let me hold you in my robot arms

2010.06.09
Man, this is an exciting picture!
That's Ralph Mosher, who invented (for reals!) those crazy, fore-feedback robot arms. More information at Cyberneticzoo, along with more photos and diagrams like this one:
I'm glad I lived in a world that had real mad scientists in it!
I've been training Winnie for three days now and I'm ready to kill him. I showed him how the spreadsheets are updated on the network, and he just stared at me with this blank expression. I tried to demonstrate the copy machine, but he somehow got his head stuck in one of the slots. I heard his muffled cry of "Oh, bother!" as five of us worked on getting him out. Honestly, is this the best that recruiting could do?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damon_Runyon -had "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" in my head this AM-Runyon is terrific, more than somewhat.
Hmm, though my current Damon Runyon kick means that my current playlist has a lot of what are technically show tunes.