Unless you are one of two people (One being myself, the other being half my reader base) you may not know why this little spot is named "Robots Can Joust." After all, reader #2, as we both well know, Robots can do a great many things; they can clean, they can explode, they can create music; my grandfather wears a robot that hears things for him. (Depending on what you consider to be a robot, you may have just called me a liar. In that case, I point you to the "Snakes Can Run" post and to a future post which you do not yet know the title of.)
So why did I pay particular attention to Robots ability to Joust? Why attention to Robots at all? After all, though it may be possible, I've never seen a jousting robot, and however interesting robots may be, there are plenty of interesting things. Why didn't I name this "Bottlecaps can roll if you push them the right way?"
Though there is a specific story that led to the name we see now, allow me to start of the explanation with some reasoning I came up with long after the fact. Robots are the creation of humans. There are no bee-robots (That we know of), and robots can only be made thanks to the research and knowledge of many people. Jousting is impressive, flashy, and kind of pointless. Robots that joust represent the combination of our most impressive achievements as a race, and our very strange talent of absurdity.
The actual story is much simpler. Reader #1 and I will one day make a film, featuring Dragons, and Robots, and jousting battles between Robots and Dragons. But Robots and Dragons have Jousting battles just sounds so silly as a title, doesn't it?
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