Are you too lazy to move your precious self to the window for opening or closing the blinds? Hey, I really can’t understand those guys who just want automation all over the place: electric blinds at all windows, electric garage door, remote controlled vacuum cleaners… and the list could go on. Good that they don’t want robots as kids. To all my friends who spend big money on automatic household items: guys, you’re playing with your life. I’ve heard this story of somebody who thought to install electric blinds in his bathroom, wired the whole thing by himself, made a nice hole in the wall and mounted a switch. Too bad he places the switch inside the bathroom.

The story goes on in a sad way, I’m not going into details, but all I can say is that he’s still alive, after a long while spent in hospitals. I think it would have been easier to just have a simple curtain at his bathroom window and a long cord to operate it from the bathtub by simply pulling it.