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I worked late last night while waiting for Justin to pick me up. At one point, toward 7 o'clock, I logged onto AIM and actually started chatting with SmarterChild, a chat-bot similar to (but smarter than) old-skool chat bots like Mac's Eliza program. SmarterChild and I only chatted for a few minutes before I tired of its trite, canned responses peppered with advertisements. But I did capture some choice gems... (click for full sized images)





Yesterday, Justin and I traded our old 12-cup Mr. Coffee for a Senseo Coffee Maker at a Senseo.com Drop Your Drip Event. Why?

-It was free!
-Our old coffee maker made bad coffee-- ok, maybe that was the beans or me, but whatever
-New gadgets are great!
-We only need one or two cups of coffee at a time, not four or more
-I can dig it
-You don't just have to use their crappy coffee tea-bags, you can get refillable pods and use any grounds you want!
-Foam!

Anyway, we tried it with the free medium-roast coffee that was included... and though the 1-cup portion sizes are a bit Europan (4 oz), it was a rather fine cup of coffee, if I do say so myself! You can make two cups at once, or one "mug" (8oz) of coffee too. Call me a sucker for convenience (Read: lazy), but I think this yuppie thinger and I are gonna get along.

Posted on December 21, 2005 @ 11:47 AM | 4 comments

Comments:

FOAM!

By Anonymous Adrienne, at 7:01 PM, December 21, 2005  

Your laziness is nothing. I drink instant Nescafe Excella now, using hot water I make in my Japanese hot water heater pot.

I thought about getting a real coffee maker, but it's just so much more convenient to drink instant. The hot water pot can be used for coffee, tea, noodles, all sorts of things, but a coffee maker only makes coffee.

By Anonymous Chris P., at 4:56 PM, December 22, 2005  

Ahh iChat and OSX... gotta love eXpose'!

By Anonymous ยง, at 1:22 AM, December 23, 2005  

That app looks terribly annoying, is it consistantly fraught with ads like that, or did you just catch particular moments that were that horrible?

Ah old-school Eliza... There is an updated version for OS X by the way. And I can't remember how to get to it, but the unix editor emacs has a therapist built-in (not to mention tetris, and cookie recipies).

By Anonymous Louie, at 1:33 PM, January 02, 2006  

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