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August Megaparty #20: Battery Fun!

When I bought my latest digital camera, it came with a charger and four rechargeable batteries. For whatever reason, I decided to pretend that the camera didn't come with these things, and have been purchasing regular AA batteries since Day 1. I realize that this behavior could only be defined as "stupid." If I tallied up all the money spent on batteries these past few years, there'd be enough in the might-have-been pot to get me on a three-day vacay to Tahiti. Or a reasonable simile of Tahiti.

I don't have any real preference when it comes to batteries. I usually just buy whatever I see first, except in special cases, namely when a battery company runs a promotion involving hot free gifts in each pack. This is a more typical trend than you non-battery buyers might think. I just got back from Target a little while ago, and I saw everything from baby-sized flashlights to tiny soccer balls to Lightning McQueen figures given out free in specially marked packs. The freebies aren't always enough to sway me in a certain direction, but tonight, one was...


Hells yes, thanks maam, I think I will take you up on this free wind-up Energizer Bunny offer. My sixteen shiny Energizer batteries are good until 2013, but that damn bunny, I'll keep him till 2020, easy.

Course, you should be buying batteries based on how good they are, and with that train of thought, I must recommend Energizer's "Lithium" collection. They're pricey as fuck, but they totally pay for themselves: When we went to Disney World, I lasted the entire trip on two batteries, and that accounts for over 800 pictures and about 50 movies. Sno joke.

I would've bought the Lithiums again, but alas, they didn't come with wind-up Energizer Bunnies.


It keeps going and going and going and making this funky noise that sounds like a swarm of pissed off bees ready to attack and going and going and blah blah blah blah.

Posted by Matt on 08/20/2006. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 60 comments

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Chestnuts roasted by NoNAme @ 08/20/2006 10:39 PM

I’m glad that bunny is still around.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 08/20/2006 10:40 PM

I dislike batteries. It insults me that after I buy some fancy gadget, I have to continue paying Ramen money to buy batteries for it. It’s like Best Buy is holding my discman hostage, and if I don’t pay them their monthly ransom, it dies. Bring on the wireless electricity. Tesla did it, it can’t be too hard.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 08/20/2006 10:42 PM

I’d get one if his arms moved and pounded the drum. :D

Chestnuts roasted by mjf7583 @ 08/20/2006 10:43 PM

Note: that’s money that I could be using to buy ramen noodles, not money paid to the ramen companies in exchange for batteries. Can you imagine how crappy those things would be?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 08/20/2006 10:44 PM

Tesla, the band, or Telsa, the scientist?

Chestnuts roasted by Tougi @ 08/20/2006 10:47 PM

I for one would love my own kickass Tesla Coil to annoy the neighbor kids with.

And who else is watching the William Shatner Roast? I think it’s pretty good so far.

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 08/20/2006 10:51 PM

She used to be the happiest girl I knew
I remember seeing her laugh
I remember the time she cried
When tears filled her eyes
As we sang ‘Love Song’ by Tesla
Her smile is turning upside down
She’s got a boyfriend now

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 08/20/2006 10:53 PM

Both. With the scientist, all we have is oblique references in correspondence and a few extremely interesting photographs. With the band, we have multiple documented accounts of the wireless transmission of power…the power of rock’n'roll.

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 08/20/2006 10:55 PM

Wind up Enigizer Bunny. Isn’t there something just wrong about that?

Chestnuts roasted by dohopoki @ 08/20/2006 10:57 PM

I think the battery thing depends on the camera. I had a little sony Cybershot that sucked two AAs dry in about 15 minutes. Complete waste of time.

On the other hand, the rechargable in my Canon 20D lasts FOREVER. Easily over 1000 shots (not with the flash).

Chestnuts roasted by Cameron T. @ 08/20/2006 10:59 PM

You have chosen wisely.

Chestnuts roasted by The Manimal @ 08/20/2006 11:00 PM

You know, one of these days I’m going to request a Saturday night off, just so I can sit around and get drunk like everyone else here. I know it’s Sunday, but I’m just now catching up. Have a good one, everybody. I’m off to sleep.

Chestnuts roasted by kyle @ 08/20/2006 11:00 PM

I’ve got nothing on the batteries. When I think of batteries, I think of work. We have these spinning stands full of rayovac and duracell batteries, and if you put a boxfull of batteries out, and mess ANY of them up according to the layout, you will get bitched at. It’s rediculous.

Jedoc: Can I come live with you? :D

Tougi: lol That cracked me up. I just heard Modern Day Cowboy on the radio like, Tuesday night. I forgot how much that song rocked! :)

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/20/2006 11:04 PM

i bought that same pack of batteries at target about a month ago. The super sweet bunny was what sealed the deal for me too. (though I usually buy energizers anyway). it was like whoa whoa…you get a bunny too?

On a seperate note, about 15 years ago I won a contest draw for a stuffed plush Energizer Bunny. it was one of the coolest things ever. (and the only reason why I won was because i STUFFED that box full of entries – there was no limit = and I was on a mission!) Dont know what happened to him, left him at my grandmothers house about six years ago and havent seen him since. I hope no one threw him out, he was a HUGE sucker. Drum and everything.

Chestnuts roasted by kttycatgirl2k @ 08/20/2006 11:07 PM

I won’t say what I think of when I think of AA batteries because it’s naughty.

Chestnuts roasted by Mystie @ 08/20/2006 11:08 PM

Lucky. The only free gift I ever got in a pack of batteries was a Shrek 2 Pog/milkcap.

I’m pretty loyal to Energizer, though, because of the “Oi!” guy, Mark ‘Jacko’ Jackson. A much better cultural ambassador for Australia than that Paul Hogan wanker. :D

Chestnuts roasted by Daniel85 @ 08/20/2006 11:12 PM

Ryane: I cannot in all good conscience wish Abilene, Texas upon anyone, especially in August. Oh, cripes, and soon it’ll be September…and then crickets, crickets will come…

You know what? Bugger this for a game of soldiers. Who’s got a spare couch for me north of the Mason-Dixon?

Chestnuts roasted by Jedoc @ 08/20/2006 11:15 PM

Holy shit, I just noticed that there’s a roll of Energizer stickers hiding inside the bunny’s drum. Awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 08/20/2006 11:17 PM

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. I’ve been working all day. Working on Sundays sucks.

Chestnuts roasted by mudogramx @ 08/20/2006 11:20 PM

I’ve got one of them wind up Energizer Bunnies a year or so ago, I still wind him up and let him go from time to time… yes, that was a euphemism.

Chestnuts roasted by Darth Poop @ 08/20/2006 11:26 PM

Man, somehow, that thing oughta run on batteries! But, the free stickers always helps. Remember when EVERY company tried to buy brand loyalty from kids? Like Capn Crunch figures inside the cereal? Or heck, Kool-Aid’s Wacky Warehouse? I gotta survey idea for ya Matt:

What was your favorite way from the 80′s that companies bought your loyalty?

-Mine is a toss-up between Cap’n Crunch premiums that featured the characters (up to the ultimate stuffed 14″ Crunch doll mail away) and the “I can’t believe it it’s so awesome” days of “Buy $75 or whatever in Xmas presents and this Department Store will give you a Free Big Christmas Themed Stuffed Animal!” Can’t remember what chain (Target?) but dang, I got the free Christmas dog with a scarf every single year. Nothing like going with the fam Xmas shopping and KNOWING you got a cool stuffed animal for free. Woot.

Chestnuts roasted by Terror Claws Cole @ 08/20/2006 11:27 PM

My loyalty is still up for grabs…

Anybody? Anybody?

Chestnuts roasted by gramsci @ 08/20/2006 11:35 PM

I gotta go out and get myself some batteries now. I love novelty items based on Mascots. Just yesterday I bought an M & M (the female one) stuffed animal and a Tony the Tiger stuff animal at this flea market I was at. How much did these batteries with the bunny cost you Matt?

Chestnuts roasted by Bob K @ 08/20/2006 11:52 PM

I don’t remember the exact name of the website, but there’s a guy who does articles about “how much is inside” for instance he figured out the amount of square feet of doritos in a standard size bag. along with the amount of shaving cream in a can….anyway, the point is, that in his “how much is in a battery” he did both name brand and el cheapos…turns out that while the name brand lasted longer, the cheapo’s offset cost made it worth the exact same amount to use more of them for the same amount of power. I wonder if that holds true with the litium ion too? (I hope they don’t explode)

Chestnuts roasted by random bob @ 08/21/2006 12:28 AM

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