It’s probably a sign that people’s lifestyles have become overly hectic and busy, when convenience reaches the produce in the grocery store. That or people have just become really lazy.
There are all kinds of convenience foods in the store already. Frozen foods you just stick in the microwave for a near instant meal and canned stuff you pop open for an instant snack or meal. Cookies, chips, pop and all sorts of other crap to stuff in our faces.
Now you can find convenience in the produce section. Containers full of pre-sliced fruits perfect for snacking on. And then came the veggies. If you’re too lazy to slice your own onions or tomatoes, no problem! They come pre-sliced now! Just go to the store and pick some up. Carrots too! They come sliced or in sticks.
I expect pre-digested food will be next. Oh, wait, they have that already! It’s called baby food.
Go go gadget Roomba!
After unpacking our little Roomba and letting it juice up for a few hours, it’s scurrying around vacuuming up stuff. The first thing it did was a spiral pattern to do it’s room check, then after moving around a while, promptly got stuck under our couch. Not Roomba’s fault though. Our couch is old and has raggedy fabric hanging down and it got tangled up in that. After extricating it, we set it back on it’s merry way.
It’s not going to get deep into the carpet and suck out ground in dirt though but it actually works remarkably well at picking up surface stuff. And it’s very agile too. It was able to get itself out of a few tight corners in our apartment. And it has this funny Cartman waddle as it runs along a wall. It’s kind of funny to watch I think.
We spent a good part of the evening just watching it run around, bumping into things and seeing where it would go next.
Now I’m wondering if I should give it a name or something.
Another season winding down
It’s finally coming to an end. This year’s hurricane season winds down at the end of the month, and thankfully the last couple of months was blissfully quiet and uneventful. Gaston, which was the only significant storm to affect us this year, got upgraded to a hurricane. Time to pack away the hurricane kit for another 6 months.
Bye bye old vacuum, hello Roomba!
We decided to get a Roomba. Went for the Discovery model after checking it out in the store and reading a few reviews. Hopefully it lives up to the some of the rave reviews I’ve seen about them online. There’s a lot of carpet in this place and it’ll be interesting watching this thing wander around doing the vacuuming for me. And it’ll go under the bed too.
While I’m at it, I need to remember these sites:
Roomba Community Forum.
Roomba guts
You know you’re a geek when…
You know you’re a nuclear medicine geek when you look at the tail lights of one of the newer Honda Civic Coupes and see horizontal long axis slices from a cardiac scan.