Drabble by Kevin Fagan for July 20, 2021

…..see if it would hum a few bars.

Now that Scooter is on the scene Wally will have to up his game to get any fallen chips and crumbs. I see clouds on the horizon.

As long as it doesn’t start talking and saying phrases like “come with me if you want to live” I think it’ll be okay.;-D

It’s the only thing that’ll listen to Ralph.

I like the name Scooter, well chosen!!!

We named our robot vacuum Rosie, after the Jetson’s maid.

Ours is called Max, and I gave him googly eyes and angry eyebrows….

When you set up the app it asks you to name it. People with more than one story (it can’t climb stairs) or big houses or maybe 2 residences may have more than one & there needs to be some way to tell which one you are programming.

Let’s put this guy in a straight jacket and be done with it.

I would have thought that since today is July 20th, that they would have a flag of the moon instead of the sun…

Of course she’s mad. She was going to name it!

LOL

“Sonny? You named the robot Sonny?” (Susan Calvin in the movie “I Robot”)

This is a wonderful movie based on Isaac Asimov’s book “The Caves of Steel” Prophetic and scary.

Roomba requires a name to register an “i” series robot in the app.

Call it what you will. Just don’t dress it like some people dress their pets….

Animism is an innate primitive religion in which you believe there is life in everything, which is why we love our favorite possessions. We are all practicing Animists at least to some extent.

Ours is called Jeeves.

Maybe they should introduce it to Tortimor over at Breaking Cat News: https://www.gocomics.com/breaking-cat-news/2021/06/03