They were right. It’s got that TiVo-like vibe.
After less than one day with my Roomba, I’m hooked. Yesterday was fun letting it run around and terrorize the dog, but this morning was it’s first real test — letting it work the way it’s supposed to.
After six or seven times rescuing it from getting stuck at the top stair, I finally left it alone and went to take my shower and do a little morning work. Eventually, the noise (rather annoying, actually) stopped and I came downstairs to rescue it from the step again… only to discover that it had finished vaccuuming the living room, dining room, bathroom and bedroom and returned to it’s little home to recharge. My entire first floor is vaccuumed, with fun random tracks everywhere that signal a freshly cleaned carpet.
And this time, Diego ignored it. Roomba is sitting quietly in it’s little charger on one side of the room, Diego is sitting quietly in his basket on the other. Detente with a clean carpet.
I wonder when they’ll start selling a robot to clean kitchen counters, pick up clothes from the bedroom floor, and tidy up my office?
I’ve contintued to sit on my hands and hope for Mac to say something–after all, her blog even is titled “Pesky Apostrophe”–but with three examples in a single post, the fingernails-on-a-chalkboard feeling I’ve gotten has finally just gotten too painful to ignore:
The possessive for it is its. The first and third time it’s appears in your entry, it’s used correctly in the form of its contraction, but the other times it’s not supposed to be it’s, but its. Whew… I feel almost like I’m in an Abbott and Costello routine.
Of course I would go and mistype continued and repeated gotten twice in the same sentence. I really should just keep sitting on my hands and restrain my pedantic impulses.
Yes, you should.
The its/it’s conundrum has dogged me my entire life. IT’S just the major grammar boo boo that my brain has never come to terms with. Perhaps ITS just too tired of trying to figure out whether commas come inside quotes or outside them.
I wonder when they’ll start selling a robot to clean kitchen counters, pick up clothes from the bedroom floor, and tidy up my office?
You mean you haven’t heard… check out the prototype at-
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