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PC Case For Hamsters, EZ Bake Oven in a Drive Bay

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-the-stuff dept.

ResQuad noted that Slashdot's OSDN Sister site ThinkGeek is selling some exciting new products including a PC Case for Hamsters and an EZ Bake Oven that fits in a 5.25 drive bay. They also have a limited run T-Shirt with a s3kr1t message on it. Lots of other fun stuff too.

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  1. T-shirt super secret message by thelenm · · Score: 4, Informative

    By the way, the super secret message on the T-shirt says, "I shopped at ThinkGeek on April Fools Day, and all I got was this lousy shirt!"

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    1. Re:T-shirt super secret message by Chembal · · Score: 3, Informative

      You forgot your imports, you insensitive clod!

      import java.io.*;

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  2. Re:EZ-Bake ovens and Geek childhood by SandSpider · · Score: 4, Informative

    In fact, you aren't the first person to think of this. I present to you: GE's Advantium oven.

    The people who claim Microwave Ovens are the successors are Fools! Fools! The reason being that the EZ Bake works off of light bulbs. (Incidentally, you would have wanted to rig a better lightbulb into the EZ Bake Oven to make it more powerful - I suggest Halogen.) The Advantium cooks with, you guessed it, Light.

    But, sadly, your joke has, in fact, been brought to, um, light. Sorry.

    =Brian

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  3. I am actually building the hamster cage by xThinkx · · Score: 5, Informative

    OK, so no lie, I have made several (failed) attempts to build, and will one day successfully build a similar hamster case.

    For everyone who's wondering why there are several attempts consider the following.

    • Habitrail tubes aren't solid, they have holes for ventilation (which will be addressed later). Hamsters urinate alot, and not in the same place, which led to the first case with junk parts smelling like hot piss in almost no time. Also urine corrodes things quickly.
    • Hamsters need bedding, which gets everywhere, they chew it up or scratch it into minute pieces that will clog fan intakes, etc. Bad stuff
    • Hamsters need some sort of open air ventilation to survive (and breathe). If this ventilation isn't above where they can reach they'll throw bedding/poop out of it somehow. If the ventilation is too high, it won't work and the hamster is done for. If you use even a low cfm fan to add to the ventilation, hamster will avoid it like the plague, causing general health and discomfort to the hamster
    • Hamsters chew...A LOT. One nearly unfortunate hamster chewed a hole big enough for him to get out into the case, he was working on the insulation of a 12V line when I cought him.

    So, there's the trials and tribulations of the Hamster case. Can't belive someone stole my idea...

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  4. hot dog cookers by zogger · · Score: 3, Informative

    you ever make a hot dog cooker when you were a kid? Easy instructions. Take a clean board (a 1 x 4 is handy size), pound two 16 penny nails through it, distance separating them approximately 3/4ths the length of a hot dog (check fridge meat drawer, hotdogs vary). Leave a 1/4 inch of nail and head showing. Snag (dad's) extension cord, cut off the female end, separate the wirez. Strip them a half inch or so, wrap one end to one nailhead, one to the other, then finish pounding the nails in. Get vice grips, bend nails parallel to board about halfway up the nails, pointing towards each other. Impale hotdog onto nails, making your circuit. Plug it in, cook to your specs. If you leave them on too long, reality will remind you of the fact....