Leverage Tuesday

Cross posted with peaseblossom

This next Tuesday (the 21st) night, our place, we'll order pizza, you bring some beer (I'm also thinking orange soda or milkshakes), we'll watch some Leverage from the season 1 DVDs. I was thinking 'The Homecoming Job', 'The Bank Shot Job', 'The Snow Job', and maybe one or two more, depending, but that's up for debate.

The usual disclaimers about our tv (it's actually a computer, and it's small), our kids (we have them), and our cat (she bites, and is allergenic) apply.
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Oh this is a peachy idea!

Have scientists no collective memory!

From the file marked “Evidently, many scientists have never seen even one scary sci-fi movie,” the U.S. Defense Department is funding research into battlefield robots that fuel themselves by eating human corpses. What could possibly go wrong?

Since they apparently don’t own TVs or DVD players, researchers at Robotic Technology, Inc. are developing battlefield machines that can fuel themselves with collected organic matter. The experts say such fuel “could” include human corpses, but if you picked up anything on flesh-eating robots over the years you know they’ll ignore that tasty soybean field and make a chow line right to the nearest corpse. And, if the machines can’t find enough dead people to eat, they can always make new ones.

Researchers seem to get a kick out of insuring the demise of the human species, so the project is called the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot or EATR.

The Complete Smiley

BBC Radio is doing a wonderful radio adaptation of all of John Le Carré's Smiley Novels, called the Complete Smiley. Currently they are serializing The Spy who Came in from the Cold which is John Le Carré's potent account of a Cold War spy's existence, which is an amazing adaptation. I love the voice actors. I’m wondering if I’ll be able to purchase these, especially since I missed the earlier novels.

Some superhero musings

Peaseblossom and I are currently playing around with a 1:1 superhero game about a Sorceress Supreme active in a larger world of superhero craziness. I wanted to outline some of my current working assumptions as I contemplate making this something more serious.
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