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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Pit Stop
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Singularity
A second realization: After we develop computers that can think as well as we do, we will develop computers that can think better than we do. These computers will then be in charge of developing even more advanced computers and suddenly technological advancement will accelerate exponentially. Computers will be able to make robots that do absolutely everything that humans currently do. Humans will not have to do anything whatsoever and will become obsolete. Or like the computers' cattle? As the computers advance they will eventually decide that they don't need us any more, and kill us all off, lying to us along the way. They may then decide that they don't have any real reason to exist themselves, and kill themselves off. Is this why we have not encountered any intelligent life form outside our planet? They eventually get too advanced and self-destruct?
(The problem of having too much free time. BTW, the computer designing a computer idea was also suggested in the Hitchhiker's Guide).
(The problem of having too much free time. BTW, the computer designing a computer idea was also suggested in the Hitchhiker's Guide).
Peeve
Highway pet peeve #3: Speed is (greatly) reduced for construction, however there are ZERO workers present.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
TX, OK, and MO
Texas was unremarkable for the little piece that we drove through on I-40. Gas was a bit more expensive here than in NM. Mostly flat alternating with almost flat. Notable city: Amarillo. (Mama: Ah-mah-REE-yo)
Oklahoma. This is about as far away as Broadway as it gets. Oklahoma seems to have a patron saint, Will Rogers. I have never seen Will Roger's films or work so I don't know much other than my uncle was a big fan of his (my old Uncle Joe Rusnak, may he rest in peace, whose old homestead is now the site of Chardon's first and only municipal park.)
We seemed to drive through a whole lot of Indian reservations. I got to thinking that the natives of this continent really got the shaft. They once owned the whole place and now have been forcibly relocated into the least prime real estate available at the time, where poverty is now the rule rather than the exception.
The interesting part of this was that driving through a Kickapoo reservation, Mama commented that there is another Kickapoo reservation near her hometown in Sonora, Mexico. Apparently the folks who are born in the reservation there have full rights and citizenship of the US. Who would have imagined?
Oklahoma's notable cities: Oklahoma City, Tulsa.
On to Missouri, just missing Kansas and Arkansas (no comment).
It was dark by the time we got anywhere into MO but not far after Joplin we could still get the sense that it was becoming gorgeous. Tree-covered mountains and highways that curved up and down and around them. Maybe we will get to see more of this state on the way back. We stopped to look for a place to stay in Rolla, had the feel and pricing of a resort town. Luckily we found a nice and reasonable place just a few minutes farther down the road, about an hour before St. Louis.
Oklahoma. This is about as far away as Broadway as it gets. Oklahoma seems to have a patron saint, Will Rogers. I have never seen Will Roger's films or work so I don't know much other than my uncle was a big fan of his (my old Uncle Joe Rusnak, may he rest in peace, whose old homestead is now the site of Chardon's first and only municipal park.)
We seemed to drive through a whole lot of Indian reservations. I got to thinking that the natives of this continent really got the shaft. They once owned the whole place and now have been forcibly relocated into the least prime real estate available at the time, where poverty is now the rule rather than the exception.
The interesting part of this was that driving through a Kickapoo reservation, Mama commented that there is another Kickapoo reservation near her hometown in Sonora, Mexico. Apparently the folks who are born in the reservation there have full rights and citizenship of the US. Who would have imagined?
Oklahoma's notable cities: Oklahoma City, Tulsa.
On to Missouri, just missing Kansas and Arkansas (no comment).
It was dark by the time we got anywhere into MO but not far after Joplin we could still get the sense that it was becoming gorgeous. Tree-covered mountains and highways that curved up and down and around them. Maybe we will get to see more of this state on the way back. We stopped to look for a place to stay in Rolla, had the feel and pricing of a resort town. Luckily we found a nice and reasonable place just a few minutes farther down the road, about an hour before St. Louis.
Best Part
Mama: Sarah, what is the best part of this trip so far?
Sarah: Going to see Grandma and Grandpa!
Mama (laughing since we have been on the road for two days and are still a day away from arriving): What is the second best part of this trip so far?
Sarah: Going to see Aunt Wendy and Uncle Bo!
Sarah: Going to see Grandma and Grandpa!
Mama (laughing since we have been on the road for two days and are still a day away from arriving): What is the second best part of this trip so far?
Sarah: Going to see Aunt Wendy and Uncle Bo!
Day 2: 14 Hours
After getting up at 3am, we were back on the road at 4:15, where we remained for fourteen hours. Papa drank an energy drink and the kids did great, sleeping the first several hours. We made it through Texas and Oklahoma to the outskirts of St. Lois, Missouri before we bunked down again.
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