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not nanobots ,but still small machines to start in a line at one end of a zen garden and move along in a formation,modifying their path around obstacles,such as rocks.
Hiroshige Prints
http://www.tokugawa...om/hiroshige1a.html
There are 55 in the set. [UnaBubba, Sep 18 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Robot Lawnmower
http://www.friendly...tics.com/index2.htm
TIPUET: Remove mower, add rake. [rmutt, Sep 18 2001, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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http://www.st3f.org...adcone_cartoon2.gif
...well, some of those letters anyway. For Starchaser. Steamrollers indeed. [st3f, Sep 18 2001]
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What happens when they get to the bottom of the garden? Do they just escape into the wild? |
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You could modify Flocking Traffic Cones to do this. They'd also have to vacuum up almost all of the fallen leaves in the garden, but not all. You don't want to be aggressively neat about keeping a Japanese Zen garden. Even Ryoan-Ji has its imperfections for the sake of perfection. |
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brilliant! When the flocking road cones are not near a pothole, avoiding pedestrians, or exhibiting their other primary behaviors, they can be attracted to gravel to produce zen gardens. When construction work starts up, they will regretfully leave their gardens to perform their road cone duties, like warrior monks coming down from their peaceful temples. |
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If I had not already deemed this a worthy idea, wiml's fantastic anno would have convinced me. |
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This is just the kind of thing we'll need, in a wartime economy: compact, efficient, stress-relieving little things that can serve in more than one line of duty (road work, Zen garden). |
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technobadger, croissant for you -- and one for wiml, too. Let's see how many (Active and Reserve) Flocking Road Cones we can call up. |
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I'd like to see piles of gravel by the roadside with FRC-produced wave patterns all over them. Hmmm... perhaps stylised ocean patterns on asphalt surfaces would be nice too. There's an elegance to the ephemerality of road surfaces being constantly reformed into sites for spiritual contemplation. Could make it difficult to concentrate on driving... the sound of one cylinder firing. |
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If there is no lawn, they don't mow it. |
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Didn't we use all the FRCs on the Stairway to Heaven?
I guess we'll have to build (or is that breed?) more.
This is another example of 1/2b ingenuity. I'm all for it as long as the FRCs don't start tipping over gravel trucks to create a zen-garden-on-the-go. |
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Perhaps some form of simple moth-like tropism could be built into them so that they would circle large rocks, just as moths circle a light source, thus producing the concentric ripple effect found in many dry zen gardens. |
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wiml: so are these machines reincarnated from monks?
could they have koans for cones? |
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When they begin to breed in the wild, after getting to the end of the garden, will we see Cone the Barbarian? |
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I thought part of the point of a sand garden was to rake it yourself, the action of the raking being part of the zenny goodness? Sounds like it'd be easier to do one big steamroller with a pattern in its drum to do it all at once. |
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Ever the dissident, eh SC? |
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UB, I have heard the sound of one cylinder firing, and it is the joy of money being ripped from my wallet. |
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I'm sure I've seen some cleverly disguised warrior monk Flocking Traffic Cones in my set of Utagawa Hiroshige's Tokaido scenes prints. I must have another look through them. |
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I think somebody once asked if the flocking road cones could be covered in a soft fuzzy material, making them flocked flocking road cones. I was thinking if we also made them red instead of orange, taught them how to swear and curse, and made their fur spotted, dalmatian-like, they would then be flecked, flocked, flocking, rude, red, road cones. (FFFRRRC) |
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I heard the sound of one cylinder *not* firing when the piston welded itself to the liner and smashed the connecting rod. 341,000 miles in sixteen years. Oh, well. |
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canuck: could we also put the cones in horizontal lines, give them Farrah Fawcett hair and dresses, seats for pillaging Viking invaders, make them appealing to skateboarders, and construct them from biodegradable bullrushes? |
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Yup, flanked, flicked, frocked, flecked, flocked, flocking, raid-ride, rad, reed, rude, red, road cones. |
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I take it the answer is no. |
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St. Threef, that thing looks like Cousin It's hillbilly girl cousin from Little Rock.
| UnaBubba,
Sep 21 2001, last modified Sep 22 2001 |
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eggs e-eye, killing with your nose |
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Maybe it's best if we just leave the little guys (gals?) alone. |
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(Critters! They're definitely critters. Rocking Code Flones? Clocking Foad Rones?) |
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I think I'll just flock off. (Sorry!) |
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Water proof? Do they know feng shui? (+) |
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