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65 year old woman beats a mountain lion with a log
meanwhile... I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS (did i say overlords? i meant protectors[*])
so, cz_unit had been raving about his various household robots. and then woot had a sale on the irobot dirt dog. (it's not actually a vacuum, but a sweeper designed for basements and garages and such. and one task that i never quite manage to stay ahead of is fighting insect and dust entropy in the basement.) so i ordered it and it arrived and i tried tossing it in the bathroom and it picked up a remarkable amount of cat litter and dust, so i was impressed. i've been letting it have its way with parts of the basement, figuring out what it can and can't pick up or work around. sawdust and small concrete chips are no problem. bigger woodchips can be a problem, if they're the right size to get wedged in the brushes. and it just works around larger pieces. all in all, i'm liking it.
and then i ordered the scooba-with-roomba package for my parents because they had heard good things about the scooba, and another for myself. they've got their scooba and roomba and it's rocking their world. i have my scooba, but apparently the roomba is backordered.
so i can't speak for the roomba, personally, but holy crap, the scooba is awesome. i hate mopping. it's one of those household tasks i really would rather outsource. this thing makes it trivial to do -- pick up large stuff (the odd pencil, cat dishes, etc), fill the "clean" tank, set it down, push "go", and then come back in an hour or so and the floor is way clean. rinsing out the dirty tank and pulling the brushes off to clean them afterwards is pretty trivial.
i fired up the scooba the other morning and let it do it's thing while i puttered around and showered and got ready for work. no problem.
the tile floor of the bathroom is cleaner now than it has been, i think, since i moved in here. possibly before that. for some reason, presumably a function of how long and narrow the bathroom is, the scooba left a border of scary fluid it failed to vacuum back up after scrubbing, but i just dropped a couple of towels on the floor and used my feet to stomp around and that dealt with that.
the cats are kind of terrified, but they make half the mess, so fuck 'em. i expect they'll be even more freaked out about the roomba when it arrives as it'll chase them under the couch. otoh, i've been afraid to see what kind of hairy dust-buffalos have accumulated under the futon couch thanks to cat hair and clauclauclaudia hair.
so, yeah, robots good. yay robots!
[*] context: j. coulton's "merry christmas from chiron beta prime"
65 year old woman beats a mountain lion with a log
meanwhile... I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS (did i say overlords? i meant protectors[*])
so, cz_unit had been raving about his various household robots. and then woot had a sale on the irobot dirt dog. (it's not actually a vacuum, but a sweeper designed for basements and garages and such. and one task that i never quite manage to stay ahead of is fighting insect and dust entropy in the basement.) so i ordered it and it arrived and i tried tossing it in the bathroom and it picked up a remarkable amount of cat litter and dust, so i was impressed. i've been letting it have its way with parts of the basement, figuring out what it can and can't pick up or work around. sawdust and small concrete chips are no problem. bigger woodchips can be a problem, if they're the right size to get wedged in the brushes. and it just works around larger pieces. all in all, i'm liking it.
and then i ordered the scooba-with-roomba package for my parents because they had heard good things about the scooba, and another for myself. they've got their scooba and roomba and it's rocking their world. i have my scooba, but apparently the roomba is backordered.
so i can't speak for the roomba, personally, but holy crap, the scooba is awesome. i hate mopping. it's one of those household tasks i really would rather outsource. this thing makes it trivial to do -- pick up large stuff (the odd pencil, cat dishes, etc), fill the "clean" tank, set it down, push "go", and then come back in an hour or so and the floor is way clean. rinsing out the dirty tank and pulling the brushes off to clean them afterwards is pretty trivial.
i fired up the scooba the other morning and let it do it's thing while i puttered around and showered and got ready for work. no problem.
the tile floor of the bathroom is cleaner now than it has been, i think, since i moved in here. possibly before that. for some reason, presumably a function of how long and narrow the bathroom is, the scooba left a border of scary fluid it failed to vacuum back up after scrubbing, but i just dropped a couple of towels on the floor and used my feet to stomp around and that dealt with that.
the cats are kind of terrified, but they make half the mess, so fuck 'em. i expect they'll be even more freaked out about the roomba when it arrives as it'll chase them under the couch. otoh, i've been afraid to see what kind of hairy dust-buffalos have accumulated under the futon couch thanks to cat hair and clauclauclaudia hair.
so, yeah, robots good. yay robots!
[*] context: j. coulton's "merry christmas from chiron beta prime"
