Saturday afternoon excursion in DeKalb.

Came away with a Terminator-ish hand for one of my plants at home 😎

#photos #dekalb #fleamarket #terminator

I don’t know why but the Terminator music is like comfort food for me.

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Just to put this out there, May 12th was the day Kyle Reese came back to save Sarah Connor.

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Maggie 3D-printed me this Terminator for Father’s Day. ❤️

So of course we’re watching Terminator 2 now. I forgot how many mullets there were back in 1991.

#photos #Maggie #terminator #fathersday

Terminator: Do Robots Think in Apple II Source Code?

Remember the original Terminator movie? Well, we came aross a bit of geeky Terminator trivia this weekend. Whenever you see through the eyes of The Terminator himself, a bunch of computery text is scrolling by. It turns out this text is the source code for an Apple II checksum program, among other programs. The code was first published in Nibble magazine in the early 80’s, so was close at hand when the movie’s producers needed something high-tech for their futuristic robot/killing machine/bodybuilder.

The code featured in the movie runs on a 70’s-era MOS 6502 microprocessor. Does this mean The Terminator himself had enough processing power to run The Oregon Trail? (“The future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Two oxen die fording a river.”)

#terminator #apple

Me at 7:15 am: Maggie, could you come down here?

Maggie half asleep: Okay…

Me: Come down quick! There’s a chipmunk in the house and I can’t ward off the H-K’s.

Maggie: H-K’s?

Me: Hunter-Killers. Patrol machines built in automated factories.

Me: The Terminators are infiltration units: part cat, part machine. Underneath, they’re a hyperalloy combat-chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored, very tough. But outside, they’re living feline tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs…

Me: Those Terminators are down here. They can’t be bargained with. They can’t be reasoned with. They don’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop… ever, until that chipmunk is dead!

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Okay, that’s not really how the conversation went down but seriously…when there’s a chipmunk in the house, the cats go ballistic. Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.

#terminator #cats #chipmunks

I don’t know who fused these two together but yes.

#terminator #godzilla

Yes cats, I’m putting away the vacuum.

You can quit acting like you’re in one of the Terminator movies.

Although they were all quite good.

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“Listen, and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”

#videos #robots #terminator

This is looking to be pretty bad ass even if Arnold’s getting a little saggy around the cheeks and dull around the forehead.

#movies #terminator