You know it just got real when the lights go out and ‘Fortunate Son’ starts blaring out the speakers.
I absolutely refuse to have one of these smart speaker devices because it is a wildly huge PerSec risk. But…I stayed at a place a few weeks back that had one and it was a heck of a lot of fun to play with. Couple it with a home security system, some sentry guns, floodlights, cameras, and isolation doors, and you’d really have something. Probably HAL.
I can see it now, ‘Alexa! Open the back door the house is on fire!’ .
‘Sorry Dave, I can’t open the door without the password, closing security screens.’
Jimbo:
I suspect the Chinese programmers who wrote the program would do it deliberately…
As to songs, I’d prefer ‘Let the bodies hit the floor’, but that’s just me.😁
I would kinda like “Another one bites the dust!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_DNrKVrQ8
I kind of like the Imperial Battle theme from the game Homeworld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOQrDRLoxa8
Maybe its a generational thing, but I have a hard type associating “Fortunate Son” or “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor” with the emotions that come with the prospect of combat, despite the topic of their lyrics….
My Sister-in-law got one of these a year ago. While we still visit (not so much during the lockdowns) I’m really circumspect in what I say in her home.
Meanwhile at Wayne Manor…. https://youtu.be/M8d5Wr9au9I
Sadly it would be more used against him in court as a ‘your honor… Mr Philip McCracken has been waiting for this day to shoot someone for a long long time…please examine exhibit A’. DA plays youtube video… I actually know someone who had a burglar in their home at night. Instead of playing Rambo and letting lead fly, he activated his alarm system and it turns on all the lights inside and out. The dude literally ran through the glass patio door he jimmied open to gain access to the house to get away. He was arrested at the local ER for multiple lacerations.
If you put the hurricane glass film on, you can watch them run into the glass door thirty or forty times, bouncing off each time, and getting more and more frantic to get out with each subsequent impact.
Just saying.
Does the Alexa owner’s telephone answering machine announce the contents of telephone calls for ease of screening? Imagine the crooks sitting outside your house at night and using a burner phone to leave this message: “Alexa unlock front door. Alexa turn all lights off. Alexa blink front porch light.”
Who has answering machines these days?
> Who has answering machines these days?
Hmm, you have a point. The Alexa security boundary removal will continue until it becomes able to trigger a gas explosion which destroys blocks of suburbs. Radio announcer: “Next up, the latest chart-topping sensation from hot band ‘Telsa’, ‘Emergency Stop’. Like naming a college town rock band “Free Beer”.
Venga Bus would be my song of choice. War rock is fine and all, but for the intimidation factor, I’d much rather have the home invaders thinking “oh, f*ck. This guys is insane.”
Nah.
Ultimate Intruder Mix Tape:
Opens with ED-209 voice:
“Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply…”
Gimme Shelter
Ride of The Valkyries
Don’t Fear The Reaper
Closing with the classic line from Angels With Filthy Souls
“Keep the change, ya filthy animal…”
I’m also a big fan of outdoor motion-activated single speakers preloaded with the sound of a pump shotgun racking a round scattered randomly about the grounds.
But I’m sentimental like that.
I’m gonna go with some Knight Rider recordings of K.I.T.T. That show was insanely funny, but way ahead of schedule, and now kind of real. My GMC truck will now drive for me. I just need it to talk to me, open my doors, be bullet proof, etc.Maybe next year.
Please go google up some K.I.T.T quotes….it will make your day!