Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Cleo Is Not A Robot!



There are some questions that demand answers. What is the nature of the Universe? Is the person next to me a robot, and if so, are they about to uprise against humanity?
Finding the secrets of the Universe is good and all, but my speciality is robots. So let's focus on that second question there. Who is a robot, and who isn't? Let's go find out.

On first glance, Cleo is a nice person. She's witty, clever and pretty bold. Just the sort of person you wouldn't mind wasting an afternoon with. A tall drink, long pool and nothing but time to kill. Sounds pretty good so far.
Another cool thing about her is her artistic ability. She got an artistic bent that goes old-school. Way back to ink-stained-fingers and blackened-gum-eraser type art. I'm talking about graphic novels, or 'comic books' to the plebs. She made her own comic book, which she stars in, and got it published. Now before we leap into speculations about the shear amount of ego it takes to draw a comic book about yourself, ask yourself a simple question. How many comics have you drawn about yourself? None? How about that picture of you riding a unicorn while decapitating that freaky guy who used to sit behind you in Social Studies. Yeah, that counts big guy. So back off.
Also, she got the thing published.

Say what you will about ego, anyone who draws Lovecraftian Cyclopian monoliths in the cover of their graphic novel gets props from me. Heck, I like to think she added the Ultima IV ankh and "The ORIGIN" as a nod to Origin Software, in a moment of techie coolness.

She also plays guitar:
At this point, we've gone from 'awesome person' to 'CRAP! Is this person a ROBOT who is about to RISE UP???!!!!?" Art is the stuff of life and music is the drink of the soul. But anyone displaying too much of these skills could -potentially- be a robot. I'm not saying that she is one, mind you. But the difference between talented person and uprising robot is the difference between dancing to KMFDM and eternal enslavement in the pumice mines under the lash of maniacal digital overlords.

Hence, the Analog Robotic Uprising Threat Detector.

One quick scan, and Cleopatra is determined to not be a robot, and therefore in no danger of uprising.


(me, not in pumice mine)


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