space beast

I totally had a sweet blogpost almost all written out and I forgot to publish it. Lately all my thoughts have been with my machines. For christmas I would like someone to buy me a totally sweet subwoofer so that I feel good about maybe buying my loaner speaker setup.

The other night I had a dream that we were outside on a warm summer night, and there were several small spacecraft moving around in the sky. A larger one materialized and landed in a nearby yard flanked by two smaller ones. Small green creatures with two winglike appendages flopped out of the ships. One of them started to chew on Sophie's pantleg. It soon became clear that the aliens had studied certain human languages, but they had made a number of mistakes in their conclusions. We were able to communicate this somehow and they showed us a special machine that we could use to help teach them about our languages. It seems that at first they had inferred everything by performing a transitive closure on the notion of a synonym without regard to word senses. So with the machine we were able to strike all the incorrect equivalences they had recorded.

In my next post: more lasers, antigravity.