Breaking out the absinthe
Housemates are on honeymoon.
Other housemate is off visiting friends.
This is going to happen.
Cage with two singing birds, Jaquet-Droz, coll. Montres Jaquet Droz SA (Sandoz collection)
Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721—1790) was a Swiss-born watchmaker of the late eighteenth century. He lived in Paris, London, and Geneva, where he designed and built animated dolls, or automata, to help his firm sell watches and mechanical birds. Some consider these devices to be the oldest examples of the computer.
(video about his work here)
