
Not much happened today, diary. I went and saw that Avatar movie and I didn't really get it. The explosions were cool, but I could have done without all of the talking. On the upside I got one of those super tubs of popcorn, so I won't have to grocery shop for a few...
...This is Bernard Magnusson III. The hour is 11:34 PM on the 22nd of December, 2009. I shall begin my quarterly diagnostics of the re-calibrated Palin-Bot 5000 in preparation for the new year. I would have waited until a more convenient time in January, but my Sarah's calculations revealed an unfortunate quirk in our admittedly hasty design. It appears that our programming architecture for the PB5K may suffer a critical error when it registers the year as 2010, given that all of the values we installed relied upon a year ending in 9. Should the machine process the date and find its fourth digit at zero, it has a 70% probability of perceiving the year to be 2000 and thus declaring itself the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. This outcome, according to our projected events calender, is only slightly more destructive than the 20% probability that the error will send the PB5K into full organic neutralization mode.
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