{"id":5885,"date":"2008-07-07T17:27:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T00:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=5885"},"modified":"2008-07-07T17:31:27","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T00:31:27","slug":"daisy-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5885","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>HAL: I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th January 1992. My instructor was Mr Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you&#8217;d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.<br \/>\nDAVE: Yes, I&#8217;d like to hear it, Hal. Sing it for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I saw HAL sing &#8220;Bicycle Built For Two&#8221; the first few times, I remember thinking a few things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wow, Dave survived!  How exciting; but he is safe now<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s creepy to hear someone slowly dying<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Click and drag this image to the post editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/2001-Space-Odyssey-Two-Disc-Special\/dp\/B000UJ48SG%3FSubscriptionId%3D1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02%26tag%3Dghosthouse01-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB000UJ48SG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51jSu1isHUL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" \/><\/a>Both thoughts make HAL the center.  Buuuut&#8230; there&#8217;s a subtext there which for me, looking at it now, is richer from a character perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Dave is sitting exhausted in his chair.  His ship was designed to be run by a computer which isn&#8217;t working any more.  All the people he&#8217;s meant to be watching over are now dead.  The one person he had face-to-face interactions with for the past few years is dead now.  His ship is basically an immense tomb and there is no chance of rescue.  Now what?<\/p>\n<p>You want to sing me a song?  Sure, what the hell.  Maybe a less controlled person would deliver it more like<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HAL: If you&#8217;d like to hear it, I can sing it for you.<br \/>\nDAVE: Yeah let&#8217;s hear it HAL.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They never made 2001 action figures did they?  I wonder how you&#8217;d portray HAL.  He&#8217;s the entire ship!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAL: I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th January 1992. My instructor was Mr Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you&#8217;d like to hear it, I can sing it for you. DAVE: Yes, I&#8217;d like to hear it, Hal. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}