Ah, coal. Do you know it still produces like, 50% of US electricity? And that's it's being pushed as an "alternative fuel" (alternative to gasoline, I guess)?

Anyway, I was going to come here and talk about how I "hacked" my universal remote that doesn't work with my stereo amplifier, but maybe I should save that for my blog.

If you're going to go through all that trouble to hack an air freshener, just buy a bottle of the damn stuff and push the button every time you poop. Last time I went shopping, my grocery store had 10,000 bottles of air freshener, from "clean linen" to "french vanilla."

Here's the board. There's a control chip underneath the black epoxy bump.

Wait, what? They encapsulated the chip? Why? Do they have top-secret NSA-level technology in their poop-masker? Clearly, this device must do more than mask poop scent. A stone-axe simple 555 timer and a couple of caps would be enough to make a device that automagically farts flowers every n minutes.

I hate going to houses with these stink bombs. Blasting sickeningly sweet scents into to air does not make your house smell clean.

Whatever happened to opening a window afterwards?

Think too, of the educational resources wasted. All those years of schooling, math, physics, electrical engineering--so this guy could spend an hour cracking open the poopstinkcoverupper and reverse engineering it to behave the way he wants it to.

At another level of idiocy, would this qualify as a DMCA "circumvention" I wonder?

Better still: use a fan, light a match, wave a newspaper frantically, or, y'know, accept the fact that your shit stinks too, like everyone else's on the planet.

And the air "freshner" stuff is nasty cancer-causing chemical shit. Only stupid people would willingly breath it.

Which, I suppose, is the target market for this wholly unnecessary and wasteful air "freshener" device in the first place.

Farnsworth is dead.
Oh Farnsworth, how ye fell, to think, ye started with tv.//

That's brilliant. Hacking an 'air freshener'./ I love this. Too funny.

Light a match, let it burn down some, problem solved.
You know, this AskMe thread had many suggesting those 'air fresheners'. Yoiks.

air fresheners and potpurri are the horrors. Nothing smells better than a *clean* bathroom! CLEAN IT!

Though I will admit to not being above dropping scented oil on my vacuum bags for that nice smell after vacuuming.

I dump lavender on the rug and vaccuum it up. (Gives it that old lady smell I like.) I also have sweetgrass here and there when I remember, which gives it that swampy smell.

I try to pretend I'm in the sloughs instead of super urban Oakland. yeah, those noises are wind and water rushing by, and NOT actually heavy traffic. And that boom-ba-boom-ba-boom-boom-booming is really a weird sort of bird (or possibly bullfrog), and not someone's crappy woofers... I'm asking my brain for a lot here, aren't I.