tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post7484038574128892651..comments2023-07-03T06:51:05.962-07:00Comments on O Dock: Back To The FutureO Dockerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-26161970054304068942010-05-14T05:35:03.465-07:002010-05-14T05:35:03.465-07:00I was always fond of (or wary of) the frumious ban...I was always fond of (or wary of) the frumious bandersnatch. You know you don't want that thing biting your leg.PeconicPuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15727526949787504644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-84718371320338978732010-05-14T04:52:33.925-07:002010-05-14T04:52:33.925-07:00Thankfully I won't have to worry about GM bein...Thankfully I won't have to worry about GM being around in 2025. (I hope I'm still around). <br /><br />I recently had to print out Jabberwocky to prove to my wife that it is a real poem after I recited it to her. Somehow, that bit of my high school education stuck. I still love it. One, two! One, two! And through and through<br />The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-91857027419877254752010-05-13T01:29:54.090-07:002010-05-13T01:29:54.090-07:00If GM ever made a bicycle, you wouldn't be abl...If GM ever made a bicycle, you wouldn't be able to order one without power windows.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-65721007563936961112010-05-13T00:44:52.966-07:002010-05-13T00:44:52.966-07:00My parents bought a Toyota in 1968, put over 100k ...My parents bought a Toyota in 1968, put over 100k miles on it, gave it to my sister who did the same. With over 225k on it, she sold it - it was still going strong.<br /><br />I have the vehicle of the future now. It's called a bicycle.Pandaboniumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08352197350806179930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-69777762793654253792010-05-07T12:25:17.429-07:002010-05-07T12:25:17.429-07:00I'm glad to see this full-service blog is serv...I'm glad to see this full-service blog is serving some useful purpose and can readily induce sleep in readers. A lot of people would pay good money to a sleep therapist for that service.<br /><br />Puffin, I think you may have heard that song at the Pepsi Pavillion. One of the many useless facts I dug up researching the original post is that Disney profited handsomely from the Fair. He was hired to do many of the major exhibits (including Pepsi, but not GM's) and it was here that he first developed the 'animatronic' technology used at the Pepsi 'Small World' show. He also did an animated Abe Lincoln for the Illinois Pavillion that many people remember.<br /><br />There was some talk about using his exhibits to open a permanent Disneyland at the World's Fair site. That never happened, of course, but a lot of the technology was used at Epcot Center - a sort of permanent 'World's Fair'.<br /><br />Bonnie, you may have a point. At least the robot has the same script, "Fish and plankton and sea greens and protein from the sea". Found this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiyPqbyHXIg&feature=related" rel="nofollow">clip</a> from the movie.<br /><br />Carol Anne, I think that's what got me about the Futurama - its arrogance, or maybe sheer stupidity. It was a number of years before the environmental movement raised public awareness about these issues and we see here what they were up against.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-64239297441825034952010-05-07T12:11:58.791-07:002010-05-07T12:11:58.791-07:00I have a book of historical essays written about t...I have a book of historical essays written about the development of Colorado. The one from the 1960s was titled "Correcting God's Mistakes" and describes how God put really fertile topsoil on the east side of the Rockies, but He made all of the precipitation fall on the west side. Thus vast systems of reservoirs and tunnels were needed to get the water from one side of the Continental Divide to the other.<br /><br />I think the title really says it all about human arrogance of the era.<br /><br />(Not that I'm in a position to complain too loudly -- I am right now looking at a lake on the east side of the Divide filled with water from the west side.)Carol Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07201269435839112134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-50531844854446525812010-05-07T12:01:35.624-07:002010-05-07T12:01:35.624-07:00Also looked a bit like some of the scenes from &qu...Also looked a bit like some of the scenes from "Avatar", didn't it? <br /><br />Only in Avatar, the guys driving the tree-razing machines weren't the heroes. <br /><br />The voiceover reminds me of a certain <a href="http://www.jeffbots.com/box.html" rel="nofollow">robot-gone-mad</a> from a movie about the future from a decade from the past.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-85332683883570421512010-05-07T11:59:58.879-07:002010-05-07T11:59:58.879-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.bonniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794351142636136626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-46921415847944126692010-05-07T08:47:20.882-07:002010-05-07T08:47:20.882-07:00I saw that exhibit as a tot. What I remember is ...I saw that exhibit as a tot. What I remember is the song "it's a small world after all."<br /><br />That and there was a stand outside where you could pay a dollar to buy a clam with a pearl inside.PeconicPuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15727526949787504644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-15951702485971985622010-05-07T07:33:20.976-07:002010-05-07T07:33:20.976-07:00I think I'll go to bed too.I think I'll go to bed too.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-64568893395212360882010-05-06T23:39:54.685-07:002010-05-06T23:39:54.685-07:00Y, thank you. If there were not two million words,...Y, thank you. If there were not two million words, then it probably would not be you, my friend.<br /><br />And, if it were not for Google, I'd have no idea what the hell you were ever talking about.<br /><br />Now I'm going to bedBaydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-23394681027167623322010-05-06T21:25:59.224-07:002010-05-06T21:25:59.224-07:00Speaking of Jabberwocky (as you almost were), I gu...Speaking of Jabberwocky (as you almost were), I guess I might as well have been talking about brillig and the slithy toves here.<br /><br />Sometimes I get fired up about things that others don't seem to much care about.<br /><br />This might have been easier to decipher, too, if I'd kept it under two million words.<br><br>O Dockerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08674140306304705852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740572667294775424.post-62689045703609679622010-05-06T19:24:14.865-07:002010-05-06T19:24:14.865-07:00The factory on wheels reminds me of "The Wild...The factory on wheels reminds me of "The Wild, Wild West". Robert Conrad and Ross Martin, and the "Jabberwock". It was a fighting machine. Futuristic and seemingly unbeatable. Munching up everything in its way. Okay, I'm going to bed nowBaydoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00751866865203182109noreply@blogger.com