Copious Free Time

4:44pm: for a good time
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There are worse ways to pass the time than going to YouTube and searching on the word "automaton." It brings up some amazing 19th and 20th century lifelike mechanical simulated humans, like the charming harpist (she's missing her harp and some other things, but still has her personality) or "Nancy," who could teach today's CGI artists a thing or two about realism.

( what the heck -- here are a couple of embedded ones )