Long ago in the late 1970s, in the dawn of in-home console gaming platforms, Mattel released a device called “Intellivision.” One of my friends worked while in college at the Mattel plant in the City of Industry. Mattel manufactured Barbie dolls and small injection-molded figures and other toys there. (The site is now an Amazon fulfillment warehouse.) As an industrial engineer, one of his assignments was to set up a manufacturing line for Intellivision consoles: circuit board component placement (human hands), wave solder, assembly, packaging and pack out. He was supplied with a “golden unit” to benchmark his line’s expected output. After the line was running, the benchmark unit came home with him.
The Intellivision he got had a few different games, one of which was called “Word Fun,” where two players would guide monkeys on the screen with their controller. As letters would appear you’d scramble your monkey to retrieve the letter if it would help you assemble a word. You could also dump a letter into a waste bin if it was useless, or steal it and then bin it if it might help your opponent assemble the word he was working on.
Naughty Monkey! (youtu.be/0Q4kJdGK-v8?t=35)
My long-running fascination with words and the tactics in their assembly is perhaps due in some small part to this “near adult yet not quite there yet” experience.
Thus, it was with great fascination that I read an opinion by a fellow Saugus resident (Jim Crowley, Aug. 26), and thereby updated it utilizing a “mRNA style CRISPR-Cas9” cut and paste on the DNA of his text.
Substituting the gene locations “USA” for his “California,” “Trump” for his “Gov. Gavin Newsom,” and “Jim Crowley” for “Sen. Suzette Martinez Valladares,” resulted in a successful and vigorous replicant. The replicant demonstrates the same claim Mr. Crowley’s original chromosomal message for oligarchy existing, except the replicant’s genetically determined external attributes now manifest for the claim at the federal level.
I can’t tell if Mr. Crowley is a partisan or a wise guy. His text seemed partisan, but it was way too easy to synthetically evolve, to be able to easily re-engineer the genetics of his expressed thoughts. It was more Word Fun 40-some years later.
Here is the CRISPR-Cas9 result:
“I thought we had a democratic republic representative government in USA where the people hold power through voted representatives. With USA’s one-party political system, we have morphed into an oligarchy government. Trump and his clan are promoting everything that destroys claims of a transparent, accountable government. He is loading the government with people who only represent him. If he wants your opinion he will give it to you.
“If gerrymandering takes place it destroys true elections. The results become known before the ink dries on the ballot. And this is true for any other state that practices gerrymandering.
“More power to Jim Crowley for bringing the situation out in the open.”
Christopher Lucero
Saugus
