Quote of the Day

"[The Ampbot] has a real presence in the home by allowing interaction with the owner. The owner can also enjoy being chased around the house by the robot."

- Osamu Takeuchi of Sega Toys introducing the dancing, music-playing Ampbot, pitching his product to the tech/horror market.

I was silly

And I bought a sticker book.

Sticker technology has vastly improved since I was eight. We had "sticker albums" which were supposed to let you unpeel and stick stickers (so you could trade them) but half the time, the stickers ripped the glossy coating and the underpaper right off. These new books appear to actually let you easily remove and re-stick the stickers, and they look almost like normal paper.

Of course I tested it with one of the lame scarab stickers, not one of the good ones. It's something of a shame that I was still chewing crayons* in 1981, because Harrison Ford was hot then. I never did the movie star/pop singer poster-on-the-wall thing, but might have been tempted to if I had been 14 when Raiders came out.

*Mom had to explain to me that "non-toxic" did not mean "edible."