Someone Definitely Has Too Much Time On His Hands.

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From Popular Science comes news of one Paul Stender, who built a jet-powered outhouse.
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“Powered by a 50-year-old, 750-pound Boeing jet turbine that Stender bought for $5,000, the “Port-O-Jet” can top 46 mph with a tailwind. “It’s not real aerodynamic,” he allows. That said, he’s beaten buddy Tim Arfons’s jet barstool two of the four times they’ve raced.”

Apparently, this cost Mr. Stender $10,000, and took him ten days of work. While I admire the sheer perverse originality of building a jet outhouse, there are ways of doing completely ludicrous things that take far less time and money. Here’s one, which I have actually done:

Take one Chapstick, and twirl the thingo on the bottom until the actual Chapstick is as far out of its casing as possible. Drop it into a double boiler, and while you heat it very slowly, remove as much of the remaining Chapstick as you can, and put it in the double boiler too. When the Chapstick has melted, add two cloves of garlic, squished through a garlic press. Mix it in as quickly as possible (you don’t want the garlic to cook.) Then pour the resulting mixture back into the Chapstick container, and put it in the freezer until it has solidified. Voila! Garlic Chapstick! Cost: about two bucks, plus the friendship of anyone you try it on. Time: about ten minutes.

See how easy?

14 thoughts on “Someone Definitely Has Too Much Time On His Hands.”

  3. No, he runs it on aircraft fuel – JP-8, if I remember correctly. I picked this up off of Fark yesterday. He uses an old turbine from a Navy ship and actually sits over the thing as he runs this up and down the track.
    If you get a chance, you should read the article. It also talks about a jet-powered barstool somebody else built (and there are links), and this guy’s jet-powered pickup (jetup truck?) and plans for putting a jet in the back of a school bus. Stay on the curb, now!
    CS

  8. Fake barn country?

    Ohio Barns. I think it’s a barn, but I know it’s it’s an intentional object. Let’s hope this one’s a facade. Expressivist. Normative barns and silos. My favorite: Good Enough. See also the artistic tanks, via Incoming Signalsa jet-powered outhouse,

  9. Something I’ve always wanted to try:
    Take a checkbook and cut out all the checks, leaving a little strip at the top of each check below the perforation. Now glue a twenty-dollar bill to each strip.
    Presto. You now have a book of twenties. Go to a store and when it’s time to pay, take out the book, tear off a twenty, and hand it to the cashier.

  11. Just wondering if it was environmentally friendly?
    Well, if you cut a hole in the bottom, you can fertilize your crops naturally in no time flat!

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