Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for October 17, 2022

Heck, I woulda had that same reaction if we met five minutes ago. Not age related in my case, I’ve always been that way.

Story of my life. I remember being baptized when I was eight days old, but I can’t for the life of me find the cordless drill I set down eleven seconds ago. It’s a gift.

Probably expected him to be dead by lunchtime.

You gotta clear the cache!

It’s weird…I can identify with Oldbot in a way (also partially because I am old). I sometimes have difficulty putting name and face together of people I met twenty minutes earlier. And it’s not because I don’t care about people; I actually care very deeply about people. It’s something that has happened with me even when I was a young’un. Now, at the same time, I hear a song one time, and I know it inside and out. I have a perfect blueprint of the bass, the drums, keyboards, guitars, vocals…it’s like I’d known it for years, even if I only heard it once. My wife, who holds a specialist’s degree in such things, tells me that’s just how I learn. Go figure…

Um…what’s my name again…?

Well new guys are hard to remember, they die so fast. It’s just easier this way.

When you only have 64K you can’t store a whole lot

Oldbot needs more TB in his diet

Funny thing is that he can still remember his factory serial number.

“Ma’am, have we met?”

“Yes, I’m your wife”

“I thought you looked vaguely familiar. Uhmmm, Charlotte”

“Cherry”

Given his reputation on the R.U. Sirius, Ensign Kenny thinks he’s unforgettable.

I know or knew several only good for five minutes…tops.

He doesn’t have enough RAM to retain things.

I’m getting the feeling this is less about oldbot and more about old people.

But I can recite verbatim the Crest commercial…. “Crest has been shown”, etc.

Memory upgrade time.

“This morning? In robot time, that’s like 10,000 years ago.”