Good-bye! Ha! Made ya look! You know, actually, maybe it’s kind of mean of me to mess with you like that. You being those who find my blog more or less these days by searching for things like ’shrinking girl’ and ‘girl fucking boy’ and ‘what should a girl do after a miscarriage (Honey, I am so, so sorry you are going through a that) and those of you who maybe are checking to see if I’ve posted SOMETHING (thanks for checking in Junebee and Rich). I guess we don’t know each other like we used to
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Shana-na-na…Na-na-na-na…Hey, Hey, Hey…
March 8th, 2008 — blog, irobot
Catba
March 8th, 2008 — blog, irobot
This week we were woken up to one of the cats knocking BBK’s highchair tray off the dinning room table. I don’t know how they did it but let me tell you that you don’t want to be woken out of a dead sleep with a bang like that. I wish someone would invent a “Roomba-like” device that just followed around cats and shot them with water whenever they jumped on the dinning room table or kitchen counter when you go to bed at night. It would also shoot cats whenever they fought or just “meow’d” o
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Nintendo Wii to hackers: ‘Go Play!’
March 8th, 2008 — blog, irobot
p2pnet news view | Games:- The Nintendo Wii is an astonishing computer, the console for people who don’t play games, nestling next to the TV like a family pet and encouraging those who would normally sneer at a PlayStation to wave their arms around in order to play virtual tennis. The Wii remote has a lot to do with its success, of course. This motion detecting wireless handheld controller gives players a far more direct sense of engagement with the game than the buttons, pads and triggers
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"Couleur Sur l’Object" Graffiti Robot Turns Vandalism All-Electronic [Graffiti]
March 8th, 2008 — blog, irobot
“Couleur Sur l’Object” Graffiti Robot Turns Vandalism All-Electronic Designer Stefan Rechsteiner has come up with the Couleur sur l’Objet concept as a modern way of applying “urban art” to walls in hard-to-reach places. Equipped with a can of spray paint, the little tyke would be like a badly-behaved roomba with a vacuum-suction mod to keep it in place. With its accompanying design software, you could presumaby use to it create large-scale murals on walls that would previously have required som
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Modesto Bee profiles Japan’s Robotics Industry
March 8th, 2008 — blog, irobot
For all of Japan’s investment in robots, they still don’t have a commercial product to match iRobot’s Roomba, the Modesto Bee reports. Tags: iRobot, robot
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