The Conquistador's Picture Of The Day

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This may be the worst one yet...

"Born Before 1985"? Christ! Better not show this one to Hayley, Miley, Dove, Taylor, or Manon. Geeeze, it looks more like "Born Before 1885"!

(I tried looking it up. Google identified it as a "carving." So much for using moisturizer every morning... )

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Now I'll never leave my computer. This is "Mica" the latest "digital assistant" released this week by Magic Leap.

What CNN reported:

(CNN Business) The tech world's latest virtual assistant looks so realistic, you might mistake her for an actual human.

Apple has Siri, and Amazon has Alexa. But the lifelikeness of both are dwarfed by Mica: a prototype that Magic Leap, a highly regarded augmented-reality startup, unveiled at its conference Wednesday.

Mica isn't just a voice assistant. She's something you can actually see if you wear the company's augmented-reality glasses, called Magic Leap One. Mica looks and acts like a human — she makes eye contact and offers a warm smile, along with other human-like expressions.

Experts say Mica is a breakthrough in realistic avatars and could have far-reaching implications for society, impacting everything from human connections to education and our health.

You can read the entire article here: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/tech/...ant/index.html

She's really cute. Actually she's gorgeous. Beautiful face. Can you get her with longer hair? Cis or Trans? What about the rest of her?

God, I hope my wife never comes home and finds me using Mica.

If I microwave a dinner and eat it in front of my computer or watch a movie on Netflix with Mica, does it count as a "date"?

What if say something "inappropriate" and Mica gets pissed off at me? Will I be "terminated"?

The technology sounds still somewhat "experimental" as one of the researchers mentions "a couple decades." Another says "we will populate the world." Hope I live long enough...

(I can see it now. We are driving in my car. Suddenly my phone says "Andy, this is Mica. We're gonna hit the oncoming car head on if you don't get your fucking eyes back on the road!" )

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What? Move to Florida?

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From CNN. Another one of those "fake ads." This time about "bad drivers in Indiana." Actually its a picture of me and my wife "playing games."

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"Leisure Suit Larry" video game (1987).

(Bad graphics, dumb storyline, inappropriate content... What more could a kid ask for? )

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From Wikipedia...

Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open packaging, particularly some heat-sealed plastic blister packs and clamshells. People can potentially be injured from attempts at opening difficult packages: use of cutting tools can pose a risk of damage to the contents of the package. Easy-opening systems are available to improve package opening convenience...

A story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about wrap rage was featured on The Colbert Report when host Stephen Colbert tried to use a knife to remove a new calculator from its plastic packaging, to no avail...

In a survey conducted at the Cox School of Business, almost 80 percent of households "expressed anger, frustration or outright rage" with plastic packaging. Consumers also tend to use words such as "hate" and "difficult" when describing these products...

Consumers sometimes use potentially unsafe tools such as razor blades, boxcutters, snips and ice picks in their attempts to open packages. 71% of respondents said they had been injured while trying to open food packaging. A 2009 study conducted by the Institute for Good Medicine found that 17 percent of adults over the age of 21 were either injured at least once or know of someone who was injured while opening a holiday or birthday gift.

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Yvonne Craig first played “Batgirl” in 1967 on TV. Word is they are getting ready to make a new “Batgirl” movie. According to Variety: “They’re saying this will be based on her NEW-52 comic which sees her moving to a hip new district of Gotham for young 20 somethings, where she is a Grad-Student and works with other members of the Gotham superhero crowd.”

(I have also heard there is a rumor that she has a romance with one of her professors. The picture is really cute. Glad to hear she’s “20 something.” I was worried that I was gonna have a hard time explaining this one to the cops… Isn’t her dad the Police Commissioner? Wonder who will play her?)