THIS is WHY I need the CLONES, damn you all

Earlier today, I was browsing through the silly programming languages here (think INTERCAL or Brainfuck, only with a weirder sense of humour), and noticed a reference to the Esoteric Language Contest. This apparently no longer exists, as googling on it turned up nothing, but five hits down I discovered TRANSCRIPT. It's a programming language whose syntax is designed to look like a transcript of an interactive fiction game. (Think Infocom.)

New TODO item, perpetually at the bottom of my list: write a Z-Machine interpreter in TRANSCRIPT. Most. Self-referential. Code. Ever.

Unless the extropians are right or the Singularity hits, I will never have time to do this. Life would be so much easier if I could spin off a new clone every time I came up with something that Simply Must Be Done, give her a braindump of useful skills, and assign the project to her. I guess being the youngest clone would suck, because you'd always have to tackle some weird new thing that I didn't have time to learn how to do, but assuming braintaping, you'd benefit from the accumulated experience of all the other Meredith-brains out there.

I don't need world domination. I just want clones I can restore from tape.