First up, from the far, far east….
(TSUKUBA, Japan) A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn’t cleared safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.
Developers at [...]
March 18, 2009
Categories: Sci-Fi, Sci-Non-Fi, asia, cool, media, nerd, robot, tech . Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Choe U-Ram, Don't Build and AI, HRP-4C, Madness, Opertus Lunula Umbra . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
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Here’s the links for the video…
Obama talkin’ to the CEO’s.
Jon Stewart slamming Jim Cramer and CNBC.
China on the offensive in the Impeccable.
China on that $1,000,000,000,000 note of ours.
Russian bombers and new bases.
World Bank on global economy shrinkage.
Cheney being Cheney, which is to say, a dick.
Loudmouth [...]
March 15, 2009
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Int Poly, Poli-Fi, advice, asia, business, china, drugs, government, media, middle east, oil, us . Tags: china, cuba, David Frum, Dick Being a Dick, Dick Cheney, Global Economy, Impeccable, Jim Cramer, Jon Stewart, Larry Summers, obama, police state, Run Rush Run, Rush Limbaugh, russia, South China Sea, Strategic Bombers, World Bank . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
As mentioned a little while back, I am putting the blog on hold and writing a book.
O.k. I didn’t do such a good job of that (as the latest posts can testify) but that hasn’t stopped the book from coming along nicely.
They can read be read here.
I’d love to get some feedback on what I’ve [...]
December 18, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Doh, Examples of Work, Int Poly, My World, Poli-Fi, Sci-Fi, Sci-Non-Fi, advice, africa, art, asia, business, curious, drugs, environment, europe, friends, funny, gaming, government, history, iPhone, internet, iraq, latin, media, middle east, money, myth, nerd, ninja, oil, pirate, random, religion, robot, sad, sex, tech, terror, us, war . Tags: Add new tag, Like a Thief in the Night, Mathematical and Psychological Proof of God, Philosophical Meanderings, Robot Pirate Ninja: The Book, Some nutjob hearing voices, The First Book . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 3 Comments
So my first, and worst, Fallout 3 video just passed 10,000 views on ye olde YouTube. I know that’s not much for some of the popular videos, but it’s a decent enough milestone for a month or so.
In personal book news, we’re past 30 pages and chapter 3 is a slight bit of research away [...]
December 5, 2008
Categories: Int Poly, asia, china, cool, curious, government, history, middle east, ninja, pirate, robot, terror, war . Tags: "terrorism", Did You Know 2007, Did You Know 2008, Fallout 3, Fallout 3 Videos, india, pakistan, Sexy new Wordpress . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
Here’s the story so funny it can only come from China.
Axl Rose isn’t exactly the renegade rocker he was in the late 1980s, but he’s still rock ‘n roll enough stir up a controversy.
An article in a Chinese newspaper today blasted the singer’s new album “Chinese Democracy”as a “venomous attack”on the nation and suggested the [...]
November 25, 2008
Categories: Poli-Fi, asia, bullshit, china, gaming, government, media, music, robot, stupid, tech, us . Tags: 1812 Overture, Chinese Democracy, Chinese Government, Duke Nukem Forever, Fallout 3, Liberty Prime, Tchaikovsky . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
There have been major news stories in the last couple of weeks involving robots and pirates making war. The ninjas are staying out of the spotlight, but as that is their nature, this shouldn’t be noted as evidence that they aren’t very busy.
First up, the pirates…
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — Pirates who hijacked a crude oil [...]
November 24, 2008
Categories: Poli-Fi, africa, asia, business, curious, environment, government, middle east, myth, ninja, pirate, robot, terror, us, war . Tags: afghanistan, iraq, ninja, pakistan, pirate, robot, Somali Pirates, The Surge, U.S. Special Forces, UAV, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 2 Comments
This is something of a follow-up to my post the other day regarding World War II and the Great Depression. In that post I made the point that a significant portion of the economic success the U.S. enjoyed from World War II to, well, now, was due to the fact that after WW2 the U.S. [...]
November 20, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, My World, Poli-Fi, Sci-Non-Fi, advice, africa, asia, business, curious, europe, government, history, latin, middle east, oil, us . Tags: AI, C. Thomas Fingar, china, Economic Downturn, Global Trends, Global Trends 2025, india, National Intelligence Council, russia, Seeing the Future, Singularity, The Singularity . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 3 Comments
First question….
And the second….
November 19, 2008
Categories: My World, art, asia, cool, europe, friends, funny, internet, latin, media, middle east, mobile, nerd, performance, robot . Tags: Howto: Matt, Matt, Where the Hell is Matt . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 1 Comment
For those of y’all that still haven’t come to grasp with the fact that humans have left an indelible mark on this planet, and have the ability to affect it quite profoundly, here’s the latest evidence…
Back in the 1950s, the Americans, the British, the French and the Russians tried to impress each other by “testing” [...]
November 18, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, Int Poly, My World, Poli-Fi, asia, cool, curious, environment, europe, government, history, middle east, ninja . Tags: Carbon 14, cold war, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Weapons, Polonium, Radiation, Tsar Bomba . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 4 Comments
I put together a video of an argument last night that I would like to share with you.
If you are a youngin’ and completely lacking in historical context, here’s a bit of it…
That’s it for now, as I went out and about after finishing the video and [...]
November 16, 2008
Categories: Doh, My World, Poli-Fi, President 08, Sci-Non-Fi, africa, archaic interfaces, asia, bullshit, business, china, europe, government, history, latin, media, middle east, oil, robot, tech, us, war . Tags: 1944, Bretton Woods, Global Economics, great depression, iraq, iraq war, The Great Depression, The War of Choice, U.S. Economics, War Destroys Values, World War 2, World War 2 fixed the great depression, world war ii . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 1 Comment
I don’t know if you heard, but yea. It’s a different world today.
And I’m very, very happy about it.
As I mentioned previously, this was a pretty big deal for me and a whole lot of folk.
As a quick note on the jocular title of the post….here’s the stats.…
It turns out that saying Americans “retired” McCain [...]
November 5, 2008
Categories: 3_RobotPirateNinja, My World, Poli-Fi, President 08, africa, asia, cool, environment, europe, friends, government, internet, iraq, latin, middle east, money, us, war . Tags: 9/11, Abortion, Arizona, Ballot Initiatives, Barack Obama, California, Catholics, darfur, Elections, Euthanasia, Florida, Gay Marriage, Hussein, Income Tax, Michigan, Missouri, Mormons, Obama wins presidency, President Obama, World Opinion . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: Leave a Comment
peace.
November 4, 2008
Categories: Doh, My World, Poli-Fi, President 08, africa, asia, business, environment, europe, government, internet, latin, media, middle east, ninja, oil, robot, tech, us, war . Tags: Baracak Obama, Election 2008, John McCain, Why I'm voting for Barack Obama . Author: RoPiNi . Comments: 2 Comments
