Hmm... You know, we've never seen Officer Roko in a patrol car, have we? Or even an unmarked car? She's always been on foot, as if she were a beat cop. Which is odd, considering that she's with the state police, not the Northhampton P.D. -- not the sort of cop you expect to see walking a beat.She clearly works plainclothes, although we do see her in uniform from time to time. QC-verse MSP may have a unit that specializes in AI issues and seconds AI troopers to local agencies.
Guys, guys, I figured it out. The tea "hallucinations" is a joint research project, involving the Emotional Alcohol project, the AI project, and probably the Spookybots!
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2136
Instead of evoking emotion or flavor, they're evoking all five senses, AKA hallucination. And instead of being limited by the few compounds they can put into alcohol, they're going with the entire range of tea aromas, as experienced by AIs. So far, they've all been pleasant, or erotic in nature. But that's just Phase 1. The Spookybots are introducing a new opioid to a troublesome population... :psyduck:
Guys, guys, I figured it out. The tea "hallucinations" is a joint research project, involving the Emotional Alcohol project, the AI project, and probably the Spookybots!
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=2136
Instead of evoking emotion or flavor, they're evoking all five senses, AKA hallucination. And instead of being limited by the few compounds they can put into alcohol, they're going with the entire range of tea aromas, as experienced by AIs. So far, they've all been pleasant, or erotic in nature. But that's just Phase 1. The Spookybots are introducing a new opioid to a troublesome population... :psyduck:
Are you suggesting this might be something that's being deliberately set up to possibly placate the AI population?
Yes but she isn't sickeningly sweet :-DSeriously, brush, floss, and take a hit of metformin if you spend any time around him.
For comic Number 3582... (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3582)I was just thinking that May looked like she was being crucified.
I think May's expression is what the Christo Redentor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)) statue of Rio de Janeiro should have. "Friggin' hugs and Redemption for all, God damn." :-D
For comic Number 3582... (http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3582)
I think May's expression is what the Christo Redentor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)) statue of Rio de Janeiro should have. "Friggin' hugs and Redemption for all, God damn." :-D
Yes but she isn't sickeningly sweet :-D
Yes but she isn't sickeningly sweet :-D
But *does* smell like Candy Floss!
(What you weird Americans call Cotton Candy...)
But *does* smell like Candy Floss!
(What you weird Americans call Cotton Candy...)
But *does* smell like Candy Floss!
(What you weird Americans call Cotton Candy...)
As a fan of the work of Mullally and Embleton, I can inform you that what you just said is in fact hilariously funny but a bit too risque for this public forum.
I think May's expression is what the Christo Redentor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_(statue)) statue of Rio de Janeiro should have. "Friggin' hugs and Redemption for all, God damn." :-DI was just thinking that May looked like she was being crucified.
Who continues to use a toaster after it catches on fire once?Depends on the toaster. Shop I worked in we used to toast baps under an eye level gas grill, but still called it the toaster. You could certainly have left baps in there long enough to catch on fire without harming the grill.
What happened last Tuesday?A baby came in that projectile vomited while its head swiveled around 360 degrees.
The line that boggles me is "Toaster's on fire again!" I mean... again?!? Who continues to use a toaster after it catches on fire once?
But *does* smell like Candy Floss!
(What you weird Americans call Cotton Candy...)
As a fan of the work of Mullally and Embleton, I can inform you that what you just said is in fact hilariously funny but a bit too risque for this public forum.
Quite. Which is why I prefer calling it cotton candy.
Besides, it looks more like tufts of cotton than it does dental floss. I'm surprised nobody calls it "cloud candy".
Finding out regional names for foods is fun. I once discovered that what we call Rice Crispies here in the UK are known as Rice Bubbles in Australia, which I find very cute. :3
It would also depend on the toaster. If the shell is all stainless steel, and it was just the bread burning, it just needs polished up. If the shell is mostly shoddy metal of indeterminate nature, or worse plastic, then yeah, into the trash. Especially since it probably only cost ten bucks in that case.The line that boggles me is "Toaster's on fire again!" I mean... again?!? Who continues to use a toaster after it catches on fire once?
A lot depends on the cause of the fire. If it's actually the toast that's on fire then the fault is more likely to be with the toaster operator than the toaster themselves! Of course, given that my brain tells me that the person shouting from off-shot is Collette, there is no telling what she might have done accidentally on multiple occasions, each time babbling about her confusion about how this is even possible.
Disembodied robo-heads have near-death experiences?
"Good morning, Doctor Chandra. I am ready for my first lesson."
I've budgeted like that before.
Mr Noodle soups are only $.33 each...
I've budgeted like that before.
Mr Noodle soups are only $.33 each...
You were robbed. Five for 1£ or 30kč in my experience. The good kind with MSG
(http://www.wormspit.com/bombyxsilkworms_files/cocoonsandblaze.jpg)Oh.
"Floss: the rough silk enveloping a silkworm's cocoon."
Not dental floss. :roll:
Pretty sure Dora was going to say "instant noodles" or "ramen".She was, then she received Bubbles' telepathic message - or maybe just a "I am capable of dismembering you" expression. Either way, the sweat drops spraying off to her left remove all doubt.
It looks like Marten isn't the only one who knows how to LOOM. Of course, with Bubbles it comes naturally! We also find that she has little tolerance for punsters, especially awkward ones.
Poor Faye though! I think that she was expecting Dora to be a counterpoint to Bubbles in some way. Her face in panel 4 tells a long, detailed story!
You know, waaay back when Bubbles was first introduced, I wondered if she would ultimately become Faye's AI 'keeper'. It looks like I was right (although I was wrong in assuming that it would be some kind of formal arrangement between them). There is so much simple power in that one phrase: "You need to take care of yourself." That is friendship and love in its most fundamental form: Even willing to offend or push if the recipient really needs it.
It looks like Marten isn't the only one who knows how to LOOM. Of course, with Bubbles it comes naturally! We also find that she has little tolerance for punsters, especially awkward ones.
And yet she lives with Claire.
Disembodied robo-heads have near-death experiences?
Pintsize never let on about that!
Pretty sure Dora was going to say "instant noodles" or "ramen".
but Ramen and string cheese is cheaper still.You're joking, surely, processed food is never a cheap way to live. Over here a 1.5kg packet of flour and a 100g packet of ramen cost about the same, but the flour can be made into a damper or something and give you twenty times the amount of food value...
[snippage]Good advise, but the last piece can be very difficult for an entrepreneur trying to get a small business off the ground. That image of a couch, cot, or recliner chair in the shop isn't innaccurate, and Union Robotics is very much at that point in its development where "grabbing a slider" (a greasy hamburger that kind of slithers down your throat, for those non-USAians not familiar with the term) passes for nutrition.
- Basically just buy the least processed form of food you can in the largest quantity available and learn to cook.
This may sound... well, strange, but this is the first time I've ever seen the express "to flash on (something)" outside of the novel A Scanner Darkly ...
This may sound... well, strange, but this is the first time I've ever seen the express "to flash on (something)" outside of the novel A Scanner Darkly ...
Interesting. If I ever read that novel, it was so long ago that I can't remember it. Philip K. Dick, yes?
This may sound... well, strange, but this is the first time I've ever seen the express "to flash on (something)" outside of the novel A Scanner Darkly ...
Interesting. If I ever read that novel, it was so long ago that I can't remember it. Philip K. Dick, yes?
One thing about living on cheap food is a question of time. Why a lot of people go for cheap take out or heavily processed foods is they can be made and consumed quickly, which is important if you work 2-3 jobs plus have to take care of children. Buying bulk raw materials may be cheaper than packs of ramen, but not by all that much and it takes a lot longer to boil a chicken, render it into stock and pick the meat off then boil noodles than it is to make ramen.
*Snip-a-dip*
Sure you can make meals that can last you for days, but you've still got to take the time to cook them up. Another reason processed foods and takeout start looking real good at the end of the day...
I don't disagree, I was commenting in favor of money up there. At the end of the day, you face the same basic choice that every human being has to make at some point (and which Faye is up against now): which is more valuable to you, your money or your time?
This may sound... well, strange, but this is the first time I've ever seen the express "to flash on (something)" outside of the novel A Scanner Darkly ...
Interesting. If I ever read that novel, it was so long ago that I can't remember it. Philip K. Dick, yes?
I think it's originally a 1970s Californian expression, which would fit with A Scanner Darkly -- pub. 1977 by Philip K. dick who lived in California.
This may sound... well, strange, but this is the first time I've ever seen the express "to flash on (something)" outside of the novel A Scanner Darkly ...
Interesting. If I ever read that novel, it was so long ago that I can't remember it. Philip K. Dick, yes?
I think it's originally a 1970s Californian expression, which would fit with A Scanner Darkly -- pub. 1977 by Philip K. dick who lived in California. The only other place I have come across it is in a book called The Serial by Cyra McFadden (1977) satirizing the inhabitants of Marin county -- the characters use it a lot.
I wonder if Martenmom would have any interest in taking Faye under her wing.
For those who cooking is a pain, a slow cooker works wonders. if one can keep chopping away at things for long enough to get them into some sort of chunks, fill the thing, add water and seasonings and then go about one's day.
I do think that a slow cooker and rice cooker, along with a recipe book should be issued to every person upon reaching the age of majority.
This may sound... well, strange, but this is the first time I've ever seen the express "to flash on (something)" outside of the novel A Scanner Darkly ...