First off — I’M BACK!!  I know you all missed me.  “Where were you, Leo?”  Glad you asked.  I was at a three-day gaming competition.  I was SO rocking the HALO 3 tournament.  But after 72 hours of fighting the Convenant some 9-year-old dork finally beat me.  I think he was on steroids.  Or Red Bull.  And I didn’t appreciate his “unsportsmanlike conduct” after he won, either.  Nobody crunks at Leo Ponce De Leon Spitz!

Anyway, onto more important matters: a crazy scary robot story I just found here .  You don’t even have to read the article, which is pretty sciencey — nutshell, it talks about how this JAST org is trying to figure out how to make bots think (anyone else think this is a BAD idea?) — all you have to do is watch the vid.  I kept worrying that that robot was going to get super pissed at the idiot who can’t even put together a couple of blocks and rip his head off with that huge mechanical arm-claw.  (Although, if I’d been that bot, I might’ve gone berserk on that moron, too.)

It’s science dudes like this who create tech we can’t control which only makes the world a scarier place.  Here’s what they said about developing independent, thinking robots: “Before robots like this one can be let loose around humans, however, they will have to learn some manners. Humans know how to behave according to the context they are in. This is subtle and would be difficult for a robot to understand.”  Manners?  Um, yeah, like how TEARING PEOPLE’S FACES OFF is NOT good?!  I’m SO glad it will be “difficult” for these bots to understand.  Now I feel MUCH better….

Check out these incredible pics taken in Perth, Australia and posted on Flickr.  WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?

It looks like it MOVED from one pic to the other.  Am I losing it?  Please tell me it’s just a crane.  A water tower!  (A water tower in the water?  Please just humor me, TRED-heads.)  I know, maybe it’s an oil well– yes, it must be an oil well.  A giant, flexible, multi-jointed, living oil well.  It is certainly NOT an alien robot, right?. . . BUT WAIT — there’s more—-

Because just as I was about to crawl under the covers, drink some soothing hot chocolate, and watch the latest episode of Attack of the Show on DVR to get my mind off it all, I found THIS pic, also from Australia, this one in Sydney:

Now I know it’s called Down Under, but I didn’t think they were referring to the location of a duel between two Unidentified Fighting  Objects. Can someone PLEASE tell me what they see below that  bridge? Or should I just have my mom call the men in the white coats  to take me away now, and tell Sharkatron to find a new roomie for freshman year?

Hey bot hunters! You only have to read the TAGS on this story to know all is not well in Tokyo. “MORE: APOCALYPSE, BAD DECISIONS, BAD IDEAS, CHILDREN, DOOMSDAY, FEAR, JAPAN, KIDS, KILLING MACHINES, LEARNING IS DANGEROUS, LEARNING IS FUN, NOT FUN, NOT GOOD, ROBOTIC DEATH, ROBOTS, SCARY, SCHOOL, TEACHER, UH-OH, WHAT ARE WE TEACHING OUR CHILDREN?”

This is some seriously wack ess, dudes. If you thought your Tenth Grade science teacher was STIFF back then…

Holy eff! That is creepy! Look out for these ROBOT TEACHERS. This ain’t no Speak-n-Spell, people. This one comes with all the creepiness that chips and eyeballs covered in silicone can create. And who’s programming these things? Are they also programming our KIDS? Are they programming YOU???? How would you even know??? Very scary stuff, peeps.

The Sun is There

End of the human race, people. End of the WHOLE EFFING HUMAN RACE!

Watch this video and tell me you aren’t looking for the bomb shelter.

Or as geekologie put it WE’RE ALL AS GOOD AS DEAD!