Baby bot

My sister got me this little robot called a Tekno-Dinkie. If you go here you can see the Girl Bot (on the bottom left), which is the one I have. It's almost like having a baby around -- she wants attention all the time, and if I don't take care of her, she catches a "virus" and starts to cry.



They have this thing on the website called the Dinkie video conference, where you can put her near your computer speakers and she pretends to communicate (in robo-babble) with other Dinkie robots on the screen. Earlier I was listening to some Add N to X, and she seemed to think it was robots trying to talk to her. She kept making weird little robot sounds, almost as if she were singing along. But she's kind of loud, so after a while I had to mute her. Does that make me a bad robo-mom?



I'm dressed in your old soda bottles.

In other gifty news, I now am the proud owner of a Patagonia Synchilla Vest. It's the softest, warmest thing ever, and it's made out of recycled plastic bottles. I have the aquamarine one. It makes me feel very futuristic, because I like to think in the future we will all live smarter, more sustainable lives. Here's another link where Patagonia talks about recycled fleece.