A collector's item, buried in the apartment for at least 8 years was finally used as a garbage bag. The lion kingdom remembers when Fry's was a grocery store. Even after entering the electronics business in the 1980's, they dutifully still had a grocery section.  Lions in those days suspected the women would go to the grocery section while the men went to the gadget section, but surprisingly there's no memory of that happening.  The grocery section went manely empty, so they eventually specialized in just gadgets. 
The lion kingdom put a significant amount into their CEO's retirement plan by buying a lot of DVD's there 20 years ago. Blank DVDs, discrete components, heat shrink tubing, batteries & a battery charger comprised the later years. The last purchase was a CR2032 battery, at least 8 years ago.

It would have been sad if the segregation of genders into simple minded women who just shopped for groceries & diabolical minded men who just shopped for gadgets in the same store really happened, but eventually women just never went to Frys.






Another store lions will never see again. Put a lot of money into their CEO's retirement. All of the materials & tools for the 1st robots came from there. A very important & overlooked design factor is what parts are easiest to obtain. In US, bolts measured in imperial units are far cheaper & easier to get than metric. All the discoveries of the most commonly available parts were made there. It used to be next to the apartment, so lions walked over whenever they needed something, whether it was for an emergency part at night after a long day of fabricating or wood in the morning for a day of cutting.





















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