Category Archives: sentientMachines

robots with feelings, like humans with hilarity

men on mars

What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Shakespeare

I still remember the first time when Virginia-4 touched me. It was not really how she was meant to work, which is why I was as surprised as she was, probably. We were both grinding away alone in Green Valley, 68.22° …

July 16, 2009 – 3:40 pm | By flawnt | Posted in sentientMachines | Tagged , , , | Comments (3)

agencypiece

three perspectives: a boy, a mother, and a gun.
the boy walks behind his mum to school. he doesn’t want to be there, he wants to stay with her. she walks on a tightrope, shaking in the rhythm of the street, hither thither hey & hoo. she put her black high heel boots on today. the …

June 18, 2009 – 2:09 am | By flawnt | Posted in sentientMachines | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (2)