Bazaar Bizarre

December 16, 2008

For the last couple years, I’ll hear something about the Bazaar Bizarre a couple months before it comes to Cleveland, and I’ll be all excited about it, then promptly forget all about it. This actually works out pretty well because Matt does NOT forget about it, and he gets to surprise me by taking me

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Gift Wrap – Wrap Up

December 14, 2008

Sunday being a lazy day, I figured this would be a good time to revisit a couple gift wrapping posts I did last year. Creative gift wrapping is something I do pretty much only when I’m trying really hard NOT to do something else. I am quite skilled at procrastination: so much so that I

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$100 Laptop Plug

And speaking of laptops… Actually, it’s $200, and for those of us in rich countries it’s $400.  I’m talking of course, about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Get one, Give one deal. I did a whole analytical post on the design of these tiny laptops last year, so I won’t repeat myself with full

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