"Paul Di Filippo - And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon" - читать интересную книгу автора (Di Filippo Paul)

and it always smelled of cooking amino acids.)
A few boxes of clothing, several pieces of
furniture, and some kitchen appliances. Ten
thousand songs on an iPod and one
hundredth that number of books on a
ViewMaster. One U-Haul rental and some
moderate huffing and puffing later, Cody was
established in my townhouse.
I watched somewhat nervously as she
arranged her things.
"Uh, Cody, could you put that Cuisinart in
the cupboard, please? The one that locks. It's
a little too close to the toaster oven."
"But Kaz, I use this practically every day, to
blend my breakfast smoothies. I don't want to
have to be taking it in and out of the
cupboard every morning."
I didn't argue, but simply put the toaster oven
in the locked cupboard instead.
"This vacuum cleaner, CodyтАФcould we store
it out in the hallway?" I was particularly leery
of any wheeled appliance. They could move a
lot faster than the ones that had to inchworm
along on their MEMS epidermis.
"The hallway? Why? You've got tons of space
in that room you used to use for an office. I'll
just put it in a corner, and you'll never notice
it."
I watched warily as Cody deposited the
cleaner in its new spot. The compact canister
nested in its coiled attachments like an egg
guarded by snakes. The smartest other thing
in my office was my Aeron chair, a beautiful
ergonomic assemblage of webbing, struts,
gel-padding, piezopolymer batteries, and
shape-changing actuators. I rolled the chair as
far away from the vacuum cleaner as it would
go.
Cody of course noticed what I was doing.
"Kaz, don't you think you're being a tad
paranoid? The vacuum isn't even turned
on."
"That's where you're wrong, Cody.
Everything is perpetually turned on these
days. Even when you think you've powered
something down, it's still really standing by
on trickle-mode, sipping electricity from its
fuel cells or batteries or wall outlets, and
anticipating a wake-up call. And all so
nobody has to wait more than a few seconds