[Robotgroup] GIANT Thank You & ABC camera crew report

[Def Egge]

Hey, Vern.

You are welcome.


All the best....

Mike


At 11:32 2006/11/18 -0600, you wrote:
>Thanks to all who pitched in to help on thurs night to get the house
>robot-ready! lemme see if I can remember everyone:
>
>Brooks
>Denise
>Ed
>Eric
>Mike
>Paul
>Rick
>
>hmm did i skip anyone? I hate doing name lists for the fear of leaving
>out someone important.. :P
>
>Anyway, i promised a report so here we go:
>
> :)
>
>We had the ABC crew arrive at 7:00pm last night. The interviews began
>around the dinner table. Then they went on a tour of the house. Each
>room had some robots and they were intrigued by the Maquarium. The kids
>were happy to pipe up and volunteer information. :)
>
>As for "role call", The Babbling head was in the dining room, the
>sisyphus was upstairs with the XAR robot, the robosapiens were in the
>kitchen and the living room, the Dungeon Keeper was in the living room,
>Maxx Steele was in Nic's room. (Sami had a blast playing with the Robo
>Pet dog and showed the camerawoman how it worked.)
>
>They did interviews with Nic by himself, then with Kym by herself, then
>Sami, then me.. Then they did an interview with Kym & I together.
>
>Brooks managed to coerce his vehicle into making it to my house so we
>had Glam Girl and the Gator girl, as well as the Tai Chi Charlie! We got
>them hooked up and the camera spent some time looking them over. They
>decided to place us in front of Babbling head, XAR bot, Glam Girl and
>gator girl for one of those "Hi! We're the Graners!" type "yell outs". :)
>
>Anyway, they packed up and left around 1:30am and then sent all the
>tapes by courier at 2:00am to New York so they would be available for
>review today!. Yow. Things are really going fast.
>
>We still haven't been told if we are "picked" for this or not, but if
>not they sure have gone to a lot of work fer nuthin! ;)
>
>Vern
>
>
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