From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
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ReplyDeletein my headcanon that robot is running and vaulting because there is someone at the other end of the hangar that it wants to hug. you know, BB-8 style.
ReplyDeleteall I will want is 20 seconds to comply
ReplyDeletealso I just noticed that the small forelimbs are not hugging limbs but stabilizing limbs.
ReplyDeleteThey will need an extra axis of motion I think because as presently configured they look pretty crap at hugging.
huggee: "hug-bot, stop hugging me"
ReplyDeletehug-bot: "DOES NOT COMPUTE"
Skynet will add more arms so it can balance and destroy all humans.
ReplyDeleteThe robots have out-radical'd us. It's over.
ReplyDeleteWe're about ten years out from Code Geass rollerblade mobile suits
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