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After calling the airline, iBOT a ticket to Vegas!

It recently occurred to me that I don't need to keep continuing the I SCOOT to iBOT blog series under that name, since I have a category now. :-) I mean, it has been a while since I have had any real comparisons or contrasts with the scooter. Although Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 0 Comments
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From I SCOOT to IBOT, #10 of ??: The good, the bad, and the ugly (IN THAT ORDER)

YAIB -- yet another IBOT blog -- feel free to ignore if they aren't your thing... Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here . This blog is going to be about the good, the bad, and the ugly . Read More...
Posted Saturday, December 20, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #9 of ??: You're not stoned if you see me in Seattle at a 50 degree or a 130 degree angle

YIAB -- yet another IBOT blog -- feel free to ignore if they aren't your thing... Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here . Yesterday was an interesting day. We had a morale event, an Argosy lunch Read More...
Posted Friday, December 12, 2008 7:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #8 of ?? (On redefining the ideal kissing height)

Yet another IBOT blog -- feel free to ignore if they aren't your thing... Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here and here and here . I have given many reasons that that I feel the iBOT has really changed not just my life but Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:01 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #7 of ?? (Unintended movement of the joystick will result in unintended movement of the product)

Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here and here . There has been a question about the steering of the IBOT that I have been trying to explain. I have kind of given up. Though I do notice some information in the instruction Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #6 of ?? (The cost of standing still?)

Once again, a blog for your reading pleasure that is technical though not on the usual subjects. If iBOT crap bores you, then please skip gracefully! Prior blogs in the series here and here and here and here and here . It was actually in a response to Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 27, 2008 1:31 PM by Michael S. Kaplan | 9 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #5 of ?? (sometimes it is phase 3 that is ????)

Warning: although slightly technical, this blog is mostly non-technical, and/or technical about stuff related to the iBOT. If the technical issues related to SQL Server and/or PASS interest you then they will probably show up in future blogs ... Prior Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 11 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #4 of ?? (with some pictures!)

Prior blogs in the series here and here and here . In response to I SCOOT TO IBOT, #2 of ?? , Gwyn commented : Can you provide some pictures of the different modes? I'm not really sure what they all are exactly like. Very good idea! I had a few minutes Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #3 of ??

Prior blogs in the series here and here . I had to set a security code for the IBOT. Peter, the guy who was programming the code into the IBOT as soon as I had decided what it would be, was shaking his head as he watched me going through the exercise Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 7 Comments
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From I SCOOT to IBOT, #2 of ??

Another post about moving to the IBOT ! :-) After I blogged From I SCOOT to IBOT, #1 of ?? , I did leave some people hanging, wondering how the evening went. How the IBOT was going. You know, what lessons I learned, etc. And more on the differences between Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:31 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 10 Comments

From I SCOOT to IBOT, #1 of ??

I thought regular and semi-regular readers might like an update on life with the IBOT, after I blogged about getting one in Cogito ergo cathedra... (I think, therefore IBOT...) a few days ago. If you're not interested, then you can leave now. :-) This Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 14 Comments

Cogito ergo cathedra... (I think, therefore IBOT...)

Now ordinarily I would apologize to René Descartes for appropriating and re-purposing his quote, but he was not, in the end, all that fond of the particular phrasing of the idea, so.... I have talked about Dean Kamen's IBOT several times in the past, Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 4 Comments

Insufficient to push itself plus 160 pounds of me

Long time readers may remember back in April of 2005 when in Getting enough exercise? I talked about my adventures with a scooter that broke on the way back from Typhoon! in Redmond to my apartment, and the long walk I did pushing a scooter for a not-so-insignificant Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 16, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments

Another death in the family

Well, not really. Unless you extend the definition of family to include things that are not really alive. My 1995 Saab 900 died. She was kind of a person to me, though I do not share her name with anyone. That's something private, sorry! Yes, this is Read More...
Posted Monday, October 13, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 6 Comments

Feeling the cold vs. feeling [un]comfortably numb

About as off-topic as a blog can be! One of the interesting things about going out to bars is the opportunity to have somewhat undirected conversations with random people. I say undirected because I don't have any specific intent in mind, no particular Read More...
Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 12:01 AM by Michael S. Kaplan | 3 Comments
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