ThinkGeek

Perfect for Guest Bathrooms

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I shill for ThinkGeek so much I’m waiting for a paycheck, but they just have the greatest stuff. Tell me this wouldn’t be an awesome shower curtain / bath mat set for your guest bathroom:

I also think this is a stellar idea. Basically, you can add a little extra monitor that runs off your USB port, no external power cord. So you could conceivably add as many extra monitors as you have USB ports! They’re small, but it could be good if A) you have a laptop, or B) you have a lot of them. They could also be useful to keep up certain apps like instant messenger or winamp.

En guard ye foul hotdog!

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Once again, my favorite online shop ThinkGeek comes through with an awesome product, just in time for summer! The Swashbuckling BBQ Sword. As the ad says:

Now you don’t have to choose between seeing your enemies flee before you, and roasting the perfect weenie.

Now thats a hot dog roaster!

Now that's a hot dog roaster!

Z is for Zombie, that’s good enough for me

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Bad Uncle Nathan has promised for a long time to turn Evie into an evil genius so I assume we can be expecting a set of Young Mad Scientist Alphabet Blocks from ThinkGeek.

The full block list is as follows, and I think you will agree that it covers all the bases your future Evil Genius needs to know to help her grow.

A – Appendages
B – Bioengineering
C – Caffeine
D – Dirigible
E – Experiment
F – Freeze ray
G – Goggles
H – Henchmen
I – Invention		 J – Jargon
K – Potassium
L – Laser
M – Maniacal
N – Nanotechnology
O – Organs
P – Peasants (with Pitchforks)
Q – Quantum physics
R – Robot		 S – Self-experimentation
T – Tentacles
U – Underground Lair
V – Virus
W – Wrench
X – X-Ray
Y – You, the Mad Scientist of Tomorrow
Z – Zombies

And if that isn’t enough of a learning experience for your little one, you can also get a nice plush pirate which will help teach skills like shoe tying, snaps, buttons, etc. I assume you can also practice eye patch application and sword buckling, so your little one will truely be prepared to face the day.

Here’s hoping Evie can be the first to cross mad genius and pirate!

(Pirate link courtesy Meg)

Weasel Puke Coffee

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Once again, ThinkGeek comes up with a stellar product.  In this case, it is Weasel Puke Coffee, and it is no joke!  Basically, these weasels eat the best beans off the plant, but the beans irritate their stomach causing them to vomit.  Somehow their stomach acid affects the beans which are harvested by Vietnamese people and brewed into a drink which is treated as a delicacy.

 

There are weirder symbiotic relationships in nature.  I suppose they probably could have come up with a better name that is a little less descriptive.  Maybe it is lost in translation or something.

Update:

After posting this story, many people have mentioned to me that there is also Weasle Poop Coffee, which is definitely more disguting but, unfortunately, not for sale.

Berries: Miraculous After All!!

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So, after yesterday‘s less-than-stellar trial, today I came armed with several things to try that would be more appropriate to test the properties of the pills.  Yesterday I only had my lunch and it was not really geared towards the type of thing that the fruit is supposed to affect.  Also, as pointed out in the comments by someone from ThinkGeek, the fats in my cheese and oatmeal cream pie were working against me and breaking down the proteins that make the whole thing work.

Trial II was nothing short of a rousing success!  You have to get a hold of these things, it was as amazing as I could have hoped it would be!!

1) A lime – Absolutely delicious!  I tried it before hand to make sure it was not some secret delicious sweet variety of limes and I assure you, it was very sour.  After letting the tablet dissolve, the lime was just so sweet and delicious and sugary like candy.  The weirdest part was that you could feel a feeling of citrus in your mouth but you couldn’t taste it as sour.  Very odd.
2) A plum – I had to prove that yesterday’s delicious plum wasn’t a fluke.  Sure enough, it was super ripe and sugary tasting.
3) A tangerine – This was crazy.  It was so sweet I almost couldn’t eat it.
4) A cherry – Mostly like a cherry still, but definitely sweeter, almost like cherry pie.

We had about 4 people from work trying it and every one agreed it was pretty cool.  One person was impatient and chewed his tablet and he didn’t notice any difference.  So the lessons learned are:

1) Make sure you dissolve it fully on your tongue.
2) Make sure you have the appropriate items to try (i.e. sour things and fruit).
3) Sweet things don’t really get sweeter, so don’t bother with those.

There are several items I would still like to try such as Tabasco sauce and sour cream.  The guy from ThinkGeek also recommended beer.  I would absolutely try it again at home when I could gather some more items together.

As a side note, why do people from companies only comment when I bash their products? 🙂