It’s a gray and drizzly day here in the SLC, and just about everyone I passed during my lunchtime constitutional looked as if they needed a good laugh. If you do, too, might I suggest John Scalzi’s General Notes on the Care and Feeding of Clones? It seems that having a clone of yourself is not the panacea you might think, since the clone won’t be any more good for anything than you yourself.

Note #10 pretty much sums it all up:

10. Eventually your clone will get the idea of cloning itself. You might think it’s a bad idea at first — everyone knows that a clone of clone is like a second generation photocopy, and it becomes slightly more smudged, and then next thing you know you’ve got a drooling idjit that looks like a mashup between you and the late Marty Feldman — but on the other hand, by the time your clone gets this idea, you’ll have realized that all your clone is good for is sitting on the couch and mocking you while it eats your food and tries to trick your wife into having sex with it. Doesn’t your clone deserve to be similarly afflicted? Sure it does. Be warned, however: Your clone’s clone will still want to sleep with your wife. They’re just that way.