Brandon was like a massage Ninja. Smooth moves, silent, but he left an indelible impression.<\/p>\n
I hadn’t had a massage in a long time. I only had this one because I wanted Tom to get one. I’m too cheap with myself.<\/a><\/p>\n Oooooh it was\u00a0great. Oil with lavender. No pounding, but my muscles melted. Limp rag afterwards.<\/p>\n When we got home, we were so relaxed that we took an hour and half nap.<\/p>\n For our evening entertainment, we watched “Ex Machina<\/a>.” The plot revolves around a mad scientist type who makes an artificial intelligence machine that\u00a0presents itself as a woman.<\/p>\n Smooth moves, silent, and left a definite impression on the male visitor.<\/p>\n I kept thinking about my massage.<\/p>\n Call me a technophobe – you’d be wrong – but no mechanical being will ever\u00a0give a massage like Brandon.<\/p>\n We can\u00a0develop robots that work for us,\u00a0and that have nice synthetic skin and pleasant voices. I’m OK with that – especially if they bring me a latte in bed.<\/p>\n But there is nothing like muscle against muscle, and never will be.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2000, the year that Honda introduced the ASIMO humanoid robot.<\/a>\u00a0ASIMO stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brandon was like a massage Ninja. Smooth moves, silent, but he left an indelible impression. I hadn’t had a massage in a long time. I only had this one because I wanted Tom to get one. I’m too cheap with myself. Oooooh it was\u00a0great. Oil with lavender. No pounding, but my muscles melted. Limp rag … read more Massage ex Machina<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[84,987,988,989,990],"class_list":["post-8147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shelter","tag-84","tag-human","tag-massage","tag-robot","tag-touch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8158,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8147\/revisions\/8158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}