Ode to Parrot
This all began with a family trip for a particular item at yard sales, or garage sales, which ever may appeal to you individually. While looking around at several stops, I came across a programmable mechanical parrot. You could turn the switch on at the bottom of the stand, and it would record. You could turn the switch around, and it would play back what had been recorded when ever a sound was made near it. You can still buy this bird "Pete the Repeat" on ebay I took it home and we all played with it for a while. it was a lot of fun. After we had it for some time, I took it over to school, and Vance and I would say things into the microphone and then turn the switch and make a noise and listen to it play back what we had said. We thought it would be fun to record something and put it in John’s office. John was the principal and my boss, but it still sounded like fun so we did it. I said into the microphone “Hi Baldy.” John was not totally bald, but was concerne...