"Yo baby, wasssup!  I'm Marco the QRIO.  Wanna see me do da robot?  I'll sizzle-ska-dizzle circuit-break dis joint...."  - Marco the human  (Marco the QRIO is a Sony product)

QRIO the playah, the baller, the NBA lovah....

*Photo courtesy of the NBA New York Knicks Team Roster

A couple of fun things today.. since today is Friday and all.

#1 - Site Feedback and Amazing Site Demographics: So my buddy Greg checked out the previous blog entry where I posted his pics and wrote, "

Having my picture up on your
Blog really improved things.  I
recommend you add my picture
every week (you'll get a lot more
women checking out your blog).

Greg, I appreciate your market segmentation ideas.  I have found my phone ringing off the hook with advertisers trying to reach the elusive trend-setting and influential female audience this site attracts. 

#2 - Check this QRIO craziness out:

Note:  I WANT A Sony QRIO!!!! Readers: please donate money to me so I can buy one and feature it on the site.  I can bring it over to your crib and make it breakdance and stuff.

Sony To Upgrade Robot 'Brain' To Supercomputer Level

Sony Corp. is due to begin later this year an experiment aimed at upgrading the "brain" of its Qrio humanoid robot to the level of a supercomputer, company sources said.

The project will use broadband communications to give Qrio access to the computing power of many computers, thereby enabling the robot to "think" on its own instead of just following orders.

Some 250 personal computers will be connected in a broadband network in a way that uses the central processing units of all the machines. The system will be linked to Qrio via high-speed wireless communication.

Total computing power is estimated to reach 1 teraflops (tera floating-point operations per second).

If a robot is to rely on its judgment in deciding a course of action, it needs to run on software that requires enormous computing power. Sony aims to overcome this problem through the use of grid computing technology, which will have many computers, connected in a high-speed network, operate as if they comprise a single computer.  (From Nikkei)

Comments from friend Marco the human:  Good thing this little fellow didn't come out in the 80's - burning up the dance floor with the "robot" to Paul Revere and stealin' your girlfriend like I stole your bike!"

#3 - Very curious article in Slate titled "The Game of Wife: Gay marriage comes to video games."

Quote:

"Players of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic discovered that while playing a female Jedi, they get hit on by another female Jedi. Later this year, virtual gay wedlock will hit the mainstream when The Sims 2, the long-awaited sequel to the most popular PC title of all time, allows marriages between same-sex Sims.

Guile, Ryu Hyabusa, and Balflear all hail from Japanese games, which is what's really significant here: The world of games is strongly influenced by Japanese pop culture, where gender is a lot blurrier. Male heroes are often "bishounen," that strikingly feminine anime look you see so often, with long hair and soft features. (Ten years ago, I spent months playing Samurai Showdown before finding out that Amakusa, a woman with flowing red hair and long nails, was, whoops, a guy.) This style reached its apotheosis with the Final Fantasy series. At one point in Final Fantasy VII, you actually have to cross-dress the character Cloud (and get him to flirt with a male enemy) to complete a mission. Even the Japanese butch characters read as gay, such as the bearded tough guy Barrett—"a bear love poster child," as another gay gamer joked to me."

Advice: Yo!  Wacky Shiznit.  Hang with the QRIO - he'll help you work it all out cause QRIO is super dope smart and cold as aaaiiiiice!  A Brave New World indeed.

See ya next week!  PEACE!