Paul Merrill
The first person to identify this object will gets a prize! (Use the comments section.)
Update: Courtney is the winner!!
Yes, it’s a portable vacuum desktop cleaner. It doesn’t work very well, since it runs on AA batteries. There’s just not enough power to suck up anything! (Don’t worry – Courtney, the vacuum is not your prize. A Starbucks card is winging its way to you.)
Think before you do it.
I passed by this graffiti on a fence. The artist hadn’t thought that his work would last longer than the paint – you see, the sun and rain affected the wood differently where paint was, compared to where the wood was bare.
Takeaway: how will your actions last beyond what you are thinking now? Maybe stop to think how that action may last longer than what you originally thought.
This neighborhood is a nice little bicycle ride from where we live. I enjoyed riding past these homes during a rare weekday morning off.
My question for you: Why would the builder make the homes so uniform? And not only were they built exactly the same (oops – two variants), they were built in a very straight line. Why?
I couldn’t think of any good reasons.
To get a new perspective, sometimes you have to leave these borders.
Or, in this case, have someone from elsewhere bring you something.
Ed brought this to me from England. I’ve seen Cadbury in the States many times. But I have never seen a satin-finish wrapper on any candy bar in the States. It looks (and feels) different.
Dairy Milk is of course very smooth and tasty milk chocolate. If you find a satin wrapper in the States, let me know.
Takeaway: what is a way you can make your offering stand out in the marketplace? Even if you’re not “selling” something, selling is part of just about any job these days. And you do need to stand out – in a good way.
Quantum Finish. It’s a new dishwashing soap.
I’m not reviewing it here. You’ll have to go to one of the mommy blogger sites for that, such as Double Bugs.
I’m just commenting on the strange little red ball in the middle of these small dishwashing bricks. What were they thinking? It makes the bricks looks like some kind of a toy. Nuclear destruction? Power button? The glowing tip of a cigarette?
To me, it makes the product look less biodegradable than otherwise.
I don’t have a netbook. I haven’t even used one. But I do know that Apple should make one.
Netbooks are small, light, long-running-on-a-charge laptops. Perhaps the biggest advantage is the price: about $300 for an Acer. In Atlanta, if you sign up for AT&T internet, they’ll give you one for $50.
Often they run Windows XP or Linux, to keep the price down. (You can guess that Microsoft hates them, since they get about $50 less for bundled XP than for bundled Vista.) The processors and hard drives are of course weaker and smaller than those of their larger counterparts. But they are meant for doing word processing and email. (If you want to do video editing, go to a desktop.)
So if Apple would make one and keep the price below $500, I predict they would sell a ton. The Air is just too expensive for most people and big compared to netbooks. Most MacBook Pro owners would love to have a smaller, lighter computer for short business trips – when their iPhone alone won’t cut it.
You can bet that it would be much more elegant than what I mocked up here!
Finally, the luxury pick of netbooks would be one made by Sony. They have been creating netbooks longer than the rest. And their quality is normally quite good.
Update: Jeremy Tanner runs Mac on a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. The base price is around $279. The software is extra, and your warranty will probably be voided. But that sounds like a great way to go!
Update 2: TUAW has a long post on why the “hackintosh” may not be the way to go, if you were considering that.
Jesus died so that we can live.
