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

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.

Comments

They STOLE my idea!

[mr. phantastik]

I had the idea for an easy bake oven a LONG time ago! Linkie

PC's and Rodents

[juniorkindergarten]

Back a few years a go I had a contract to service computers in a pizza chain. I got a call to come look at a store's computer that had developed some problems.
I got there and and was told one of the remotes wasn't working. I opened the case up and inside it all the cards were covered in mouse turd.
I traced out which remote wasn't working and pulled out the make table to discover a mouse had chewed the cables and died. It had died long enough ago that it had liquified and left a permanent "chalk line" around the corpse.
And yes they were eventually shut down.

Re:T-shirt super secret message

[dougmc]

By the way, the super secret message on the T-shirt says

Yes, we know. More interesting would have been how to decode it. Here's the program I wrote to do it --

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
{
local $/ ;
$d = <> ;
}

foreach (split //, $d) {
next if ! /^\d/ ;
$b = $b * 2 ;
$b++ if ($_) ;

$c++ ;
if ($c > 7) {
print chr($b) ;
$b = 0 ; $c = 0 ;
}
}

Not meant to be short or pretty, just to decode the message. I'm sure somebody will show how they did it in 2 or 1 lines soon enough. In fact, I'm surprised it hasn't happened already :)

Re:I am actually building the hamster cage

[rzbx]

I believe I had a similar idea as well. Didn't really put much thought into it though, and I would have probably used a gerbil or mouse. Thanks for the info though, just incase I really do get the urge to make a living place for a future rodent. Now that I think about it, why not make a huge network of space for a rodent to move about. One could use many clear tubes moving from place to place around a room with a few large places such as a computer case or tank on top of a dresser or even another compartment on a shelf. As long as the right materials are used, and all scenarios are thought through, then it shouldn't be too much trouble. I would love to see how a few mice would live in such an environment.

Re:I am actually building the hamster cage

[MoneyT]

Even though this story is a joke this guy actualy succeeded in building one.

Re:I am actually building the hamster cage

[WTFRUDOINBiotch]

Dude... You're not the first.

Check out the "Hammy" Series:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy1.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy2.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy3.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy4.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy5.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy6.jpg
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy7.jpg

Fake Ad

[May Kasahara]

Am I the only one who noticed the HL2/Doom 3/Halo 2 "Now Shipping/Click to Order" notice on the left hand side of the page? It's a pretty subtle joke compared to the others on ThinkGeek's site...

Re:EZ-Bake ovens and Geek childhood

[jargonCCNA]

-shrugs- I don't know how it's done... all I know is a 15- or 25-watt halogen bulb can produce as much light as a 100-watt incandescent, if not more, but gets the entire lamp very hot to the touch. Probably not as hot as a light socket, but then again, we don't worry about those tipping over onto your bed and lighting your sheets aflame, now do we?

Re:T-shirt super secret message

[Loozrboy]

On the assumption that less legible -> more geeky, I present my solution in Befunge:
z>80:p0>#@~'0-:v
z, $ 1
#$ ^ w :!#v_
z|!:-1gj#:0+*2\< <
z>0:p 2^

(God, I think it took longer to get that to display semi-properly than it did to write it :P)