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The World's First Jet Powered Beer Cooler

What follows is my story about a shed, a warm beer and a home made jet engine. It is being presented for entertainment purposes only and no-one should attempt to emulate what I have done here. The risks should be obvious but it is worth pointing out that beer is a very dangerous substance when used without due care.



Please be careful!




UPDATE: Sunday 29th July 2001
As this site has appeared on www.slashdot.org and is experiencing slightly increased traffic I would like to add a few extra comments...

1. Guinness was used as it is an internationally recognized beer. I would have used a good, well known American beer but that is like finding the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.
2. I do not recommend using this technology for cooling over-clocked AMD processors. Saying this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I work for another processor maker who I probably shouldn't mention but who want me to say you should all buy P4s.
3. Yes, I am the same guy who did the Star Wars Asciimation (http://www.asciimation.co.nz/) thing a few years back and this is what I've been doing instead.
(By all means check out the incomplete, but very cool Star Wars Asciimation! -- Dan)
4. Sorry Mum.

In New Zealand there are two things that are the essence of being a 'good Kiwi bloke'. These are of course playing rugby and having a shed.

Not being built for playing rugby I have had to go with the shed. I may not know a rugby hoop from a cricket stick but I know my shed like the head of my hammer. A shed is a place where a kiwi bloke spends much of his time alone surrounded by his tools, current and past half finished projects and the collection of parts and material usually referred to by others (typically wives/girlfriends) as 'that pile of junk'.
(Cautiously Continue Here)

(For those who missed the subject line reference, that's Yahoo Serious (Greg Pead) of "Young Einstein" [1988] fame.)

Girl: “What's that in your pocket, big boy?”
Young Albert Einstein: “It's a compass!”
Girl: “Mmmmmm!”

The only real drawbacks to the flick I can recall are that the Wright brothers, at that science conference scene, spoke with a southern accent. Not to say they actually wouldn't (ain’t never heard ‘em talk), but they were my homeboys from Ohio, not ol' Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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‘Course then again, Albert Einstein was Austrian, not Australian...

Cheers,
Dan