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Here’s a work folder that some of you might find useful on those slow days.
Several plants that give Ace nightmares.
Days of Future Passed:
Interestingly, it is the housewife cleaning, and not the waterproof house that seems impossible.
You mean I’m NOT supposed to be using a hose to clean the living room?
I always wished I had a kitchen like they do in (new) restaurants. After you scrub, you basically hose the whole thing down. It’s awesome.
That ‘Tales of Future Past’ site is great.
I was a little sorry at the turn of the millennium that we didn’t have the flying cars, the moving sidewalks, the commuter service to outer space, and the people zipping around in jetpacks, that had been foretold. The internet was a big consolation, though. That, plus clapping your light on and off.
Congrats Daddyblogger.
I’m so tired of wading through Libby Spencer’s bullshit there.
I especially like the drain. Think of the wonderful odors. Mmmmm.
It really pissies me off that some futurist somewhere got paid to think this crap up.
Maybe I can make a buck doing the samething?
The housewife of 2500 will use amplified beta waves to re-create her house.
There. Now, do I wait for a check to arrive from some institute somewhere?
I always wished I had a kitchen like they do in (new) restaurants. After you scrub, you basically hose the whole thing down. It’s awesome.
Nah. What I want is a kitchen with water-tight doors. Close the doors, check the soap dispenser, and hit the “normal” cycle. If you play your cards right and put the dishes in racks on the counter, you don’t even need a dishwasher.
Which brings up another idea: anyone else with kids ever yearn for a tub drain with a built-in garbage disposal?
“Which brings up another idea: anyone else with kids ever yearn for a tub drain with a built-in garbage disposal”
Condidering that a snake of my son’s bathtub just pulled out a lego man from about 2000, I think that’s a fine idea. As long as the blades dispatch with lego men.
I love that the housewife of the future is still wearing a frilly apron and a 50’s hairdo.
I remember visiting Disneyland early on (early 60’s) where they had “the house of the future” … ah! here. I thought it was pretty cool.
TheGeezer, You are going to get so many newsletter requests.
That sure beats most of those robot-apocalypse futures bandied about so depressively.
What is hilarious is that I am wearing that apron. Seriously.
It’s a real one though, vintage. Picked it up at a tag sale.
TheGeezer – Right now the money seems to be in robot-apocalyses.
SarahW
COOL! My mom has a few of my grandma’s aprons tucked away. One particular “decorative one”, for Christmas, green netting, green ribbon sash, with little bells and ornaments attached with tiny bows, is my favorite. Happy memories of grandma bustling about with that one on.
Darleen, I am nostalgic for the days when the future was something to really, really look forward to. House of the future now is made of wattle and daub and stray robot parts.
…or you could just get your dishes fresh from the matter compiler, and throw them in the decompiler when you’re done with them. Of course, if you dial up orange Fiesta ware, you’re going to have to pay extra for the uranium, but you should get a full refund, minus operating cost, when you decompile it.
Happy memories of grandma bustling about with that one on.
The festive ones are like little time-capsules of family optimism I found a little stash of my mother’s, it was like a Proust-ian madeleine moment.
YAY. Remember when America was strong enough for radioactive plates?
America was never strong enough for radioactive fallout, sadly, even though it might have thought it was.
Not to underplay the risk of radiation, or it’s potential contribution to the cancer deaths of western stars and movie crews, but Wayne was a heavy, heavy smoker, too. I wonder what the risk multiplier on that would be.
Dan,
Thinking of the days of future passed got me to wondering what will become of our children’s children’s children. It is, I believe, more a question of balance than being truly on the threshhold of a dream. But, since every good boy deserves favour, I will quietly watch and wait while I breathe deep the gathering gloom. So I will go now, like a knight in white satin, in search of the lost chord. I hope that this, my seventh sojourn, will not be my last.
See? Saw!
You and your bloody muse.
It’s for free!
My muse? She is here.
That’s your muse? I must be doing it wrong.
Free, yes, but it seems likely to be a long distance voyage.
Or a long distance runaround, anyway.
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