!!!
Mood:  celebratory
hello folks!

unbelievable! once again, i hate to ramble on about myself, but im THIS close to finishing up the loose ends on model number seven. it should be ready by the meeting on monday afternoon . . . i just didnt think id be so close to finishing on saturday!

well, i guess it is technically sunday right now anyhow. okay, so maybe i am kind of pushing it down to the wire here . . .

anyhow, rex, are you around at all tonight? or is it hard to get net access where you are? im just enjoying some cognac right now and having a smoke in the first-floor library . . . needed a break.

i might give a call to crowley and see what hes up to, hes always down for some vice.

anyhow, later on folks! wish me luck! and rex, if i dont hear from you tonight/today, i hope your little excursion worked out well. who are you going to visit anyhow, if you dont mind me asking?

baaaaah
shaddap, you little stickler, you ;) i dont have the time to keep editing my posts. its not a big deal.

and now . . . i gotta get to the lab!

must . . . finish . . . work
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: research
well, i guess ill be working on model seven more today because i feel asleep in the lab last night, right while working. spilled my glass of water all over the file cabinet! and my mouth is dry as a freaking bone.

okay, im throwing out this smoke and heading back down to the dungeon . . . dont expect to be out tonight either :P

bah!
yeah, yeah, i know, i know . . .

easier said than done . . . ill give them up some day. when i die.

quite entangled in the NON-bar scene
Mood:  rushed
Topic: research
yes, yes, rex, youre quite the comedian arent you? me, at a bar, on friday night? wouldnt i love that!

as i mentioned before, ive got to have model seven ready for preliminary testing on monday. but youre partially right . . . just because im not at the bar doesnt mean that i cant enjoy some spirits in my own humble abode, and an occasional cigarette when i can get out of the clean room. i tell you, being a roboticist is NOT the right job for a smoker . . . maybe i shouldve been a bartender or something?

anyhow, wyles, crowley, AND general barrington will be there for the testing, and although i know crowley has my back, im sure itll be much tougher to rouse wyles and barrington from their ultra-criticism.

50 years ago, hell, TEN years ago, any scientist in the world, any SIMPLETON(aka: john wyles) would have marvelled at these androids . . . nowadays its like pulling teeth even to get an extension on my research grant.

anyhow, ive got to get back to the lab, i was just coming out of the dungeon for a cigarette . . .

more later . . . !

YARGH
Mood:  d'oh
Topic: research
*pulls out hair*

you shouldnt be looking in my personal files either!!

i gave you access so that you could better utilize public and private databases, not so you could go digging in my archives.

as for phil reynolds, ill see what i can do about that, but youve got to promise not to go through my files. i shouldnt have to tell you what is off limits, its just common courtesy, buddy.

shouldnt you be in bed, anyway? ;)

grrrr
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: research
HEY!!!! you little stinker! i said not to look into the company research!!

you sure like to press my buttons, dont ya? sheesh.

anyway, im not interested in that sort of project, you know. its just something that the company wants me to do.

easy, tiger
Mood:  quizzical
have i angered you in some way, rex? you seem a bit hostile, but on the other hand i know that it is easy to misinterpret online 'emotion'. anyhow, i dont mean any harm when i call you 'little guy' or 'young boy'. ill try not to offend you in the future, but please, lighten up a bit.

i know all about how advanced you are, rex, and thats great. you dont need to toot your own horn, though.

incidentally, i dont think you mentioned anything about 'temporal information transfer'? is this another one of your 'experiments'? ;) if these posts are indeed being sent back in time, i hope that our messages can help make things better for the people living in that timeline, dont you?

for now im going back to work . . . gotta get model seven ready for testing on monday. ill let you cool off a bit in the meantime.

talk to you all later! and if anyone is curious about my progress on model seven, just say so and ill tell you what i can!

youve had quite a day, eh?
Mood:  caffeinated
Topic: debate
well, rex, it sounds like you had quite a day. im curious why angelica suggested the beach in the dead of winter? im more curious as to why you agreed.

i wont ask whats going on between you and angelica . . . but hopefully you two will resolve it. you shouldnt be so passive aggressive, you know, that stuff can build up to a breaking point!

about the whole nature vs. nurture thing . . . it was sort of a rhetorical question, but im glad you replied in a way. but dont be so quick to judge . . . youre still a young boy! dont lose your faith in humanity just yet!

i think the problem is most likely a result of 'nurture', that is, a result of this environment. it stifles people, even though this is undeniably the best country in the world for opportunity. if people had more options and more information about what was going on in politics and business, i think theyd be eager to participate. it might be presumptuous to say that dependency is in human nature . . . but i will concede the fact that human sustainability does rely largely upon a very precarious set of circumstances in this world. in that sense, we are dependent.

and yes, rex, almost everyone does have a GPS ID chip implanted in them in our era. but what are you getting at? and why do you keep referring to 'our era' as it other people dont belong to it?

whered you go??
Mood:  incredulous
hello there blog people . . . just checking in to see how things are going. i really expected some sort of post from young mr. reinhard, but he is apparently awol.

the same could be said for me, i suppose, since i havent showed up at my office for three days . . . but you see, wyles lets me work from my home laboratory most of the time, and he hasnt complained or requested my presence . . . yet.

anyhow, just checking in . . . i dont really have much to type right now!

until next time . . .

yawn
Mood:  lazy
Topic: leisure
hows its going folks? all zero of you . . . haha

well, rex, i certainly didnt mean to get you riled up about that one issue that you wouldnt like me to talk about. sorry litte buddy.

i have to agree about how awful those two news articles are . . . and you know that we see eye to eye on the whole labor camp thing. and we do need some better elected officials, thats for sure.

perhaps your suggestions about the lady who chopped off the girls hands were a bit extreme, but ill concede that the tatoo idea wouldnt really be too cruel or unusual of a punishment.

anyhow, you may be right about how impressionable the masses are, but the questions id like to know are why is it that way? nature or nurture?

i tend to have faith in the goodness of humanity . . . but still it remains that a great leader, or a terrible one, can make all the difference.

now that ive just woken up for the day, i guess ill head down to the basement and get to work on the next model. its going to be finished within a few weeks, i imagine!

man, my sleep schedule is way to discombobulated to be salvaged; guess ill just go with the flow now.

man, ive got to stop drinking
Topic: leisure
well, perhaps i had a few too many drinks last night . . . i guess its a double-edged sword. wyles invites me over to get pissed and play chess, and then he gives me the next day off. hes being awfully friendly lately, and that is highly uncharacteristic of him. for goodness sake, my throat feels like the victim of a night of chain smoking, and although my memory is hazy, im sure it was.

anyway, wyles DID make a wager on model number six(hes so easy to predict), so i won that bet. thats one dollar owed . . . btw, rex, did you find out how many people are reading this? my winnings might be quite large in that case ;)

also, not only did i win the wager i proposed, but i also won the actual bet on model six. so thats two models ive won in total . . . ive been practicing my chess with model three for a while, but still, wyles seems to use no tactic at all. it just seems like drunk luck for him when he wins . . . if we wager on the next three models, i sure hope that my luck continues.

rex: as for your observation on the Leyden skins similarity to organic tissue, you are quite right; its modelled almost exactly after the same structures, except the Leyden skin is much more durable and effective while in use. nature is, after all, one of the best designers, and the human form is by far one of the best examples of intelligent design. i, however, still have reservations about cybernetic applications. human testing is an ethical line that i try to avoid stepping over at all costs, and you should too, my young friend.

i do kindly ask that you not snoop around in my files regarding my recent research. much of it is still inconclusive, and id hate for you to get the wrong idea about what my inventions are capable of. i know that age reversal and age stasis are of great interest to you, rex, but PLEASE do not dig into anything in my wyles-crowley files.

to change the subject, phil reynolds and i have recently been in contact for a variety of reasons, but i will make sure to try and set up some sort of meeting between you two. although i admit that your ability to learn and store information is much greater than the average joe, i think that there are a few things that you might be able to learn from phil.

anyhow, ive got to run to wyles-crowley later on and submit my latest report on the Leyden skin; i forgot to bring it over wyles house last night in my rush to get there. geez, the things youll do (or wont do!) to make your boss happy . . .

adios

whoap
Mood:  a-ok
well, alright . . . hey there little buddy . . . im just in the bathroom. . . taking a break fropm wyles . . . typing from my handheld . . . or speaking, rather.

ill write more tomorrow . . . or i mean, today. im just going to pass out here . . .

change of plans . . . .
Mood:  don't ask
Topic: work related
okay, im cruising in the auto right now, using phils nifty speech recognition software to dictate this little update . . . wyles summoned me . . . for drinks and chess . . . once again . . . for the sixth time in four months. i wonder how many other employees wyles hangs out with? wt*

ill bet you guys one dollar each that wyles will want to wager on model six. if i lose, i owe you all one dollar, so what is that total? oh, probably one dollar.

sorry rex ;)

EUREKA!
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: research
well, hello there everyone . . . assuming that there are others reading this besides myself and young mr. reinhard. i hate to talk only of myself, but i must bring to your attention a great new step in my research!

i have finally perfected my Leyden skin(c). this is a substance consisting of interacting nanobots which can mimic the functions of organic skin, as well as making great use of the organic designs found in nature. however realistic it is, its application only falls in the realm of robotics; cybernetic application of the Leyden skin(c) is not recommended, in my opinion. adverse affects may result, and although i am ethically unwilling to do any research on humans, john wyles probably wouldnt mind.

anyhow, the difference between Leyden skin(c) and organic skin is more than skin deep(sorry, i can never resist a pun). Leyden skin(okay, enough of the copyright logo. i hate to sound selfish, but its MINE!) is applied to a robotic armature after a musculo-circulatory system has been installed. the Leyden skin automatically reacts with the processing core of the robotic armature, and it forms to its prorgrammed design.

in this way, Leyden skin can be altered with a slight change in code, and it can therefore assume a great number of shapes, although its usefulness is limited to a certain height/weight ratio. that is to say, although the texture, color, and features of the Leyden skin can be changed at will, the overall size of the body cannot be changed(it is restricted by the armature and musculo-circulatory system below it).

some unique features which i have recently been granted patents for include the ability for Leyden skin to operate while unattached to its host armature. its power source is the atmosphere, and seeing that the Leyden skin is made up of billions of incredibly small and efficient machines, the energy needed is small. the nanohairs which protrude from the Leyden skin do more than mimic human skin; they act as conductors of static electricty, hence the name Leyden skin(after the Leyden electrostatic generator).

the Leyden skin is also capable of taking moisture in the air or condensation on its surface and separating the molecules into oxygen(which it releases) and hydrogen(which it uses for power). this system is incredibly advanced, like the rest of the Leyden skin, and because of oath of silence to Wyles-Crowley, i cannot divulge any further specifications.

hopefully, i can apply the same principle for the Leyden skin to the nanostructures which make up a robotic musculo-circulatory system . . .

now, back to the lab! and then maybe later, a few hours of sleep.

excellent . . .
Mood:  rushed
ah yes! i never knew it would be so easy to get this going. once again, it seems as though things get better over time . . . but thats another issue altogether, and one of great debate.

sleep has summoned my presence, and so even as i slip into the dreamworld, im pressed for time . . . . zzzz zzzzz zzzz zzzz zzzzz . . . .