It's amazing.. it's the year 2009, and we still have people making food!

The recent fiasco involving the dumbasses "tampering" with food at Domino's Pizza could have been completely avoided if human employees at fast food restaurants were replaced with robots. Why aren't we all over this idea?!

Just imagine – a burger could be cooked on demand, to the perfect safe internal temperature (monitored by the cooking robot), assembled quickly, wrapped, and served all by machines! No humans to slow down or contaminate the food. Quality and speed would be virtually identical between every single burger served. Every salad served. Every chicken-whatever served.

Touch screen oder-taking kiosks could completely automate the order taking process, removing as much human error from the equation as possible. (The customer will still be able to screw things up if they're totally incompetent.) But, a human cashier should probably be on duty for people with disabilities, or kids, etc.

Maybe there could even be a scale under the platforms in front of the order kiosks to weigh customers and provide useful messages like "Are you sure you want that much food? You can't seriously blame anything on genetics ever again."

We need snarky robots!

Another cat video.. 2 in a row!

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You spin me right round baby, right round,
Like a record baby, right round, round, round

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I've been having odd dreams lately… again.

Last night wasn't as odd as I've gotten used to, but there's one part of one of the dreams that sticks out in my mind and is directly related to this blog. In the dream, one of my friends pointed out that he enjoys reading sparxMind, but it lacks substance, cohesion, and that it's just me talking about whatever, whenever, and not always making complete sense.

Duh! Duh Dream-Friend! I don't claim to be a topical blog, I don't report about politics, or new electronics, or whatever. I rant about whatever happens to be on my mind at the time. And maybe that keeps me from getting a ton of subscribers, return visitors, commenters, etc. – but who cares? Some of the posts are useful, some are stupid, and some are just blatant grabs at short term traffic (like my previous xkcd related posts that increased traffic by almost 1000 visitors per day for weeks!).

I guess the Dream-Critic was just voicing concerns that had been lurking in the back of my mind, which is why I need to put them to rest publicly (in another rambling post nonetheless!) So… there.

Also, Spudart donated money for my plants! Yay Spudart!

That's right! If you can't get enough here on sparxmind.com, you can follow me on twitter.

Here's what you'll receive if you do:

• Random thoughts and ideas that don't warrant (in my opinion) a blog post
• Half conversations that I have with other twitterers
• An easier way to comment on anything that I say, and carry on a conversation
• and more!

It's incredibly easy to follow me on twitter, just head to http://twitter.com/sparxmind and click "Follow". If you're not already signed up for twitter, I recommend signing up and giving it a try.

I normally tweet 1-10/day (less often the last few days), so following me won't overwhelm you.. shouldn't overwhelm you.. may cause indigestion.

As far as I'm concerned, Futurama is one of the best TV shows/Cartoons ever. I'm more than willing to drop whatever it is that I'm doing and stare at a box of pixels if it happens to come on, sometimes losing an hour or more of my day.

I decided to do a bit of keyword research for Futurama, just to see if there were any interesting (and untapped) markets that I could build a site around… Unfortunately I didn't come up with much. What I found interesting though was the number of popular search terms that were misspellings of "Futurama".

The three most popular misspelling are "Futrama" "Futerama" "Futureama", which total over 20,000 searches a month. Twenty THOUSAND people misspell this every month. Wow. For comparison, almost 900,000 searched for it spelled correctly.

If I was marketing a product or TV show, I would love for it to be popular enough that 20,000 people that couldn't spell went looking for it every month.