For Gunnar

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http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/showthread.php/14679-Circuit-Hacking-a-Furby

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Yeah those are great. There’s tons of youtubes on those…admittedly though the sounds they pump out are kinda dull, but gotta love that the eyes and mouth still move with the squelches

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I found that dull as shit. and it was kinda hard to figure out what she was saying because I kept forgetting to read because I kept staring at her. she is a nice bit of eye candy, so thank you for that, but other than that, 10 minutes I can’t get back.
Late,
grmpysmrf

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The video isn’t playing well on my wife’s PC, but, yeah, the chick is cute and who doesn’t want to see a Furby vivisection?

On a related note . . . .

I used to sometimes babysit for some kids up the street from me when I was in high school. I would just let the kids run wild for the most part. But I felt I should also be giving them some cultural experience and broaden their awareness of fine arts.

So I’d bring a few cassettes and stick them in the girl’s TEDDY RUXPIN (Anyone remember him? He was a teddy bear that had a tape player in his back which was intended so he could read crappy stories to kids.).

The kids would pogo all over the bed and do dives off the furniture while I played air guitar and TEDDY screamed out some ripping tunes by BLACK SABBATH or TWISTED SISTER or DEVO.

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So I’d bring a few cassettes and stick them in the girl’s TEDDY RUXPIN (Anyone remember him?

I remember him…

Unfortunately Teddy lived in tough times as Cabbage Patch Kids ruled the world at the time.

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My wife still has her teddy ruxpin. it got reenlisted for duty. It now lives in the child’s room.

Carmangary… at least I had something nice to look at while I was board.
Late,
grmpysmrf

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“This video is boring as hell! I wonder if the next 10 minutes will get better.”

I think Teddy Ruxpin did okay for a product, but I’ve no idea if it hit the company’s expected target. I saw a handful of problems with the toy . . . .

  1. His face is kind of cute, but his shirt just screams cult leader. He reminds me of this guy . . . http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/doomsday_cults/doomsday_cults_11.jpg

  2. He’s the most uncuddly bear ever. He’s a big clunky tape player with a layout of fur around him. Kind of like hugging a boom box wrapped in gym socks.

  3. He played tapes and his mouth moved. That’s it. The stories were crap so the kids really didn’t need to hear them over and over.

  4. He also had a habit of touching kids inappropriately and then telling the kids to lie about it and blame their teachers or parents or babysitters.

Son of bitch bastard of a bear!

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^
This!

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  1. He also had a habit of touching kids inappropriately and then telling the kids to lie about it and blame their teachers or parents or babysitters.

Son of bitch bastard of a bear!

[image]http://i.imgur.com/ztUn4.jpg[/image]

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Well, at least there wasn’t anything creepy about the commercials . . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kc2HvjO8z4

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<shakes fist at Gunnar for not taking the bait>

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I used to sometimes babysit for some kids up the street from me when I was in high school. I would just let the kids run wild for the most part. But I felt I should also be giving them some cultural experience and broaden their awareness of fine arts.

Fine arts? You mean like cultural cinema? European arthouse? The kind of arty eurotrash films where angsty, existential types contemplate death and the arbitrary nature of the universe and sit on the edge of the bed in the nude after having meaningless sex and smoke cigarette after cigarette and look perplexed?

Those kinds of films? You weirdo.

The kids would pogo all over the bed and do dives off the furniture while I played air guitar and TEDDY screamed out some ripping tunes by BLACK SABBATH or TWISTED SISTER or DEVO.

And did the kids tell you at some point that they weren’t going to take it? That they were no longer going to take it…any more?