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Researchers at NEC System technologies and Mie University have designed the cute little guy to the right: a metal man gastronomist, "an electromechanical sommelier", capable of identifying wines, cheeses, meats and hors d'oeuvres. Upon being given a sample, he will speak up in a childlike voice and identify what he has just been fed. The idea is that wineries can tell if a wine is authentic without even opening the bottle, amongst other more obscure uses...like "tell me what this strange grayish lump at the back of my freezer is/was."

But when some smart aleck reporter placed his hand in the robot's omnivorous clanking jaw, he was identified as bacon. A cameraman then tried and was identified as prosciutto.

Absolutely horrifying. Like cows, once robots taste blood, their hunger for human flesh can never be satiated."
- from The Wired Blog

From South Coast Today

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1. Vince
2. Kevin
3. Amber
4. David K.
5. David C.
6. Elijah/Artiste
7. Aaron
8. j3ph
9. Ari
10. Sarah
11. Abby
12. Alke

01)Who would make a better college professor, 6 or 11? What subjects would they teach?
...Shit, neither of them. Eli would kill things with his demeanor, and Abby's a little off the deep end of ADD and No Common Sense-ry. Anyway, he'd teach art classes and she'd teach... track. She'd coach the bloody track team.

02) Do you think 2 is hot? How hot?
Kevin? Nah, more cute than hot. Chelsea's Hale rather disagrees with me, but he's more kicked puppy cute.

03) 12 sends 8 on a mission. What is it, and does it succeed?
Alke, being a futuristic general bitch, sends j3ph, who found out, courtesy of too much tequila, how to download things to his brain, out to find the secret plans for the ever-present rebels' next move. It succeeds with him only contracting a minor computer virus.

04) What is or would be 9's favorite book?
Ari's quite the little literati, actually; he doesn't have one favorite book, but several boxes of favorite books. Of them all, though, he remains rather fond of Middlesex and Hamlet.

05) Would it make more sense for 2 to swear fealty to 6, or the other way around?
Oh, definitely Kevin swearing it to Eli. Eli would intimidate the poor boy into it.

06) For some reason, 5 is looking for a roommate. Should he share a studio apartment with 9 or with 10?
Definitely Sarah; David and Ari are both gay, and David's rather attractive, if also a junky, which might wind up with accidental cheating and Ari would guilt trip about it.

07) 2, 7 and 12 have dinner together. Where do they go, and what do they discuss?
They have it on Alke's starship, in her private quarters. She and Aaron discuss politics, which Kevin weighs in on with his pathetically uninformed opinion.

08) 3 challenges 10 to a duel. What happens?
They both end up laughing too much to actually duel.

09) If 1 stole 8's most precious possession, how would she/he get it back?
Vince wouldn't steal j3ph's stuff, period; j3ph is all creepy and he doesn't bathe that frequently.

10) Suggest a title for a story in which 7 and 12 both attain what they most desire.
Erm... "My Brother's Keeper," wherein she gets her drug-addled, rebel-joining younger brother back on the side of the royal family and he gets his frequently drunk, pornographer younger brother to set his life in order.

11) What kind of plot device would you use if you wanted 4 and 1 to work together?
Certain demise if they don't work together. David's a stoner; Vince hates that passionately, especially since he and David are both gay and David's into crystal meth, which is making AIDS into a gi-huge-ic problem for the gay community again. They'd need to be threatened with doom t work together.

12) If 7 visited you for the weekend, how would you get along?
Probably quite well, unless he got into my mother's stash of booze. He's an unassuming, yet incredibly self-destructive, guest.

13) If you could command 3 to perform any one task or service for you, what would it be?
Take care of my sister for a while so I don't have to. Make sure she doesn't burn the house down.

14) Does anyone on your friends list write or draw 11?
Someone could probably try...?

15) If 2 had to choose sides between 4 and 5, which would it be?
Kevin would go with David C. because they're cousins and they're closerthanthisclose.

16) What might 10 shout while charging into battle?
"FREEEEEEEDOM!" Because, even though he is a drunken, anti-Semitic nutter, Mel Gibson's Braveheart cry wins.

17) If you chose a song to represent 8, which song would you choose?
"Jesus Online" by Bush, or "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head" by Gorillaz

18) 1, 6, and 12 are having dim sum at a Chinese restaurant. There is only one scallion pancake left, and they all reach for it at the same time. Who gets to eat it?
Alke and Eli would have a bitch-fight over it; Vince would pleasantly turn his attentions to something with shrimp in it.

19) What might be a good pick-up line for 2 to use on 10?
He wouldn't try; he likes his women younger and straight.

20) What would 5 most likely be arrested for?
Hopefully, possession (heroin or pot); most likely, something that's less of a "we're going to punish you" arrest and more of a "just come sit with us to calm do... ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/9838610/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/9838610/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:58:37 PDT
Ever.

...Ask me how I know. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/9559808/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/9559808/ Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:08:16 PDT
And probably Alan Cumming too.

And my incredibly pretty, scathingly witty, and very gay RA.

'Nuff said. My taste isn't questionable, just geared away from reproduction or satisfaction at all. (I always fall for gay guys and straight girls. Unfair entirely.) ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/9049740/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/9049740/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 18:07:36 PDT
Life is good right now. Really, really good. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/8872583/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/8872583/ Thu, 25 May 2006 10:29:41 PDT
Especially since I'm writing slashy fanfic in the library, at a table with some small children, while I'm supposed to be doing Spanish.

...And I'm considering asking Dan to let me to skive off Fantasy so I can go home, take some medicine for whatever the hell is infecting me, and sleep/write some Macbeth notes.

Ack. I hate being sick. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/7358684/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/7358684/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 21:14:01 PST
That is all. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/7264143/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/7264143/ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 11:02:55 PST # Deviations: 379
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The evil was good while it lasted.

667 now. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/7233437/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/7233437/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:10:40 PST
I feel so delightfully evil.

Muahahahahahahaha. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5913681/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5913681/ Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:09:56 PDT

1989. Czech stop motion animation short film concerning what happens when a group of discarded mannquins have their calm, peaceful lives in an abandoned warehouse invaded by a group of discarded hipster mannequins. Great film. Recommended.

You can find it on the anthology Cartoon Noir, which contains five other short animations. They're all fairly dark, but that's what makes them interesting. If you can find that, it's 83 minutes of animated brilliance.

< / shameless plug > ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5669199/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5669199/ Thu, 16 Jun 2005 17:41:43 PDT
Have fun.

More tomorrow. Prom pics...soon.

Don't kill me. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5651272/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5651272/ Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:46:44 PDT ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5471517/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/5471517/ Thu, 26 May 2005 19:31:28 PDT
Mood: DAH FINALS!
Listening to: "Reasons to Be Sad (His Name is Marvin)
Reading: The Aeneid
Watching: Law and Order: SVU

hmm...this is pretty sweet. One week subscription tester...

Done:
* Journalism project
* Various biology thingers
* Spanish thing on El Greco

Doing:
* Latin study guide

To Do:
* Lit paper
* History paper
* Spanish...thing

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Back to work now. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4983992/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4983992/ Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:11:09 PST ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4601628/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4601628/ Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:46:18 PST ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4579386/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4579386/ Mon, 14 Feb 2005 12:17:33 PST
Just felt like sharing.

Happy F-ing V-Day. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4371765/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4371765/ Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:45:41 PST
...it's always upsetting when friends fight-ish, because I feel like I need to pick sides, even though I know I don't...

s to Debbie
s to Beth
:hugs: to All

...I know it's more complicated than this, but...*sighs* I don't know... ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4181882/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/4181882/ Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:39:11 PST ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3888182/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3888182/ Sun, 21 Nov 2004 19:55:36 PST Music: "Leave No Deed Undone (Xenocide Chill Mix)"~ Wolfsheim

Alright, so I just uploaded a bunch of recent photos, and most of those were of the Seven Deadly Sins Halloween Extravaganza!!!111 Those with watchful eyes may have noticed that some of the sins were missing (Sloth's close up, the black and white of The Japanese Version, and the shot of all the girl sins, for example). I have no idea what happened. I had them when I brought the photos to school for everyone to see, then I thought that there had been a mix up and Debbie took them even though I asked everyone not to do so, but she doesn't have them. Saturday during intermission for Comedy of Errors, I went up to the Magick Hallway to look for them, but they (and anything left up there) were not there. And it's really driving me insane, which I really don't need, especially considering that I'm missing the following: the pictures, a hairbrush, a book (a large hardcover), and a copy of Saved! and all of them disappeared at school (two of them should be easy finds; they just got moved for open house, but the other two I have no fucking clue as to what happened). And then there's the matter of this girl I don't even know (apparently her name is Normandy but who the hell cares right now) accusing me of ruining her expensive graphing calculator when I may or may not have, and demanding that I buy her a new one because she "doesn't have the money to buy a new one" and, to be honest, neither do I. And AARGH. TOO MUCH PRESSURE!

But at least the play's over. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3291770/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3291770/ Sun, 05 Sep 2004 10:49:05 PDT ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3258043/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3258043/ Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:41:02 PDT Mood: Good, but Tired
Music: The Fan
Watching: Whose Line

So...uhm...guess what.

In George's creative writing class, we're gonna do cool shit like put out our own chapbooks, fanzines, et cetera, and somewhere in there is going to come a short story by me, featuring furries as the main characters. This feels like the time I got bored and decided to write a Mrs. Dalloway-esque story about lesbians, only a little less...cool, because then I got randomly accosted by Bryan for about a week afterwards. Now I fear being randomly accosted by Jake...of course, he's in Estonia last I checked and he doesn't have to know, but knowing me I'll go to sleep and forget about this and shove the typed, awesome copy in his face. And that will be BAD.

Otherwise.

Standard BS. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3150755/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3150755/ Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:42:46 PDT Mood: Meh.
Music: Something on my dad's SIRIUS in the next room
Watching: Law and Order: SVU

Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties.

The first man had married a woman from Georgia, and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning. He said it took a couple days but on the third day he came home to a clean house and the dishes were all washed and put away.

The second man had married a woman from Florida. He bragged that he had given his wife orders that she was to do all the cleaning, dishes, and the cooking. He told them that the first day he didn't see any results, but the next day it was better. By the third day, his house was clean, the dishes were done, and he had a huge dinner on the table.

The third man had married a Michigan girl. He boasted that he told her that her duties were to keep the house cleaned, dishes washed, lawn mowed, laundry done and hot food on the table for every meal. He said the first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day most of the swelling had gone down and he could see a little out of his left eye. Enough to fix himself a bite to eat, load the dishwasher, and telephone a landscaper.

Got to love those Michigan girls! ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3145639/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/3145639/ Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:19:09 PDT Music: None
Mood: :blank: Blank
Watching: None

I think I need an extra week of summer break, where I can be locked in a solitary confinment cell that simulates some relaxing place without the sunburn. Ah well. That's not happening so...gah. It's just getting too damn difficult to try and relax...wait...getting? No...it's just difficult for me to try and relax...dammit.

Anyways, I'm leaving late Thursday or early Friday for a vacation up north, which is what we're doing instead of my parents going to Florida for some stupid wedding of someone they really don't know. I suggested going to New Orleans but, A. my dad hates anything and everything French, including their settlements in the US, B. I couldn't back up my claims that maybe it was within 100 miles of Sanibel, Florida, and C. well...I don't think my mom, whether consciously or sub-consciously, wants me to go. Seattle wouldn't suck either, but it's expensive and not within 100 miles of Florida. Damn geography. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2952697/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2952697/ Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:24:15 PDT Mood: Contemplative
Music: Crickets
Watching: Best Week Ever

Since I forgot to ask you on Wednesday...care to give me a tutorial on how one goes about planning and setting up a GSA coffee haus? Be as brief or as detailed as time allows...I just need some vague idea as to how to do this...please? ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2947656/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2947656/ Fri, 23 Jul 2004 06:53:14 PDT Mood: WTF, MTV?
Music: Accidentally in Love- Counting Crows
Watching: VH1

I have to wonder...does the music industry have some sort of deal with the people who make Prozac? Play a bunch of depressing music 24/7 on all the radios, MTV, VH1, and CMT, save for a few songs like...hmmm, anything by Beyonce, that Gretchen Wilson chick on CMT, or something along those lines and try to force the youth of America into therapy? "I can't sleep at night because I keep thinking of how nobody ever believed in me and how I don't have anyone." "What made you start thinking along thsoe lines?" "MTV."

Like we need that sort of shit going on. ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2937933/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2937933/ Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:10:31 PDT Mood: Contemplative
Music: The Twelve Gifts of Christmas - Allan Sherman

Hmm. Not to self: don't trust guys that Deb tries to set me up with unless they're not trying to get their ex back.

Dumb Sean. Stupid Sean. Ain't it always the way that you meet someone you think is totally cool, and you think it'll work out great and then...it doesn't. Christ. This is like the fifth time this has happened, and this time it took less than 48 hours. It took less time than Britney Spears was married, dammit. Getting over his ex, I understand. Trying to get her back, I don't quite like but I can understand. Suddenly knocking me for being an atheist and saying that I've strayed from God and he's going to convert me but can't date me because I'm not christian after spending more than two hours hitting on me in the worst way...no. The understanding kind of STOPS there.

Maybe Aphrodite means for me to go to Lillith Fair, get a KD Lang cd and some Birkenstocks, and settle down with some chick named Alex? God I hope not...I don't feel like being a lesbian right now. Maybe if Beth gets some whipped cream and PixieStix, but not right now... ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2912853/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2912853/ Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:10:25 PDT 2. Losing My REligion - REM
3. Pick a Pocket or Two- Jonathan Pryce + Boys
4. Mr. Jones- Counting Crows
5. Possession- Sarah McLachlan
6. Under the Bridge- Red Hot Chilli Peppers
7. Friend of the Devil- Counting Crows cover of the Grateful Dead
8. Jack's Lament- Danny Elfman
9. Double Vision- Foreigner
10. American Pie- Don McLean
11. Oogie Boogie's Song- Ken Page with Ed Ivoery
12. Long December- Counting Crows
13. Kidnap the Sandy Claws- Paul Reubens, Catherine O'Hara, and Danny Elfman
14. Rebel Yell- Billy Idol
15. Harder to Breathe- Maroon 5
16. Red Hot Moon- Rancid ]]> ~duanya http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2849785/ http://duanya.deviantart.com/journal/2849785/ Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:15:22 PDT
Also- my sister's dreadlocks don't exist anymore and I must now get a picture of her faux-hawked mullet for your enjoyment/repulsion/etc. ]]> ~duanya