Stephen King, the Mangler, in Night Shift<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 6:00 PM Daniel Dern <<a href="mailto:dern@pair.com">dern@pair.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 10 Dec 2018, Tom Henderson wrote:<br>
> "Last year we came to CES with a mockup of FoldiMate, the robotic laundry <br>
> folder that quickly folds your laundry into neat piles so you can easily <br>
> put them away. This year, we’d love for you to bring your laundry to the <br>
> show … FoldiMate is bringing a fully functioning prototype!<br>
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Semper ubi sub ubi! (But don't leave a copy of A Wrinkle In Time in your <br>
laundry, or, no doubt, your stuff will end up on Mars or Narnia or <br>
whatever.<br>
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> I wish I could write a SciFi story about the laundry folder gone wrong, <br>
> how some Moldbanians were able to hack it, connecting to the NE USA <br>
> power grid, hijacking it, only to be thwarted by The Dress That Could <br>
> Not Be Folded, which caused it to kernel dump.<br>
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It's another near-future tech murder mystery waiting to happen.<br>
<br>
Or was that David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself ?:-)<br>
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DPD<br>
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