It’s the fireworks holiday. And following with what must be a centuries’ old tradition here in SF, a huge fireworks celebration is planned for 9:30 tonight, while The City is surrounded by an ominous wall of fog. A juggernaut of fog, a behemoth of fog on all sides, ready to roll in and smother the…
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Cranky
I am cranky. I have been cranky for over a week. It’s been a lousy month at work for me, and just when I think it’s really crappy, it gets worse. Then, to top it all off, the only light of my life in the crack whore, junkie haven neighborhood that my office is in,…
Cockbot
Robolympics was incredible — I judged 44 rounds of robot competitions, in middle- and heavyweight classes, sometimes at near risk of life and limb from huge flying parts of machines being ripped apart and flung into the Lexan in front of me. And true to my SRL training, I did not cringe, but laughed and…
Guerilla Furrie Bar
A few days ago, an email arrived on my doorstep as SRL crew, from an SRL fan and robotics society magistrate. Asking for help wrangling the Robot Olympics, he wasn’t specific with details as to what he might want me to do, and while I tire painfully of people endlessly asking if SRL is like…
Siegfried and Roy Ate My Brain
First, here are cute pictures from Halloween before the alcohol made us incoherent. At a party thrown by an exquisite local dominatrix, I met up with my pals Thomas Roche, Chriso, and Sexy Hornboy for mayhem and silliness, mostly marked by the punchbowl of cosmopolitan mix and the party’s proximity to the Castro. Over 300,000…