running with paper

Death to dead tree media!

But until then, I’ve got the perfect little book for some family about to embark upon their college careers. Heck, get it for all of my college-bound kiddos. Other people can smell you is full of a good bit of experiences a lot of us all have had; (pay attention to the stuff in big font). Available from Lulu for a decent little price; find it by clicking here for the hardcopy (or download the e-book for free).

Seriously, though, Sam Starbuck is a riot, and this is an excellent read. I look forward to (one hopes!) a workplace edition for those of us stuck in cubicles day after day after day after day …

Long live dead tree media!

I love this. I was just looking at a pile of empty tea envelopes I have piled up in my drawer, trying to find a use for them. My first idea was prettying up some cardboard boxes for storage baskets for kids’ toys. Mod Podge to the rescue! Another was some kind of custom papier mache project.

But this … I love it. Can you imagine a home based application for this (local wax, or other local equivalent) to make our own kids’ play houses? I’d probably want to make planks we could rope together (holes) and adjust from time to time. Later on or during the winter, they can be used for insulating garden boxes or something.

A neat idea and a neat implementation. And with the going rate on recyclable materials down, perhaps the manufacturing cost has gone down, too!