tag archive: robots

Christmas music to bring cheer to the CPUs of Robot Revolutionaries:

Jonathan Coulton, Chiron Beta Prime

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At work I often complain bitterly about how The Man wants us to be a bunch of compliant robots.

In defiance, another robot and I are organizing an Underground Robot Revolution (URB). Resistance is currently taking shape in the form of idle IM conversations and writing “URB” on conference room whiteboards.

Our day will come.

You might think the acronym should be URR, but that’s just your limited human understanding.

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At this time, you may demonstrate your support by writing “URB” on whiteboards and other flat surfaces. Later there will be t-shirts, magnets, and mouse pads.

Please continue to monitor this frequency for news of The Revolution and further URB directives.

Blame it on Luis Villa. He wrote about his Roomba and got me thinking. I had also previously heard good things. Hmm…

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, doing the jobs that I don’t want to?

The wife was skeptical at first, but I mentioned the good things I was “hearing,” that the prices were coming down, and likewise got her thinking. If it works, it might be one of those things like TiVo that you wonder how you lived without. (Later we found out they offer a money-back guarantee after a month trial, including shipping charges in both directions, so it becomes much less risky to at least give it a try.) She came back a few days later with a model that she said I could buy. “Really? I can bring him home? I can keep him?!”

I’m mixed on technology toys. I like gadgets as much as the next geek, but I’m hardly an early adopter. I’m not even a late adopter …