The smart appliances also connect to the internet to run diagnostics and to figure out when the best time to do laundry is.
Somebody out there wants you to design websites, board dogs, run errands, write blot posts, do laundry, deliver packages, be a virtual assistant.
Rather than fight this "iTax" with a flash mob version of the Boston Tea Party, Web users should see the proposal for what it is: another sign that the Web is all grown up now and needs to stop coming back to its parents' house to do laundry.
Yes, you can always pay someone to do your laundry, to clean your house, to do all of those things that salary.com has defined as the roles of a mother.
I'll do some laundry and call home to check in with my family.
But do the football players need to do more laundry, need more discretionary travel money, and need better accommodations than their volleyball sisters?
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Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- For college students, winter break is a time for vegging out and relying on mom and dad to do the laundry.
And those hotels still do their laundry the old-fashioned way.
His vision: A few years from now humanoid robots--remotely controlled by joystick jockeys at call centers in low-wage countries like China--will prepare your lunch, take out the garbage, do the laundry.
Figuring out how to do the laundry, cook a basic meal or even wait for a handyman "are not crippling responsibilities" but rather "minor life skills" that can prove useful if the housekeeper cancels.
They never have to fly coach, ride the subway or do their own laundry.
Because a consumer would be able to see when electricity prices are cheapest, he could decide that, say, 10 a.m. is the best time to do a load of laundry.
That is, if you do at least 392 loads of laundry a year, live in one of 18 states where electricity costs are at or above the national average of 7.8 cents a kilowatt-hour and if your opportunity cost--the return you'd get by investing in something other than a more expensive washer--is 6% or less.
After getting the kids off to school this morning, I headed into the office where I worked a full day before returning home to make dinner, do dishes and a few loads of laundry.
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Do as Vancouverites do: pack a locally-produced picnic (do not forget the lotuses and Dirty Laundry), negotiate space on a boat, and claim a prime viewing spot on the glassy waters of English Bay to ensure your Vancouver city summer - however languid - goes off with a bang.
But whatever the outcome, at that moment Tuesday night, the focused energy of this president at this stage of his presidency reverberated through the rafters of the Capitol and suggested that this long speech was not a laundry list but a to-do list, an agenda for change offered up by a confident and empowered advocate.
When I was done, the mesh bag functioned as a laundry sack, and all I had to do was leave the items in the room.
They do not cover things such as parking permits, transportation, laundry, food, course fees for select classes, and the like.
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Peek, backed by seed funding from SV Angel, Khosla Ventures, Jack Dorsey and Eric Schmidt, launched in October with a feature called Perfect Days, where celebrities such as Tory Burch, Piers Morgan and French Laundry Chef Timothy Hollingsworth, could suggest favorite things to do in a city.
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