A few nice Corporate Pens images I found:
No One of Consequence
Image by Chicago Man
I notice a lot of people post this “random things about me” type of stuff. One of my friends sent me one today. A quick search of my flickr contacts shows that some of them have done this too.
I live in the 21st Century in America, so I’m sure I’m as narcissistic as the next guy, but I’ve never been able to bring myself to do one of those things. Along with all my other problems, I have shyness and questionable self-esteem, and they prevent me from revealing too much about myself. But, just because I’m procrastinating on about ten millions things I have to do right now, here’s one of those lists of random crap about me, if you should, for some reason, be bored enough to read this.
1. I love to pick theme music for things I’m doing. For instance, if I’ve been out of town, as I re-enter the city, I have to listen to songs about Chicago (or at least songs by Chicago artists). If I’m in the country, you can expect me to listen to Waylon Jennings and stuff like that. When I’m in California, I listen to a lot of Snoop Dogg and Tupac. Appalachians? Bluegrass. New York? Sinatra, Beastie Boys.
2. My favorite thing to do is go for a walk. I realize this makes me boring to most people.
3. I love Hee Haw. I also love Smokey and the Bandit. I could watch it ten thousand times.
4. I am married to the coolest and most beautiful girl I’ve ever met. We’re both extremely independent-minded people, but she’s my best friend and my favorite person in the world.
5. My heroes are pretty much all writers and artists and political rebels.
6. I consider myself a progressive guy, and I am when it comes to politics, the environment and culture… but besides that, I want everything to stay the same. I am jealous of Europe, because they have so many old buildings and historic sites. Here in America, we tear everything down and build a Costco.
7. I hate it when sports teams change their logos, or when a league adds expansion teams. Teams that leave a city, and move to another, are dead to me.
8. I spend very little money. Right now, I can’t think of anything I want to buy. I’m not a very big cog in the economic engine of America. I think I could be a really good hobo if I tried.
9. I’ve been following politics closely since I was five years old.
10. If I had a time machine, I would only use it to visit the past.
11. I do not like things on my hands. It has been years since I owned a pair of gloves. I wash my hands a lot. I’m probably close to the OCD category on that.
12. I remember facts in a linear way. If you name a year in the 20th Century, I can probably tell you who was in the World Series. I can tell you all the Presidents in order, what years they were in office, what party they belonged to, etc. Dates in history have meaning for me, because I visualize moments of time in order.
13. I go to the zoo at least twice per month, and I get annoyed when people call chimps and gibbons “monkeys.” I have to fight the urge to say, “They are no more monkeys than you are a monkey.”
14. I grew up mostly in Chicago, but also partly in rural Wisconsin (ten miles down a dead-end road!).
15. I have no dominant ethnicity, and I’m not even sure of exactly what my father’s complete ethnic background was, so I just think of myself as American. Born in this nation and raised by its culture. I’m not bullsh***ing you when I say I see each person as 100% an individual, and I could care less about race or religion or gender or orientation.
16. I worked for years in the corporate environment, and in management, but that is like another world, another life, to me now.
17. I drink way too much diet soda and not enough water.
18. I love the city and the country, but the suburbs creep me out a little.
19. I have never stolen anything. Not a pen. Not a piece of candy. Not one red cent. Once, I was dating a kleptomaniac. Seriously. It was weird. We’d walk out of a store and she’d shock me by showing me the makeup case she nabbed.
20. Somewhere along the line, I assigned a gender to all letters and numbers. Ask me if you want to know all of them, but here’s a sample: 3=female, 5=male, F=male, H=female
Load-ding walltape
Image by tychay
I first saw the XXD load-ding mentioned on Acquire. I purchased it from A+R Store, which, to my knowledge is the only place you can buy it from in the U.S.
Some things to note.
1) You should use the supplied 3M stickytape to stick them together. If you don’t and your wall wart doesn’t apply enough pressure it will fall apart in the middle of the night (which is also why the thing doesn’t line up correctly in the later photos).
2) It stores flat for transport, but then the sticky stuff isn’t going to be so good for you. YMMV
3) They have a cutaway for the U.S. grounding cord if you need it. It also doubles as a mount point for a tackboard pin which they sell separately.
4) It comes in three colors: red, black, and pink. I prefer the one I got.
5) You can buy a bunch, nail them into the wall and use them to store pens and such. They even will sell it in bulk with corporate logos and shit.
Loading with iPhone
Image by tychay
I first saw the XXD load-ding mentioned on Acquire. I purchased it from A+R Store, which, to my knowledge is the only place you can buy it from in the U.S.
Some things to note.
1) You should use the supplied 3M stickytape to stick them together. If you don’t and your wall wart doesn’t apply enough pressure it will fall apart in the middle of the night (which is also why the thing doesn’t line up correctly in the later photos).
2) It stores flat for transport, but then the sticky stuff isn’t going to be so good for you. YMMV
3) They have a cutaway for the U.S. grounding cord if you need it. It also doubles as a mount point for a tackboard pin which they sell separately.
4) It comes in three colors: red, black, and pink. I prefer the one I got.
5) You can buy a bunch, nail them into the wall and use them to store pens and such. They even will sell it in bulk with corporate logos and shit.
