It’s Wednesday. The AMC Gremlin. It was quirky, boxy, and somehow both too long and too short at the same time. We were out in the Vette over the weekend and stumbled upon this beast parked in someone’s driveway. It was an AMC Gremlin in Daisy Yellow. It was a surprise because you just don’t see these out in the wild anymore. It immediately brought back memories of my childhood, because we actually had a purple one back in the mid 70s. It was my mom’s and it was what she used to cart my sister and I around in. As a kid, I thought it was the coolest thing because it had a hatch and you could fold the rear bench seat down. I liked it so much that I built an AMT model kit of a Gremlin and painted it to match ours exactly.
By the early 80s my Dad redefined my idea of cool when he sold the Gremlin and brought home a 1972 Corvette coupe with T-tops!
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It’s Tuesday. I hope everyone had a good Labor Day weekend. The weather was nice on Saturday, so the girlfriend and I spent the day out in the Vette. On Sunday we took a drive down to Mahomet to spend the day with her parents and sister. Had some good food down there and got home in time to watch the Southern 500 race that night. On Monday we started the day right by sleeping in. She did some cleaning indoors and baked a very tasty lemon cake. Meanwhile I spent the afternoon outside with my tunes washing the Vette. It was beautiful out there so I enjoyed every minute of it. We finished up the night watching a the movie A Haunting In Venice. Not bad.
We Are Doomed
It’s Thursday. Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute teamed up to showcase the latest improvements in the AI driving the Atlas robot. As demonstrated in the video, basic functions like walk, crouch, and lift have been expanded to allow the humanoid to adapt to surprises like parts being dropped, boxes being moved, or unexpected obstacles blocking its work. It’s truly frightening witnessing its progress. When the robot uprising occurs, the age of man will not end with flood, fire, or ice, but with Siri’s chilling words echoing across the wasteland: “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t let you Google that.”
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