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11/19/09
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"My log saw something that night."
Because my log - it has a light.
11/18/09
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11/18/09
@Duckspwn: Slightly more obscure, here's what treebeard sees.
11/18/09
@Duckspwn: Reward yourself with a dab of THIS!
11/13/09
Cool lamp tho. How to get? Does it come with spare balls, you know, just in case?
11/13/09
But seriously, if you watch the video, you see the girl (yes, girl, for all you genderly-challenged readers) pass her hand between the ball and the lamp, which she wouldn't do if she wasn't trying to prove that there's no wire. She only sorta passes her hand between them, probably because of concerns (valid or not) that putting too much meat between the magnets will either disrupt their hold on each other or (not valid at all) result in the magnets snapping together on her hand.
As for the gap, would it be possible for precise weight control to result in a magnetic pull that's exactly equivalent to gravity, thus resulting in a neutrally-bouyant magnetic field? Only problem with that is that it might work differently at different altitudes.
Oh yeah, and the reason the lamp is lopsided is that in the middle of the flat-ish spot there's a small black dot where the ball is magnetically connected for storage when the lamp is turned off.
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#fiatluxlamp
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I had to click through the gallery three times to fully take it in after my head asploded.
Then I started to wonder about a few things like, why did she hang the lamp 2 ft. from the ground? And, why doesn't she get some goddamn furniture? And then it hit me....
She has no furniture cuz she had to sell it all to buy the (most likely ridiculously overpriced) lamp. And the lamp is so low not because it runs on magic, but because it's run on dreams. And this particular girl has to sit so close because she has none left after being sucked out of her by the evil lamp and she reads those thought-provoking books constantly in order to keep the lamp running. So she's now doomed to live the rest of her life next to an ever-dimming lamp simply so that she can die cold and alone instead of cold, alone and IN THE DARK!!
or perhaps she has low ceilings. #fiatluxlamp
11/06/09
My wife needed a land line for 3 months so she called and had them hook it up. Called to cancel the other day and they say we cant cause we signed up for a 1 Frackin Year Contract! WTF? Since when do land lines have contracts? Was news to both of us. So it's either pay $250 to get out or keep it for another 9months....f'n bastards Frontier sobs! #telephonelinepoweredlamp
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How are electricity companies, who provide power for your television, stereo, embedded household lights, kitchen appliances, and cell phones supposed to compete when people are powering their lamps for free from the telco industries? Not to mention that AT&T and Verizon are now footing the bill for this tiny lamp. Outrageous! #telephonelinepoweredlamp