Come to think of it, if May got the flight prototype, Emily could probably make it fully functional and get to drop by Union Robotics.
Though, that begs the question as to the method of flight. Astroboy style rocket feet, wings and jet feet, insect-mimetic wing pack (beetle or otherwise), or even just a rotor prop.
Sentient door?
Complete with GPP.
Come to think of it, if May got the flight prototype, Emily could probably make it fully functional and get to drop by Union Robotics.
Though, that begs the question as to the method of flight. Astroboy style rocket feet, wings and jet feet, insect-mimetic wing pack (beetle or otherwise), or even just a rotor prop.
Either that or Hannelore puts in a good word for May with her Dad’s AI R&D.
...largish model-sized version that could reasonably transform in to a vaguely humanoid form that was probably 6ft (1m) or shorter.
RC airplanes can get fairly realistic and large. If (and that's a big 'if') May got something like that, it'd probably have a wing span no more than a meter (3ft) across and a humanoid form no more than twice Pintsize's height. And, this would be a prototype that didn't work right, so it'd probably be stuck in the humanoid form....largish model-sized version that could reasonably transform in to a vaguely humanoid form that was probably 6ft (1m) or shorter.
...uhhh...
You might want to check your metric to imperial/imperial to metric conversions, there...*derp*
RC airplanes can get fairly realistic and large.There's been such a thing as ~full sized RC aeroplanes since the first world war, although they didn't really start being useful (targets mainly) until about the 1930s.
I didn't realize we had full-sized ones that early on. Though I imagine they're a bit cheaper to produce now and a fair bit more reliable.RC airplanes can get fairly realistic and large.There's been such a thing as ~full sized RC aeroplanes since the first world war, although they didn't really start being useful (targets mainly) until about the 1930s.
Faye, "Kid, we're barely breaking even at this point..."
IIRC Joe Kennedy Junior (JFK's elder brother) died testing one during WWII (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Jr.#Operations_Anvil_and_Aphrodite). The "mystery" surrounding his death was due to the security blackout on the incident.RC airplanes can get fairly realistic and large.There's been such a thing as ~full sized RC aeroplanes since the first world war, although they didn't really start being useful (targets mainly) until about the 1930s.
Sam is what, 14 or 15? Does she need to start worrying about her resume so soon?She does. A lot of entry level positions, aren't. Well, that is to say, it's still the same job, but they require experience.
...what other than painting can she do without power tools?Well if you bend the power tool rule, she can get an airbrush, compressor and a respirator and up her game. Maybe appeal to her older friends (the cast) to help out with the cost.
...what other than painting can she do without power tools?
I blame the 'infinite growth' model.Sam is what, 14 or 15? Does she need to start worrying about her resume so soon?She does. A lot of entry level positions, aren't. Well, that is to say, it's still the same job, but they require experience.
Some industries have even gone beyond unpaid internships to gain experience, and require you pay for the privilege. All the while complaining about how hard it is to find people.
Sam is what, 14 or 15? Does she need to start worrying about her resume so soon?She does. A lot of entry level positions, aren't. Well, that is to say, it's still the same job, but they require experience.
Some industries have even gone beyond unpaid internships to gain experience, and require you pay for the privilege. All the while complaining about how hard it is to find people.
I blame the 'infinite growth' model.
It's not the direct answer for everything, but it's the source of a lot of America's economic and job market issues. That along with the typically ass-hattery directed towards convicted felons. But that side of things has already been discussed at length.
Sam is what, 14 or 15? Does she need to start worrying about her resume so soon?She does. A lot of entry level positions, aren't. Well, that is to say, it's still the same job, but they require experience.
Some industries have even gone beyond unpaid internships to gain experience, and require you pay for the privilege. All the while complaining about how hard it is to find people.
Even for high school kids? She’s probably got at least 3 more years of high school, followed by college. Is It going to impact the jobs she gets in college or after if she didn’t have a job at age 14? If she is 14. Even if she’s 15.
Sam is what, 14 or 15? Does she need to start worrying about her resume so soon?She does. A lot of entry level positions, aren't. Well, that is to say, it's still the same job, but they require experience.
Some industries have even gone beyond unpaid internships to gain experience, and require you pay for the privilege. All the while complaining about how hard it is to find people.
Even for high school kids? She’s probably got at least 3 more years of high school, followed by college. Is It going to impact the jobs she gets in college or after if she didn’t have a job at age 14? If she is 14. Even if she’s 15.
Side note from a transplant from the Netherlands: when I moved to the US for graduate school > 10 years ago, it was fascinating to learn and see that here, it seems to be considered pretty much essential for your career perspectives to get involved in as much as possible outside of your curriculum.
Edit: for example, one of the first things other students would ask me after I moved here was "what are you involved in (outside of class)?". This is very different from the Netherlands, where doing extra stuff like committees/volunteering/boards etc. is nice-to-have and could potentially help with your career but are far from considered essential. In other words, focusing on your studies only would not count against you, while I have gotten the impression that in the US it does(?). Seems like doing extracurricular stuff is encouraged from very early on too. Am I mistaken? Is this a regional thing?
PS: I'm not saying whether 1 or the other is better, just commenting that it seems a cultural difference.
Surprising attitude from a dad who's on record as saying: "Being someone else's employee is the worst." (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1956)
Well, maybe not too surprising -- don't all parents eventually fall into the "Do as I say, not as I do" trap?
Sam can possibly benefit from learning to plan, schedule, and follow through on projects. That's part of the overlap.
Surprising attitude from a dad who's on record as saying: "Being someone else's employee is the worst." (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1956)
Well, maybe not too surprising -- don't all parents eventually fall into the "Do as I say, not as I do" trap?
Sam can possibly benefit from learning to plan, schedule, and follow through on projects. That's part of the overlap.
That is definitely true, yes.
You could possibly even learn that without getting a job. Learning to lead people, on the other hand, does involve learning what makes for good leadership, and what makes for bad leadership. And there's really only one way to grok that.
And that's by starting at the bottom.
Quoth Tova:
What, you think she could become a business owner without once having been employed and be good at it? Really?
Didn't say that; didn't say anything about Sam owning a business straightaway. I said it's a surprising attitude on her father's part. Perhaps I should have said it's a surprising attitude toward her desire to base her career on her talent at supplying a form of art for which there has been evidenced at least some demand. Very well; I now say that. I will further say it's a surprising attitude from an entrepreneur in an economy in which you never know what skills and abilities translate to an employer's needs.
You are free to make and state whatever interpretation you like of what I said; I cannot stop you. I will, however, insist you own that interpretation as your own, and not impute it to me.
Surprising attitude from a dad who's on record as saying: "Being someone else's employee is the worst." (https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1956)
Chaos loaf?
Chaos?
.....
Explains alot.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/941/010/a19.jpg)
Side note from a transplant from the Netherlands: when I moved to the US for graduate school > 10 years ago, it was fascinating to learn and see that here, it seems to be considered pretty much essential for your career perspectives to get involved in as much as possible outside of your curriculum.Oh, it's arriving this side of the pond as well. I know of at least one higher education programme that has made extracurriculars mandatory. As in, you have to prove participation in extracurricular activities, to be able to graduate, even if it's counting only towards 1/4 credit as Professional Personality.
Edit: for example, one of the first things other students would ask me after I moved here was "what are you involved in (outside of class)?". This is very different from the Netherlands, where doing extra stuff like committees/volunteering/boards etc. is nice-to-have and could potentially help with your career but are far from considered essential. In other words, focusing on your studies only would not count against you, while I have gotten the impression that in the US it does(?). Seems like doing extracurricular stuff is encouraged from very early on too. Am I mistaken? Is this a regional thing?
PS: I'm not saying whether 1 or the other is better, just commenting that it seems a cultural difference.
But Sam, well, she's his daughter and he knows that she isn't like most people and knows that, yeah, she could work at the bakery, but that won't satisfy her in any way. That or he's afraid that she'll lose an arm trying to feed the kneading machine. But Jim is savvy enough to know that his daughter needs to start somewhere. It's not hypocrisy, its a father teaching his daughter that she needs to pay her dues.If sprays are the robot equivalents of henna tattoos, with laser-engraving being the real tattoo equivalent, imagine the business Sam could get into for robot weddings, if she's got the temperament to sit still long enough to do that kind of intricate work. She might grow into it - her earlier, and hyper, self probably couldn't do it. :meh:
One assumes the recipe includes noodles.Only incidentally though.
Now THAT is a horrible little goblin!Not for long if someone in particular has anything to say about it.
Come to think of it, it's not a huge leap for the Secret Bakery to branch out to artisanal pasta. They have the ingredients.Also the exact same ingredients but prepared in a very different way is BEER
Hazing ritual then? Why not cultivate her gifts straightforwardly without artificial obstacles?
Hazing ritual then? Why not cultivate her gifts straightforwardly without artificial obstacles?As long as they dont send her out for 1000 foot of flight line or blinker fluid, she's fine
Not an artificial obstacle or a hazing ritual. A real test to see if Sam has the discipline and commitment needed to learn useful skills over a period of weeks or if she'll just run off the minute things get boring. There's no reason to even bother to start on the training process until that question is answered.This. When I was apprenticing as a tattoo artist, I didn't get to jump immediately to giving tattoos. I had to start out cleaning the shop and then cleaning equipment, etc. If you're wanting to work in a specialised industry, you gotta start with the basics first and work your way up.
Hazing ritual then? Why not cultivate her gifts straightforwardly without artificial obstacles?As long as they dont send her out for 1000 foot of flight line or blinker fluid, she's fine
In case anyone is curious, here (https://www.mass.gov/service-details/massachusetts-laws-regulating-minors-work-hours) is a summary of youth employment regulations in Massachusetts.Or, further down, work with dangerous electrical machinery or appliances.
Of note: persons under 16 may not operate, clean, or repair power-driven machinery
I'm sure she would have gone to Coffee of Doom if Faye hadn't been fired.
Yes it is a new comic
Okay. Now it's hazing. :evil:
*I didn't know until today morning that in English it's pronounced "foo-shya". I always figured it's "fook-sya".
Or a bucket of fog. Of course, given that she likes the outdoors, a quick snipe-hunting trip might be possible.Hazing ritual then? Why not cultivate her gifts straightforwardly without artificial obstacles?As long as they dont send her out for 1000 foot of flight line or blinker fluid, she's fine
Or fetch the breastplate stretcher.
I have told more than a few people to get a bucket of steam and a bottle of elbow grease.
I asked a retired chemical engineer, if a coal shovel is for shoveling coal and a snow shovel is for shoveling snow, what is a steam shovel for?
He explained that back in his day, before pipes had been invented, steam had to be shoveled into buckets to be carried around.
My favorite story about messing with the new guy is from when vacuum tubes ruled the earth. A new guy in the Signal Corps was ordered to go to supply and get a Fallopian Tube.I once heard a story about someone that turned this around on the guys that sent him. Came back hours later with rumpled hair and a mis-buttoned uniform and said the nice lady in stores had a couple but they were in use already, though she did let him inspect them so he’d know what to look for next time…
Comic's up.
At least it wasn't a cassowary.
Interestingly enough, in some regions "snipe hunting" now refers to (typically broke) smokers collecting partial cigarettes from public ashtrays so they can smoke them.Or a bucket of fog. Of course, given that she likes the outdoors, a quick snipe-hunting trip might be possible.Hazing ritual then? Why not cultivate her gifts straightforwardly without artificial obstacles?As long as they dont send her out for 1000 foot of flight line or blinker fluid, she's fine
Or fetch the breastplate stretcher.
All too true but there is also another reason for that.As i may have said before, it doesn't matter how sophisticated your company is, someone still has to clean the toilet, and if there's an outbreak of infectious disease they may become the most important person in the company.
Every time I see 'Chimevera' my brain goes "key-maw-ver-uh" even though I'm fairly certain that the 'chime' part is meant to be said like the word "chime".
Comic's up.
At least it wasn't a cassowary.
Comic's up.
At least it wasn't a cassowary.
I think that a good response to being sent out to get blinker fluid would be to bring back a bottle of eye drops.
I was kind of surprised he could carry her, considering. Admittedly, androids are probably more plastic than anything...I was wondering the same thing, just how heavy are those chassis?
Comic's up.
At least it wasn't a cassowary.
Cassowary foot and claw.
(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Zf4ak6EUXkUryghrQceZ9D-1024-80.jpg)
For a second there I thought that was a still from next year's Alien clone ... :-\
I was kind of surprised he could carry her, considering. Admittedly, androids are probably more plastic than anything...I was wondering the same thing, just how heavy are those chassis?
Oh no! Cassowary-xenomorphs! Now we’re really screwed…For a second there I thought that was a still from next year's Alien clone ... :-\
Who says it isn't? *shudders*
What? No mention of the classic Henway.(click to show/hide)
We've never seen Faye needing lifting machinery to move an AI chassis.Doesn't Faye have Bubs to lift any Crushbot style of chassis?
We've never seen Faye needing lifting machinery to move an AI chassis.They can't be all that heavy, or they wouldn't have battery power for very long. And if a bird can kick one heard enough to break or seriously bend the leg, that's just more evidence of light-weight construction. I expect most of the weight of an AI is the battery pack, not the body structure.
What? No mention of the classic Henway.(click to show/hide)
Reminds me of a similar joke (don't know whether this will make sense outside the UK though given the joke revolves around British slang):
"I'm going to my sister's hen do this weekend."
"What's a hen do?"
"Lay eggs."
What? No mention of the classic Henway.(click to show/hide)
Reminds me of a similar joke (don't know whether this will make sense outside the UK though given the joke revolves around British slang):
"I'm going to my sister's hen do this weekend."
"What's a hen do?"
"Lay eggs."
Here's another joke (an old one) having to do with the incompatibility of American and British slang and the untranslatability of puns:
An American is showing off his backyard vegetable garden to a British visitor, who asks what the American does with all the produce.
"We eat what we can, and what we can't, we can!"
... to which the British visitor draws a polite blank, not getting the pun.
"Well, I mean ..." the American begins to explain, but changes course: "Look, what do you do with the produce from YOUR backyard garden?"
To which the Brit replies:
"Why, we consume what we are able, and tin the balance!"
I think that chips are a vegetable. At least up there, they are.
Don't forget where the game of golf comes from.
I think that chips are a vegetable. At least up there, they are.
Accroding to the Reagan administration in the eighties, ketchup is a vegetable.
Don't forget where the game of golf comes from.
Spell it backwards and you figure out where the name comes from.
(Damn, I got behind.)We've never seen Faye needing lifting machinery to move an AI chassis.They can't be all that heavy, or they wouldn't have battery power for very long. And if a bird can kick one heard enough to break or seriously bend the leg, that's just more evidence of light-weight construction. I expect most of the weight of an AI is the battery pack, not the body structure.