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                 (After a mechanical
                      robot rabbit built for one other Cubs interrupts
                      the session, Kiri offers to create another one
                      based on the Energizer bunny that I foolishly
                      accepted. As a result, she reveals the details she
                      expected to include in the construction.)
 
 
 Kiri:
                                                  oh dear, dear, dear,
                                                  dear. Oh dear, dear,
                                                  dear, dear.
 
 Russ: hi Kiri.
 
 Kiri: yeah, hello. We
                                                  need to go and awake
                                                  up……..Tia’s gone to
                                                  wake up Diana.
 
 (one of the Cubs)
 
 Russ: get her rabbit
                                                  out of the house?
 
 Kiri: uh-huh because
                                                  Tia caught it, held
                                                  onto it, handed it to
                                                  me right? And it went
                                                  limp because it was in
                                                  restraints. I put it
                                                  down and off it goes.
                                                  The other option is
                                                  that we just let it
                                                  bounce around all
                                                  night until the
                                                  battery runs down. The
                                                  only person that can
                                                  switch it off is….
 
 Russ: Diana.
 
 Kiri: exactly.
 
 John: so it’s a
                                                  mechanical rabbit?
 
 Kiri: uh-huh.
 
 John: that you cannot
                                                  shut off?
 
 Kiri: exactly.
 
 John: kind of like the
                                                  Energizer Bunny that
                                                  we have in our
                                                  television
                                                  commercials?
 
 Kiri: yes.
 
 John: it's very
                                                  similar?
 
 Kiri: yes, this one
                                                  will keep going for
                                                  about 12 hours
                                                  non-stop.
 
 Russ: have a little
                                                  drum on this thing
                                                  going bang, bang,
                                                  bang, bang.
 
 Kiri: I’ll make one
                                                  for you dear.
 
 Russ: thank you, that
                                                  will be very
                                                  wonderful.
 
 (Ed. note: I would
                                                  live to regret these
                                                  words)
 
 Kiri: uh-huh and of
                                                  course because it will
                                                  only be moving slowly,
                                                  the battery will last
                                                  I should say
                                                  continuous use.......
 
 (lots of laughter
                                                  ensues)
 
 Russ: just set it off,
                                                  put it in the room and
                                                  make it so that only I
                                                  can turn it off, Karra
                                                  would kill it. She'll
                                                  take a baseball bat
                                                  and she’ll just
                                                  literally take it to
                                                  its finest particles.
 
 Kiri: I can make it go
                                                  continuously without
                                                  stopping……..if I put a
                                                  little bit of a brain
                                                  in there, I can have
                                                  it work out a
                                                  particular path that
                                                  would……..I can have it
                                                  going for a year and a
                                                  half without needing a
                                                  recharge, is that
                                                  which you want?
 
 Russ: that’s it, a
                                                  year and a half.
 
 John: a year and a
                                                  half, oh man.
 
 Kiri: you want it to
                                                  stop every so often
                                                  and go with the
                                                  drumsticks and then
                                                  off again?
 
 Russ: there you go.
 
 Kiri: cool, I can do
                                                  that.
 
 Russ: it will last all
                                                  of an hour when the
                                                  novelty wears off and
                                                  Karra just throws it
                                                  in somebody’s pool.
 
 Kiri: I’ll make it
                                                  waterproof. Do you
                                                  want me to make it out
                                                  of the same substance
                                                  that I made the
                                                  rabbits here out of?
 
 Russ: yeah sure.
 
 Kiri: okay.
 
 John: yeah put a
                                                  little pair of goggles
                                                  on it too just in
                                                  case.
 
 Russ: she'll stick it
                                                  out on Wookie
                                                  Mountain, out in the
                                                  snow.
 
 Kiri: I made the ones
                                                  here, I dropped
                                                  weights of
                                                  approximately one of
                                                  your tons on it from
                                                  about 50 feet
                                                  repeatedly to test the
                                                  strength.
 
 John: yeah?
 
 Kiri: all three of
                                                  them have been through
                                                  that test and all
                                                  three of them survived
                                                  with flying colors,
                                                  not even a structural
                                                  tweak apart from one
                                                  has a slightly tweaked
                                                  ear but that was
                                                  because the sensor
                                                  picked up a
                                                  indentation in the
                                                  weight and read it as
                                                  being deeper than it
                                                  was but that’s only
                                                  the sensor in the ear.
 
 John: what material is
                                                  this made out of?
 
 Kiri: it’s made out of
                                                  a mixture of a
                                                  Duridium and I can’t
                                                  tell you the rest.
 
 
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