This is awesome... almost makes me wish I didn't wrap everything this year in left over ikea brown paper and drafting graph paper. Perhaps I'll do this next year.
Instructables.com Rip Cord gift wrapping
Paul on 12.21.06 @ 09:31 PM EST [link]
Here's an interesting concept... I got an e-mail from another Paul Graham over the weekend. It starts like this...
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Hello. My name is Paul Graham, and so is yours.
I am writing to you because I think it would be interesting and fun to
list the URLs of all the folk who share our name on my web site -- a
Paul Graham Portal, if you will. An international pantheon of Paul
Grahams! A Paul Graham gathering place. Or perhaps an apauling idea
whose time has come. :-)"
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A neat idea, seeing as there were 3 Paul Graham's in Sudbury alone when I first moved here. One has since left, but just last Friday I had someone come up and ask me if I was a different Paul Graham. Apparently he grew up in Sudbury, and is about my age. Anyway, apparently is a very common name, although I've never actually met another Paul Graham, only heard about them.
Paul S Graham's start to the list
Paul on 12.18.06 @ 07:22 AM EST [link]
This one is especially for Kate... but its entertainment value is high so I'll share it with everybody.
Our friends* at Cockeyed labs have done another experiment, this time to see if backwash can be prevented and which beverage containers are worse for backwash. They used unsweetened cool-aid crystals to dye their mouth, and conducted a few experiments. The results are interesting, but the commentary is where the real fun lies.
enjoy:
http://www.cockeyed.com/science/backwash/backwash01.shtml
(*Not actually friends, I just stumbled onto his website one day... but it makes for a better into, eh?)
Paul on 12.08.06 @ 03:54 PM EST [link]