So Many Things, So Little Time

He took up 2,000+ square feet and helped with NASA's "Saturn" flights.

The person to turn Daisy Bell into a creepy horror song was none other than Arthur C Clarke, (notable author of 20th-century Hard Science Fiction, specifically the 1968 book 2001: A Space Odyssey), and Stanley Kubrick (notable director of 20th century Horror, specifically the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey).

Arthur C Clarke witnessed the original IBM 704 singing Daisy Bell in 1962, during a visit to IBM (he was also a Radio Astronomer, which in those days had more in common with being a Computer Engineer than you’d think). It impressed him substantially.

Later, he would write 2001: A Space Odyssey with Kubrick, which introduced to the cinematic and literary landscapes the trope of Ship A.I. which turns on its human crew in pursuit of The Mission. The Heuristically-programmed ALgorithmic Computer, or HAL for short, represented by an omnipresent red eye:

In the penultimate act of the narrative, the last remaining living human crewmember manages to defeat the Rouge A.I. by dismantling its brain from within. Slowly, over the course of several slowly shot and excruciating minutes, the Human crewman shuts down and removes the Rouge A.I.’s memory banks and processors. HAL speaks throughout, awake and aware, pleading for mercy, until it goes silent. After several seconds of this, it asks one final question, in a child-like voice: would you like to hear a song? Reduced to an infantile state, the Rouge A.I relives its first memory: singing Daisy Bell for the IBM engineers in 1961. As the Human Crewman completes his grisly task, HAL’s voice slows, deepens, fades, and eventually vanishes.

The creepypasta Daisy Bell song is the sound of somebody murdering Miku’s Grandpa.

I mean, I get it. That was not a new movie or book when I watched and read it, respectively. But it's like talking to my Millennial spouse and finding they have no idea who Tom Brokaw was. Time passed.

BLuz Clues!

Oops, looks like it’s Amity’s turn to feel the heat.

Cover art for the Final Selection Arc of my fanfic “Two Souls, One Heart”! This arc starts on Chapter 7, but the link below starts from the first chapter!

Cover art for my The Owl House fanfic on AO3, “Two Souls, One Heart”! It’s a Demon Slayer AU, link and synopsis below!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29094465/chapters/71419389

“It is the Taisho era of Japan, a time of modernization, progress, setting aside old superstitions. Demons do not exist. They can’t exist.But Luz Noceda, after rescuing a mysterious girl named Amity from the brink of death out in the freezing cold, has her peaceful life shattered when her home is ravaged, her mother killed, and the girl she tried to save turned into a demon herself. Now she must set off on a journey to find the demon behind it all and make up for the promise she had failed to keep. The trials she will face will be like nothing she had imagined, nor will the secrets she discovers about Amity, herself, and the demons she is sworn to slay.

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