The End is Near

Someday, we'll all recognize this as the beginning of the end.

"At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust." These robots are being made to handle complex social tasks-- such as taking over the world and exterminating the human race.

Smaller, friendly looking robots are currently being used in hospital waiting rooms, in order to weed out any potential resistors...or show them maps of the facility. But not everyone is going quietly. "It just told us to get out of the way!" huffed wheelchair-bound Hiroshi Asami, 81. "It's a robot. It's the one who should get out my way." Just think about how irritated that man is going to be when he finds out that robots will eventually take over the U.S. defense mainframe in an effort to end life on this planet.

I'd like to buy Hiroshi-san a drink. However, I suspect that he'll soon be dead-- of mysterious robot-related causes. Meanwhile, I'm going to drop off the grid just as soon as I finish this season of Fox's "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."