 h a l f b a k e r y It's as much a hovercraft as a pancake is a waffle.
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Related: A roommate of mine once had an old HP scanner. When the buttons were depressed in a strategic fashion, the normal whirring of the scanners innards (servos, belts, and electronics) played the melody to Ode To Joy (that part of Beethoven's 9th Symphony) I wish all consumer electronics had similar easter eggs. |
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A bunch of bicycle wheels at different speeds with clickers but this is different. A bunch of lint stuck in fan cages. |
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Printers are very rhythmical also. Who hasn't had a jolly good to jig the sound of a document being given birth to? |
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In William Kotzwinkle's '74 novel "The Fan Man", the hero assembles a concert of handheld fans (which he also sells), all humming away at the same time. |
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I want one of these for my fridge (which is whirring away monotonally as I type). |
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No. It's "Your GUITAR, sounds like a symphony" - the Carpenters |
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spir: check out 'The User' for an example of dot matrix printers actualy being used to create music. (linky) |
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//Who hasn't had a jolly good to jig the sound of a document being given birth to?// |
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