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Rachel has a theory… one that I cannot discredit nor confirm to be true (for risk of revealling a male manipulation strategy)! Shhhh lads.

Last week i suggested buying two Nabaztags, one for our flat and one for the control room in Paranal.

For those preferring to stay in their burrows rather than dig deep, Nabaztags are wifi rabbits, which connect to your home wireless network and read/sing/move/flash (their lights…) to provide you with live RSS feed blogs/comments/news/weather/time/planetary readings. You can send messages to the rabbit and schedule them, so the recipient can have a morning greeting or a song played to them. Touching.

“Even better than that!”, the rabbits have ears which move! This allows them to do their daily tai-chi or to wave at you in the morning. Or the first signs of Myxomatosis.

So, given that Rachel is working away up to 10 days every month, but works in a control room with more connections than you’re average rabbit warren, you can understand why my suggestion might have been carefully considered.

Her response? “No, absolutely not. What a silly idea! FHM are right” (see title)

But i’ll let you know the result of my next suggestion to Rachel… “how about an integrated tent and mudguards for the LandRover darling?”.

A man’s world, contrived and expensive as it may be, is reassuringly comprehensible to the opposite sex when compared with with a talking rabbit. Phew.

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