TV B Gone
since I’m fresh out of originality, here’s another reblog from hack-a-day.
If I had some more motivation, maybe I’d do this hack. It is _really_ hard to hide when you’re trying to use one of these things.
My best experience with my tv-b-gone was when Honl and I went to Champs one night. It was trivia night and we hit about 6 tv’s in a semi-circle around where we were sitting. The announcer stopped trivia “so we can figure out why all these TVs are turning off.” An employee then walked around with a chair and turned all the TVs back on. A few minutes later the accouncer said “did someone bring in a universal remote to turn off all the TVs or something!?” Needless to say, it was quite difficult to hold back the laughter at that point. 
My second best experience was one night at the Leaning Tower of Pizza. I was there with Gus on a Monday or Tuesday night and there was professional wrestling on the TV. Now usually, the Leaning Tower is a pretty hip place to be so I wouldn’t expect wrestling to be playing on the TV. However, everyone in the bar seemed to be glued to the tele. There were a couple of hicks and a couple of middle-eastern guys on the program arguing about terrorism, Islam, Christianity, etc. As could be expected, it was complete rubbish. I was getting super upset that people were actually watching that crap so I hit the TV across the way. A riot nearly erupted but the bartender turned it back on immediately. Something strange was going on here….but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Finally, I think our waitress overheard my not-so-quiet remark along the lines of “SERIUOSLY, WHY ARE WE WATCHING THIS!?” and cleared things up by saying “the owner’s son is the guy on the right”, speaking about one of the wrestling performers….ooops!
May 2nd, 2005 at 6:03 pm
Hahaha - that’s awesome! Vive la revolution!
First step in saving the world is to remove all the media… Second step is to collect underpants… ;^)
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:13 am
yeah. so I have a couple of old dead phones if anyone wants to do some modification.
May 3rd, 2005 at 10:38 am
ah. finally! I’ve been collecting underpants for years. I am SO glad that there will eventually be a use for them. you take care of step one, and I’ve got step two all taken care of.
but also, I can’t speak to the functionality of either device since I’ve never had one but I really would like to get my hands on one of these little fellows too.
let the mischief ensue! =)
May 3rd, 2005 at 11:00 am
lol. I’m scared to know what step 3 is! I’m going to propose that step 3 involves building cheap, incognito, medium-powered, cellular jammers to be stashed in various restaurants, bars, etc. note to those listening in…I’m uhhh…kidding. yeah, that’s it.