New Bike

I was feeling the pangs of jealousy for Megan's new bike when I was informed that there lay a bike beast ready in the garage, waiting to be tamed.  The hope arose suddenly that we would trek like some sort of Riders of Rohan through the sunny mountains of Chino Hills.  Unfortunately, the ancient beast isn't like some long lost dragon waiting to roar from its cave, but more of some kinda ball of rust that decided to rust over itself and then die.  So instead it will be more like the Rider of Rohan and their trusty inline-skates jester.

I have been reading through The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov after finishing his Foundation series.  Within this wonderful robot compendium of stories, I came across one by the name of Bicentennial Man.  I remembered a movie by this name thinking it was something like robo Patch Adams-inator at the time, and had lost interest in seeing it.  But now with my renewed interest in Asimovian robots, not even the fear of a clown doctor-bot could deter me.

The movie was a nice change of pace from other Robot movies that usually involved a main character that wanted, if nothing else, to cause fireworks made up of robot parts.  Fun, but not quite the same product I had come to expect from Asimov's robot series.  The film is a pinocchio story that lasts through generations of a human family about a robot that wants to become human, not only in looks, but to experience feelings, life, love and finally death.  Suffice to say, I enjoyed the movie and felt it was a nice addition to my complete Isaac Asimov experience.

- Gideon