Comments on: Sometimes I Scare People

By: Ed.

Ed. — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:16:25 +0000

Gee, I wonder who that was…

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:14:00 +0000

You know how “WE” and “LIFE” just “ARE”…..there is no explanation for these things. And so it is, of course, true of “why some things are hilarious”…. (Chuck’s Zen-ness shining thru).

(P.S. I once laughed for hours and hours with a wonderful man (we BOTH laughed for hours and hours) over a totally absurd concept that we took out to the um-teenth degree….noone else would ever begin to think it was even the slightest bit funny….we couldn’t stop laughing…we were laughing so hard that the “snorting” thing was happening. It was absolutely GREAT! We became ONE WITH THE LAUGHTER (??!!?*#!)

By: Colleen Nelson

Colleen Nelson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:53:46 +0000

something that square is meditating? Ha Ha Ha!

That’s funny!

By: Lucky

Lucky — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:03:32 +0000

I think that trying to explain funny is possibly one of the hardest thing in the world to do. We can explain irony and slapstick and absurdity, but it’s more difficult to explain why those things are funny.

I would say that a meditating robot falls under the catagory of absurdity. Wasn’t there a Sci-Fi author who wrote about machines with souls? Or several dozen? Heck, you probably couldn’t swing a cat without hitting one.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:16:45 +0000

Well, it all depending on your perspective. Figure-ground as they say. I assumed he was a chemist calculating a concentration and it turned out to be zero molar, or O M.

By: June

June — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:56:08 +0000

Did you program him?

By: Ed.

Ed. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:48:00 +0000

Angela, you say the sweetest things.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:21:44 +0000

Can a robot meditate without a mind?

By: Angela

Angela — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:09:03 +0000

Um, because you’re scary?