Halliburton Large Hadron Collider.
I usually guess Sarcoidosis as a medical diagnosis, for all of House’s cases.
Whenever I eat dinner with the TV on, I realize I’m living in Evil times.
May be a bit late in this criticism, but the dialogue of the character Pearl makes it seem like Nathaniel Hawthorne never even met a child.
Hawthorne makes up for it by having the dialogue of the other characters seem as if he had never met a human being. Melville and Jane Austen have the same problem, and all three of them manage to use the largest possible number of words to depict the smallest possible action. One of the many benefits of having graduated from high school a very long time ago is that I get to read what I want.
Damncat’s right, Watson would be much more impressive if it sounded like Paul Lynde. It would be even more awesome if it could come up with some limericks like Nipsey Russel, but that would probably be too much to hope for.
Random thought (a friend sent me this) :
“This year we will experience 4 unusual dates…. 1/1/11, 1/11/11, 11/1/11, and 11/11/11.
Now go figure this out…. Take the last 2 digits of the year you were born plus the age you will be this year and it WILL EQUAL 111. This won’t ever happen again in your lifetime.”
Watson would be more interesting if IBM actually made hardware. They’ve sold off nearly all of their hardware divisions, some of which are earning well for the companies that bought them. IBM has decided that the money is in consulting, even though they can’t bundle the hardware the way they used to. Better still, their strategy is to undercut competitors’ bids, get the contract, and then run over budget. I’d call that a death spiral.
Mebbe Watson the computer could figgur that out if you asked him.
OMG, the one about Spider dashman made me laugh like a loon. I am beginning to wish you were my son. I know your mother, lucky lady, is proud of you.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209899/IBM_s_Watson_could_usher_in_new_era_of_medicine
Didn’t know where to post the above link, so Random Thoughts gets it.
It’s never too late for criticism. Frankly, I’d rather watch Divine eat dog crap than have to read The House of the Seven Gables again.
At Medieval Times, you get to watch jousting. Don’t need no TV.
All I can be sure of is that I really want to win the future… that is why I have not been buying gold like some radio host suggests! I have been buying guns and ammo… and six weeks after the SHTF I will have all YOUR gold and food! Sorry, I like you, but I WILL win the future. O’bama is going to have a rough time without a teleprompter or an M4…