Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- For college students, winter break is a time for vegging out and relying on mom and dad to do the laundry.
His vision: A few years from now humanoid robots--remotely controlled by joystick jockeys at call centers in low-wage countries like China--will prepare your lunch, take out the garbage, do the laundry.
Figuring out how to do the laundry, cook a basic meal or even wait for a handyman "are not crippling responsibilities" but rather "minor life skills" that can prove useful if the housekeeper cancels.
And those hotels still do their laundry the old-fashioned way.
They never have to fly coach, ride the subway or do their own laundry.
The smart appliances also connect to the internet to run diagnostics and to figure out when the best time to do laundry is.
Do as Vancouverites do: pack a locally-produced picnic (do not forget the lotuses and Dirty Laundry), negotiate space on a boat, and claim a prime viewing spot on the glassy waters of English Bay to ensure your Vancouver city summer - however languid - goes off with a bang.
But do the football players need to do more laundry, need more discretionary travel money, and need better accommodations than their volleyball sisters?
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When I was done, the mesh bag functioned as a laundry sack, and all I had to do was leave the items in the room.
Because a consumer would be able to see when electricity prices are cheapest, he could decide that, say, 10 a.m. is the best time to do a load of laundry.
This, however, is the sort of dirty laundry that you simply do not air in public.
What really amazes me is how people who would not trust the U.S. or European governments to do their laundry, have unconditional faith in Chinese government involvement in its very complex economy.
In his January 2006 State of the Union address, President George Bush presented a laundry list of things his administration would do to help America kick its oil habit.
But whatever the outcome, at that moment Tuesday night, the focused energy of this president at this stage of his presidency reverberated through the rafters of the Capitol and suggested that this long speech was not a laundry list but a to-do list, an agenda for change offered up by a confident and empowered advocate.
Rather than fight this "iTax" with a flash mob version of the Boston Tea Party, Web users should see the proposal for what it is: another sign that the Web is all grown up now and needs to stop coming back to its parents' house to do laundry.
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