Geekery bleeds into the real world:

[camwyn]

1. Patient bleeds dark green blood - If any of y'all are on sumatriptan for migraines, be aware that 200 mg a day can temporarily turn you into an apparent Vulcan.

2. Bear robot to rescue wounded troops- It's not so much that the military is paying for a robot to be developed that'll pick up wounded soldiers. It's not that it's got a teddy-bear shaped head, either. Frankly, I'd sooner have a teddy-bear shaped head be the last thing I saw before I blacked out from blood loss than a humaniform one, because until we get the hang of facial expressions on machines absolutely right, any human face on such a 'bot is going to look like The Burger King.

It's that the (BEAR Battlefield Extraction Assist Robot) is being developed by VECNA. Srsly. Wai.

Vecna!!!!

3. And then there is the newly available Yoggie Gatekeeper Pro. Neat little hardware firewall that acts as a secured gateway to your network, which is nice, right up until you remember the true nature of the Key and the Gate...

Oh well, I suppose it's better than naming your network gateway appliance after Dana Barrett.

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Teddy-bears on the battlefield? I can't help thinking of the lethal toy the Davids carry in Philip K Dick's Second Variety (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Variety). And that can't end well...

[camwyn]

I'm sort of thinking of the Bulrathi in the original Master of Orion videogame, myself. THey were some of the most formidable ground warriors in the game and they looked like bears in power armor. (I think their intelligence officer may have been depicted wearing power armor with a glowing red eye panel, not unlike a Cylon, but I don't remember for certain. They're a lot less bearlike in MoO II.)

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

Fumomo-fufu-fumoffu. Fumo.

[camwyn]

... come again?

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

It's a joke from the second season Full Metal Panic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Panic%3F_Fumoffu). Bonta-kun is a Mickey Mouse/Barney-esque guy-in-a-teddybear-suit who notoriously speaks only in muffled syllables. Except, the suit is a power armor, which one of the show's leads takes one look at and decides to turn into a weapons system.

Except he forgets to remove the ears...

[camwyn]

Oh! Okay, I've never actually seen Full Metal Panic. (Obviously.) Gotcha.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*snerks*

I'm almost tempted to raid the supply closet for Imitrex just so I can impersonate a Vulcan. One who's had her ears bobbed to better infiltrate human society, of course. ;)

[batyatoon]

Just tell me it's not a GIANT bear robot.

Named Shardik.

[camwyn]

Meh, it doesn't even have a satellite dish poking out of its head. From the look of the pictures at Vecna's web site it's about the size of Johnny Five.

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I noticed the "Vecna" when I was reading my copy yesterday. Made me grin, that.