Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for January 20, 2010

GPS’s name is Hal.

HAL 9000!

Hal actually says, “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” I used to use it as my Windows error message sound.

EEEEEEEK!!! 2001 totally freaked me out!

EEEEK…A space oddity.

I am afraid Dave(aka Cliff) is not going to like how this ends!

EEK a GEEK

@ejcapulet 2000 through 2009 inclusive freaked ME out -repeatedly. Nineties were up & down…[jk jk mostly]

2001 a great movie, with a ending that has no meaning at all as far as anybody can tell. The sequel made absolutely no sense.

RUN CLIFF, RUN LIKE YOU’VE NEVER RUN BEFORE.

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Advice to all technically advanced species: never allow your electronic devices to become smarter than you.

Johanan. Too late….

My microwave is smarter than I am, but I can whip my garage door opener in chess six games out of ten.

I used to be pretty good at pong…..

Dave’s not here!

Nobody else caught the reference to the Jerrods jewelry christmas commercial?

Wait - before you turn it off, make it sing “Daisy” for us. I love how it drags out that ending. SWEET!

I only saw 2001 three times. Could someone explain it to me?

PiriReis - it’s “Dave’s not here, man!”

(as long as we’re correcting famous quotations…)

Y’all need to read the books - then it will all make sense.

The movies are eye candy of the first water…absolutely fabulous. If you had in mind how it would look, the movies took it one more notch.

Turing stick to space station was beyond wonder - the music made it.

Amazing. I just watched 2001 last night for the first time in over 30 years. And I still have no idea of what it was about.

@edcole1961: ’ Hal actually says, “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” I used to use it as my Windows error message sound. ’

When I had a Mac my error message was Dorothy’s voice (from Wizard of Oz) saying “What would you do if you had a brain?”

That’s what Cliff gets for buying the GPS unit from Goodwill in 2001.

Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

dkram: That shouldn’t be too hard; Cliff’s never run before.

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As for the questions re. what the movie 2001 was about:

Serious answer – evolution, guided by an extraterrestrial intelligence.

Silly answer – about three hours.

I miss Pam.

Pearlandpeach - I’m not sure many people read books anymore - their loss and ours.

“Daisy. Da-ai-sy…”

“Too bad about Frank,isn’t it?” HAL 9000

Dracip, I disagree.

Trebor, you disagree? I was great at pong…sherlock, in the ending of 2001, what’s with the guy in the room slowly dying alone. What’s with the fetus that’s larger than the world? Neither of those have anything anything to do with the rest of the movie….

And don’t forget that the basis for 2001 was “The Sentine,” which is a very short story by Clark.

Oh that’s funny.

Worth capturing, Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel from 1951; right-click and ‘save link as’, it’s a six-page story in PDF (with a few OCR typos).