Monday, July 20, 2009

Teaching Mysoftme how to eat


Teaching Mysoftme how to eat proved itself to be much more complicated than I had anticipated. First Mysoftme argued that it didn’t want to have anything and that personalized dolls don’t need any food. I tried to tell him he would have more energy and could do more things and that got him a little bit more interested. Unfortunately eating with silverware is not as simple as you would think. And our first attempts are just not working out. My rag doll is getting very frustrated and I’m not sure if it wouldn’t be better to move to chopsticks or a spoon. Having it eat with his hands really does not seem like a good idea. I’d never anticipated that this could be a problem. Of course the rag doll is right saying it doesn’t really need to eat but I still think it would be a cool skill for it to learn.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Immortality and personalized dolls

Me and Mysoftme, my personalized rag doll, were off for a vacation. It’s so much fun to be together enjoying the water and the sun, we had a great time we relaxed went for walks and even encountered a giant jellyfish. It made me think about an amazing immortal creature the Turritopsis nutricula, an animal related to jellyfish and corals, that is capable of rejuvenating itself. Mini me dolls can’t perhaps bring Immortality but don’t really age and do make a special personal long lasting gift.