{"id":80,"date":"2008-11-21T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T02:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2010-01-06T10:08:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T01:08:45","slug":"technology-is-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedojo.com\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Technology is working"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of babes and packing crates<\/strong><\/p>\n

A lot has been going on the last month.\u00a0 We’ve just moved into a new place and successfully ejected another small human.\u00a0 (Yep, another boy…!)<\/p>\n

This condo is state of the art – from the kitchen, you can tell the bathtub to fill itself up at a specified height and temperature and it will call you<\/strong> in Japanese when it’s ready.\u00a0 It’s very star-trek.<\/p>\n

Because the manuals are in Japanese I mostly just guess at what the various control panels do.\u00a0\u00a0 A wrong button push can summon firetrucks so I should probably stop doing that.<\/p>\n

I found the bathroom “burning hot mist<\/strong>” button by mistake.\u00a0 Do we really need a burning hot mist button is the question.<\/p>\n

What’s with the obligatory “minus ion<\/a>” feature that every Japanese piece of hardware from the air conditioner to the hair dryer just has to have?\u00a0 Marketing genius I guess, because is sure isn’t science.<\/p>\n

Virtual Grandma<\/strong><\/p>\n

Living in Japan can be tough on grandparents.. but Skype to the rescue!<\/p>\n

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Cosmo reads a book with Grandma.\u00a0 5000 miles ain’t nothing.<\/p>\n

iPhone + Google’s Voice Search = WIN
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This morning I was laying in bed listening to Skeptoid<\/a>, one of my favorite podcasts.\u00a0 I thought “You know, my mom learned how to snope-checks her spams, I’d bet she’d dig the Skeptoid book too.”<\/p>\n

I brought up google voice<\/a> search and spoke ‘Amazon Skeptoid book<\/strong>‘ and a few seconds later I had securely ordered it and had it happily on its way to her address.\u00a0 From bed.<\/p>\n

It’s a good time to be alive, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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