Posted by: Captain Haddock March 9, 2007
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Hey Flips - What a short visit! She came, she commented, she left, eh? Tada ...ala the bandit queen? :P
SNDY - Many of the other places I love, including Frisco, are not too different on that account I think ..he he .. but yeah, you are right, I am having too much fun here to be able to settle down. LOL
Aiight folks, gotta hit the road in a bit. It's been great hanging out with everyone one on this thread - thanks for the company and the good time this week.
Departing thought: Saw this in the Globe - pretty neat contraption, eh? :P Happy Friday!
Refrigerator will toss you can of beer
This image made from video shows a contraption built by Duke University engineering graduate John Cornwell of Atlanta, Ga., to help remind him of campus life; a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control. Cornwell built the device to remind him of campus life at Duke University in Raleigh, N.C. He graduated in May 2006. (AP Photo via AP Video)
RALEIGH, N.C. --When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
"I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car's keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge's catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet -- "far enough to get to the couch," he said.
More here : - http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2007/03/08/refrigerator_will_toss_you_can_of_beer/?p1=MEWell_Pos4
This image made from video shows a contraption built by Duke University engineering graduate John Cornwell of Atlanta, Ga., to help remind him of campus life; a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control. Cornwell built the device to remind him of campus life at Duke University in Raleigh, N.C. He graduated in May 2006. (AP Photo via AP Video)
RALEIGH, N.C. --When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a reminder of life on campus: a refrigerator that can toss a can of beer to his couch with the click of a remote control.
"I conceived it right after I got out," said Cornwell, a May 2006 graduate from Huntington, N.Y. "I missed the college scene. It embodies the college spirit that I didn't want to let go of."
It took the 22-year-old Cornwell about 150 hours and $400 in parts to modify a mini-fridge common to many college dorm rooms into the beer-tossing contraption, which can launch 10 cans of beer from its magazine before needing a reload.
With a click of the remote, fashioned from a car's keyless entry device, a small elevator inside the refrigerator lifts a beer can through a hole and loads it into the fridge's catapult arm. A second click fires the device, tossing the beer up to 20 feet -- "far enough to get to the couch," he said.
More here : - http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2007/03/08/refrigerator_will_toss_you_can_of_beer/?p1=MEWell_Pos4