People Who Obviously Have too Much Time on their Hands:

Have you ever wondered why DEC has lost millions of dollars and laid off tens of thousands of employees over the last four years? I believe part of the problem is that some of their researchers obviously have too much time on their hands. For example, 7 researchers had the time to insert electrodes into various types of pickles, bok choy and mandarin oranges to determine whether a modest alternating current would cause the items to glow.

Some of these people really scare me!!!

• Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches - Pop-Tarts as incendiary device - flames 10-18 inches high!
• The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Rapid Oxidation Test - Rice Univeristy student tries to oxidize a twinkie.
• AGD Antics and Mayhem Page - Assorted mayhem at Silicon Graphics.
• George Goble Lighting his Grill - Purdue System Administrator lights grill with 10 pounds of liquid oxygen and lives to tell about it!
• Trojan Room Coffee Machine - Coffee machine status at Cambridge Univerisity.
• Mr. Edible Starchy Tuber Head Home Page - Everything you ever wanted to know about potatoes (sic).
• Banana Slug Home Page - Everything you ever wanted to know about - well take a guess!
• Hot AIR: rare and well done tidbits from the Annals of Improbable Research - Interesting tidbits of improbable research.
• IHTFP Hack Gallery: Gallery Menu - Famous "Hacks" from MIT including put a cab on top of the MIT dome!
• The Amazing Alhambra liquid nitrogen rocket - Attemp to launch a five gallon Alhambra drinking bottle into low earth orbit.
• Backyard Ballistics - Home-brew devices for propelling weird objects through the air.
• Pi to the 50,000th place - Calculation of Pi to the 50,000 place - interesting conversation piece when on a date!
• Burning Man - Mucho bizarre!

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Douglas M. Dusseau; Email: ddusseau@in.net Revised November 20,1995