{"id":25031,"date":"2013-09-06T02:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T02:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/?p=25031"},"modified":"2013-09-02T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T04:17:11","slug":"craig-ferguson-geoff-plate-imahara-maps-review-robot-comedians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/craig-ferguson-geoff-plate-imahara-maps-review-robot-comedians\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Geoff Artifact<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-25033\" alt=\"Geoff Dedication Plate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate-150x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/Geoff-Dedication-Plate.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\r\n<em>Mythbusters<\/em> robotics expert <strong>Grant Imahara<\/strong> built robot skeleton sidekick <strong>Geoff Peterson<\/strong> for <strong>Craig Ferguson<\/strong> and <em>The Late Late Show<\/em> in 2010. He recently tweeted:\r\n<p class=\"notea\">This is @GeoffTheRobot&#8217;s dedication plate to craigyferg. Ah they grow up so fast&#8230; http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/csQUGFQ_nx\/<\/p>\r\nHe also tweeted a link to a great demonstration reel for Lucasfilm&#8217;s THX sound system, where he used to work:\r\n<p class=\"notea\">Before I was a Mythbuster and before I worked for ILM, I worked for Home THX. This was our demo. Enjoy! https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?v=10151522574287443 \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/proxy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-25034\" alt=\"proxy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/proxy-150x84.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/proxy-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/proxy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/proxy-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/proxy-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2013\/09\/proxy.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>And for <em>Doctor Who<\/em> fans, he tweeted his discovery of a fun feature of <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/google-maps-has-an-incredible-dr-who-easter-egg-1121878011?utm_source=Front&amp;utm_medium=Recirculation&amp;utm_campaign=afternoon\" target=\"_blank\">Google Streetview<\/a>:\r\n<p class=\"notea\">Guys, Google maps has a hidden #TARDIS Easter Egg!! DETAILS: <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/google-maps-has-an-incredible-dr-who-easter-egg-1121878011?utm_source=Front&#038;utm_medium=Recirculation&#038;utm_campaign=afternoon\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/google-maps-has-an-incredible-dr-who-easter-egg-1121878011?utm_source=Front&amp;utm_medium=Recirculation&amp;utm_campaign=afternoon \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a> #DoctorWho<\/p>\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Stand Up Review<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-22215\" alt=\"Here To Help\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rsanews.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help-150x84.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help-250x140.jpg 250w, https:\/\/images.rsanews.com\/2010\/10\/Here-To-Help.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span>\r\nThe website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedy-reviews.com\/2013\/08\/craig-fergusons-im-here-to-help.html\" target=\"_blank\">Comedy-Reviews.com<\/a> has a review of Craig&#8217;s newest stand up comedy special <em>I&#8217;m Here To Help<\/em> and it has nice things to say. Thanks to the RSA&#8217;s @<strong>hoborobot<\/strong> for the link!\r\n\r\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: large;\"><strong>Robot Comedians<\/strong><\/span>\r\nWhen <strong>Josh Robert Thompson<\/strong> is on the road, he prefers to leave Geoff at home in the studio. There is apparently a trend of attempts to create a robot comedian for the stage, but as <a href=\"http:\/\/pascophronesis.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/23\/geoff-peterson-has-nothing-to-worry-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">this blog explains<\/a>, Josh and Geoff have nothing to worry about. There is even video on one example:\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Video courtesy: newscientistvideo<\/span>\r\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"420\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/40GW_3djKXo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"560\" height=\"420\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/40GW_3djKXo?hl=en_US&amp;version=3&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p 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