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"Robot Home Improvement", or Taking the commercialization of AI, VR Metaverse, and Self Driving to its logical conclusion as a homeowner.

Of course I asked an AI to generate an image of its own AI future

A friend who does not approve of Boston Dynamics' robots recently posted a video (at the bottom of this post too) of their bipedal robot Atlas working at a "construction site," to a Facebook group we're in. Partly to troll him, but also because I think this isn't outside the realm of possibility in my lifetime, I replied with the following vignette:

Robot Home Improvement

I look forward to the day when I can text HomeDepotGPT and tell it what I need to be done at my house, it tells me how much it will cost, scans my face, and confirms the transaction.

HomeDepotAtlas then hops in HomeDepotSelfDrivingTruck, heads to my house, wirelessly unlocks my front door, and gets to work.

When done, the HomeDepotRoombaSwarm cleans up any mess.

All the while, or after the fact, I can put on my MetaHeadset and watch from the POV of any of the HomeDepotMicroDroneSwarm octocopters hovering around the job site at my house.

HomeDepotAtlas leaves an ABInbevLocalCraftBeer in my fridge so that when I get home I can crack open a cold one and marvel at the work I just accomplished.

What a time to be alive!

Sprint 2 Retrospective: It turns out my "sprint themes" are perpendicular to my sprints

Chalk this retrospective learning up to "I sort of kind of knew this might be the case, but wanted to try something different anyway." When I started planning the approach for my 26 Sprints in 2023, I wanted to focus on a theme per sprint. That immediately became

Emerald Isle (Belize City, Belize C.A.) docked east of Great Shiplock Park, Richmond, VA - January 2003

Google Maps shows this property today as "Dock Street - Capital Region Land Conservancy" and the dock appears to be well-maintained twenty years later in 2023 still.

Photo walk: Dock Street, Tobacco Row, Bascule Bridge. Richmond, VA. January 2003. A snowy but sunny day.

Richmond, VA was blanketed by snow in January 2003. Here are some pictures I took while walking around the Dock Street / Tobacco Row area on a sunny day, January 17, 2003 (20 years ago today).

Robot Home Improvement

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