schnitzel + toaster

"schnell, lecker, und gesund" ?

Laptop screen + drill

The EEE sadist forgot something!

Eee S&M

Not for the faint of heart (nor for the stupidity-hater)... Don't watch, Pimbert, don't watch!!

Tests résistance (Chocs, chaleur, froid) de l'Asus Eee
Uploaded by ray2fr

Random things you are not likely to need

Pizza vending machine


baguette wrist pad
push-up counter

preeedecessor, the ibm z50

In a topic describing the 3 minute (!!!) boot time of the cloudbook, I ran into an old machine from IBM.
This thing can be seen as a predecessor of the eee, the ibm workpad z50. It had a battery life up to 16 hours! And the choice to run the thing on standard AA batteries!

Wash your keyboard in your dishwasher!

Or, maybe rather don't. Encouraged by some posts on the subject (i like the comment by soyMilk there, pimbert could have said something like that [Also, there is a cool attempt at "Will it melt"]), and as usual driven mostly by a huge laziness, i decided that my keyboard was dirty and tossed it the dishwasher. After some days of drying, i plugged it back in, just to realize that it had pretty much ceased to work. Then upon disassembling the thing i realized how stupid it was not to do it in the first place, since it turned out that the keys didn't fall apart as i feared they would, because they are tethered to the top plastic board. The whole thing is, thus, perfectly washable, and without the hassle of having to put the keys back into a hybrid between a dvorak and a dutch keyboard in the process.


The keyboard could eventually be fixed (some soap residues were preventing electric contacts to occur upon pressing the keys, mostly). So, my advice is: Try to unmount your keyboard first, maybe there's no need to risk the life of its inner parts in a hot bath (in fact this guy already got it).

Next time, i'll report on trying this trick with an expensive wireless apple keyboard (one probably needs something along these lines)...

Update: Nope, doesn't work. I had to take the 100 or so keys out to clean the thing, since otherwise almost as many screws would have had to be dealt with, the results remaining uncertain. I never appreciated a clean keyboard that much.

Why it can still be fun to grow older

Because you can get Lego stuff as birthday present, of course! And even sometimes train your intelligence (and/or strategy skills, possibly, i.e. when you haven't studied physics and it's hopeless anyway): Thanks to my father who always was very supportive of my creativity (which most of the time translated to improbably ugly spaceships designed for universes where fundamental interactions are slightly different), here comes the Lego chess game!

Variations on the theme:

There can be only one

Twist and chess

Chess-nuts tree

After the show

Chess and math

uglyeee

The English decided that they couldn't stay behind with technological progress, and filled in the gap for ugly looking subnotebooks as the cloudbook obviously wasn't ugly enough. The proud result:


This piece of computer architecture is supposed to cost a hundred pounds, I have no idea how much that translates to in normal valuta. Apparently the machine was supposed to be equipped with a touchscreen, but the added 60 euros would have made the piece of 80's design priced in the wrong direction. Is there a video out? Does it keep standing upright? Good luck with that!

From: the Dutch tweakers website

Disgusting german food

Sometimes there are places where you'd prefer not to have lunch:


Translation/explanation (courtesy of Leo):


and


Honestly. Any decent cannibal would tell you that the potato salad is a no-no in this case.

Convenient german design

The Max Planck Institutes in Mainz, Germany have been conveniently designed so that, thanks to their complementary shapes, they can be packed together so as to save space once you no longer need them.

Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (left), and Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (right).

The only question left is what the heck will happen to the bunny in the process?

Internet people!

Nice! I didn't recognize some of them though, I am ashamed!

Life is full of difficult decisions.

A poster I saw in my little eco-ghetto-town.

Hmm, not sure, that one on the left might look rather good with a bit of peanut sauce.

Anyway, I think that this slogan is fit for many situations in daily life. It would be a practical variation to the "let's stay friends" idea after splitting up in a relationship.

Related question: What would a hobbit taste like? Probably chicken.


For people with small screens, a close up:


I always thought that graffiti was for the cool kids only. Imagine, with cool kids as nerdy as this, what would the nerds in this town be like? Actually, better not try to imagine that...