Automation Isn’t ALWAYS Such A Good Thing
If you have dogs and you have an IRobot Roomba, maybe you should re-think scheduling your Roomba to vacuum the house when you’re not around or are fast asleep.
Why? Let’s just say that sometimes Roomba and dogs don’t coexist terribly well.
(Yes, the choice of category for this article was intentional. [smile])
Category: YGBSM!!
I’m going to have nightmares now over this ??
If it won’t clean the catboxes for me, I’m not buying it.
Well, they do make self-scooping cat boxes. Trouble is, some cats won’t use them. And some designs require use of a special – and rather expensive – litter.
This is why I don’t have a dog…or a vacuum. Well, the wife has a vacuum but I don’t know where it is.
Daniel Bernath is busy drafting a class action lawsuit against the Roomba manufacturer as we speak.
Did it crawl up his ass or did Dallassclown and their blaming the Room a?
Maybe he enjoys the vibration of the vacuum for, uh, other reasons.
(Readers now wondering how it is HMC would know of such stuff. Well, I was once young. About 60 years ago. Give me a break.)
Wife and kids still remember an evening around dusk, enough light to see someone had tracked in leaves from outside, not enough to tell some of those leaves – weren’t. Over 20 years ago and I remember it took most of the evening to clean the entire interior of that vacuum… repeatedly. They, of course, thought it was funny as hell. Yeah…ha freakin’ ha.
EWWWW!
And I have 8 (yup 8) greyhounds, so I used to shoveling shit in Maryland. But this is beyond the Pale.
We fostered greyhounds for several years but had to quit. Why? We kept them. They are so lovable, we couldn’t part with them. So, we kept all of them until they passed of old age, agreeing to never again foster any animal we were not willing to part with. Great mutts.
While the idea of robot overlords taking care of all our needs is somewhat interesting, it’s moments like these where you realize the limitations of technology. AI isn’t all that I at times, but it is always A and that’s an important distinction when considering whether or not a tech investment is worth your time. My Black Lab had to be put down a few years ago, I’ve not been able to stomach a replacement yet but I have two idiotic cats who seem ageless, there’s no way I’d have an automated device operating in the house with those two idiots. There’s no telling what the device would end up doing and those two idiots would make it far worse.
Robot overlords? Are you referring to Cylons, or to the robot overlords that reduced humans to base animals in the Frank Herbert novel ‘Dune’?
I went to see my new doctor for the first time (not an MD, is all I’ll say) and I was invited to use their therapeutic massage chair. Having never used one, I was curious, so I agreed to try it. The lady took me back, put me in the chair, got me comfortable, asked me for specifics on warm or cool settings, light or moderate action, etc. Then she switched it on. That goddam chair came alive and ATTACKED my ass. Things on the side curled around my legs and started undulating. Things under me started writhing. The whole thing began quivering. That woman never made it out of the room, and scream like a girl doesn’t even begin to cover the sound I made. I ordered that woman to come back and let me OUTTA THAT THING!!
So, in summary, let me just say that certain things should not be done by machine. ?
Thank you for the hysterical laughter!
You made an appointment to go back didn’t you. Its ok, we know.
You had me at “undulating”.
So, did you check on how many visits your insurance will pay for? Come on now, let’s hear the rest of the story.
Why do I have a vision of Washington, DC in my head right now?