"To be a fly on the wall, a fly on the wall..."
Looks like the old saying is finally coming true.
Yes, soon you too can be a fly on the wall.
That is not to say you can shrink yourself to
miniature size, grow wings and giant buggy eyes and
annoy people by tirelessly zooming around their
heads (although I suppose that *would be* kinda fun
in selective instances) - but no, it's a lot more
high-tech than that: Meet the robot of tomorrow,
lovingly called
Microfly.
And while we're on the subject of robots: "Hey,
you're not supposed to run away! You're a robot,
for Chrissake!"
I guess "Gaak" was either tired of having people
rummage around in his intenstines,
or he got finally fed up with the diet of oily
fish and chips ...
89 points for
The Robot That Wouldn't Take It Any Longer.
June 19, 2002
A friend sent me this
email from South Korea about a very funny
Sushi adventure:
"the other day we went out to a sushi
restaurant and this plate of squirming stuff
came out. i learned they were octopus legs,
fresh cut and still alive. you don't even need
to grab them with your chop sticks. just
stick a chop stick in the plate and they
grab it with their suction cups. then when
you pop it in your mouth, they grab your tounge
or the roof of your mouth. then you look like
a dog eating peanutbutter, trying to get it off."
