Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 14, 2021

My Fitbit does a fine job with guilt.

I don’t need a nagging mother. Worse than a nagging wife

Next time, just look outside the window to see if it’s coming down, lad.

Get a second opinion, use the MyRadar app.

Tomorrow we’ll work on your cognitive skills.

Send him to the hardware store for a left handed monkey wrench. If there’s a small airport nearby, send him for a bucket of propwash.

Alexa’s smarter than you, it seems.;-D

Need to be more specific. Raining where?

How often will that work?

Outsmarted by what will someday be Skynet.

Okay confirmed that Alexa is female.

Yesterday I was getting ready to walk the dogs and the weather program on my phone said it was going to start raining in my area in 4 minutes. And it did. I’m not used to that kind of accuracy in weather forecasts. I was comforted later when the phone said it would stop raining in 1 minute, and it kept sprinkling for 3 1/2 minutes.

I like the TV weather reports where they show your area to see what the weather is like. I guess some people are too lazy to even look out a window!

Would like to read Kate requesting a virtually asssisted resolution to an inverted, inside-out double paradoxical conundrum she certainly can formulate.

“It’s not raining, Alexa.”

“It is in Des Moines.”

“I wanted to know if it was raining here.”

“Then you should have asked that. I can assure you – it’s always raining somewhere.”

Sounds more like something Kate would do to Danae

And yet, he’s reading a paper?

It’s raining, somewhere. Joe needs to be more specific.

So you lie to me to help me. Alexa, did I marry you in my youth?

Cheeky !

She took the right steps to help him.

Alexa even tells me if there is fog in my area. May Covid avoid you and yours my friends.

Next Alexa will tell Joe the rural mail carrier just delivered his mail to his mail box down by road—gotta’ get them steps in Joe!

The reason AI is so popular is because there’s so little of the real thing.

This is how HAL-9000 got started.

I’m waiting for the car which scolds your driving with your mom’s voice.

“2001——A Living Room Odyssey”.

And is there any way we can sic the shortstop for the St.Louis Cardinals onto theAnti-Vaxxers?

All he needs is https://www.weather.gov/forecastmaps to see what’s what.

When a Code Pink is sounded at my hospitals, all employees who can are expected to stop what they’re doing and watch the nearest hallway intersection for a possible child abductor (fortunately, these are mostly just new moms crossing the nursery or birthing center boundary with their babies). One day when there were more of these than usual, I kiddingly asked Employee Health if they were snatching babies to get people away from their desks. “No – but it’s a good idea!”

I wonder who the voice of Alexa really is?

“ALEXA…IS IT GOING TO RAIN TODAY?”

“IT’S RAINING NOW, JOE”

(imagines different versions of these pieces of dialogue)

ALEXA…COULD THERE BE RAIN TODAY?

THERE IS RAIN, JOE.

“YOU’RE WELCOME”?

The rain in Maine…