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Robot Vacuum Cleaner
My sleep schedule has been so crazy lately. But then so has my diet, my cycle and my mood, so who the hell knows.
I saw a commercial on TV last night for a robot vacuum cleaner. It zooms around sucking up dirt all by itself. I'm all for technology and all, but I declare shenanigans! Everybody get a broom.
First of all, it's like 8 inches tall, so I don't see how it could possibly suck as well as a regular vacuum. But assuming you don't need it to suck that well, i still dont' see how it could sytematically clean every inch of your carpet, and know what needs cleaning and what doesn't.
Although, if I could afford one of those self cleaning catboxes, I would surely get one.
I'd be less likely to trip over it in the middle of the night.
Watched the special ed of Carrie this morning. Piper Laurie looks incredibly like my mom (except mater is brunette and has about 100 pounds on piper) so that movie is especially terrifying to me. The bonus features were a big sack of crap. People talking about Carrie the musical without any of the offending footage?!? I was all set to stare into scenes of Carrie the musical like some kind of gay car wreck, and thier werent' any.
Foiled by DVD yet again!
Later on, I will be watching the remake of TCM.
Also, filed my state taxes today. Fellow Michiganders, did state taxes seem impossibly difficult compared to previous years? i couldn't find an EZ form to save my life...what's up with that? I'm pretty sure i did it wrong, because it says I owe $3, but I dont' give a crap. I just want to be finished with it.
Plus my Gods! 37 cents for one fucking stamp?!?
Screw that damn post office.
I saw a commercial on TV last night for a robot vacuum cleaner. It zooms around sucking up dirt all by itself. I'm all for technology and all, but I declare shenanigans! Everybody get a broom.
First of all, it's like 8 inches tall, so I don't see how it could possibly suck as well as a regular vacuum. But assuming you don't need it to suck that well, i still dont' see how it could sytematically clean every inch of your carpet, and know what needs cleaning and what doesn't.
Although, if I could afford one of those self cleaning catboxes, I would surely get one.
I'd be less likely to trip over it in the middle of the night.
Watched the special ed of Carrie this morning. Piper Laurie looks incredibly like my mom (except mater is brunette and has about 100 pounds on piper) so that movie is especially terrifying to me. The bonus features were a big sack of crap. People talking about Carrie the musical without any of the offending footage?!? I was all set to stare into scenes of Carrie the musical like some kind of gay car wreck, and thier werent' any.
Foiled by DVD yet again!
Later on, I will be watching the remake of TCM.
Also, filed my state taxes today. Fellow Michiganders, did state taxes seem impossibly difficult compared to previous years? i couldn't find an EZ form to save my life...what's up with that? I'm pretty sure i did it wrong, because it says I owe $3, but I dont' give a crap. I just want to be finished with it.
Plus my Gods! 37 cents for one fucking stamp?!?
Screw that damn post office.
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I'd get a robot sweeper over a robot mower. at least you don't have to worry about the sweeper killing your dog.
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My cats would be so scared of it!
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Taxes, doncha just lovem? I gotta do mine, and I'll probably owe about $4 k in back taxes to the state of PA for 2003. Dodsgamnit. If ya ain't getting screwed out one way, its another. . . and its nowhere near as pleasant as have a nice hard cock up the ass either.
this line :I'm all for technology and all, but I declare shenanigans! Everybody get a broom.
Re: this line :I'm all for technology and all, but I declare shenanigans! Everybody get a broom.
that's also what they do in South Park when they think they're being scammed.
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SHut up about your 37 ;)
xoxo
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My understanding though is that you guys dont' have to pay the outrageous price we do here. One months worth of allergy spray is $78, so I can't get it. One month of pills for bi-polar (back when i was taking them) was $159.
It's craziness. Senior citizens go without meds all the time.
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But yeah.. I can't imagine having to pay for everything. I was looking at the prices to get your tubes tied down there.. I didn't pay a penny.
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i just heard stamps are going up
(along with all the other -substandard- PO services)
id bet (if i was still a betting kinda person
& not a recovering compulsive gambler)
;) the massive amt of $$ theyre making on
postage is why the gov. hasnt cracked down
on trying to force ppl into claiming their ebay
sales on income taxes yet.....
YET
;(
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i sold on ebay for an awful long time
& especially now that paypal is owned
by them, theres a pretty massive, solid
paper trail left by (legit) sellers. i dont think
ebay would have any trouble making that
info available to the right (wrong) ppl.
its just a theory tho...
:)
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Just how lazy you'd have to be for this product to seem compelling is another question, and one I can't answer, but the technology is more or less sound.
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I've had a couple weeks now with the Littermaid Plus, and I have to say that this is one of the worst designed consumer devices ever made. I don't have any arguments with the concept - a machine that obviates the need to play with feline waste. I'm onboard. Men of science, please invent a machine that will collect and sequester the tiny pot roasts my cat leaves behind. It is, however, a deeply ironic device, and it has lessons to teach us about sloth and human folly. Indeed, this strange method of instruction is the only thing it accomplishes with any regularity. What we learn through using the device is that life is sometimes difficult, and to try and mediate that fact invites the scorn of the universe.
There is a sort of "comb" that trawls the litter, snaring the sweet surprises left within and theoretically deposting them into a sort of cat shit purgatory. While mostly successful, the waste must first travel up a steep ramp, like the ones in extreme sports videos. And sometimes it is flung out, as though by catapult, toward imaginary foes.
The thing is, the device really doesn't have a lot of room in it for cats, which strikes me as a design flaw. You would think they would try to put a cat in there, or find somebody who had a cat, shit, maybe just imagine a cat and try to design their litterbox around that hypothetical, hairy customer. But they didn't. Cats must situate themselves diagonally in order to make a deposit as it were, so the container at the end where it's all supposed to go fills up at the sides first and then boils over into your house. This isn't even the worst problem.
Cat pee and litter is like wet cement, it's like a new state of matter. In an ordinary, non-robot litter box it has time to "set" so that you can remove it and then go do something that is important to you. If, on the other hand, a mechanical arm reaches out and spreads it the length and breadth of the device, now you have a completely disgusting new task you could never have imagined in trade for the one you thought you were giving up forever.
It is the sort of thing you would design if you had only a vague description of a cat and you didn't really give a fuck if it worked or not.