next up: revolutions

so hmc got us one of those roomba robot vacuums for xmas, and it finally made it up here so i could try it out at home. it’s pretty cool. once you charge it up (12 hours!), you put it in the middle of the room, choose a room size, and off it goes. it helps to clear out all the clutter, and it really doesn’t like things like power cords (especially thick ones attached to industrial strength power strips) and loose paper, but it does a good job of systematically going around the room and cleaning up. is it better than if you had done it with a regular vacuum? no. is it better than if you didn’t vacuum at all? much. plus, you can just turn it on and go away and let it do its job. it really does a great job of going under the bed or sofas or whatever, places where it’s a pain for you to do it. and plus, the key thing is that i’m no doing it. the robot is.

next step: rosie, and then skynet, and then the matrix. ah well, live it up until then!