<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Androids-Ffm on Gromet's Plaza Archive</title><link>/tags/androids-ffm/</link><description>Recent content in Androids-Ffm on Gromet's Plaza Archive</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/tags/androids-ffm/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Programming Error</title><link>/stories/2007/11/18/programming-error/</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>/stories/2007/11/18/programming-error/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;It was the worst storm of the past fifty years. Howling winds and pouring rain pounded southern California for two days. Late on the second day, a Saturday, lightning struck several power substations, causing massive power surges that blacked out hundreds of buildings and pretty much fried many computer systems without sufficient surge protection. One of those systems belonged to Serendipity, Inc, California’s largest producer of sexual androids.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While not totally destroyed, Serendipity’s computer did lose large blocks of data due to the surge. When power was restored late on Sunday, the computer rebooted and began trying to piece together what remained of it’s data stores. Most seriously damaged was the file of human sexual preferences, from which the specs for new androids were developed. Originally containing almost every possible sexual preference, only one now remained:&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>