Happy halloween everyone (.mpg)

I laughed and laughed. Beautiful. If that batch of kids doesn't produce a proper engineer (or two or three), then it will be the schools that have failed, because I think Monty has provided ample inspiration.

Of course, they did seem at least as interested in the candy as in the giant robot delivering it, if not moreso. Maybe kids today are just completely jaded by technical miracles, since new ones seem to arrive every day. When I was a kid, we didn't have any of these Internets, or cell phones that can play movies or find out almost any fact in seconds, or robotic vacuum cleaners, or jet packs, or personal oxygen sleep chambers, like these kids today. We had to call people using phones that plugged into the wall, and if we wanted to send email our PC or C64 or Amiga had to dial up a FIDO or Aminet hub and do a batch send/receive. And we had to walk to school in the snow. Uphill. Both ways.

Very disappointing. I watched the whole thing, all the while expecting that the robot arm would attack the children and leave bleeding and broken bodies everywhere. What kind of halloween is it without a dose of horror?

My favorite part is how the kids are put in some kind of caged away from the robot for their own protection (or the robot's)...

A frightening future. In each “pick” or “put” operation the robot was served by an eager human minion while most of the humans' needs were unmet.

Here's something scary to show the kids -- giant spider eating a bird

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&...

Really cool

yay!