Comments on: Escape Pod Flash: Tired http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/ The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine. Each week Escape Pod delivers science fiction short stories from today's best authors. Listen today, and hear the new sound of science fiction! Tue, 08 May 2012 17:42:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gwen http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-13170 Gwen Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:33:41 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-13170 <p>This story made me smile.</p> This story made me smile.

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]]> By: J http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12872 J Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:21:31 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12872 <p>i found this one to be pleasantly amusing, and far less irritating than the toothbrush one.</p> <p>also, even one michael bay movie is too many.</p> <p>by a long shot.</p> i found this one to be pleasantly amusing, and far less irritating than the toothbrush one.

also, even one michael bay movie is too many.

by a long shot.

]]> By: Vance M. http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12852 Vance M. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:47:22 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12852 <p>Interesting story, concept and execution. As the pieces of his car became more annoying, I wanted the protagonist to set the gas tank on fire and walk away. (maybe I've been watching too many Michael Bay movies.)</p> Interesting story, concept and execution. As the pieces of his car became more annoying, I wanted the protagonist to set the gas tank on fire and walk away. (maybe I’ve been watching too many Michael Bay movies.)

]]> By: MasterThief http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12815 MasterThief Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:17:52 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12815 <p>Please do not anthropomorphize the automata.</p> Please do not anthropomorphize the automata.

]]> By: Anony http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12807 Anony Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:34:20 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12807 <p>The ending could go either way: it could be adam growing flowers or it could be that he 'ended' all four and found uses for them that wouldnt involve jailtime.</p> <p>Are re-treads so expensive?</p> The ending could go either way:
it could be adam growing flowers or it could be that he ‘ended’ all four and found uses for them that wouldnt involve jailtime.

Are re-treads so expensive?

]]> By: Ken_K http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12797 Ken_K Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:44:27 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12797 <p>scatterbrain:"I don’t want an argument with my coffe mug over why it’s got a chip in?"</p> <p>You are right about that. A faulty sensor dinging all the time telling me my door was open, (when it wasn't) made me want to crash my car into a tree just to make it STFU.</p> scatterbrain:”I don’t want an argument with my coffe mug over why it’s got a chip in?”

You are right about that. A faulty sensor dinging all the time telling me my door was open, (when it wasn’t) made me want to crash my car into a tree just to make it STFU.

]]> By: mickeyd http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12785 mickeyd Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:08:37 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12785 <p>Come on, you guys, lighten up! It's supposed to be funny, and it is. It's not an indictment against consumerism as much as a simple story of one common man's reaction to one aspect of his ever-increasingly technology-filled world. And a note to Stumo, you might not know of the practice in the rural South of making used tires as flower beds. That would explain the ending.</p> Come on, you guys, lighten up! It’s supposed to be funny, and it is. It’s not an indictment against consumerism as much as a simple story of one common man’s reaction to one aspect of his ever-increasingly technology-filled world. And a note to Stumo, you might not know of the practice in the rural South of making used tires as flower beds. That would explain the ending.

]]> By: scatterbrain http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12773 scatterbrain Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:52:54 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12773 <p>Why must everything be upgraded with intelligence? We've seen sentient tires, cars, reefs, toothbrushes, boats, ducks, bears, goats, rocks, and even grass! When will the likes of Bishop and Di Filipo finally realise I don't want an argument with my coffe mug over why it's got a chip in?</p> Why must everything be upgraded with intelligence? We’ve seen sentient tires, cars, reefs, toothbrushes, boats, ducks, bears, goats, rocks, and even grass! When will the likes of Bishop and Di Filipo finally realise I don’t want an argument with my coffe mug over why it’s got a chip in?

]]> By: Brave Space Monkey http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12772 Brave Space Monkey Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:54:23 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12772 <p>The tire holding the garden was Adam - the nice tire. He loved it so much that he keep it - used as a container for the garden.</p> <p>I keep my first iPod, for no other reason that it was a great little music player and put up with a lot of abuse. I'm now using a iPhone and have giving away a shuffle and a nano... but I keep the old iPod... with it black and white screen and click wheel interface... I don't use it but I keep it...</p> The tire holding the garden was Adam – the nice tire. He loved it so much that he keep it – used as a container for the garden.

I keep my first iPod, for no other reason that it was a great little music player and put up with a lot of abuse. I’m now using a iPhone and have giving away a shuffle and a nano… but I keep the old iPod… with it black and white screen and click wheel interface… I don’t use it but I keep it…

]]> By: Zorag http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12768 Zorag Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:56:04 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12768 <p>Another piece about smart machinery.</p> <p>Amateurish, at best.</p> <p>Capitalism is bad, environmentalism is good. This is your future because the Evil Rich rule the world.</p> Another piece about smart machinery.

Amateurish, at best.

Capitalism is bad, environmentalism is good. This is your future because the Evil Rich rule the world.

]]> By: Ken_K http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12765 Ken_K Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:16:44 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12765 <p>How depressing. The thought that inanimate products are gonna start bitching about things soon that it is. Ick.</p> How depressing. The thought that inanimate products are gonna start bitching about things soon that it is. Ick.

]]> By: Stumo http://escapepod.org/2009/06/15/escape-pod-flash-tired/comment-page-1/#comment-12750 Stumo Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:27:03 +0000 http://escapepod.org/?p=361#comment-12750 <p>I'm not sure I got the ending - anyone able to explain?</p> I’m not sure I got the ending – anyone able to explain?

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