Hey Kids,

No, this post is not about robots per se, but it is about people who like robots and the people who like people who like robots (I am loathe to use the word “Community”, it give me hives, you know what I mean).

After Friday’s devastating storms and tornadoes in and around Deland, Florida, we were noticing the jarring absence of our good friend and compulsive commenter, Suicidebots Regular #42, Radioactive Jam.


Pix courtesy Floridiana

Luckily, after a bit of poking around, we found out that Mr. and Mrs. Jam are all right, having experienced nothing more serious than a bummer of a commute and a bit of wet weather:

As much as I’d like to see the Suicide Bots Action Force mobilized (if nothing else just to see what happens when…) I cannot tell a lie: no tornadic effects in our immediate vicinity. All the bad stuff happened several miles to the south of us; we’re among the fortunate.

Hard, hard times for many people, though. Friends of friends among the fatalities. And while one local official’s remarks seemed kind of stupid - “this tornado had no conscience” or something similar - the indiscriminate nature of… well, nature… is sobering.

This is a PSA to say that if you have some spare paypal cash lying around, give to the Red Cross or Burners Without Borders or some other disaster relief situation or group that makes you happy. You or your family might need them someday in case you ever become a statistic.

Yeah, it’s a small disaster compared to things like hurricane Katrina and genocide in Sudan and everything, but you never know what might happen next and who it may affect.

Okay, maybe some of you aren’t so into the squishy meat puppet sentimentality thing, so I will come at you from another angle:

Radioactive Jam is one of my biggest sticker customers.

So if nothing else, give to disaster relief so he’ll keep Suicidebots.com in business.

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