Creative use for empty whiskey bottles

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Creative use for empty whiskey bottles

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 5, 2006 @04:50AM from the now-that's-a-mod dept.

Japala writes "You might have seen computers built inside of toasters, radios, garden lamps etc. As motherboards keep getting smaller and smaller the possibilites on where you can embed then increases. As it turns out, you can get them to fit inside an empty glass bottle. Whisky PC for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server."

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Good TImes by SteelFist · 2006-02-05 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny

So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?
1. Re:Good TImes by FinestLittleSpace · 2006-02-05 04:54 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  wwWWWoeorkss ffdffoooor meeEEEEEEeeeeeeee
2. Re:Good TImes by SillySnake · 2006-02-05 05:00 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Can't forget that he had to do most of the work at night while his newborn son was sleeping. Perhaps if he hadn't drank enough of those bottles to come up with the idea of putting a computer in one, he might not have the son and could have built the computer during the day. :)
3. Re:Good TImes by FidelCatsro · 2006-02-05 05:01 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  A tower case filled with 24 year old single Isla Malt sounds like a nice companion project
  
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4. Re:Good TImes by mrjb · 2006-02-05 05:03 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  > For the project I selected a 1.5 litre Ballantine's bottle for case.
  > That was the proper size and shape for the task at hand.
  
  As the project was a success, I'm guessing his next project will be the 3 liter bottle.
  
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5. Re:Good TImes by iezhy · 2006-02-05 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  if I would have made home server for every bottle of wiskey i drank... i would be running pretty powerfull boewulf cluster by now :)
6. Re:Good TImes by mrm677 · 2006-02-05 07:43 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  So basically you get to drink a bottle of whiskey before building your computer. Does that sound like a good idea to anyone else?
  
  My last computer build started at 3am after coming back from the bars completely hammered. I was completely wasted. In the morning, everything still worked except one case fan was backwards.
7. Re:Good TImes by iphayd · 2006-02-05 10:41 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  So, you work for Gateway, eh?
Cheat! by LiquidCoooled · 2006-02-05 04:53 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought they were going to try and rollup the motherboard and unfurl the memorysticks and processor once inside.

Instead they just cut a hole in it.

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portable, and tastes nice too... by joe+155 · 2006-02-05 04:55 · Score: 5, Interesting

well, it is certainly more portable and better looking than your average tower. I think that there could well be a market for these things, in all different types of bottles or shaped glass cases... If you wanted to go all out you could put a plasma screan on the side... set it to show the original label as a screan saver if you want to go all out...

I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...

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for what? by Quixote · 2006-02-05 04:57 · Score: 5, Funny

for a whiskey lover that needs a small and silent server.
Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...
1. Re:for what? by ToasterofDOOM · 2006-02-05 05:29 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!!! Hangover + droning buzz == OMFGLOLWTFBBQ pain!
  
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2. Re:for what? by HTL2001 · 2006-02-05 05:44 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  as can using words such as "exacerbate"
  
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There's always a good use for empty bottles by TubeSteak · 2006-02-05 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Put a fish in it :O)

I've got an empty 1.75 liter bottle of Jack Daniels that one of my alky loving friends gave to me. I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.

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1. Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles by Average_Joe_Sixpack · 2006-02-05 05:30 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  I've been meaning to put a fish in there for a while now.
  
  I'm assuming this is a joke, but juuuuussssssstttttt in case it would be a bit cruel to stuff even a Betta into anything less than 4 gallons. And a goldfish should not be put into any tank smaller than 10 gallons with an extra gallon for each additional fish. I can't stand the attitude of fish being disposable pets.
2. Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles by TheRaven64 · 2006-02-05 05:34 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  A fish in a bottle would likely suffocate in a short time. Bottles taper towards the top, and so there is almost certainly not enough surface area to get enough oxygen into the water from the air.
  
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3. Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles by Fishead · 2006-02-05 09:11 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Makes me wonder if a fish would survive in whiskey-colored cold tea, to add to the effect :)
  
  Check out http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_discus.php
  
  From the link: "The water the discus comes from looks like a well brewed cup of tea from the large amount of wood and leaves releasing tanins into the water."
  
  Throw in a discus while it is small, then take good care of it until it is large. You then can do what Bob and Doug did with their mouse in the beer bottle and see if you can get a case of wiskey because you found a fish in the bottle.
  
  Your main problem would be figuring out how to filter the water to maintain quality. Assuming you had a big enough bottle, your discus might be quite happy in there.
  
  *goes to tell wife he needs a big bottle of wiskey and $30 for a discus*
Where do you get that stuff? by autopr0n · 2006-02-05 04:59 · Score: 3, Interesting

Is there any site that lists all the motherboards and components you can use to build these tiny machines? I've seen mini-itx.com, but it's very hard to navigate to specific boards, cases, psu's etc. It's mostly a news site, and it seems like if you don't keep up with it every day you'll have no idea what's up. So, where do you go to find these little things? I'd love to build a PC based alarm clock.

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What's with the hole? by Phat_Tony · 2006-02-05 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

They cheated! They cut a hole in the side of the bottle.
They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.

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1. Re:What's with the hole? by Bing+Tsher+E · 2006-02-05 06:34 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  Indeed. I haven't heard of anybody doing that level of surface mount construction, but it should be possible. The constraint would be that you'd have to build the computer with only small enough chips to fit through the neck. That would eliminate many LSI and larger chips. The whole thing could be built with SO-14, SO-16, SO-20, and SO-24 pin packages, though, using conventional 'logic gate' design. Lots and lots of soldering, though.
Wow! by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-05 04:59 · Score: 5, Funny

A chip in a bottle!
A whisky server... by ToteAdler · 2006-02-05 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

Would that make it a bar tender?
Re:Nice by Deitheres · 2006-02-05 05:07 · Score: 4, Funny

For a small fee, I will drink the whiskey for you... giving you a perfectly usable emptpy bottle! You may then mod to your hearts content!

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PC in a bottle by ikejam · 2006-02-05 05:10 · Score: 5, Funny

aah, now i know why windows is acting drunk..
Re:The perfect PC for a slashdotting! by tourvil · 2006-02-05 05:14 · Score: 3, Funny

And if it does go down, hey, its only passed out, and not burning in flame.

Unless you forget to clean out all the remaining alcohol...
Re:Hey? by windex · 2006-02-05 05:14 · Score: 3, Funny

How do you think he keeps his son quiet at night?
Re:Any more info on the motherboard? by TubeSteak · 2006-02-05 05:14 · Score: 4, Informative

SBC stands for: Single Board Computer

3.5" and 5.25" seem to be standard sizes.
Of course, 3.5" doesn't really mean 3.5"

The specs I looked at (first google result)say that the
3.5" SBCs are actually 5.75" Length x 4" Width (146mm x 101.6mm)

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Try one of these by nurb432 · 2006-02-05 05:21 · Score: 4, Informative

http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.83/it.A /id.369/.f

I bet it would fit just fine.

But a breakable glass case? While it looks cool, no thanks...

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1. Re:Try one of these by oculuses · 2006-02-05 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  If you're that worried about dropping your computer hard enough to break the glass, then perhaps you should lay off the wiskey. :)
Re:Cooling by Uber+Banker · 2006-02-05 05:23 · Score: 3, Interesting

I like the concept, but cutting holes for fans was cheap.

Putting sufficient airpressure in the top usually pops the bottom off a glass bottle, look at the mould marks in any spirit or beer bottle to see the join. To apply such pressure, decend the palm of your hand onto a bottle mostly filled with water, should make a clean break.
Form A Band by slashbob22 · 2006-02-05 05:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Fill the bottles to different levels, form a band, and recreate Windows theme sounds.
While your at it, rebrand Windows Vista:
"Windows Redneck" with the slogan "You ain't ever seed Windows this clean(tm)"
"Windows Whiskey" with the slogan "Computing, soo you cann drinnk at the sssspeed of your buss, busi, work.(tm)"

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Do it without cutting the bottle? by stickyc · 2006-02-05 05:34 · Score: 3, Interesting

You should be able to drop one of those SIMM sized linux modules in the mouth of a Mickey's Big Mouth. If only they had an equally small wireless module, you might fit the whole thing including enough AA batteries to run for a few days and have a working linux bottle with the cap on.
Right... by no_barcode · 2006-02-05 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

"I tried to cut and drill couple of similar bottles at home but I realized that my tools are not good enough for it, then finaly a professional glass grinder man prepared the whisky bottle for me."

Right. Your inability to cut holes in the bottle couldn't possibly have had anything to do with your method of emptying the bottle, could it?
And in other news... by therage96 · 2006-02-05 05:51 · Score: 3, Funny

AP News (12:44pm - EST) - Tragic Death of Geek

Tragically a young geek lost his (albeit lonely) life last night after starting a fire in his room of his parent's house. It would seem that the young and impetuous geek decided after reading an article on the technology news website "Slashdot," that building a computer out of a used whiskey bottle would be a good idea. However, upon emptying the bottle (and his bladder several times), the poor geek forgot to wash the bottle out and promptly started a fire the moment he turned his new "Whiskey PC" on and sadly, perished in the blaze.

Memorial services will be held in your MMORPG of choice in that "one zone."
Just thinking out loud... by SleepyHappyDoc · 2006-02-05 05:53 · Score: 4, Interesting

This mod, while very cool, would make an excellent semi-portable monitoring device, say, to keep an eye on the stockroom at your restaurant or whatever. Stuff some kind of thin webcam in the bottle neck, lay it on it's side, headless (cords to the wall, somehow) and you'd have an inconspicuous camera that can store images/video locally or ftp them somewhere remote (then you could skip the laptop drive altogether and run the whole thing off the CF card, perhaps allowing a smaller bottle), and looks like an empty bottle on a shelf. Extra points if you mount it in a wine rack with a few real bottles.

Of course, you could also probably break an empty bottle, drop in one of those wireless network cameras, and glue it back together, but that wouldn't be half as cool. ;)

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PSU by TubeSteak · 2006-02-05 06:21 · Score: 3, Informative

On Page 3 he tells you he used a 60W mini-tix PSU.

Since you can see (Pg. 4) that he's using a powerbrick, he coulda gone with the PicoPSU

Wouldn't have been as cramped in that bottle.

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What about when you get pulled over? by Otto · 2006-02-05 06:22 · Score: 3, Funny

"No officer, I'm not drinking, I'm analysing radio signals to help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence."

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Re:Ballentines? by errxn · 2006-02-05 06:23 · Score: 3, Funny

He should have use Jack Daniel's or Jim Beam. That way, when the computer dies, he can just put it up on cinder blocks in the front yard.

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Next Project... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-05 06:35 · Score: 5, Funny

...PDA in a hip flask.
If anyone cares... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-05 06:35 · Score: 5, Interesting

In places where a formal title is needed, it's usually "Master Glassblower", although there may be the occasional Journeyman working along side where there's enough demand for more than one. If you poke around larger research institutions, there's usually one hiding out somewhere, who handles all of the custom glass blowing, cutting, polishing, optical gluing (EG, for custom laser prisms), and shaping needs. In larger cities, check under "glassblowers" in the Yellow Pages.
In practice, "great wizard" is far more commonly used than any formal title, because if you can't buy the right shape piece of glass off-the-shelf, then you need to find someone to grovel before. I know of at least one research project that was derailed for almost three years when the previous master retired "unexpectedly" at the ripe age of 80, and his 35-year old Journeyman assistant who got promoted didn't have half a century of expertise under his belt. Requests that the old guy used to craft flawlessly in one day, the new guy sometimes needed four to get what they wanted exactly right... or worse, almost but not quite exactly right.
Which just goes to show, loss of critical personnel isn't only a problem in IT.
Re:I have a better use for empty whiskey bottles by macdaddy357 · 2006-02-05 07:15 · Score: 4, Funny

An empty whiskey bottle is good for hittin' arseholes over the head when they call us Irishmen a bunch of violent drunks!

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Whisk(e)y spelling... by ari_j · 2006-02-05 08:13 · Score: 3, Informative

Just in case anyone is interested...

The article blurb gets it right once and wrong once. I checked TFA and he used a Ballantine's bottle. Ballantine's is a Scotch, which is a type of whisky (without the E). Other whiskies/whiskeys use different spellings:

Scotch whisky
Irish whiskey
Rye whiskey
Tennessee whiskey
Canadian whisky
Bourbon

And now you know the rest of the story. ;)