Weathering Sunday

[altivo]

Freezing rain out now. May continue all night, should make things interesting tomorrow.

I had quite an unusual dream yesterday morning, this is a reminder to myself to write about it, but not now. It involved robot horses with artificial intelligence.

But now, to bed. Work tomorrow unless the roads are totally impassable.

Comments

[damnbear.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've possibly read Christopher Stasheff's, "The Warlock in Spite of Himself."

If not, the lead characters companion is his ship AI that is placed into a robot horse for traveling within his renaissance world environment.

Nope - I'm not really a dick-head

[vimsig.livejournal.com]

Do Altivos dream of Robotic Horses? - it could be made into a film called Blade Galloper

Re: Nope - I'm not really a dick-head

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Not nearly as dystopic as that one. I'll describe it later today maybe.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I may have read that one a long time ago, but I don't remember anything about it. Have to look it up again, I guess. This was very interesting and within the realm of what I think will be possible sometime in the next century or so, though whether this particular application will ever materialize I'd have doubts.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Theres a book by Neal Stephenson called the
"Diamond Age" that is about a time when
nanotechnology is ubiquitous. In that book
there are robot horses but they are called
Chevaliars (sp? French for horse?).

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I found Stephenson impossible to read, but I didn't try that one.

Chevalier is French for "knight" or "horseman". Cheval (plural chevaux) is "horse". Not to be confused with cheveux mind you, because that means "hair".

[hellmutt.livejournal.com]

Ooh, android horses - awesome. Sadly, that reminded me first of those Bravestarr cartoons that were in the periphery of my consciousness as a kid. He was some kind of futuristic sheriff and had a wisecracking robot horse.

Second thing I thought of was the Electric Monk and its horse, who turned out to be a Douglas Adams invention from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Never read the Dirk Gently stories. I'm aware of Bravestarr, and I suppose the cartoons are kinda hokey and violent but the robot horse is, well, hot. Thirty-thirty he was called.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

Horseman is probably the correct spelling, and
intent.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

In case I forget, which is likely considering the season @.@.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PONY!

It must be cool to finally turn 28.

^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Uh, actually, I think I'm finally approaching Jack Benny's magic age of 39.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

*gets you your violin and your key to the vault*

Oh ROCHESTER!

*the city sticks out its tounge at him*

>.<

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUd1-_91YTk

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I already have a violin, but alas, no vault. At least, nothing like the fabled one he had. Interestingly and pointlessly, when I was at Columbia College our library was occupying the building originally put up in 1909 by the Chicago Musical College. Jack Benny actually took lessons from the violin teacher there in about 1908 to 1909, and I liked to imagine the ghosts of young Jack Benny and that teacher sort of haunting the fourth floor where my office was.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

No doubt he was.

*the pony sits, daydreaming of owning his
own ponies when...suddenly*

"I have to save money! NOW!"

*people look at him @.@*

"Never mind...I..."

^.^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

There might have been something to that actually. ;p

[cabcat.livejournal.com]

*sends some warm weather from the South* :)

Hmmm were they bipedal type horses or the quadraped type?

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Quad horses. They were being sold as "alternative transportation" for commuters, actually, for about the same price as a small car.