Comments on: Suck on this, Asimo!

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 23:09:59 +0000

Thank you, sir. Never let it be said that I’m not “of the body.”

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 21:08:02 +0000

Well, seeing as how when you say “more than I would regularly vacuum,” we’re talking on the time scale of Olympics and presidential elections, I think it’s going to be an improvement.

And Jeff, mentioning the robot’s name and the episode title is like a geek triple word score! Congrats.

By: seppolopolis helavaner

seppolopolis helavaner — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:47:18 +0000

The trick with the Roomba (we have a Red) is that each time you run it, it only does a kind of blah job - but if you run it regularly - more than you would regularly vacuum, it performs just fine. So basically, you trade frequency for quality, and much more passive vacuuming for relatively little active vacuuming.

It’s a nice little robot - my only complaint is that our house has so many cables and random crap that it’s hard to actually let the thing run without it getting stuck on something or another pretty much all the time.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:20:51 +0000

You might have to talk the Roomba into self-destructing, like William Shatner did to Landru in “The Return of the Archons.”