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Price of groceries has gone up … apparently – scam!

So im reading the news today and i see this article

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2343327/Weekly-shop-has-turned-scary

Now i’ve heard a lot about this ‘groceries bill going up’ shit for some time, and i have yet to see it. How the hell can that lady spend so friggen much a week on groceries? are they living on bloody caviar?

I have fed my family of 6 on about $150 per week for many many years, this includes with 2 teenagers and 2 adults. We have plenty of fruit and vegetables and meat. What we DONT have is plenty of junk food, stupid fizzy drinks (other than thrifty we use in the soda stream machine) etc.

We dont eat that far different a diet. Even on a really bad week i will only ever spend maybe $250, and thats with a bunch of extra garbage as in for a birthday party or something.

Now my oldest son has left home (hes 17), our bill has stayed the same, however often leftovers from dinner are used for lunch at work for both myself and husband.

So what in gods name is this lady spending her money on?

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The @OfficeChair that twitters your farts!

It seems somebody REALLY wanted to invent something that twitters … everything! but without having to actually do so!

Twitter is supposed to happen in that space between Flickr posts and Facebook updates, in the space when life actually happens. Well, in the space of time “when life actually happens,” life actually happens. It is neither pretty nor ugly. It is just life. If Twitter is supposed to be a document of life as it happens, then it should really document life, indiscriminately, as it happens without interference. If it fails to do this, then life then becomes the space between “tweets” (Twitter posts).

Therefore, it is of the utmost importance, to be able to update Twitter with life events without actually interfering with the event themselves. The documentation of life, henceforth, needs to be automated.

That said, I decided the first part of life that needed to be documented was my daily flatulence at work. I am not going to lie, I am a gassy individual. Since my flatulence is a part of life, it would be fraudulent of me to document life as it happens without documenting these occurrences.

In keeping with the process of non-interference in daily activity, I have created an office chair to both detect and Twitter my flatulence without having to bother me to update it myself.

You can find the Instructable for his twittering fart chair here

You can follow his farting progress here

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Tweenbots – human dependent robots

Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.

Surprisingly they actually do pretty well, and the video is well worth watching if you have a couple minutes!

http://www.tweenbots.com/