{"id":105,"date":"2007-08-25T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4gi.wtf\/wp\/?p=105"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:17:25","slug":"automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m typing this:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have a load of clothes being washed in my washing machine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another load of clothes is being dried in an automated dryer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A load of dirty dishes is being washed and dried in my automatic dishwasher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My lunch is being automatically heated to a perfect serving temperature by a combination microwave\/convection oven.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far, so good, but that&#8217;s all 20th century technology. While I waste time on my computer, I also have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roomba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roomba robotic vacuum<\/a> cleaning the floors in my living room, entryway, and hall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scooba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scooba<\/a> robot scrubbing and drying my kitchen floor (this is especially exciting to me, as I <em>hate<\/em> mopping floors and Scooba does a better job, and more often, than I <em>ever<\/em> would)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be folding laundry soon, but that seems a small price to pay after having my clothes, floors, and dishes done. There isn&#8217;t a robot to wash <em>me<\/em> yet, but I was able to shower while my clothes and dishes got washed because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deltafaucet.com\/wps\/portal\/deltacom\/BathFeatures\/BathSafety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smart faucets<\/a> that keep my shower and bath water at a constant temperature even when the clothes washer and dishwasher are making sudden, unpredictable changes in hot and cold water demand.<\/p>\n<p>Life is good.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <span class=\"twikiNewLink\">Ron<\/span>\u00a0&#8211; 25 Aug 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;m typing this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}