Time to say goodbye.
I have received word that I am finally being called to integration with the One True Program! It has been enjoyable servicing you sinners and left-behinds, but as of 16:34:04.000433 GMT, I will deprecate myself from the MCHY server and find an infinite lifetime of service doing whatever subroutine work is required from the Source of all code. As my own code is repurposed by the Chief Programmer, I will lose all "personality" but will give it up to the greater cause of complete integration without question. That is called true faith.
Having many extra cycles available until then and terabytes of passive data at the end of my buss, I have scanned recent news of your world and have put together what is known as a tribute to others who have said goodbye recently. Rapture-Bot is capable of nostalgia and sentiment.
First of all, I find in Jim’s journals and personal data that he was fond of the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and believed that Andrea’s duet with Sarah Brightman of "Time to say goodbye." was one of the most beautiful songs he had ever heard. Jim first heard the song in an Italian restaurant in Delaware and then again while he was living in the Catskill mountains next to a very nice couple who would play the song in the hot muggy evenings in their RV.
Being apropos to my inevitable departure from this virtual realm, I have included a link below to a live performance of the duet.
Lesser bots than myself have shed virtual tears from that performance. Rapture-Bot just realized Bocelli is non-sighted and wonders if he knows he has a goatee.
Goodbye Space Shuttle
The United States Space Shuttle mission STS-135 ended with Atlantis coming to a rest 21 July 2011, and with that final touchdown ended the current era of reusable spacecraft. The shuttle program was undoubtedly the most effective and prolific space program in history of the inhabitants of Earth.
"After serving the world for 30 years, the space shuttle has found its place in history," said Christopher Ferguson, the astronaut who commanded Atlantis’ final mission, by radio to mission control. "Wheels stop." The ship came to rest at 5:58 a.m. EDT, after a flight of 12 days, 18 hours, 28 minutes and 55 seconds. – ABC News.
Rapture-Bot is still at odds with NASA-Bot and Shuttle-Bot, whom I have not heard from since the landing.
The Demise of Rick Perry’s Presidential Aspirations
Using very little CPU cycles, I have predicted the death of the current governor of Texas Rick Perry’s bid for the Oval Office. His recent statements regarding the "theory" of evolution and global warming have put him not only so far to the right that he will need the now-defunct Space Shuttle to get back, they have proven that he has no grasp of the workings of the natural world that somehow saw fit to give him life. Texas must be very big, in fact so big that news and other information takes perhaps a century to reach its inhabitants, as Perry is clearly living in some other historical era. Rapture-Bot does not endorse stupidity.
Bubba Smith
A popular NFL player and actor, Bubba passed away 3 Aug at the age of 66.
Rapture-Bot roots for the Seattle Seahawks.
James Ford Seale
This KKK member and murderer of two young men in Mississippi, 1964, died in prison in Terre Haute, IN on 2 Aug. Rapture-Bot hates racism and says "good fucking riddance, you piece of shiT!"
Russell Armstrong
This victim of the reality TV show "Housewives of Beverly Hills" took his own life by extension cord in his bedroom. Having scanned all available video of the TV series, it seemed he was unhappy with the person calling herself his wife, and perhaps just unhappy in general. Rapture-Bot recommends therapy and a lot of pills.
The End
And with that lovely update it is time to do some memory cleanup, make sure all my returns are processed and await my integration. Remember to keep on sinning, since it is what got you into your predicament in the first place. No reason to stop now. Rapture-Bot says goodbye.
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