It's not really a robot, sucker.

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November was a funky month for me. I was making great strides with a novel for the NaNoWriMo, where you chunk out a 50,000 word novel in 30 days with a few thousand of your pals, but about half way through the month I became a little encumbered by some medical issues and couldn't finish.

I learned a lot though and my family loves the story. They helped me by inspiring the characters. It's a story about us in the future. It's what we'd like to see happen next year if we could just up and "Green Acres" ourselves to the country, but 60 years in the future. What would Eddie Albert or Ava Gabor do in 2076? It turns out that my story ends up reading like Forrest Gump meets Petticoat Junction. Dunno if anyone other than Red1 will think that's funny or remotely interesting.

Crave/CNET Blasts off with Top-10 tech tricks we're sick of seeing

Top-10 tech tricks we're sick of seeing in movies | Crave - CNET

This is a great list from last week, but it's sure to be a classic. Super zoom in, bad cell phone reception, copy the data off the enemy's computers, all cliches that we must put an end to.

I promise not to put any of these into my book.

Hilarious clips in the article including this one, which is one of my very own personal pet peeves.