Comments on: Twits and giggles

Twits and giggles

Burhanistan — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:23:53 -0800

Tweet your movements. - The cycle is complete. [via]

By: Atom Eyes

Atom Eyes — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:32:35 -0800

Here I sit, feeling cheated Paid a dime and only tweeted

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:33:17 -0800

Now all it needs is a webcam, and it would be perfect.

By: JohnFredra

JohnFredra — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:34:45 -0800

i'm a twitter shitter! [sfw]

By: cavalier

cavalier — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:36:30 -0800

TWITTER SHI... aw, missed it.

By: mudpuppie

mudpuppie — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:36:45 -0800

NO.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:38:40 -0800

What mudpuppie said.

By: MuffinMan

MuffinMan — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:40:52 -0800

Or don't. Reconcile yourself to the idea that a private life is sometimes best enjoyed privately.

By: Joe Beese

Joe Beese — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:41:30 -0800

Brenda Watson will be all over this.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:41:58 -0800

A tweeting toilet would actually be very interesting from a water usage monitoring point of view. Similar to tweet-a-watt.

By: adipocere

adipocere — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:43:58 -0800

I would like to use Twitter to continue the destruction of Second Life by creating celebrity avatars which will constantly jet off giant blocks of text consisting solely of their associated tweets while they amble about the landscape in a semi-random walk. The textbook example should be Tweet Reznor, a monochrome gnome who will spurt out bits of stuff about the death of the RIAA. Maybe driving around in a Volvo of Despair. Because I want both senses of "grief" to collide, damn your eyes!

By: steef

steef — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:49:39 -0800

Water go down the hole!

By: Nanukthedog

Nanukthedog — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:52:50 -0800

I'm thinking they might be on to something, but it only indicates the frequency of flushes... he'd need to do some sort of bioscan to indicate who actually flushed it... and I'm talking biometric scan here... not a biomass scan... otherwise my toilet would refer to me as Captain Corninstein...

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:54:17 -0800

he'd need to do some sort of bioscan to indicate who actually flushed it Yes, this is just a baby step on the road to INDEXING EVERYTHING.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:20 -0800

It's the circle, the circle of poo. Also I'm embarassed to admit I though Tom Jenning's 1994 toiletcam was real.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:01:06 -0800

We are one step closer to the Borges Limit.

By: nola

nola — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:35 -0800

Here I sit all broken hearted tried to shit but only farted.

By: Sargas

Sargas — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:05:57 -0800

DU, don't they already have a device call a water meter that performs this very function. Granted it monitors the entire house or apartment, but if you want to break it down how much water is used by the toilet then you just need to look on the toilet for the water usage per flush. All of that is just me being biased against twitter, my actual concern is what guests in my house will think of my robot toilet.

By: crapmatic

crapmatic — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:10:03 -0800

I can't even begin to imagine the Twitter market potential of this thing. All it needs is some buttons where people can set their mood and a webcam to OCR what bathroom material they're reading.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:11:54 -0800

crapmatic! ^

By: DU

DU — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:12:03 -0800

As you note, existing water meters don't track individual water using devices. They also aren't electronic, which makes the data gathering kinda hard. If every electrical outlet (or better yet, device) reported to my Home Server continuously, I could easily identify why my bill is so high, where I could cut my energy use, if the company that sold it to me was lying about the greenness and when/if it started malfunctioning. If all my water using devices could do the same, I could do all the same stuff with my water usage. HURF DURF THAT USES POWER TOO aside, I don't see what's wrong with bringing water and power usage under conscious control.

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:24:08 -0800

Monday - Nothing Tuesday - Nothing Wednesday - Good one, some blood

By: Sargas

Sargas — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:55 -0800

I agree nothing wrong with monitoring it. What I would like to see ideally is a small wireless device that would in the case of monitoring water usage have a battery that is recharged by the movement of the water. I think something like that that would be cheap enough and relatively easy to install would a large enough market to be profitable while at the same time getting people to conserve water. Now if you'll excuse me I'm off to the patent office.

By: gman

gman — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:33:49 -0800

Monday - Nothing Tuesday - Nothing Wednesday - Good one, some blood doctor_negative, my ass.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:38:58 -0800

This is when the Bristol Stool Scale would be particularly useful. You could abbreviate it to 2:x, where x = your poo type:

* Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass) * Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy * Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface * Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft * Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily) * Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool * Type 7: Entirely liquid

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:46:34 -0800

Here I sit with pains unspoken Tried to tweet, but the handle's broken

By: Marisa Stole the Precious Thing

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:52:50 -0800

Favorited for the title.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:53:27 -0800

The textbook example should be Tweet Reznor, a monochrome gnome who will spurt out bits of stuff about the death of the RIAA. The "real" Mr. Reznor (it's probably him, but who knows for sure?) already does this on Twitter, with great alacrity.

By: MuffinMan

MuffinMan — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:53:41 -0800

Shits and googles?

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Tue, 19 May 2009 10:58:57 -0800

A tweeting toilet would actually be very interesting from a water usage monitoring point of view. No it wouldn't. Frequency of toilet usage (and flushing) is inelastic. The only possible change in flushing is simply not flushing every use - and you don't need a tweeting toilet to come up with that solution. What needs to be managed is the amount of water used per flush. I'm gonna sound old here (I've looked at twitter.com exactly once) but what in holy fuck is up with networked toilets. Jesus Christ. Seriously.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:01:17 -0800

Here I sit, a stinking mess, had to tweet, so I wiped less.

By: kingbenny

kingbenny — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:02:50 -0800

Came to poop, not to chat Tried to tweet, but mostly shat.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:05:12 -0800

And you all laughed when I invented Fwapper!

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:08:19 -0800

Cannot shake this pesky cling-on, I shall tweet for help in Klingon.

By: jivadravya

jivadravya — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:17:29 -0800

Finally, a use for Twitter I can get behind! no pun intended?

By: killdevil

killdevil — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:24:09 -0800

Suffers from the same problem that besets every message sent to Twitter: sender assumes people actually want to read about this shit.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:27:19 -0800

at least i'm not a lisp machine heh

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:36:05 -0800

This post is #1 ... or #2. I can't decide. Maybe both.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:38:03 -0800

This is when the Bristol Stool Scale would be particularly useful. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that Wikipedia has a Feces category, but I'm still not exactly happy with the idea.

By: total warfare frown

total warfare frown — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:45:16 -0800

+ WIZnet ethernet module Snerk. + mercury switch

Riggs: You don't get it Rog, this is real pro stuff. I haven't seen anything like this since the war. The CIA used to hire mercs, they used the exact same setup: mercury switches, kaflooey! That's heavy shit.

Given the franchise's history with toilets, I'd have thought the inventor would avoid anything Lethal Weapon-related.

By: DU

DU — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:58:21 -0800

Frequency of toilet usage (and flushing) is inelastic. Spoken like a guy without any toilet-training kids at his house. The only possible change in flushing is simply not flushing every use - and you don't need a tweeting toilet to come up with that solution. But how do you know if the toilet is even the thing to optimize unless you've measured things? Solutions are things you come up with in response to known problems. Without data, where are the known problems? And what if the toilet is running every so often and therefore secretly wasting water? I've actually had this.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:06:00 -0800

And what if the toilet is running every so often and therefore secretly wasting water? Or, what if you have this outlier?

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Tue, 19 May 2009 12:31:14 -0800

Crap post. Get it??

By: acro

acro — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:19:54 -0800

Of course, that's what the seashells are for.

By: grubi

grubi — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:28:09 -0800

twits & googles

By: CynicalKnight

CynicalKnight — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:31:19 -0800

that's what the seashells are for referenced

By: notashroom

notashroom — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:36:58 -0800

This is what is meant by "slippery slope."

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:44:42 -0800

I'm huge on twitter has a whole new meaning now.

By: futureisunwritten

futureisunwritten — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:50:26 -0800

I barely have enough time to scrub the damn thing!

By: jimmythefish

jimmythefish — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:08:04 -0800

Frequency of toilet usage (and flushing) is inelastic. Spoken like a guy without any toilet-training kids at his house. Oh, so you're going to tell your kids not to use the toilet as much in order to conserve water? Is that it? The only possible change in flushing is simply not flushing every use - and you don't need a tweeting toilet to come up with that solution. But how do you know if the toilet is even the thing to optimize unless you've measured things? Solutions are things you come up with in response to known problems. Without data, where are the known problems? And what if the toilet is running every so often and therefore secretly wasting water? I've actually had this. It's easy to do a self-test, or to notice this if you're around every once in a while. Or, to call a plumber and get routine maintenance done. This is far less time-consuming and far more efficient than, oh, say, connecting it to a fucking social networking site.

By: jstubblefield

jstubblefield — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:08:59 -0800

Funny, but this kind of technology must have tons of applications.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:01:51 -0800

Now all it needs is a webcam, and it would be perfect. Especially if it automatically uploaded a copy of the product, accompanied by a picture of the producer, to ratemypoo.com