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topum ([personal profile] topum) wrote2016-03-19 09:06 pm

Kim Kardashian and the Badonkadonk

After talking to [livejournal.com profile] randomdreams yesterday it became clear that I had to do some shopping. I had to buy LEDs, a lot of them. And I needed some gallium of course, who doesn't? I have already received my tungsten and it is awesome.

So I opened ebay without delay. Then I started clicking around, one thing led to another and boom - the JL421 Badonkadonk! Whoa!



"The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank. Designed with versatility in mind, the Donk can transport cargo or a crew of five internally or on the roof, and can be piloted from within the armored shell or from an exposed standing position through the hatch, thanks to special one-way steel mesh armor windows and a control stick that pivots up and down to allow piloting from the standing or seated positions."

http://www.amazon.com/JL421-Badonkadonk-Land-Cruiser-Tank/dp/B00067F1CE/ref=pd_sim_sbs_236_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=51XCJQ2Q2SL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=1ACDSX9ZHGR88RSEEW2P

The reviews are glowing, I take my battle tank shopping seriously and went through all of them. There is even one from Russia's infamous Zhirinovsky.

What's more, Amazon offered me other things to go with the Donk (one needs to be logged out with clear cache and history like I was to see them I guess):

Uranium Ore

Doh! Of course you need to go nuclear these days. The reviews are awesome. I especially liked this one: "Great Product, Poor Packaging. I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty."

RageOn Men's Kim Kardashian Human Centipede T-Shirt
"100% spun polyester that delivers the look and feel of organic cotton".


Yes, yes and a thousand times yes! Nobody should be allowed into the Badonkadonk without wearing this t-shirt.

Wallmonkeys WM31555 Asia Old Man Peel and Stick Wall Decals


Clever. It can get lonely in the Badonkadonk I guess. One reviewer claimed buying this was 'Life Changing!'

One needs a good book lying around inside the Donk of course. And Amazon cleverly suggests one:



The book costs $406.21.

UFO Detector - Internal magnetometer interfaced with microcontroller



Obviously. One review states "Accurate and Faithful. This little gizmo is a bargain at twice the price and much more accurate than the voices in my head."

Novelty Vampire Wine Glass Cup With Drinking Tube Straw
I did need some wine by that point.

Looking For-Best of David Hasselhoff CD



Self explanatory.

Face Slimmer Anti Wrinkle Mouth Piece


Slim face is a must for any Badonkadonk rider indeed. One review said it was 'useless and painful'. Who would have thought.

Life Size Stegosaurus Dinosaur Statue Museum Mini Golf Terra Nova (Huge)



This just goes on top clearly.

2,000 Live Adult Predatory Mites - A Mix of Predatory Mite Species


Now the Badonkadonk has (in ascending order of the destructive power) biological weapons, nuclear weapons and Kim Kardashian.

And last but not least:

How to Live with a Huge Penis of Richard Jacob, Owen Thomas on 01 April 2009

[identity profile] aliki.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What an interesting list of stuff!

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, right? I couldn't have equipped the Badonkadonk better than Amazon did. One has everything for any battle one can think of. Aliens? You got the UFO Detector. Chinese? You got the Asia Old Man to negotiate. You have nuclear to keep the Russians at bay. Biological just in case. And you have Kim Kardashian in case you ever run into trouble with the US.

[identity profile] beautesauvage13.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)

Everyone should have a bodonkadonk filled with toys and educational reading material and music of course lol. 


Athena

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Absolutely agree.

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
When I first saw the Badonkadonk I was briefly obsessed with building my own. Maybe that's how I found Steam Boat Willie: http://steamboatwilly.org/
I did see a steam-powered motorcycle the other day. Oh man.

That UFO detector. The reviews. I'm clearly in the wrong business.

Tungsten is wonderful stuff. Recommended reading: "Uncle Tungsten" by Oliver Sachs. Memoir about his uncle the physical chemist who thought tungsten was the perfect metal and everything should be made from it.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-19 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I read his 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'. Will buy 'Uncle Tungsten' now, I am a bit obsessed with tungsten at the moment.
I have two identical pieces but one is made from magnesium and another one from tungsten. I just did that "hey catch this!" thing on my buddy when you first throw the magnesium one and then the tungsten one. Everyone always drops the second one obviously. Always.
Now I need to go through http://steamboatwilly.org/, it looks awesome.

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
I have a liter of mercury downstairs. That's a fun one in the 'hey catch this' game. I kind of give it away when I have to use both hands to lift it in the first place.
It'd be fun, some day, to get a nice chunk of beryllium.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
£2,475 buy now. Nice chunk.

Tungsten is around £150 I think, can be found cheaper. My magnesium cylinder is around 90g and similar tungsten one is 1kg. An excellent pair for "hey catch this".

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I have a tungsten evaporator I pulled out of a machine in a previous job: chunk maybe 25cm long, 2.5cm in diameter, with a milled channel through the middle. The power supply poured a couple thousand amps through it and it heated up white-hot and we shot copper wire into the channel, which promptly flashed into copper vapor to spray onto film, aka physical vapor deposition. It has such a nice heft to it, like a barbell.
I miss that job. Pity they went bankrupt. So much cool stuff.
Latest acquisition: a big chunk of cerium. Not really sure what I'm going to do with it, other than fondle it a la scrooge mcduck.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, you do that too (fondle), brother? I do it a lot.
I am so envious of your previous job. I know nothing about this but it makes playing with it even more enjoyable because my discovery of new things bar is really low and everything looks like a total miracle to me.

[identity profile] randomdreams.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It was an amazing job. The idea was to build low-cost die carriers -- the things that you stick the silicon die at the heart of a chip into. Most current ones use leadframes, metal surrounds that the die is wire-bonded into, and the metal has legs/pins adhered to it that serve as the interface to the world. These guys were taking polyimide film, using high power lasers to punch hair-sized holes in it, plasma-etching it, spraying it with copper, then plating on copper, nickel, and gold, then etching out circuitry that used the laser vias to connect the die to the bottom side, where it connected to the circuit board. Plasma etching was beautiful, with colors that are really hard to describe and don't map well to our standard ROYGBIV because they were emissive and rapidly varying. The copper-spraying system was amazing. The laser system, which was what I was working on, was astounding. (xenon fluoride uv laser bouncing around in the open so you had to be extremely careful of where you put body parts.) It was mad science wonderland.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-21 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It does sound like dream job. Not that I understand all of the above. But it makes it even more interesting ).

HAHAHA!

[identity profile] wearwoolf.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Winning Must-Buy List for 2016!

RE: HAHAHA!

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 04:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I do not know how they do it but they were so spot on with the selection of stuff to go with the Donk. And what a book for some measly 400$!

[identity profile] mckitterick.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
This is a hilarious group of things - great post! Are you on Tumblr, by any chance? That's where I spend most of my time these days, and I'd love to see your posts regularly.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-20 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you. I enjoy reading your journal too.
I am not on Tumbler but am tempted to check it out, a lot of people mentioned it to me here in the last month.

[identity profile] lutik-sun.livejournal.com 2016-03-21 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Could you please use the LJ cut

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-03-21 12:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, sorry, I will not use the cut in my journal. Please feel free to remove me from your friends list and just drop in whenever you want to read my entries instead. It is OK, I do not take it personally. Cheers.