13 February 2009

D-113, Friday 13th

Richard is here from Taiwan, so last night we went out for a meal down Rat Alley and a cider in Lan Kwai Fong. All this to say that we might have been a little giddy when we got home and spent an hour talking to a plastic rabbit.

Krusty bought this intrusive device, tentatively named Rufus, so that it could communicate with his computer from the lounge and therefore he wouldn't need to be continuously chained to his screens in the office. It's supposedly a "smart" device, with ears that swing around when it has something to say, and a button on its head that you can press to communicate with it.

For example, you can press the button and say "weather", and it will tell you what the weather is (although so far it has only done so in French), you can press the button and say "news" and it will tell you, well, the news.

But as I said, we were a little giddy, so Richard and I had the sole mission of "freaking the rabbit out". The findings from our experiments? When you say "mother" the rabbit goes quiet and then all of its lights flash out of control, and when you say "disco", well....... Let's just say the rabbit DOES NOT like disco... Even when we just spelt the letters out, the rabbit flashed four red light and made an eerie noise that made us feel we were in a Stephen King novel... Hilarious.

Meanwhile Krusty cradled his rabbit with a worried look, as if we had been torturing his child.



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