Another Long Island Ice Tea, Dave?

December 13, 2005 12:16 AM

The Lazy Drinker — a first step towards a glorious dystopia of drink serving droids. Salut!
Beware: frames & Comic Sans ahoy!
posted by elphTeq (12 comments total)

Sponsored by the drinking addiction association of asshattery.

Drink : you can't pay us enough !
posted by elpapacito at 1:47 AM on December 13, 2005

Wow, now I can print out a new liver with one application while ruining my old one with another!! Best..news..evar.
posted by hypersloth at 2:09 AM on December 13, 2005

Wow.
That's some html wizardry going on right there...

Annoying how they don't actually ever tell you what the damn thing does. You have to figure it out from the context.
If it's a joke, it's not funny or well done.
posted by slimepuppy at 2:17 AM on December 13, 2005

actually there are videos of the machine in action, as well as how-to's on building yer own..
posted by hypersloth at 2:19 AM on December 13, 2005

Sucky website design....
posted by Meccabilly at 2:55 AM on December 13, 2005

[scene: aboard Jaba's sail barge]
C3P0: Oh, I'm terribly sor... R2! What are you doing here?
R2 beeps a quick reply.
C3P0: Well, I can see you're serving drinks!

One of my favorite Star Wars moments.
posted by Who_Am_I at 4:19 AM on December 13, 2005

*sheesh* tough crowd, I thought it was a neat geek lesiure mod, myself. imminent demise of metafilter grumble grumble damn mefite hatah wah wah brigade etc etc
posted by elphTeq at 4:36 AM on December 13, 2005

Wow, that's pretty cool (...if not slightly scarey for those with an addictive personaility!)
posted by Onanist at 4:47 AM on December 13, 2005

i think it is just super! of course i wouldn't get much use out of it, i tend to drink my whiskey straight. but cool idea anyway.
posted by nola at 5:38 AM on December 13, 2005

See also: Robot Bartender
posted by bashos_frog at 7:28 AM on December 13, 2005

dystopia of drink serving droids.

What would be a dystopia about having droids who serves cocktails? I'd call that a utopia.
posted by dios at 7:30 AM on December 13, 2005

Great title for the post!

The first version I saw of this concept was The Bar Monkey, which was made by a few engineering students at Harvey Mudd College several years ago.

I had a friend there at the time and visited relatively frequently, so I heard about all about it; to avoid selling alcohol without a license, the authorized users were supposed to pay in bottles of alcohol rather than with money.... I thought it was a clever idea and a nice practical engineering project....
posted by JMOZ at 8:07 AM on December 13, 2005