[geeks] SGI Indy spotted in "kid" movie...

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at verizon.net
Thu Jul 5 13:04:18 CDT 2007


>From: Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
>Date: 2007/07/05 Thu PM 12:51:14 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] SGI Indy spotted in "kid" movie...

>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 @ 12:36 -0500, Lionel Peterson said:
>
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Just wanted to note that I spotted an SGI Indy under the monitor of a
>> computer used by the lead in a "kid" movie ("First Kid" [0]) with the
>> actor/commedian Sinbad. The computer was being used in a manner
>> similar to the *utter* waste of an Emu Emulator ][[1] in "Ferris
>> Bueller's Day Off" [2]- to play recorded speech to convince others the
>> kid is still in the room. In the case of the movie I saw last night
>
>The recorded speech came from his cassette deck, triggered by a phone
>call.
>
>His keyboard was used to make coughing and toilet noises.

I stand corrected - it was the "sick noises" that come from the Emu Emulator ][...

Lionel



More information about the geeks mailing list