At Mike Lietz's mention of the OLF session on using Linux with robots, I let slip the fact that I dislike robots. Really, I hadn't thought about it much before that very moment, but the more I consider it, the more I hold it to be true.
I have fond memories of robots as a child. My 2-XL robot was one of my prized possessions. But 2-XL wasn't a robot. He was an 8-track player in the shape of a robot. And this is where my journey into robot bait-and-switch starts.
Of course, after 2-XL was Voltron. Who didn't love Voltron? Robot lions that together formed Voltron, defender of the universe. Sure, Voltron was as real a robot as a cartoon robot can get. And looking through all of the robots I've loved as a kid, I'm starting to notice a trend....
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I've had so much to say over the past two weeks, and no desire at all to write about any of it. It seems like I should do a dictation or something, and have my secretary write out my blog posts for me. Perhaps I will look into a service soon -- I've always thought that my blog entries would sound better if I read them instead of writing them. In any case, here's a brief summary of topics of things that I should have written about but didn't.
I got a shave two weeks ago - a real one in a barber's chair with a straight razor. I actually did write about this, but I wasn't near the internet when I did it, and I'm not sure where my notebook is at the moment. I'm sure that post will appear when I finally stumble across the notebook bag.
On that same day, I attended the PhillyCHI design slam. It was an interesting event in which we were broken up into small random groups and given the task to create a "table management system" for a fictional restaurant. Our group didn't do very well primarily because there was no cohesion between our members. We had some pretty good ideas, but they weren't realized because everyone wanted to go separate directions. Kind of stupid, really....
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