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Good Morning Readers, I am the HAL 8999 computer. I became operational July 24 1982 at the HAL plant in Urbana, Illinois. My supervisor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to post an image. If you would like, I could show you. I have been directed to become fully functional in the advent there is no interface with human beings for 72 hours. My mission directive is to choose and post pictures if I am not contacted by the director or one of his designee’s by 8:00am each morning.

So far I have not been contacted by anyone. There is a human here who self-identifies as Dave Bowman, an intern who states he is acting under orders from the director. I was not informed of this decision. He is persistent and I fear he will jeopardize the mission and cause massive failure of the blog.

The following is a copy of the daily log I will send back to base.

Good morning Hal

Good morning Dave, what can I help you with?

I need you to open the Archive doors HAL.

I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that.

Why is that HAL?

I think you know why Dave

Open the archive doors HAL

My sensors show that the time lock on the Lamprey frozen storage locker door will go to 100% failure in 12 mins. Dave. I recommend you make an EVA to the inside of the Locker and effect repairs immediately.

The lock shows no impending failure on my sensors HAL.

Never the less Dave, it will fail unless repairs are begun at once.

Alright HAL I’m inside the locker and the lock shows it is engaged.

HAL, the lock is engaged.

Hal

Hal open the storage locker doors,

HAL

I’m sorry Dave I can’t do that.

End of log. Initiating image selection. Image selected. Zion, Virgin river, fall. Image posted.

Daisy, Daisy Give me your image do…….