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[rhu]

I want a Groomba. Something that will cling to my face with van der Waals forces and roam over an area delineated by infrared transmitters, getting me clean-shaven while I lie in bed and get an extra five minutes of sleep.

[Edited to change the name from Faceba to something a little more clever, now that I've had some coffee.]

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[shimshonit.livejournal.com]

Shaving is what Pop Gilbreth in "Cheaper By the Dozen" would have called "unavoidable delay." He responded to it by having his kids listen to foreign language records while bathing (another example). Eating was also "unavoidable delay" so he painted Morse code on the dining room walls to give his kids something to study while having dinner. Is there something you can do to enrich yourself during those minutes of unavoidable delay?

[thedan.livejournal.com]

Do not give a razor to something that can move on its own. That's how I Robot started.

Vernon Hines from The Pajama Game shares your troubles....

[cnoocy]

The alarm clock rings, it's 6 AM.
And then right there in bed I shave.
That's what I said. While I am still in bed, I shave.
And the lather drips and the bed gets wet and oh what a lousy shave I get,
But think of the time I save.

[autotruezone.livejournal.com]

Why do you think I have a beard? Who wants to get up 5 minutes earlier just to shave, when I can have a beard and only need to trim it once a week?

Reminds me of a snippet from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" which, for some odd reason, still sticks in my craw to this day. It was one of the many poker game conversations that they would occasionally have. Geordi had recently grown a beard, and Riker and Worf already had them. Dr. Crusher teased them, saying that once shaving was invented, growing a beard was merely an affectation. None of the three bearded crewmen had anything useful to say to this. "No!" I yelled at the TV. "If the natural state of a grown man is to have a beard, then it's *shaving* that's the affectation!!"

[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Well, let's see. Hair is mostly cellulose, right? And termites eat cellulose....