Idiot Genius

            On Sunday morning I woke up to pee at about 0:45 and then finished writing in my journal until around 2:00. I went back to bed but didn’t sleep much, if at all. 

            I finished working out the chords for “Le régiment des mal aimés” (The Regiment of Broken Hearts) by Boris Vian and ran through the song in French. I also sang and played the first part in English, but I may still need to adjust my translation. 

            I finished working out the chords for “Epsilon” by Serge Gainsbourg, and uploaded it to Christian’s Translations. I should have it published on the blog tomorrow. 

            I weighed 85.7 kilos before breakfast. 

            Around midday, I almost finished cleaning my wire dish rack. All that’s left is the bottom part of the smallest bottom rack. That’s also the dirtiest section, I guess because everything drips down there. 

            I weighed 86.2 kilos before lunch. I had Ritz crackers with five-year-old cheddar, two breakfast sausages, and a glass of raspberry lemonade. 

            Since it had been raining and there was a continued possibility of more rain, rather than taking a bike ride downtown I decided to ride up to the Dufferin Mall. I went into The Source but the only monitors they had were for gaming. At Walmart all their monitors were in boxes and so it was a less pleasant shopping experience trying to separate the boxes on the shelf in order to read the labels and prices. They had an Acer for $170 that had a 60.5 cm screen like the HP that is on sale at Staples for $180. I think I’d rather take the HP, since it’s normally $220. I’ll check out Canada Computers tomorrow and if they don’t offer a better deal I’ll just head down to Staples and buy the HP. 

            I weighed 85.8 kilos at 17:30. 

            In my Movie Maker project I cut Rosemary’s Baby down to about thirty seconds of footage containing the two clips that I need. I know I need less than what I have but I need to insert them first and then shave them slowly down until they are the same as what I lost when I deleted Rosemary’s Baby before. I checked my journal and found that I inserted the video that matches the line “Undress the patient and then lay them down just like a sacrifice” on August 31. It says I needed less than eleven seconds of a clip to line it up with the concert video where I’m shown singing “sacrifice”. That helps me get my bearings a bit. 

            I had a poached egg, six breakfast sausages, warmed up naan and a beer while watching two episodes of Astro Boy. 

            In the first story Dr. Muddle develops a device and a translator for communicating with civilizations on distant stars. He is contacted by Ork of the Planet Noomin Loomin. Ork proposes an exchange of technology and he sends the plans for one of their machines. But Ork does not tell Muddle what the machine does. Muddle is so overwhelmed about receiving technology from another world he doesn’t care. He has Astro Boy help to assemble the machine. It looks like a box with an antenna. Muddle asks how to start the machine and Ork says to feed it with 13000 megavolts. When he does so it serves as a teleportation device, bringing Ork to Earth. 

            Then the machine begins to grab other machines and make them part of itself. It keeps growing until it becomes big enough to serve as a vehicle for Ork to ride in while it continues to grow. Astro Boy tries to stop it but it has an impenetrable force field. When the army’s tanks attack they are also made part of the machine. The monster machine incapacitates Astro Boy and so Dr. Elefun has to save him before Ork can make him part of it. It seems nothing on Earth can stop Ork and his machine. The machine abducts Astro Girl to make her part of it. 

            Muddle communicates again with Noomin Loomin and discovers that Ork is a criminal whose behaviour does not reflect that of the people of Noomin Loomin. They send Muddle plans for an ultra gun that will penetrate Ork’s force field. Astro Boy is given the gun and then once he breaks through he can destroy the machine with his own strength. Then a spaceship comes to take Ork away. Earth receives a message from the president on Noomin Loomin who explains that Ork is a mentally deficient Noomin Loomin with only a 200 IQ. He will be educated to have more intelligence so he will not be a criminal. 

            What if the only aliens we’ll be able to communicate with are the dumbest ones? 

            In the second story, a group of vigilantes called The Hooligans has the goal of destroying all robots. The gang has been attacking robot factories and wiping out every robot. Dr. Elefun receives a package containing the parts of a robot from his friend Dr. Gamma. The detached memory bank just repeats one phrase: “Horace Hooligan, Mount Aurora!” Horace Hooligan is the leader of the Hooligans and Mount Aurora is in Antarctica. 

            Astro Boy and Mr. Pompus go to Antarctica but at the Antarctica airport the cabbie refuses to give rides to robots. Mr. Pompus fights him and they are both arrested. Meanwhile Astro Boy goes to Mount Aurora. Aurora Palace is made out of ice and it oversees a whale farm. Astro Boy meets Mr. Freezer who is a robot created by Dr. Elefun, who also made all the other robots there. Their job is to raise and protect the whales. 

            Meanwhile in the jail the taxi driver reveals to Mr. Pompus that he used to be a member of the Hooligan gang. He also says that Horace Hooligan’s mother was taken away from him by robots and that’s why he hates them all. The cabbie helps Pompus escape and he steals a car but it breaks down in the middle of a blizzard. Pompus collapses in the snow. 

            The Hooligan gang invades Aurora Palace. Astro Boy has all the smallest robots hide inside the whales and the bigger robots go to the top floor. Once the Hooligans are inside Astro Boy signals the big robots to begin jumping, which causes the ceiling to collapse on the Hooligans and several are injured. 

            Pompus wakes up in a hospital where the doctor tells him he will be fine. Then the Hooligans arrive with their wounded, including Horace. The doctor operates but then Horace wants to know if the nurse is a robot. Even though she helped save him he wants to destroy her. The other Hooligans are treated so well by robots in the hospital that they change their minds and leave the gang. Horace kidnaps Pompus and sends a message for Astro Boy to meet him at Tacitown at high noon. Astro Boy once again beats Horace but he escapes and asks for a final showdown at the Amida Ranch at daybreak.

            Dr. Elefun has partially assembled the robot that Gamma sent him but they need to find the rest of the parts from the missing part warehouse. The doctor at the hospital says the robot resembles a nurse that used to work for him. At daybreak Astro Boy meets Horace but he arrives without energy because he hasn’t come to fight. Astro Boy apologizes just in case robots did hurt his mother, but Horace doesn’t accept the apology and fires his weapon. Astro Boy escapes and finds a power source, then defeats and unmasks Horace, who turns out to be a boy. Then Horace hears a woman singing and he begins to cry because it sounds like his mother, then he looks and sees it is her. She tells him to come and he runs into her arms. She explains she was gone because she had been in an accident and they dismantled her. Horace never knew that his mother is a robot. She found Horace abandoned when he was a baby and raised him as her own. 

            This story is almost identical to one from the first season, except the other one takes place in the Arctic and this one is set in the Antarctic.