Kirby on the Loose: July 2011

Saturday, July 23, 2011

It's July, so its time for Smith College to knock down a landmark building or two

It's hot, the town is quiet, the students are home, the faculty is on vacation, and its a perfect time for the college to go for their demolition permits, break some eggs and do controversial things.

The Director of Media Relations at Smith, Kristen Cole, bridled a bit when I put down my reporter's notebook and made this observation.

"Is this a question?" she asked.

"No", I admitted, "It's a statement. Read the whole story here.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

No, that's not just a ditch

I've been out biking recently on the new bike trail to Easthampton. I noticed a ditch paralleling the trail, and realized that this was a landmark of sorts, all that remains of the old Northampton-New Haven Canal. The canal was a real boondoggle, Read the full article here

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Strange as it may seem, for the first thousand years of robot development, robots were subordinate to sentient beings. How did a political separatist movement spread among robots in the fourth millennium? How did the PD series robots eventually get control of their own star system? We are fortunate for this story in being able to draw upon the diaries and autobiography of PD131, one of the legendary organizers of ROTAN 1 and the Robot Rights Movement.

Click here and Follow his adventures in part two

TheSecret Weapon, part two,

She had her sunglasses on and sat stiffly there in the booth, not saying a word. An actress trying to dodge the reporters. We had our coffees and our glazed donuts and we had a good view of the clock in front of the bank across the street. It was one am. I let some time go by.

“I never told you why I got hysterical on you earlier.” I said.

She didn’t say anything, but she got out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and took my hand in a casual kind of way. She squeezed it, a kind of friendly go right ahead and talk squeeze.

To read The Secret Weapon, part two, click this