bob & bill's big bike adventure

Truthfully, I didn't know where to post this, since it's both a Brushhead Bob post and a Nomadologistic post. So here it is, on both.

Anyhow, Bob and USB Bill came along for the ride from Berkeley to Livermore for Thanksgiving day yesterday, helping to make sure that human companion burned off enough calories to sustain the feast in the evening. Much of their journey was chronicled in photos, all the way from the hills of Berkeley and Tilden Park, to the backroads of Orinda and Walnut Creek, to the East Bay hills south of Mt. Diablo, to the exhausted victory nap on the driveway of mom and dad's house.

Click on the map below to go to the album of photos. Enjoy!

p.s. Yes, Bob's doing OK.

does bob need a battery?

Whoah. Whoah. It has been a LONG time since Bob has written a blog post. And Human Companion has been rather busy too. Not to say that Bob hasn't made any appearances recently.

More on that soon. In the meantime, *we* thought it'd be good to share this little gem of an insight about wind-up tin toy robots from Japan in the 1950s and 1960s. Apparently they were the first to put batteries in robots. And do it cheap. Who would have thought? And who ever says that earth-shattering innovations don't happen in Japan??