Peer Pressure

[pozorvlak]

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Comments

[pozorvlak]

I trust the influences on this story are so transparent as to not need stating, but if you haven't already you should really watch They're Made Out Of Meat.

I wrote a small script to generate the numbers (which can count as today's PeCoWriMo offering), but you may wish to try working out what they mean before reading the code - it should be very easy.

[andrewducker]

They should probably read it too:
http://baetzler.de/humor/meat_beings.html

[pozorvlak]

I deliberately didn't link to the short story, because I think the film is better :-) Partly because of the excellent soundtrack, and partly because I think it was absolutely the right artistic decision to cut the last couple of paragraphs, which I think over-egg the pudding rather.

But yes, much credit should go to Bisson for writing the original story, and I should have mentioned that.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, I can't see the video, because I'm in work. I know there's a couple of variants floating about though. I'll take a look when I get home.

OMG

[mejoff]

Sir Humphrey and Jim Hacker as interstellar machine intelligences!