Monday, January 28, 2013

How to keep heartstrings from turning to wires

The Most Human Human: What Talking with Computers Teaches Us about What It Means to Be Alive
"So far, so good, or so they say from mission control,
The deep of space is no place for a fragile human soul.
The rockets burn as servos click and turn,
and fall into their place.
Robots can't cry, don't laugh.
In the darkness of space.
He is strong, made of steel with the graphite lining,
Watch his eyes flicker slow like the batteries are dying.

Space Robot 5,
Is he alive?
So very alone,
So far from home.

Three strands of wire,
Threefold the tie that binds.
She is the one thing on the Earth for which he still pines.
To his heart she was life,
So he prays to his Maker with a sigh,
As his fire sputters out,
Because robots never cry."




How to keep heartstrings from turning to wires:

  1. Get distracted by a sunset
  2. Perform for an audience - Get ridiculously nervous
  3. Laugh at a dirty joke
  4. Run a red light
  5. Smell a rose
  6. Inherit family traits
  7. Black or Pinto? ….Indecisive.
  8. Befriend a puppy
  9. Stutter
  10. Eat ribs with no napkins. Extra sauce
  11. Get a sunburn
  12. Dream
  13. Chew on pen caps to help you think
  14. Cry for someone else’s pain
  15. Misuse words
  16. Get frostbite
  17. Warm up by the fire
  18. Accidentally sleep in
  19. Suck at using computers
  20. Get the hiccups
  21. Leave a red sock in your whites load
  22. Sneeze
  23. Burn your tongue with hot cocoa
  24. Paint your feelings
  25. Chop onions till your eyes water
  26. Suck a lemon
  27. Pass out from exhaustion
  28. Rub out sore muscles
  29. Get butterflies from your love walking in a room
  30. Wet the bed
  31. Shave your legs
  32. Fear for your life
  33. Stub your toe
  34. Become overwhelmed with goose bumps from listening to Phantom of the Opera
  35. Believe in God
  36. Leave the water running
  37. Absorb sunshine
  38. Choke on a popcorn kernel
  39. Create life
  40. Have an asthma attack
  41. Blush
  42. Burn calories
  43. Form a habit of biting your nails
  44. Itch an itch
  45. Get lost in the stars
  46. Swat a fly – Miss
  47. Stamp your fingerprint
  48. Put ice on a bruise.
  49. Get your heart broken
  50. Forget this list



1 comment:

  1. 2, 11, 28.
    I think maybe I will steal "how to keep your heartstrings from turning to wires".
    Such a good list.

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