US v. AI

 Haven't posted in a while, w/w [netspeak for "what with"] the Helen Keller project reaching critical mass, 100 applications for my Intro Fiction class next semester, and a hard-drive failure (the computer was owned by Yale, which is providing a new hard drive and recovering the data, yay, which I had saved to MozyPro but not adequately).  When I asked the techie at Yale why the hard drive had failed, she said "It died."   I thought this was a sensible answer.  

Meanwhile many deep thoughts and whimsical remarks have passed into oblivion that might have been recorded here for the Internet equivalent of all time.  

All that by way of preface to this clip --

mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/i-b-m-supercomputer-watson-to-challenge-jeopardy-stars/ 

--about the IBM "Watson" Jeopardy matchup, which you know about, valuable not for the info but for a hilarious string of comments, of which my favorite was from a doctor in Oakland:  "Can't be too long before a "Blade Runner" Sean Young lookalike droids controlled with t.v. like remote will free men from the tyranny of women."  Anyone care to parse that?