Camron just called and asked me to come outside and see his new robot. I met him on the sidewalk outside my front gate. He has named this one Catastros, because it is kind of Spanish, and it sounds like catastrophe. There are five more in the series and when he gets all of them they will have robot wars. When I asked him why robot wars, he said that is what robots do - they fight each other constantly to see which one is the toughest. I told him that it seems kind of ridiculous to do nothing but fight, and he decided that maybe we could teach them to do other things. We both sat and thought for a while.
"We could teach them to play golf. Then we could just sit back and relax and watch them hit the golf balls and walk around the pasture."
There are already people who do that. They play golf and the rest of us watch them.
"But this would be robot golf. And we could bet and make probably a thousand dollars. Enough to build a castle and get a plasma screen television for each room. You can just hang them on the wall."
Have you ever seen a plasma screen television?
"Sure. On television. And if the robots used exploding golf balls, that would be robot golf fighting."
I wonder if he notices that I hardly ever stop laughing when we talk?
