ELON: HANDS' FUNCTIONS ARE EXTREMELY COMPLEX TO REPLICATE IN ROBOTS "The hand is extremely complex. There are 50 actuators in the hand, with the hand and forearm. An actuator is the motor, gearbox, and power electronics. So that’s 100 per robot, really a lot of actuators and sensors. Approximately. In order to do dexterous tasks, you have to have a hand with the sensitivity, precision, and degrees of freedom of a human hand. Because something that we find easy to do, like pick up a screwdriver or turn a wrench, or even thread a needle or play the guitar, actually requires a lot of dexterity."

A CNC machine (a robot) holding a tool and making a part.

Speedy MIDI, software (a robot) that can play the guitar.

How to use Automatic Needle Threader (a robot).

Gonna warp around the sun and go back to 2013.

Don't I know it.

The Minions are the manifestation of the banality of evil.

Every few months there's a new liquor ad for a brand you've never heard of, and then you'll see it once on the shelf behind the bar, and you'll never see it again

David Shing, photo from his wikipedia page.

Scrolling by, I thought this was Shingy at first.

I'm a better boaster. I can boast with the best of them.

This show is good meme gif fodder.

Firefighter's helmets? Is this some veiled acknowledge of involvement in porn? Have anteaters been mentioned?

Let's hope they last past Monday afternoon this week.

Kids today aren't ready for Ray Bradbury's "The Electric Grandmother".

Batman saved us from this nightmare, which means Beetlejuice is a Batman villain.

"He's the genius who came up with the talking Marcel Marceau statue"

"You done with that?"

Now I want Hot Doug's, in traveling gourmet form.

(Menu from the week of Jan 16 2008)

They worked for weeks to get it to do that during the lead up to the finish line.

The reinvention of the wheel, but poorly.

Practice is doing something until you don't realize you're doing it anymore.

"read a Bible verse from the oval office" is a weird penance.

Ruby Rod smelling his finger.

Get a whiff.

Cold-blooded, clean, methodical, thorough, respectful, compliant, and appreciative.

Imagine being the guy who said "Reconstruction complete" in the The Fifth Element and getting a 2¢ residuals check every few months.

Guinan claiming that Yar shouldn't be there in Yesterday's Enterprise never sat well with me.

Is "future person murder" going to the future and murdering someone or murdering someone who came from the future? Is it possible to have a Bradbury-esque "A Sound of Thunder" situation?

It was mandatory in the 70s and early 80s that sitcoms had to have an episode where they'd play strip poker and one character was comically layered up and still lost.

Doyle Brunson in 2013. John Locher/AP via CNN

The Patty Duke Show titlecard

Full House cast poster.

"After it first aired in 1963, it would be almost a quarter of a century later before the American Broadcasting Company was able to beat the The Patty Duke Show 'two-of-a-kind' with a Full House."

— Doyle Brunson, probably

"The Humpty Dance" is a tribute to Humpty's sexual prowess despite his ridiculous appearance.

The song ends with an invitation for people of all races to join in the dance.

Her brown and all that.