We brought home a new member of the household today. We are the proud owners of a new Roomba.
Matt proclaimed that we were now doomed and, hey! isn't that piece a rocket launcher? Flaming shards of plastic will fly, don't say I didn't warn you!
Glenn welcomes our new robot overlords.
Erin sings "Don't Fear the Roomba" but keeps yelling "More Cowbell!!"
Oatmeal watched from the couch, Yogurt was nowhere to be found and Pumpkin stalked it for a while but eventually found it too annoying and left. Glenn took some digital photos of Pumpkin and the Roomba but says they didn't come out very well. I think we need to give the Roomba a real name.
Roomba explored the room, it hasn't 'learned' all of it yet, that will take some time and the initial charge wore out before it had learned much. The funniest thing was how Matt would stand somewhere and the dang thing would come right at him. It's almost as if it could 'sense his fear' ::snicker::
There is also a 'Roomba Translator' page on the iRobot site. Of all the things they've done to market this product, that's a really clever one.
In PA news, Bonnie Gibson has a book through Publish America and posted a press release saying she doesn't want anyone to buy it. That PA would put an author in such a position is mind boggling. Bonnie also has a bookstore and she carried many PA books and as such did more for those PA authors than their "publisher" ever did.
Speaking of bookstores and books...If I had a way to put up some sidebars on this site I think I'd have a list of books I just finished, the book I'm reading now and books I've got in the stack to read. Since I don't know how to do that I'll just mention here that I've been reading through the Eve Dallas series by J. D. Robb. I'm currently reading Holiday in Death. There is a growing stack of SF magazines to read and the new book by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, Time's Eye.
I also wish I could put tons of links on my site - working on that!
Posted by Dawno at May 7, 2005 09:38 PMHello!!
I am dropping on by, whilest listening to the rain.
Obscure color note---I like the green! I am getting into this pale pale color "kick". I'll need to look into a Roomba, it might help me in my sad quest for cleanliness, which I so often lose.
That's exactly why we got the Roomba! Thank you for reading and posting a comment.
Posted by: Dawno at May 8, 2005 08:49 AM