Origin of the Word Robot

Just found that out, did you?

I read R.U.R. when I was ten.

Kids these days. Tsk.

Mark L. Fergerson

We Are the Robots, 1977

Nope, never heard of it. Sounds like a wild plot, except for the obligatory walk off into the sunset at the end, mushy.

Hard to believe they're still at it- just terrible.

It also requires a large suspension of disbelief where the humans in the play "forget" how to reproduce... lol!

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Rick C 

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms 
On the centerline of totality since 1998 
O)

You can the play here.

One of the first programming courses I had used the Karel programming language.

Apparently you haven't been to Italy.

Kids today! You said it Mark! I also read it at roughly that age. I wasn't especially impressed with it, but it has donated a word to history. Hey, not only that I can read and write cursive and actually understand mathematics. Wow! Don't see that much today.

Like you snowflakes playing Halo in mommy's basement?

It's giving me "The item is not available due to issues with the item's content. If you would like to report this problem as an error report, you may do so here."

Yes, it would appear the Italians know nothing about reproduction...

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Rick C 

Viewed the eclipse at Wintercrest Farms, 
on the centerline of totality since 1998

The link doesn't include the final period. It works, when you add it to the link in your browser.

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They don't get mad. 

They don't get even. 

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there's no links there just URLs

there seems to be a convention that URLs in email never end with a dot,

if you say

or then the software that tries to find urls and make them behave links will probably find a usable URL

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