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What Can You Do With $100?
An anonymous reader asks "I was recently gifted with $100 and thought, 'What's the coolest geektoy--new, used, cobbled together, hacked--that one hundred clams could buy?' Home automation? Older PDA streaming client? Bathtub ROV? Basic stamp robotic kit? Something fun, something useful, something educational, something that says 'Look what I put together for $100.' Lemme know!"
totally.
If you find 6.99 other friends with the same amount of cash on hands, you can get a swell new SCO license.
How about an iBrator for the lady in your iLife?
Latewire
A blowjob, plain and simple.
With a Dremel and a decent soldering iron, all your geeky dreams can come true. (well, okay, not that one with the blonde and the midgets and the mayonaise, but all the *other* geeky dreams)
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
5,000 Christmas lights at post holiday prices: $100 ;-)
Linux/Apache/Perl/etc.: Free
Duping the world: Priceless!
Doing it for real will cost a little more than $100 if you want a decent webcam, but maybe I'll do that Christmas 2005 ...
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I keep on doing this, but people tend to give funny looks to the guy making out with his hand in the corner......
Monstar L
Donate to a local animal shelter (like the one I do). And get a tax write off to boot!
Or really, anything that will demonstrate how evil it is to use "gift" as a verb... ;-)
...two chicks at the same time.
Noble yes, geeky no.
Better yet, waste the money on a domain and a year's worth of web hosting.
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?objekt
You could get something geeky like igotmyownwebsitefor100bucks.com
-- Boycott Shell
But then he'd only have ~$94.05 left...
"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his." - Patton
You must be new to Slashdot.
If you're coming from the right, then the homeless are homeless because of their own laziness and moral failings, and it would be immoral to protect them from the consequences of their actions. Better to let them die in the street.
If you're coming from the left, then homelessness is a government problem, and the $100 should be used lobbying the government to give more money to the homeless. Or used to improve a homeless person's self-esteem. Or to keep the homeless from using racial slurs. Ideally, you would spend the $100 lobbying to improve the self-esteem of homeless people by teaching them not to use racial slurs.
How dare you attempt to defy simple categorization? Have you no shame, sir?
For $100, you can get 100 or more rolls of toilet paper, which ought to last a few years.
>Communication, preferrably with grace, economy, and clarity, is a much higher priority.
errm...that should be "preferably." You don't have anything against correct spelling, do you?
This is more evil.
:)
Let someone play with the magnets. The magnets are so strong, that most people will pinch their fingers within a few minutes
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
"Attack my enemies, Western Digital Raptor!"
*screee!*
but only if that $100 is in the form of a Tricky Dick Fun Bill.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
..buy something that will require learning on your part to use it. You'll be amazed how quickly it can become an integral part of your computing experience.
Like a second video card, a radio tuner, or a winmodem.
Doing new kinds of things under Linux is always fun and educational. Well, it is for me, anway.
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Gahh! How people dring that stuff is beyond me...