Month: October 2007

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ralphie the roomba?


according to this ap story people are becoming to their roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner. to quote the story:

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 vacuums, and suggests there’s a measure of public readiness to accept robots in the house — even flawed ones.

my favorite part is not that some people are dressing their roombas, rather it is that some owners actually pre-clean their houses before releasing their roomba within the room, so as to keep their little, robotic, vacuum cleaning companion from having to work too hard.

if you would like to see more costumes you can find them at my room bud.

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parents

my parents will be up here in wisconsin tomorrow. they are staying with us for a week and we have all types of fun planned for them:

  • their going to help me replace a couple of swag lights with more modern light fixtures.
  • their going to help move a piano
  • we’re taking them to the stevens point polish festival – where there will be polka bands and chainsaw artists – oh yeah.
    we’re taking them to nekoosa giant pumpkin festival

we’re most excited pretty excited about lambeau field and the pumpkin festival. lambeau field is … well … lambeau field and that’s just plain cool. the giant pumpkin festival is cool because it involves cleaning out 1,000 pound pumpkins and using them as boats for a race.

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rollie thurston

baton rouge friends – i don’t have all the details yet but apprently an old firned of some of our passed away. some of the older “viewers” will remember rollie thurston who was a part of us and drummed at “the view.” jessica lawrence sent me an email today saying that rollie had been killed in a motorcycle accident in virginia. some of you met rollie a few months before i left baton rouge when he came to “the view” for a few weeks before going to the navy. rollie is a good guy and i love him very much.

i don’t have the thurston’s address yet (i’m at a conference right now) but if you want to contact the thurstons and express anything to them you should be able to find their address in the denham springs directory or you can email me and i should be able to send it to you tomorrow or the next day. please be in prayer for his family.