Buffy ,'The Killer In Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
The perceived inconvenience is way bigger than the actual inconvenience for me, so I don't really know why I hate it so much.
OMG absolutely. An hour after I've finally stopped bitching and procrastinating, and I have a ton of clean clothes, and I can't remember why I hate doing laundry so much.
See, I grew up having to hang laundry on the line (first 15 years, anyway.) No dryer. Weekends spent hanging, taking down, hanging new wet stuff (when it was dry, by the time you got to the last row, the first was often dry), the occasional duststorm or closepin failure or mulberry-eating grackle shit necessitating rewashing everything, and then when it rained and you ended up triple hanging all the loads and then still rain and having to bundle it all up and go to the nearest laundromat with the rest of the city's population and scratchy, scratch towels (very hard water) and ants and the stupid russian thistles and bees in the clothesline pipes and OH MY GOD I LOVE DRYERS!
My laundry gets done but sits around, unfolded, in baskets. Which I should not do. But I am unmotivated to fix the problem.
I napped four hours in the middle fo the day. This may have screwed my sleep cycle.
Roombas fill an emotional vacuum for owners
ATLANTA - They give them nicknames, worry when they signal for help and sometimes even treat them like a trusted pet.
A new study shows how deeply some Roomba owners become attached to the robotic vacuum and suggests there's a measure of public readiness to accept robots in the house — even flawed ones.
"They're more willing to work with a robot that does have issues because they really, really like it," said Beki Grinter, an associate professor at Georgia Tech's College of Computing. "It sort of begins to address more concerns: If we can design things that are somewhat emotionally engaging, it doesn't have to be as reliable."
Grinter decided to study the devices after she saw online pictures of people dressing up their Roombas, the disc-shaped, self-directed vacuums made by Burlington, Mass-based iRobot Corp.
"This sort of notion that someone would dress a vacuum cleaner seemed strange," she said. "A lot more was going on."
I think my new goal in life is to be somewhat emotionally engaging....
I don't know WTF is up with Tuesday at 9, but last week my DVR decided not to tape House, and this week it dissed Eureka. Luckily, I can catch Eureka at midnight, but STILL.
Well, my dad refers to their roomba recharging as "nursing" but I think that's less emotional engagement and more amused-fucking-with-imagery.
Growing up we had a lady that lived in back who did our laundry. These days she lives offsite, but my parents and sister don't have to wash their own clothes.
Me, I got first world problems.
And a headache, and am on the way to ER #2 with a surly cabbie.
I fold laundry but it only gets put away when it really , really, bugs me.
clothes - generally, i vaguely think about it the night before, but I sometimes have to change my mind in the am do to an inability to locate something. If i have to be in early, or it matters due to something like big bosses, I pull stuff together the night before.
And a headache, and am on the way to ER #2 with a surly cabbie.
Bah. Did you get the name of the good cabbie?
Oh no! Grevious insult to Nilly on House: "Seventeen's a stupid number."