Storm: I'm looking forward to my first
storm, watching it through that window, slowly building, hugging a
hot coffee as it arrives with white topped waves, spitting and angry
rain, sounds of thundering and swooshing, a strained wind that tears
at trees and roots, forces pushing grass aside and rattling the glass
in the frames. I'm nursing the idea of being warm indoors watch the
storm, staring at the clouds and learning their names.
Sea Monkeys: I'm not clear on why sea
monkeys should rank so highly on search engines all year round.
Perhaps it's the combination of words, lots of dry people searching
for the sea, lots of monkey obsessed monkey lovers searching for
monkeys, nobody actually searching for the product know as Sea
Monkeys though. That's the power and the confusion and the
contradictions of the Internet for you. N.B. Real monkeys and the
real sea(s) are both better researched out with the constraints of
the Internet.
Robot Voices: Behind us we leave a
trail of words, often badly spelt, poorly pronounced, subject to
grammatical error with meanings and structures stretched beyond
recognition and general serial misuse and ignorance. Add to that a
wakeful of slang and swearing, sentence bombs of inappropriate and
lazy speech and incorrect intonation and phrase construction. People
can be very cruel and abusive towards words and language failing to
see and appreciate the true beauty of clear and simple verbal
communication. Thankfully (if properly programmed) this is not a
problem you get with robots, they always speak properly, accurately
and economically, as far as their human masters actions and silly
mechanical robot voices will allow. That's just another factual type
of observation here from me to pad out Robot Week.
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