There wasn't anything that he wouldn't try at least once * except things that he was sure would kill him * it says here that he'd broken nearly every bone in his body at one time or another * and that he once started walking across the street without looking both ways like mom always said * and was almost flattened by a Rolls Royce sporting a My Other Car is a Yugo bumpersticker * he said that unique events gave him better ideas * that he was a writer * although I'll be damned if I can find any reference to anyone ever actually publishing his rantings * somehow this brush with death gave him the idea for a science fiction novel * artificial intelligence is widespread in machines of all types and in humans (as surgical implants and drugs) and that kind of crap * either a specific machine, or better yet, a program would be sentenced to death * the death threat to come from another machine/program, with the humans only vaguely aware of what was going on, if at all * sounds to me like a bad ripoff of the Rushdie affair * just like him to try to write a story about shit he didn't know the first thing about * but luckily before he could write it he was killed by a Yugo while trying to cut through traffic
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