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It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Quickies
It's been a long time coming, so lets start off the quickies with some acts
of senseless damage. Old Wolf
sent us a link to a bunch of pictures of someone Defrosting a Freezer in the best way ever, and an
anonymous reader sent in a site that shows what happens if you put a
CD in Microwave.
Don't use AOL CDs., send them to this lady who collects them
(from gr8fulnded). On to the sex! An anonymous reader submitted a story
about the Robot
Pet Vibrator which is I guess AIBO gone wrong.
elkm discovered
Computerized Contraception. And with
all this digital doin' it going on, its good know that
MITs Erotic Computation Group is here
to research it (thanks
Chris Moon)
The world is full of strangeness, but little of it is as scary as
MissNachos's link to the
Hello Kitty laptop, srini's
link to the Single Pixel Webcam, and aneanti's link to a collection of the
strangest canned foods you'll ever see.
Finally, since it is the holidays, check out mrv's link to LED Christmas Lights which sure beats the hell out of finding the broken bulb.
The top of the page says "Hobbies gone wrong...". Nuff said :-)
karma capped
i bet you could cook a neat ham sandwich on a cdr. That metal foil would help to distribute the microwaves. May taste a little plastic'ky
It might be stupid, it might be smart, who knows, just to see the results of hi-tech
"Trying is the first step towards failure" - Homer J Simpson.
haha, All it's missing is this!
The Quickie (sp?) is back! They should have used the Hell Kitty laptop.
Everything is mainstream now.
I've had some since around 1992... but that's innovation for you.
You are all just jealous because I got the quick first post on the quickies. Ooo yeah! Hot action! Eat it, troll busters.
Let's hear it for T-1s enabling first posts! I'm incredible, what can I say? The trolls out there are boiling in their own troll juice!
praise the $DEITY! the quickies have returned! I miss the quickies more than words can express. Life is worth living again.
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Quickies posted at 6:59, Defrosting a Freezer URL doesn't work at 7:04, site http://illogic.co.nz/ down. :-(
chad
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Amazing ... I thought I was the only one who collected those. But I don't go as far as the woman in the article. *BUT* I do have a 'Compuserve' branded AOL 5 CD. As we all know, AOL ate compuserve for lunch some years ago. It was a clever marketing ploy for them to send out compuserve discs because people don't think 'same old, same old.' It's one of my favourite discs in the collection!
first, about the microwave thing...tis old. :) But, very cool! I love using grapes/blueberries in the microwave..you cut them in half most of the way, leaving a tiny bit of skin attached in the middle and put it in the microwave for a few moments....huge flames shoot out...tis super cool. Not entirely sure why, but it is definitely neat.
another thing, always poke holes in your hamsters before microwaving.
The anti-salmon
I supper glue them together(two cd together reflective sides out) and string them with fishing twine(tying knots so that they don't slide all together) and use them as interior christmas decorations with my lights. All ways gets a few looks.
chad
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Contrary to that method, the traditional action involves putting a boiling kettle into the empty freezer. This removes the ice quite nicely. If you ever try to de-ice an upright freezer by any method, MAKE SURE you put some sort of vessel in the bottom to catch the water dripping, otherwise you'll turn around and see water flooding out of the freezer and ruining the floor. Yes, this is from experience ;-)
From the AOL Disc article: "I think AOL is a huge part of our pop culture," Cline said. "I think AOL has had a larger impact than Coke or Hershey's." If there were an AOL user for every Coke drinker and Hershey bar eater out there, I think I'd take my own life.
My other sig is funny!
Grab a coster or an AOL CD and give that microwave thing a try. The pictures on the site are cool, but they don't do it justice. A few words of advice though; don't leave it in for very long. Five or ten seconds will do fine. It won't damage the microwave if you leave it longer, but cleaning melted CD off the tray isn't so cool. It also looks better if you do it in the dark. Flick the lights off, start the microwave, and enjoy the show!
I'm sure I'm not alone when I ask you, CmdrTaco, why did you stop posting quickies for so long? They are an essential part of the Slashdot experience, a completely silly and mindless break from all the serious, downbeat Microsoft and DMCA stories that make up the majority of Slashdot's articles. Thank you for bringing them back, but why did you stop posting them in the first place?
Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
How can you include an article on strange Canned food that doesn't include my all time favorite (I have a can sitting atop my monitor): PORK BRAINS in Milk Gravy.
Yes, this little 5.5 oz can has a whopping 3500 calories, and over 1000% (Yes, one THOUSAND) of your RDA intake of cholesterol.
The recipe on the back? Pork Brains and Scrambled Eggs. At least Eggs have alot of the 'good' cholesterol, otherwise you'd have a heart attack halfway through your second can! Yum!
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
...when I was young and irresponsible. Oh, such fun! Such sparking and fizzing!
The ketchup packet looked pretty freakish afterward. As for the oven, I don't know...it was at school, and I never went back to check on it...
May I suggest to you, and all you AOL CD haters, to save up your CD's and ship them to nomoreaolcds.com? They have over 7,000 already, but need alot more to reach their goal of one million!
Okay, the Robot pet site is slashdotted. But no problem, since the Google cache [google.com] version is there. Hope this helps.
The above post links to the google cache of some white pride website (not the robotic pet sex site I was looking for).
Please mod it down, not up. And don't mod this up. And read the moderator guidelines for fucks sake. (seriously!)
(A bougus link to some redneck crap wouldn't get 2, Informative if there wern't so many crack smokers with mod points these days)
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The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason. --Ben Franklin
Found the hidden directory with all the pics... no html though. http://ecg.media.mit.edu/ecg/
They have hot Members... hmm
ChiefArcher
pronoblem
If you put pop tarts in the toaster for too long you get a 20 inch flame!
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/
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It's OK to be social, just don't tell anyone about it.
Who will be the last site standing under the Slashling bum-rush? Who can continue serving pages the longest? What site will be the first to return only an apology?
Let's not stir that bag of worms...
I just get a page with blank body. Is this some sort of joke? Or was it /. alreadey?
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
He had an article on "Armour Potted Meat Food Product" (on the canned website). See if you can find it, it is one of the funniest things I've ever read.
Everything is mainstream now.
I started looking for pictures of the sextoy Aibo thing because the article didn't have any
Sorry everyone
Mmmmmmm
In theory, if the pixel's color were deep enough, you could imagine that it showed a whole scene, just extremely anti-aliased.
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Burn my karma and mod me down if you want but THANK GOD the quickies are back. I missed them so so much.
I regularly buy Cento anchovies, because it helps with the fresh breath problem. I never thought I'd see it in a weird canned foods collection, let alone linked from slashdot!
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
The new URL is http://www.exonome.com/fj/phkl/.
Please use the new URL. The owner of the site of the old URL would probably rather not be slashdotted.
Incidentally I know the guy who did this, he's utterly cool. You should check out some of his other stuff at http://www.exonome.com/fj/ such as ToriAntiTori and Virginity At Last. (ObDisclaimer: I had a hand in the latter.)
Have you ever... Moved from colo to colo? just to move back again? in a week? in a day? Have you ever had all of you redunt equipment fail? After the first move? second? On the same day? Did the tape drive fail, in a colo? at 3:00 am sunday? during a move? Did you have to RMA the tape drive? On Monday? and talk to support? Three times? Just to get an RMA? Did you ever have to bang a hard drive with a screwdriver to get data off? In a colo? because backup of the system was on the system? Twice? in the same day? Did you ever have to rerack equipment? because the rack were not stable? In a colo? just after it was built out? Twice in the same day? While working at an accounting office? have you ever had a Array fail? Two? in two diffrent locations? On the same day? at the same time? At 5:00 PM? On April 15?
Slashdotted... so web.archive.org to the rescue!
e cg.media.mit.edu/
http://web.archive.org/web/20011201213554/http://
-- Yoz
I love how they mention that a "patent is pending" - we all know given the ineptness of the USPTO, that they will get it, too!
Also, I love this little tidbit:
Foreverbright(TM) lights are built with patent pending circuitry to maximize efficiency of their LEDs. This revolutionary design concept eliminates
the use of traditional components that add to cost and generate heat. While details are proprietary, in essence the circuitry allows the LEDs to flash on and off with AC power.
Um, can you say "120VAC to 12VAC power transformer"? Good, I knew you could!
Actually, I suppose they in some way change the AC sine wave from the transformer (make it a 6VAC transformer) into some approximation of a square wave, then apply some form of DC offset voltage such that the waveform ran from 0-12VDC - but somehow I think that would be overkill...
Reason is the Path to God - Anon
I'm sorry, but Kraft's processed-cheese-food singles should be on that food website. Perhaps along with Wonder Bread, and Taco Bell Taco Lunchables.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
So who comes when this thing is called?
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
ineffable.mp3 page
screw this anon coward crap. i set up an account, but damn cookies!
Shame on that woman for hoarding all the rare and valuable AOL disks, when this poor sick little girl is trying to break the Guinness record.
In fact, by looking at the color mismatch between the receptacle/wires and the bulb casing, it looks like they may have used traditional wires/receptacles, and just put in the LED bulbs. If so, I wouldn't bet on great reliability.
Also, I suspect the wife and others would find the traditional LED colours a little "off" from more traditional Christmas colours, but that's just speculation. The green and yellow look pretty pale...
Does anyone know different regarding how they fit in their receptacles???
-me
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
Folks, folks, that's not what Hello Kitty is all about.
Check out this vibrator !!
I've never looked at Hello Kitty quite the same way...
It's about how the Yugoslav army used microwave ovens as decoys against NATO troops. Quote: "It was funny listening to NATO claiming to have destroyed some 20-30 MiG-29s when I knew that we have had only 16 of them at the beginning of their attacks."
I'm mildly interested, but none of the links seem to have them available. Are these things actually reasonably priced, and has anyone seen them in stock anywhere?
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
You know, if I wanted to test a hosting service, I would find a site listed there and post it on /. If it didn't crash, it might be a decent hosting service. Of course I would have to lie about what is on the Website. Pr0n for geeks and nerds. Click http://....
Yavista
Sounds like they changed the definition of "forever" while I wasn't paying attention.
And then it goes on to talk about N and P silicon, and so forth. I guess they changed the definition of "easy to understand" too.
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three persons, two of them absent.
The canned food link reminds me of the time I went shopping at the Super 88 Asian food store in Boston and saw for sale packages of "Cock testicles" in the meat section. I didn't pick them up to see if there was a recipe on them, or if satisfaction was guaranteed. At least you can get a discount card for them: http://web.mit.edu/cssa/www/year01_02/services/sup er88_shopping.html
Take a bunch of mini-marshmallows and spread them out evenly on a plastic tray, covering the whole tray with a single layer. Put this inside a microwave, making sure that the tray doesn't rotate. Turn the microwave on for ~30 seconds on low.
Now, take the tray out of the microwave. You'll see a repeating pattern in the marshmallows, going from puffy to flat and back to puffy again in an array. What you're seeing is the standing wave of the microwaves reflecting off of the sides of the microwave.
Now, measure the average distance between peaks in the standing wave. This is the wavelength of the microwaves. Now, here's the cheating part. Look on the back of the microwave for the frequency of the microwaves. It's usually around 2540 MHz. Calculate the speed of light from
c = frequency x wavelength
Heh. Now that I've written that all out, I've found a link. Here's another, very similar method on : bowle's physics.
Brant
But the real story was that I had a very hard time finding the computer controlled ones anymore ("multifunction", 8 modes, color coordinated patterns). The guy at Orchard Supply claimed he'd been there three years and had never heard of such a thing. Er, right. Home Depot finally had them, $8, but only with red, green, yellow strands (no blue anymore). Close enough.
My previous multifunction color bulbs, which I bought from Orchard Supply three years ago, had the control circuit short out last year. Nice "poof" sound. Perhaps the new ones will last longer. If they'd had multifunction LED strands, I would have got them.
Toasties!
"Darn, my winmodem won't work with Linux? I'll have to recompile it... with my blowtorch."
It would be worth modifying my Thinkpad 600X to a PHKL, just to see the face of the IM guy when I return it next year for memory upgrade. That'd be priceless!
Sigged!
I really don't see what's so strange about most of the canned goods listed there. I ate about half those products while I was a kid. Quite frankly I wouldn't be surprised if the bottom shelf of my parents pantry didn't still have cans of Jack Mackrel or deviled ham.
the robot pet vibrator.
Sigged!
that microwave dude is like the next Marie Curie.
Seriously, I would not want to live next door to someone doing that shit without a dentist's wall of lead in between.
Can you imagine all those messed up things that happen, and yet we eat food that comes out of it?!
- passion
OK, maybe the baby conch is a little offbeat, but in my neck of the woods there's nothing unusual about Vienna Sausage, Beany Weany, or Underwood Deviled Ham. No fishing expedition is complete without a few cans of the above, along with a sleeve of soda crackers, a couple cans of beer or Coke, and a few sticks of beef jerky tucked in a mini-Playmate and stowed under the console of your bass boat. If Vienna Sausages are strange, then where's the tin of sardines or the smoked baby oysters? As the other poster said, Pork Brains in Milk Gravy: now that's strange!
--Jim
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17055.html
It's got Crusoe processor in it.
And guess what? It dual boots to Linux. There is a switch on the right side, Set it to A and it boots Windows (2k I think) set it to B and it boots a very stripped down Linux that only runs Winamp. (for obvious reasons)
This article represents the widest /. DDoS attack on various web sites since the /. effect was originally observed and coined.
This gives me some ideas as to how I might use this to my advantage somehow...
Now you can get it smoke-flavored or in a lovely spread.
Another neat MW trick is building a sustained plasma ball
it is done w/ a pencil led and a microwave-safe glass ball... very cool, must try.
see here also.
There are lots of cool science you can do with your microwave, like creating floating plasma balls for instance. They make cool filming/photographing material.
Check here for more wacky fun with that kitchen appliance. It has even more links to microwave science and stuff you can do with your microwave.
DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER:
If you _do_ one of these experiments, make sure you get all the safety precautions right, and don't over-experiment. If you go blind and everything looks fuzzy you should stop IMMEDIATELY, since you are busy boiling your cornea and the inner fluids of your eyes solid. This is a sure sign that your microwave is leaking and you are standing too close. Luckily, his is a temporary infliction if you're out of the way quick enough, but certainly not healthy for your eyes. This same thing happened to a bud of mine who was messing with microwave antennaes and signal-amplifiers. He actually took a microwave apart to hook up to his amplifier. And yes, he was standing too close. It took a few months until he had his full vision back.
I can't wait. Hello Kitty is already on everything else, I'm sure the Segway won't escape its evil grasp, (if it lasts long enough.)
BTW, forget the eBay post, the evolution of the "Hello Kitty vibrator " is going strong, their new version looks to be quite a bundle of joy, (for the kiddies, I'm sure it just mixes hot coco, oops, sorry for the pun.)
The term "White People" (or the homey "white folks" used by this crap site) is a false concept developed by Slavs, Irish, Scotsmen, and other borderline types in an attempt to associate themselves with the Germanic Aryan.
Please don't further this politically correct misuse of the language. Thanks.
That reminds me. I'm all out of pickled fish cakes.
Don't buy them... We got some at my place, and we've already had 2 strings burn out. I havn't investigated too closely, but it appears that although they attempted to wire them in parallel, if one LED dies the whole string goes. They're really hard to get out of their little sockets too, so it's tough to replace them one at a time to find the faulty one.
<sigh>
You are stupid. Sept 11 was not an attack on a race, it was an attack on a way of life. Capitalism. Racists just use things like the terrorist attacks to further their ignorant hate.
The establishment? That sounds funny. The NAACP and other "racist" hispanic organizations are trying to bring diversity and equality to America through education. It may appear that they are racist to you, but that is because you are insecure and ignorant.
I encourage you to not be ignorant.
Life is like pants... fit in or you don't fit in.
On one of the cans it says 'Old Fisherman'. I'm feeling sick already.
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REDUNDANT? damn. When I clicked reply nobody had said anything about it yet. I was being nice. And for that I get -1? That sucks. I should have atleast got 1. Moderators are ALWAYS right I guess.
Life is like pants... fit in or you don't fit in.
Dear Santa
I want to be an AIBO in Japan in my next life.
yeah dude, we used to get about one quickie posting a week. Definately a cool part that i miss. Also: look out for the april first articles =) welcome to /.!
sig?
Let me guess, and LED in parallel with a regular diode running n the oposite direction, and a resistor.
I get mine at K-mart. String of 100 regular (filament type) lights for about a buck fifty. After the holidays I throw them away. That way I never have to roll them up, store them, untangle them, look for burned out lights or any of the other nonsense that makes Christmas such a fun holiday.
hey tma, you got modded to -1, flamebate
:)
owned again...
gc
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Stupid people, doing stupid stuff - on video. Check it out, it's f'n funny.
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You know, I swore I was going to see the next inexplicably popular collectible item coming - classic arcade games, those postcards for defunct dotcoms from the free dispensers in coffeeshops and bars, etc. But sure enough, I miss out on the next big thing, the mighty AOL CD that has been keeping my coffee table ring-free. Just goes to show you. I'll never throw anything out again, ever.
You like canned foods? How about Potted Meat Food Product? Take a look at our review of this delicacy at monkeysvsrobots.com.
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
If you put metal in a microwave, you'll get thrown back in time and get stuck!!!
sure...weve all made fun of most of those things (and even eaten them after weve spent all our money on whatever bullshit...and were forced to eat our beloved gag-gifts) but one of the oddest canned foods i have seen came from our own government. i have a can of USDA pork. there is no paper label, its just the silver can with black lettering and the outline of a pig. i think it contains pork (naturally), water, salt, and probably some kind of sodium-whats-it-called. and i thought government cheese was ammusing...
"Alot of people don't know what they are doing...and most are pretty good at it." -George Carlin
I must say the single pixel web-cam is got to be the best page listed.
It's short and to the point - funny - and the text only version made me fall over laughing... because it's true. I wonder if he knew about being slashdotted before or after he put that up.
Get your Unix fortune now!
...is it bad if I've eaten half those "odd" canned foods before?
;-D
...is it bad if I actually *liked* them?
...is it bad if I actually eat some of them regularly?
...oh my...is my life not sad or what? You know you're in bad shape when the company that makes the stuff you eat can't even afford a product name, so they have to call it exactly what it is, even though nobody, not even them, is really sure of exactly what it is...
DennyK
Now there really is no need for women to have boyfriends or pets. They can kill two birds with one stone with this thing.
In the endless pursuit to please a woman, robot vibrators!
Over the summer, my friends and I collected over 300 AOL CDs from local stores. We did not do this for some collection, but rather to prevent others from getting them and being sucked into the horrible world of AOL.
Blockbuster's supplies widdled down to nothing. CompUSA had so many CDs on display that it was impossible to even dent their reserves. It was fun to watch the faces of the check-out associates when I grabbed all the CDs in one side of a display which contained at least 40 CDs. I just "[took] one" many, many times.
Still trying to figure out how to make a CD launcher to put all these to some good use.
The approximate quote went something like "I actually really like the quickies too, but they take a lot of work. You need at least a half dozen links, and people just don't send in many interesting, small things for me to use. So send in more quickies, and I'll post them more often." I think it was in a Geeks in Space episode (which are highly entertaining, I listened to most of them while playing Half-life).
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
Yeah, now imagine that flame inside of a microwave.
That's what happens when you're a little kid and try to put one in for 15 seconds, only to accidentally make it 155 seconds and then not know how to manually stop the damn thing.
..true story. Nearly burned the house down...
My local Albertson's (Dallas, TX 75287) had ForEver lights on sale for $1.99 for strand of 100. Guess it was a loss leader or something. But I did manage to get 4 boxes (with is like 160 feet of lights).
You asshole moderators! I was on-topic and correct! People who put metal things in their microwave are stupid. It's very hazardous.
Aye aye aye aye, I am the Frito bandito.
Seriously, with a bit of money and research, modern technology really ought to be able to develop amazing new sex toys. Or for that matter, what about a porno made by the team behind Final Fantasy? That would be obscenely cool.
I guess, when you come right down to it, I just want a holodeck, with "the safeties off," if you know what I mean...
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than that of whether a submarine can swim" -EWD
Can someone explain to me why tinfoil sparks in a microwave? I've thought about this a bit, and had a few bull sessions with fellow physicists about it, but I've never heard a convincing answer. The first thing everyone says is photo-electric effect, but that can't be right because the work function for most metals is ~1 eV, and that's in the visible or near-infrared.
My only other guess is induced eddy currents. Anyone have a good answer?
Thanks,
Brant
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/technology/03ERO S.html?searchpv=nytToday
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or copy/paste:
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/03/technology/03
is quite possibly the nastiest foodstuff known to (this) man. Think spam is bad? Hoooboy... Anyway, one year at this wacky place I spent some time at (TAMS), at a raise-money-for-the-hobby-clubs fair, a friend walked around selling chocolate covered treats. As in, chocolate-covered chucks of Treet. Several people bought it, I think only one person didn't puke it right back up.
I can't get it to work, though I did ruin a pretty good plate. I think it sparked but no explosive flames, I'll just have to go try it again...
Twitter.com/TrentonHyatt
Microwave oven seems to do quite a lot of tricks on
a rr os/sam.html
anything conductive. Here I found a plasuible explanation. Not sure if it makes scientific sense....
http://members.tripod.com/~hochwald/microwave/b
And here is the website of the grad student behind the hoax.
Damn. I went to grade school with that guy...and I'm nowhere near as...well...creative? (Monzy, if you're reading this, congrats, you crack me up.)
My link to start the game is; Nirvana MIDIs. Post a reply once it's nuked.
And here I thought PHKL was pronounced 'fecal'
those bags that doritos come in are great for microwave hijinx!
they'll sparkle and shrink down to fractions of their original size!
... you need the ones that are lined with some sort of metallic-looking stuff on the inside....
never tried the plastic-only ones, but i'm sure it wouldn't me much of a show... just a pain in the ass to clean up.
Who gives a rats arse about all the other stuff on this site? MORE QUICKIES!!!!
NZGames Discussion Board. Topic: Fucking owned =/
You are stupid. Sept 11 was not an attack on a race, it was an attack on a way of life.
You utter fucktard. You complete and utter fucktard. September 11th had absolutly nothing at all to do with politics, and everything to do with an attack by a Muslim terrorist against a none Muslim people. It was abso-fucking-lutly to do with race and religion!
off-topic? Didn't anyone read the canned-meat thing?
Having read your link I see a new use for rader: blowing up cd's.
I did the CD in a micro wave also some time to show the lightning effect (Some people tell to put a glass of water in the Microwave not to destroy it). I guess they can use radar also to get the CD effect.
No need to tell here the use for this:
-AOL/Compuserve thingies. (where do they store these things?)
-copy protection......
-- As for my rabbit i have to say
I love how the guy didn't even bother to take the food out of the freezer, heh.
Super cheap hairspray is about the best possible thing for that; you better believe liquid plastic mixed with propellant is flammable!
Palaces, barricades, threats, meet promises
..and when you get bored with microwaving them, Put them on a Tesla coil
Yuck.
Spam spread?
Dear God, who on earth would eat such a thing?!? And I thought Marmite was foul...
I've always thrown the CDs away and kept the nice box they came in, they fit perfectly with my DVDs and are nice for taking one CD somwhere when you have no case for it.
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Can somebody enlighten me as to what's considered strange about tinned anchovies? OK, ones in jars are generally nicer, but tinned ones are useful when you run out.
What is wiered is the jar of snails eggs I saw in Fauchon in Paris. Nice clear jar so that you could see them in all their transparent glisteniness. Yum.
Sony Doggy Style (tm)?
War crimes, torture, lies, illegal spying... Would someone give Bush a blowjob, already, so he can be impeached?
http://130.244.202.52/ztv/wimans/ladda_ner.asp
They got a microwave on fire and all sorts of other stuff..
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
I can't wait to see the "patent-pending circuitry" which sounds to me like just a rectifier. (Not even a proper full-wave network, either, if they flash at 60Hz rather than 120Hz.)-:
Oh, well, having just hand-tested 300 bulbs in those crummy series-wired strings to find the duds, I want some Forever Lights anyway.
I wonder what a furbie will do inside a microwave ...
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... furby has gone airborn!
10 seconds
20 seconds
30 seconds
ignite
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I don't live in New Zealand any more, but I used to, and back in my younger and poorer days (i.e. the only fridge we could afford had been scavenged from a rubbish dump and had had the handle removed so little kids wouldn't get stuck inside), we had a fridge in our flat with an icebox bearing a remarkable resemblance to the one in the photographs. Which also got chunked up with ice on an alarmingly regular basis.
We used an electric drill to break up the ice into chunks which we then dumped on the lawn outside to melt away at their leisure. Very little mess, and no danger unless you got a bit too eager with the drill and cracked the back of the freezer (no, we didn't -- we might have been misguided, but not that misguided).
Ah, those were the good old days. Remind me to tell you the story about the rental washing machine that exploded the first time we used it -- memories of flames shooting out the back of a Fisher and Paykel and the receptionist at the rental agency telling us "ooh, yes, it's quite impressive when they do that, isn't it? Just make sure you don't throw any water on it, and we'll send someone around in a couple of days to have a look at it". Silly cow. Mind you, on the bright side, we did have three fire engines come over to put it out -- really livened up the day!
Wow, anyone knows what's that incredibly cool looking load monitor in the Hell Kitty screenshot? I want one!!
In the Pink Hello Kitty Laptop article, it recommends going to FAO Schwartz for the appropriate volume of Hello Kitty merchandise. For those of you in or near New York City, Sanrio (makers of Hello Kitty) has an entire store on 42nd street (they even carry the Hello Kitty coffee maker!).
:-)
For the definitive list of places which carry Hello Kitty Stuff, try here.
Hello Kitty, Destroyer Of Worlds
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Open mind, insert foot.
Back in the day, AOL was once called AppleLink. I used to beta test for them, and one day they sent me a letter and two new disks for the new renamed service.
"We're renaming AppleLink to America Online..."
Thus, I have two floppys for the Apple ][ that say America Online, and an accompanying letter. I think I even keep it in the original mailing package.
I've figured that I'll keep it around and one day I'll sell it on eBay or something. Just curious what that would draw...
Oh well...
Never hit your grandmother with a shovel, for it leaves a bad impression on her mind...
I ended up eating the Potted Meat with crackers at lunch on a dare. Mmmm. Potted Meat.
My favorite ingredient is the Partially Defatted Cooked Beef Fatty Tissue.
Can you imagine the guys cooking up the Potted Meat, saying:
"Hey, Larry, this needs some Cooked Beef Fatty Tissue to make it taste right. But not fully fat fatty tissue. De-fat the tissue partially."
AOL cd's make great coasters....right along with Earthlink cd's, or anyone else who feels obliged to send such things through the mail...this way you have a new coaster *and* a nice carrying case.
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...pork-barrel spending? :}
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I know they sound wierd, but some of those things are actually fairly tasty.
As for my contribution: I have a can of smoked rattlesnake.
From the site: Using microwave ovens as radar decoys. :-) I'm from Yugoslavia and I supposed that you know very well what was happening here a year ago. Well I have some friends from the army and they learned me the new application for microwave ovens. It is not widely known that the regular microwave ovens use the same wavelength as most of the air-defense radar. So what we did was (it is no longer classified :-) only adjusting the regular microwave to work with it's door opened somewhere under the open sky. I'm not sure, but we were probably using just long cables connected with standard 220V~ output as a power supplies. And what was happening: if that bastard pilot (no offense to you since I can see that you are from The Netherlands :-) doesn't have a visual contact he can only say that radar is tracking him. So he launches the anti-radar missile and - he wastes a several hundred thousand $ missile for a price of one microwave oven. We literaly used hundreds of such decoys - often planting tens of decoys with one REAL radar. And if the pilot is lucky enough to hit the actual radar, then everything is O.K. for him. But there are much bigger chances that he will hit a decoy instead, and after that he gets what he deserves from the actual radar. That's the story. What do you say? A total new application for an MW oven! :-)"
"I liked that about the microwave ovens very much, and I just feel that I must add something about it. This is a very interesting experiment but I certainly hope that you will never get in position to try it.