We all knew this was coming. A company called TrueCompanion has created a sex robot. It’s called “Roxxxy” and thanks to artificial intelligence, the machine has five different programs that simulate female personalities. The “personalities” range from shy to wild.

We don’t have to ask why this “pleasure machine” was created. But the mastermind said something in an interview that has got me scratching my head…

I’m still formulating my personal “new year” resolutions. I love making new goals each year and checking back at the end to see if I accomplished them. It’s perfectly find to modify my original plans. My big goal this year was to run five races. The plan was to end with a full marathon, but I realized I wasn’t ready to go a full 26.2 miles. I still accomplished my goal. I ran the Cherry Blossom, Frederick Half, Virginia Beach Half, Baltimore Half, and Vegas Half. Splendid!

This year, I’m looking to run more races. I’d love to complete my first marathon, but quite frankly, I’m happy doing halves. I’ll be getting married this year, so another goal is paying for the wedding a saving up for a house. That’s not going to be easy…

Way cool! This granny says her daughter talks too much, so she’d rather communicate via Twitter. She uses a service called Celery. She hand-writes a note, faxes it in, and they post it to her Twitter account. Then, they fax her a timeline of all her tweets. Here’s the video…

I brought my camera with me during my 13.1 mile run down the Vegas Strip. I only looked at my watch a few times, and surprised myself by finishing in 2:13.50. It’s not a personal best, but this was one of THE BEST races… ever!

I dressed as Elvis, complete with sun glasses and side burns. But I failed to account for the cold December Vegas weather: temperatures in the low 30s. And I wore shorts.

Luckily, I packed a white wind breaker and wore it under my costume. It helped, but I certainly was not warm.

I left Patrick near the starting line so I could find the Running Elvi. We were all supposed to run together. But I could never find an organized group. The only regret I have during this race is not being at the starting line with Patrick.

I finally found a place near some Elvi with strollers featuring pictures and music of the King. I enjoyed listening to the tunes and I must have completely missed hearing Cher sing the Star Spangled Banner (bummer– I love Cher!). Soon, we crossed the start line where a band played and old-time show girls stood near large cages with two white tigers. Awesome!

My fifth race of 2009 is less than a week away and what better place for my finale run than Vegas?!?!? And I’ll be running as Elvis along with (likely) hundreds of runners. Together, we’ll make up the “running Elvi.” Here’s some questions I answered while entering the Running Elvi Group:

We’re not watching TV like we used to– especially since we got TiVo and Hulu. Advertisers are looking for other ways to make money, like targeting us on our laptops and iPhones. But so far, their attempts to make money online haven’t worked. Why?

I came across this tweet from @ChrisAbraham a few days ago: “New blog post: An epiphany about epiphanies”

I clicked on the link and watched the video from Epipheo on YouTube. I was amazed. It demonstrates why advertisers are having trouble reaching the same audience that so willingly sat in front of the glowing box, hanging on every word. It’s obvious we’ve changed. We expect more from advertisers. And if it doesn’t make something easier, faster, better, simpler, smarter, or stronger… well, we don’t care.