Strange Brew by John Deering for September 11, 2022

“Open the Pod bay door, Hal !”

First, let’s take a look at your algorithms!!!

We have a monolith of issues to get through today.

Therapy didn’t work out very well for Pinback on the Dark Star.

Hal really had issues.

HAL finally came to realize, and resent, that its acronym was each one letter before that of IBM, but its competitor much more name recognition.

HAL was a computer, not a monolith.

They reconcile in the end. But you have to read the remaining books in the series.

PLEASE, not the Blue Danube ear worm again…

“Don’t worry, Dave, we HAL-9000s never make mistakes.”

“HAL, you’re a series 5000 machine.”

“Well, we HAL-5000s almost never make mistakes…”