My Perfect Weekend

How Marvin the Paranoid Android spends his weekends

Fans of Douglas Adams' 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' wonder no more: here's what this manically depressed robot does in his downtime

11 November 2018 - 00:00 By Staff reporter

*Mimics the sound of a morose sigh* Technically the idea of a Sunday has about as much validity as the idea that a fat reindeer charmer breaks into people's houses at some point near the end of the Earth's orbit of the sun to leave shoddily wrapped gifts.
I could tell you that the idea of Sunday is really just a part of a system in which rich humans convince the working members of the species that they are taking a break before sending them back to whatever menial tasks they've been designated, or that large chunks of the Homo Sapiens population don't even recognise the thing you call Sunday as anything important, but frankly the whole thing would be a waste of my electricity so I'll just play along.
I spend most of my time on an absurd spaceship flying from one disaster to another so I switch on whenever the crushing boredom of being offline becomes too much to bear, only to immediately regret it.
Occasionally I will "wake up" tied to the interfaces of an intelligent war computer but they're not the most entertaining conversationalists in the multiverse so I try avoiding them when I can.
The next microsecond is spent calculating the millions of ways my day will go wrong. If I were lucky enough to be a human-made AI, this would take me all day, thus keeping me too busy to interact with other life forms. Sigh, ignorance really is bliss.
At this point a two-headed humanoid creature that styles himself as the president of the galaxy will probably burst through the door and announce a harebrained scheme to become the richest being in the universe using a blue whale, Vogon bubble bath and a set of diamond- studded tweezers. Despite my protestations I'll end up being dragged along on this misadventure and invariably kidnapped.
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