{"id":2882,"date":"2005-05-26T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T18:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/26\/2882.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:04","slug":"kewl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/05\/26\/kewl\/","title":{"rendered":"Kewl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Your Humble Blogger happened to spot an ad recently for a washer and dryer from LG<\/a>, you know, the company that makes the refrigerator with the television on the front. The cool thing about these, though? A remote monitor. That’s right, you can sit in the living room and check to see if the laundry is done. Oh, yeah. That’s labor-saving.\n

And, you know, there isn’t any particular aspect of this that is breakthrough. Many (most?) new machines have their status information displayed electronically, not just on the dial that goes around; they essentially ‘know’ when they are done. It’s not that hard to hook that up to a reader in another room, or that you clip to your belt. I mean, it might be hard to do it cheaply, but somehow I don’t think LG is worried about that. It might be depressing that Your Humble Blogger will never own a washing machine that cool, but it’s still cool that they make ’em.\n

No, the depressing part was that my reaction was that if they can do that, it should be easy enough to put the status on-line so you could check it over the internet. “Why?” asked my Best Reader. So, I explained, if you are, um, if you don’t, I mean if you are away from the, oh, never mind. So you can check from the office to see if I’m doing the laundry? I mean, just possibly, I could see a moment when I put the laundry in, go out poolside, and bask until I get the IM that it’s time for the dryer. Yeah, right.\n

Well, reaching here, I suggested that a laundromat might put the status of its machines on-line, and when you drop off the laundry, you note the number and go sit in the Why Fie coffeehouse, and occasionally check to see if your clothes are ready for the dryer. Of course, it would cost a little more, I figured. “Why not just have them do the laundry?” Because, um, because there’s a status thing involved, right? I mean, having somebody do your laundry is like hiring a servant, but having your dryer IM you is like, um, something cooler than that, right?\n

So, given that you can’t put your laundry in the machine remotely, or move it from the washer to the dryer, or sort it, or anything like that, is there any way in which having the info on-line is better than having a remote monitor? I get having the heater and AC on-line, with controls and all, so you can cool the place down or heat it up before you get home, and I get having your television recorder connected, so you can decide at noon to record a show at one, so surely there must be a coolness factor here I’m missing, right?\n

chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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