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[telophase]

I've got this weird little toy - don't know what it's called. It's a ball made of some sort of translucent stretchy stuff, tinted red, with a long tail made of the same stuff with a loop on the end you can use to put on your finger and do yo-yo type stuff with it. Inside the ball, floating in water or something, is a smaller plastic ball with a red flashy thing inside it. The red flashy thing flashes red when you hit it with a certain degree of force. It sits on a bookshelf on the other side of the room.

It's been flashing red randomly for a few days now, without being hit, touched, or disturbed in any way whatsoever. I assume it's due to the internal battery dying, but it's still odd and a bit creepy to see it go off at random times.

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[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Could be the inner ball has developed a small leak, and some of that water-or-something liquid is giving the sensors in there intermittant shorts.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Hm. True, dat. I alternate between wanting to dissect it to see what makes it tick and wanting to keep it to play with. :) I'm surprised it's still flashing; it's ... *thinks* ... at least 3 years old, possibly 4.

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's like 75 in translucent-stretchy-stuff-ball years.

Don't be sad, it's lived a good long life.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Once it finally stops responding, I'll dissect it, I think. Until then, I've got two small green LEDs to play with from a floral arrangement - a couple of weekend ago I went down to Houston to go to a Christmas party for my friend Toby's work, and they bought tickets to Wicked for us, and had a reception beforehand. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page (http://www.888acolyte.com/floralyte.html) and look at the bottom pitcture, you can just barely make out rectangular glass vases with flowers, illuminated by blue LEDs at the bottom of the vase. We had similar ones, in green. (ah - looks almost, but not quite, like these (http://www.epartyunlimited.com/submersible-floralyte.html))

THe secretary gave me a centerpiece, so I took it. THe flowers were put into this clear gel stuff that looked like transparent cottage cheese and entertained me and Toby both for a bit because shaking the vase made the horrid squelching noises. But I got it out and fished out and wiped off the LEDs. You can turn them on and off, as well as replace the batteries, so I now have two of them to entertain myself with. XD

[the-z.livejournal.com]

The aliens are trying to contact you and take you back to their home planet of emaciated blondes with snub-nose pistols.

[ewein2412]

we have got a toy telephone that randomly pipes up with "Yankee Doodle" every now and then. It is 8 years old and it has always done this. It does make other noises, but "Yankee Doodle" is the only one it bursts into song with at random.

It is like a random non-functioning magical object.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

o_O;

...

I heard that those things are highly flamable.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Nah. It's definitely water or primarily water inside - I had a friend who squeezed and stretched hers until it burst open, and the flashy thing inside is your basic LED. It's a toy, designed to be played with hard. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* I should mention that we were the dealers' room crew at an A-Kon a few years ago, and one of the dealers gave them to us free. Ended up being a great advertisement, as we hung out around the door of the room playing wiht them and people kept asking us where to get them. XD So we abused the hell out of 'em, and ... no flames.


We'd actually have kind of enjoyed it if they burst into flame.

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

*Bwahaha* >_<

Crazy otaku individuals and your likage of fire....


(Actually I think they had something about them on the local news, about the rubbery parts being made with flammable materials o-o )

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Well, it's merely sitting quietly over on the bookshelf instead of being bashed into electrical appliances or open flame, so if it does catch on fire I've got way worse problems then merely how flammable it is, seeing as how the rest of my apartment would probably be a fiery holocaust at the time. :D

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yo: email your address to telophase14 (at) gmail (dot) com. XD

[lady-noremon.livejournal.com]

WTFox? O_o;

Yo? who is this Yo person?

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, if you don't want your imp of Midway...

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

It's a pocket sneak-o-scope and you're up to no good?