Saturday, January 19, 2008

Driving up the coast


This weekend I met up with Dara, who was attending a job fair with her company, Fluor. The job fair is in San Luis Obispo, and this area is amazing. Today, Dara and I spent time in downtown SLO (San Luis Obispo), drove up the coast to the Hearst Castle (as in William Randolph), which was a stunning property. Not a bad place to hang up the hat at the end of the day, ol' Billy Hearst!

We drove south to Pismo Beach, where we checked in to our 'boutique' hotel, The Cliffs. For the price we're paying, it's mediocre at best. Granted the view is spectacular (set atop the bluffs overlooking the Pacific), but our last room looked like it was a modified broom closet, and our current room is right by the ice machine and the laundry room, deep in the basement. I guess our apartment has spoiled us for other accomodations. Still, we're having a nice little micro vacation. Anything to take my mind of the insanity of a work week that awaits me, starting Sunday night when we get back. Here's to central California!

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Terminatrix


I was watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles tonight, and one of the new characters is a cyborg; an update of the robot perfected by Schwartzeneggar. Arny's not a bad looking guy, but this terminator is a pretty young female, and already the producers have played up a kind of tension between the John Connor character and the terminator.

It brought to mind a prediction that scientists recently made. Scientists predict that in the near future, there will be robots which are indistinguishable from humans; a world where robots will be sex partners, perhaps even life companions. So I pose the question: would you?