Burlesque by Thomas Edison

I found this snippet of vintage film on the Library of Congress web site and all I can think after viewing the disclaimer at the begining is,

    Do you think this young lady has "Property of Thomas Edison" tattooed anywhere on her person?  

Property of Thomas Edison


     I watched a PBS show (I think it was PBS, it was a while ago but it was very well produced so in my mind it must have been PBS...) on robotics a few years back and an interesting factoid that their reporters found was that the greatest leaps forward in human simulated robotics (ie. robots that look like people and not just random mechanical arms like the kinds of robots that put cars together in Detroit) have been funded primarily through support from the sex industry.
   I remember one of the scientists interviewed saying that it was weird but that was where the money can be found for research and study so along with making simulated human brains in the persuit of science, simulated human naughty bits are also produced in the persuit of something far more base in origin...  

   It seemed to me after watching that program that modern science and smut are cozy bedfellows but it also seems after watching the above vintage film clip, that the partnership between the two,. is nothing new.

In fact, far from surprising me as it does, the partnership should seem downright old fashioned...
 
    

Opening Ceramonies...

      I have several blogs that focus on specific aspects of my life but I have found a need for one that is more open forum style, a blog that I can keep like a diary and not have to keep to any one specific theme or topic matter.

   Depending on the mood I'm in when you find me in real life, I am either "That girl that never says anything" or "That loud girl that never shuts up". I needed a blog that lets me be both so here it is, lets' see how it goes and thank you for taking a moment to enjoy the ride with me.

   So,

      without a whole lot of fanfare,

 (or at least much less fanfare than the chinese food takeout was served with 2 nights ago)

 I have chosen for my first post to share our mis-fortune with the collective,

 (I'm guessing at best the collective will include about 3 individuals at any given time but I could be getting ahead of myself and that estimate could prove to be quite inflated)

   to wit,

      the fortunes that my husband of 13 years and I recieved along with our lat night take out feast:

    

  At first (if you ignore my hair which was not included in the food delivered to us when it was delivered and only seems to have found it's way into the feast via the static pull of my scanner) it may seem that these are swell fortunes, see "wonderful" and "large sum of money".

   However on closer inspection,

      we already live in a wonderful home and have no desire (in fact quite the opposite) to move to any other and although a large sum of money would be pretty swell it would kind of suck if someone close to us had to die for us to get it. in fact, it would Suck rather bad (note the suck with a capital S. Yes, that means REALLY bad.)

   Michael said maybe the inheritance somes from a long lost relative we never knew we had. To which I said, would that really be better? I never got to meet this generous long lost relative, perhaps the money is good but having a wealthy and STILL LIVING long lost relative would be far more fun.

    Maybe that relative could show us how to make our own fortune, eh? Maybe we could go swim in their olympic sized in ground pool once in a while. Can't be invited to all kinds of fun pool parties if they're dead...
 
     So far from being charmed by our fortunes we were left kind of bummed out.

    Anyhoo...

     Let's hope whatever take out we order next treats us better.

        Let's hope my next happy meal toy is one that lights up.

            Those are always the best ones, the happy meal toys that light up.

      Besides, I have to admit I prefer chicken McNuggets to overly breaded chinese takeout chicken fingers anyways...