On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, Keys wrote: Drool! I won a regular Omnibot at a grocery store raffle in the rural town where I grew up. I was quite young, but I had a lot of fun with it. I believe it is still in my parents' attic. The coolest thing I ever did with my Omnibot was use it to serve candy to visitors on Halloween. The little tray it came with worked very nicely. I hid in a closet with the door cracked open just enough to have a good view of the area. You could key up and speak into the Omnibot remote control, and the sound would come out of a speaker on the robot. It scared the youngest trick-or-treaters half to death! It wasn't much smaller than them. They'd run off screaming for their lives. Excellent fun! 'Course, the raging laughter from the closet eventually gave away the secret. -- Jeffrey Sharp