One from the file

(The store's still there but the sign is gone.)

Who’s the fairest of them all, Alexa? Also, flush.

Kohler brings Alexa and connectivity to your bathroom - CNET

Almost all of Kohler's new products work with Amazon, Apple and Google's voice assistants. Its new Verdera vanity mirror has an dual microphone-equipped Alexa speaker built right into it. You can also use a voice command to set the water temperature in Kohler's DTV shower system or the temperature and fill level in its PerfectFill bathtub. You can even use your voice to flush the high-end Numi toilet. 

And when the toilet starts talking back to you, then what?

https://goo.gl/TrpA2r

 Courtesy of Sam Guy. 

Triumphing over the travails of modernity

 I fixed my glasses this morning by twisting a tiny, invisible screw with a tiny invisible screwdriver I almost forgot I had. (It’s really hard to see. Especially without glasses.)

Fortunately, this screwdriver had a magnifying glass  on the other end. So you could use the screwdriver while looking through the magnifying glass, but you would be pretty unlikely to see what you were doing in that position.

We can put man on the moon, people keep telling me, but we can’t keep the lenses from falling out of our glasses.

Sad.

Michele Bachmann mulls bid for Al Franken's Senate seat - NY Daily News

Maybe a little groping now and then is not such a bad thing after all.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/michele-bachmann-mulls-bid-al-franken-senate-seat-article-1.3734445

Mother Nature's ice machine

Niagara Falls is coated in ice — and absolutely jaw-dropping - The Washington Post

https://goo.gl/Rh9yvm