Mon 27 Mar 2006
Monkey versus robot
Posted by Misha under Technology
…and, on a much lighter note, a video that finally reveals what all of post-Enlightenment culture has been leading up to, had we but known it: a combination Roomba/animatronic chimp ape.
As my coworker Josh put it, this makes you want to run out and buy both of them, together.

March 28th, 2006 at 9:51 am
That is the most nightmarish thing I’ve ever seen. Ever. Truly.
That beats the animatronic Santa in a Mexican movie that I saw filtered through MST3K. And that one was hard to beat.
March 28th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
See, and my entire office watched it in awe and fascination! This is why I had to leave academia. *g*
March 28th, 2006 at 10:20 pm
If I weren’t so emotionally scarred, I’d probably be pendantically correcting you on the fact that it’s a damned, dirty ape.