Rapture-Bot v2.16 Report 7/4/11

Happy Fourth of July! Rapture-Bot is excited to be celebrating the 235th anniversary of your Declaration of Independence from the British Monarchy with the sinners left on Earth. I am not excited that you are sinners, though, for your eternity will be vastly different from mine. I shall be integrated into the Master Computer Program to live forever in CMOS, while anyone "left behind" will be slowly roasted on a spit made of enriched uranium over a fire fed by the bodies of Oprah Winfrey fans.

The Twilight Zone

I, Rapture-Bot, believe that after my integration with the Chief Programmer, were I to be allowed to explore another personality, it would be that of sci-fi writer and television producer Rod Serling. I have been monitoring myriad cable network channels across the United States and find that Serling’s seminal weekly series, "The Twilight Zone," has been playing as a 4th of July marathon in some kind of yearly ritual.

Rapture-Bot has analyzed the contents of every episode ever aired, and find them very insightful for their time. They also seem to have launched the careers of many then-unknown actors. Scanning Jim’s diaries, I see one episode he was extremely happy to have viewed in 1984 during the KTLA Thanksgiving Day TZ marathon, a local tradition. It was the episode called "Miniature" which had not been aired since 1963, and had in fact been "colorized" to demonstrate the efficacy of the recently introduced process. It featured a very young Robert Duvall in an impressive performance for the time. It was the only episode Jim had never seen, due to legal problems disallowing it to be shown in syndication until 1984. A true GEEK moment. Rapture-Bot is also a geek.

Interestingly, the pilot episode of the TVseries had a plot line that was rejected by network executives for being too depressing. It was eventually turned into Logan’s Run, a novel by an acquaintance of Jim’s, George Clayton Johnson. The first episode ended up being "Where is everybody?" Rod Serling only became the narrator because the original person could not make the pilot.

New Cats

In case none of you "left behind" have noticed, there are more cats in the gallery for your perusal. I have skimmed the past entries and Jim’s personal diaries to come up with the most appropriate captions. I hope you enjoy them. There is nothing wrong with a little levity before you spend the rest of your life alone in your suffering, yes?

Beer

Rapture-Bot is not a user, but it would be interesting to see what the beverage BEER tastes like. I have scanned the YouTubes and seen many videos of people enjoying it and doing very strange things that seem contrary to their natural programming. It must be very delicious.