On 31 Jul 2008, at 18:19, Doug Fairchild wrote:
>
> Think I'll dl it and see what it does. Has anyone else among us used
> it, and if so what was the opinion

Only a cursory glance. Not great, but as mentioned earlier this very
morn, I do use their Domainer software to keep track of, well
domainers. If that's the correct term. I'm not tight on all the
jargon, as I believe the young people today say. Or is it loose on the
lingo?

One of those. Or something like it. And what exactly is a muthaf...
oh, never mind. I expect it's just a term of endearment when they
shout that at me in the street. Showing their appreciation of my
getting joggy with the himeys. Or their 'batches' (I can do that too,
in Photoshop).

But meanwhile back to more important matters...


I pretty much wrote off the Fewdewser (and I was at school with
Lionel, the eldest son) as a bad buy.

I did try converting it to a birdbath as per the article in Fewdewser
World, but I couldn't figure out a way to disable the built-in siren,
which was causing the blackbirds to have panic attacks.

The Fewdewser forums were of bugger all use BTW, very disappointing in
the circumstances. Everybody has to start somewhere.

The blackbirds eventually sent round a gang of buzzards to intimidate
me, prompting the cats to buy a couple of rocket launchers on eBay and
retreat behind their sandbagged fortifications.

It was a fraught few weeks, but eventually there was an uneasy truce
declared - the cats ran out of ammo and the buzzards ran out of tail
feathers.

So sadly the Fewdewser lies abandoned, rusting (not easy with
practically no metal parts, just shows how innovative it was) and
unloved, with only the small periscope and Bunsen burner still
functional. A far cry from its glory days, even as an 's' variant.

I remain convinced that if Josh (the younger son) hadn't insisted on
using so much foam rubber in the afterburner and skimping on the
blanching pad filters, it would have been a commercial success. Very
few people used the sprocket winder anyway, so the reliability issues
with those were never a problem in my view.

And contrary to the internet-generated hysteria at the time, it now
seems likely the reviewer will walk again, with only a slight limp.

I did offer to donate mine to the local old folks home, but they took
out a restraining order so that idea has also been abandoned.

I think there was some confusion between my saying 'it's mine' and
them thinking I was offering the 'g' variant which you'll recall
*laid* mines, which I quite agree could be potentially hazardous to
senior citizens.

So if you need spares for your periscope, let me know.



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