Sometimes, no matter what you do, bad luck will find you. I had managed to live the last two weeks without even a hint of bad luck, but this afternoon it came back to bite me in the ass. This afternoon, David and I were happily working on the big red robot (affectionately named "Big Red Trashcan" because of its shape and size), and actually making progress. After implementing a new section of code, we set out to test the code on the robot. Unbeknownst to us, there was an infinite loop in the code that caused it to not avoid running into walls, which the old code we had written did. Therefore the robot careened, at a slow speed, smack into a wall. It stopped itself, and on its screen came the choices "shut down" or "restart". We had been told many many times by Dr. Smart to never do either of these, so we looked at each other and pondered our predicament for a few seconds before the robot took things into its own hands and shut itself down. After pushing it back into the Media and Machines lab, we realized that there was no discernable way to turn the robot back on. This was not good. "Never turn off the robot", Dr. Smart always said. But the robot was off. This was not good.

No one has sent me the graphics I requested, which is your loss, dear reader, because it just means more of a delay until I can start doing the semi-regular features that I want to post. I've already done a few reviews, which was one of the features, but I'm itching to write a "If it looks like a duck and it quacks like a duck..." or a "What were they smoking when they thought up this idea?". Sadly I will not write either until I find appropriate graphics of a duck and some sort of smoking implement. How long can you hold out, folks? Send me graphics.