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HONDA has been developing a humanoid robot called “Asimo” for the last 9 years (I don’t know what Asimo means). This robot can walk, go up and down stairs, and even run.

See this amzing video.

What’s the use?  Currently, none.  ASIMO is essentially a very expensive (millions of dollars a piece) and yet totally useless toy.  Why are they doing this?

SONY, too, has been developing a robot.  They even sold a robot dog called “AIBO” a few year ago, at more than $2,000 a piece, that is.  Look what AIBO can do.  This “dog” is programed to respond to a shiny ball and music.  They show their “emotions” by flashing lights and by wagging the tail.  Weird.

At least, however, I must admit that these companies are thinking out of the box.  Maybe that’s what today’s florists need in oder to survive and grow: i.e., think out of the box and not afraid of looking crazy.

We are experiencing a heavy snow-freezing rain today (Mar 16th, Fri).  According to the forecast, it will become worse; they are saying it will be 3-6″ snow!

This will be the second “killer” snow storm in 2007.  “Killer” because it really kills retail businesses.

As you might recall, we had a nasty snow-ice storm on the Valentine’s Day.  Many florists were hard-hit, but the hardest hit was on gift shops and restaurants.  Many restaurants here lost a HUGE business on the Valentine’s Day (50-90% cancellation rate). 

They were hoping to recover some of the loss on this coming St Patrick’s Day (Mar 17th).  Now another snow-ice storm!  This is really bad, but hey, life goes on.

Just when we get a taste of spring (70 degrees over the weekend ) and excited about gardening, Mother Nature  decides to change her mind! It gets cold again and rainy and snowy and we have sleet too. Hopefully this will be the end of it. I’m looking forward to short sleeve shirts and flip flops. It’s time. A little warm weather and blue skies would be nice. I don’t know about you, but I am ready.