Geek Girl Find of the Day

The end of summer is approaching fast, so it's time to squeeze in as much fun as you can. Today I came across this amazing Ice Cream Ballat Amazon.

From the website:

"With the unique Play and Freeze Ice Cream Maker, you can make ice cream while on camping trips, at picnics, barbecues, and many other places. You don't need electricity to make great tasting ice cream, but rather just add ice and rock salt in one end and ice cream mix in the other end. Then, have a ball as you shake it, pass it, or roll it around for 10 to 15 minutes. The ice cream mix can be as simple as cream, sugar, and vanilla or you can try a more adventurous flavor from the included recipe list or make up your own concoction. Made of durable polycarbonate, the Ice Cream Ball is lightweight, portable, and easy to clean."

I want one.

Damn. I bet this thing would make amazing frozen cocktails!

Masturbation Remedy for Sinus Sufferers

A recent publication by S. Zarrintan, entitled "Ejaculation as a potential treatment of nasal congestion in mature males" has my head and nasal passages spinning. Published in the 2008 Journal of Medical Hypotheses, the article suggests that sinus sufferers simply masturbate as a way to clear nasal congestion.

The author suggests that ejaculation stimulates the adrenergic receptors, causing a side effect of decongestion. With proper masturbatory and sexual intercourse scheduling, you have a clear sinuses for the rest of your life!

Imagine that!

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If I had only known about this when I wrote that artlce on the benefits of masturbation!

Periodic Coffee Table

If you're a geek like me, you're always looking for new nerd stuff to sit around the house. The Periodic Coffee Table is a beautiful, if expensive, addition to the home or office of any scientist! It is a beautiful acrylic block situated inside a table of burred oak. Actual element samples are blocked into the table, aside from several of the radioactive elements, which would just be unsafe.

You gotta love a coffee table that comes with it's own instruction sheet about "safety issues". I would LOVE to have one of these, unfortunately, this geek girl can't afford the $8500.00 price tag. For now, I'll just stick with the periodic table shower curtain that my SO got me for my birthday last year.

True geek love.

Geek Style Gaming

Fans of Popular Science can now bet on events such as whether airlines will have wi-fi up and running by Christms and whether or not life will be found on mars.

From the website:

Welcome to the PPX, the first place to bet on the future of science and technology. It's easy and free: Log on, and we'll give you POP$250,000 in our virtual PopSci Dollars. Use that money to buy propositions you think are likely to happen. If other traders also want to buy, that proposition's price will go up, and you'll make PopSci bucks. Expand your portfolio with bets on energy, space, consumer technology and extreme science, and compete against other players for prizes and bragging rights.

Nice!!!!

Geek Girl Find of the Day

I am a grown woman, which means society says that I cannot decorate my bedroom with these amazing Nintendo wall graphics.

Fuck society.

I LOVE THESE!

ThinkGeek sells this version, plus a beautiful Donkey Kong version as well.

If I had a game room, I suppose society would let me put them there. Oh well. There are red bricks and mushrooms in my mind and there's nothing anyone can do about it!

I love Geek Humor

The Weed Connection

I've been an Amazon affiliate for quite some time now. They have ads on my sidebar and I profit from any purchases made.

Today when I was browsing my site I noticed that Amazon had this in my Ad bar. I spit out my coffee. I actually purchased this product for my boyfriend last Christmas.

I wish I could have been in on the board meeting.

(insert hazy scooby doo flashback scene here)

Crewcut ad guy #1: We have to think of some way to market this weed grinder. Who IS our target audience?

Crewcut ad guy #2: I don't know. Let's google stoner and see what comes up.

Crewcut ad guy #3: Hm...here's some quote about how stoners watch the daily show. Mostly smart liberals watch the daily show.

Stoner ad guy: That's it! We'll market the weed grinder to geeks!!!

(end scooby doo flashback sequence)

A Brief History of my Internal Love Affair

My love affair with computers began in junior high. There were no computers in our school, so the first time I saw one was in the home of our wealthy neighbor. I never wanted to take apart anything so badly in my entire life! Using a program called Print Shop, you could even use the computer to print out a banner! WOW!

The other thing you could do was make a little stick figure man go up and down the stairs of his stick figure home and answer the door. It was amazing!

The introduction of computers into schools came about during my high school years. While I certainly played my share of Oregon Trail, no one in the school had a clue as to how these things worked. Finally, my first year of college, I used a student loan to buy my very own PC. The first thing I did after turning it on and booting it up (a 30 minute procedure) was to turn it off and take it apart. SWEET!

Then I loaded Prodigy and the rest of my love affair with the internet is history. My son was three at the time and could click and scroll before he knew how to tie his shoe.

I see him now, 17 and a senior in high school. He's just as fascinated as I was. I was so proud of him in junior high, the way he secretly loaded Firefox onto all the school lab computers and deleted IE. My baby!

I can't imagine what the world must be like for him. Growing up with computers and never being without the internet. No wonder he feels as if there isn't anything he can't learn.

Is it the End of the World Yet?????

Has the large hadron collider destroyed the world yet?

Geek Girl Find of the Day

If you're a perv-geek like I am, you will LOVE this book! I finished reading it within a couple of nights. BONK, by Mary Roach, author of Stiff,is a beautiful masterpiece of sex and science....everything you ever wanted to know about scientific sex studies and how they are performed!