Creative use for empty whiskey bottles 253
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."
Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)
Next on slashdot... (Score:3, Funny)
(Fo'shizzle, Seymour Crazizzle.)
Re:Good TImes (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good TImes (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Good TImes (Score:4, Funny)
> 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.
Re:Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)
Another way? (Score:2)
Are you suggesting that there's another way to build a computer?
Re:Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Good TImes (Score:5, Funny)
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He seems to be reasonably sharp, despite the minor intoxication. I noticed in his closeups that he cut rounded edges into the glass where the main panel is set into the bottle, to reduce the stress concentration versus matching the square shape of the panel.
I tried this once... (Score:2)
Cheat! (Score:5, Funny)
Instead they just cut a hole in it.
portable, and tastes nice too... (Score:5, Interesting)
I wonder if it's kept its nice wiskey smell...
Re:portable, and tastes nice too... (Score:3, Funny)
iDrink?
for what? (Score:5, Funny)
Because, as we all know, a noisy server can exacerbate a throbbing hangover ...
Re:for what? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:for what? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:for what? (Score:3, Funny)
Any more info on the motherboard? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Any more info on the motherboard? (Score:5, Informative)
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 [tri-m.com])say that the
3.5" SBCs are actually 5.75" Length x 4" Width (146mm x 101.6mm)
Try one of these (Score:5, Informative)
I bet it would fit just fine.
But a breakable glass case? While it looks cool, no thanks...
Re:Try one of these (Score:5, Funny)
Water Cooling (Score:2)
The perfect PC for a slashdotting! (Score:3, Insightful)
And if it does go down, hey, its only passed out, and not burning in flame.
Re:The perfect PC for a slashdotting! (Score:4, Funny)
Unless you forget to clean out all the remaining alcohol...
There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:3, Informative)
Check out http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_discus.php [aquahobby.com]
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 y
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:2)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:5, Informative)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:2)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:2)
Re:There's always a good use for empty bottles (Score:2)
Where do you get that stuff? (Score:4, Interesting)
What's with the hole? (Score:5, Funny)
They should have done it ship-in-a-bottle style.
Re:What's with the hole? (Score:3, Interesting)
Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Nice work! (Score:2, Interesting)
Again, very nice work.
Re:Nice work! (Score:2, Interesting)
A whisky server... (Score:5, Funny)
Ballentines? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ballentines? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Ballentines? (Score:3, Funny)
PC in a bottle (Score:5, Funny)
Glass Grinding and Mobo (Score:2)
professional glass grinder man
Gotta admit, I've never heard of that profession before.
Anywho, what mobo is his using? I just couldn't seem to locate it in his notes...
If anyone cares... (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Form A Band (Score:3, Funny)
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)"
What to do with the whiskey? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What to do with the whiskey? (Score:2)
Re:What to do with the whiskey? (Score:3, Insightful)
Do it without cutting the bottle? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Do it without cutting the bottle? (Score:2)
Re:Do it without cutting the bottle? (Score:2)
Should have used *full* bottle of cooking oil (Score:2)
Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil [slashdot.org]
Electromagnetic tolerance (Score:2)
Companion mod (Score:2, Funny)
Right... (Score:5, Funny)
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 when the Whiskey Server* gets Slashdotted... (Score:3, Funny)
*Bananas Foster not included.
And in other news... (Score:3, Funny)
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... (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Ballantines? Ewww! (Score:2)
Then again, at least you're not going to regret cutting into such a bottle.
It's not creative anymore (Score:2)
PSU (Score:4, Informative)
Since you can see (Pg. 4) that he's using a powerbrick, he coulda gone with the PicoPSU [xyzcomputing.com]
Wouldn't have been as cramped in that bottle.
What about when you get pulled over? (Score:4, Funny)
Why is this impressive? (Score:2)
Next Project... (Score:5, Funny)
...PDA in a hip flask.
I think SBC within intact bottle can be done (Score:2, Interesting)
No air flow inside a bottle though
Re:I think SBC within intact bottle can be done (Score:2)
Whisky. Not Whiskey. (Score:3, Informative)
Whisky with a n 'e',
should be hand cuffed
and thrown head first in the Dee.
In the USA and Ireland,
it's spelt with an 'e'
but in Scotland
it's real 'Whisky'.
So if you see Whisky
and it has an 'e',
only take it,
if you get it for free!
For the name is not the same
and it never will be,
a dram is only a real dram,
from a bottle of 'Scotch Whisky'.
Stanley Bruce.
20th April 2004
But if You are Not the Conspicuous Type (Score:2)
Next Christmas (Score:2)
Why a whiskey bottle? (Score:2)
Cooling (Score:2)
Whisk(e)y spelling... (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Re:Whisk(e)y spelling... (Score:2)
needs a cap power switch (Score:2)
I approve of this mod. (Score:2)
Bootlegging in the 21st Century (Score:2)
Carry Case (Score:2)
Creative to sue for whiskey bottles? (Score:2)
That's it, I'm joining the EFF.
HEAT ! (Score:2)
Re:Nice (Score:5, Funny)
Pfft, I wouldn't drink that crap. (Score:2)
Re:Hey? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Hey? (Score:2)
Re:Hey? (Score:2)
Re:Cooling (Score:4, Interesting)
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.
Re:Cooling (Score:2)
Oh Uber, you really know how to make a girl wet.
Re:Cooling (Score:2)
I know it was a joke and all... But whiskey is to be kept at room temperature, not?
Re:FP (Score:2)
Re:Whiskey? Why not wine? (Score:2, Troll)
Re:And The He Goes And Runs M$-Ware On It! (Score:2)
Re:I have a better use for empty whiskey bottles (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not surprised to see this coming from a Finn (Score:2)