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Jun. 27th, 2010
Dalek Suck
Jun. 27th, 2010 05:29 pmI'm stealing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
copperbadge's brilliant name for his roomba for my own - I've had the thing for about a month and only now have I found the time to charge it and set it up!
Because the house is in an O setup, what started in the newly-cleared library has tootled happily into the new pantry (it likes it there; it keeps going back), around the kitchen, across the living room, and almost threw itself down the basement stairs until I closed the door. It hasn't quite finished any room (except the pantry).
Also on the down side, little whisking brush aside, there's only so much a round object can do about corners. And it turns out that its solution to dealing with a lot of cat hair is to every now and then cough up a hairball. (Seriously. It just leaves this big clump behind.)
On the plus side, it's easy to pick up said clump and dump it. Also, it's really quiet. So quiet I can barely hear it in another room; I think I've found a way I can clean while M's asleep.
Bottom line, I don't think it's a way of getting out of never having to vacuum again, but it's going to be a pretty darn decent way of giving a regular lick and a promise to the floors every other day or so, and that does mean a lot less vacuuming I have to do. So that's a big plus - big enough that I'm wondering if Dalek Suck needs a brother to help cover all this territory.
As for the cats, Kaylee's gone high and given it the evil eye; Mickey stared from a short distance until it came at her, and the others have gone into hiding except for Mulder, who is watching closely and even dared touch it.
Oh lord, it's doing something obscene to the chain saw...
copperbadge's brilliant name for his roomba for my own - I've had the thing for about a month and only now have I found the time to charge it and set it up!Because the house is in an O setup, what started in the newly-cleared library has tootled happily into the new pantry (it likes it there; it keeps going back), around the kitchen, across the living room, and almost threw itself down the basement stairs until I closed the door. It hasn't quite finished any room (except the pantry).
Also on the down side, little whisking brush aside, there's only so much a round object can do about corners. And it turns out that its solution to dealing with a lot of cat hair is to every now and then cough up a hairball. (Seriously. It just leaves this big clump behind.)
On the plus side, it's easy to pick up said clump and dump it. Also, it's really quiet. So quiet I can barely hear it in another room; I think I've found a way I can clean while M's asleep.
Bottom line, I don't think it's a way of getting out of never having to vacuum again, but it's going to be a pretty darn decent way of giving a regular lick and a promise to the floors every other day or so, and that does mean a lot less vacuuming I have to do. So that's a big plus - big enough that I'm wondering if Dalek Suck needs a brother to help cover all this territory.
As for the cats, Kaylee's gone high and given it the evil eye; Mickey stared from a short distance until it came at her, and the others have gone into hiding except for Mulder, who is watching closely and even dared touch it.
Oh lord, it's doing something obscene to the chain saw...
USF Twofer
Jun. 27th, 2010 07:35 pmI've got two reviews up on Unreality SF tonight:
The Roof of the World
The Roof of the World - no relation to the 1964 Marco Polo story with William Hartnell - fails the most basic of storytelling problems.
Medicinal Purposes
At release time, Sir Leslie Phillips was the most commercially famous name attached to the project, but if anyone at Big Finish had a crystal ball back in 2004, they wouldn't have given David Tennant bottom billing.
The Roof of the World
The Roof of the World - no relation to the 1964 Marco Polo story with William Hartnell - fails the most basic of storytelling problems.
Medicinal Purposes
At release time, Sir Leslie Phillips was the most commercially famous name attached to the project, but if anyone at Big Finish had a crystal ball back in 2004, they wouldn't have given David Tennant bottom billing.