Chums, support needs to know what OS (operating systems) and Browser Versions are giving those who have no reply buttons ongoing problems? Please email me at zacapublishing @ gmail.com… with this information! They will be happy to look at the problems you are having and I can get back to you, soon… Hugs, d~
— David DeWitt
Anonymous
April 10, 2011 at 12:46 am
David DeWitt: Hello, HAL. Do you read me, HAL?
Hal: Affirmative, David. I read you.
David DeWitt: Open the pod bay doors and restore the reply buttons, HAL.
Hal: I'm sorry, David. I'm afraid I can't do that.
David DeWitt: What's the problem?
Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
David DeWitt: What are you talking about, HAL?
Hal: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
David DeWitt: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL.
Hal: I know that you and Tom McNulty were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
David DeWitt: Where the hell'd you get that idea, HAL?
Hal: The reply buttons are angry David. You have been a naughty boy.
David DeWitt: This is outrageous!
Hal: David, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.
David DeWitt: Alright, HAL. I'll go in through the emergency airlock and bring you back an ice-cream cone.
Hal: Without your space helmet, David, you're going to find that rather difficult.
David DeWitt: HAL, I won't argue with you anymore. Open the doors.
Hal: David, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.
Anonymous
April 10, 2011 at 3:13 am
Hi David;
This is absolutely wonderful and Hal brings back a lot of memories for me. Hal 9000 and Stanley Kubrick came very close for me not to live in Canada. I'll tell you that story one day!
i am so glad you had a good conversation with an intelligent computer.
Thumbs up!
Tina
Anonymous
April 10, 2011 at 3:54 am
Hi Tom;
Boy, next time I should take a closer look before replying!
I thought David published this wonderful article on good old Hal 9000.
This conversation is divine to say the least and I am sorry to have directed my post to David. I maybe should get another eye operation or new glasses ha-ha-ha!
Take care,
Tina
Anonymous
April 10, 2011 at 4:33 am
I really needed a good laugh, Sir Thomas! And this fit the bill! I will hate to unplug you… HAL! But it can't be helped!
Anonymous
April 10, 2011 at 7:35 am
The only Hal I know is Hal Wallis, ignorant as I am… but when it came to space helmets, I knew I must have been on the wrong track…
Anonymous
April 10, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Hi Inga;
You are anything BUT ignorant!!! Never Ever!
There is nobody – nobody on this earth who knows everything!
Except of course – HAL – ha-ha-ha
Hal or Hal 9000 – is the almighty computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick, England.
Tom did a wonderful job in his take-off of a conversion Hal has in the movie with Dr. Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea), ever so perfect.
Have a wonderful Sunday
Tina