16 posts tagged “shopping spree”
So, yeah , the LASIK@home thing was a fake (two seconds research, love the internet although it scares me so), but this one's all too real.
Meet the Something Store!
Send them $10 and they'll send you...something. Could be an iPod, could be dollar store junk. They do have a list of stuff it won't be, headed as Something Not, which assures no pyrotechnics or human body parts (and quite a laundry list of other things) will be shipped as your Something.
Presumably that's quite the letdown for some people.
There's free shipping, and I imagine this may well appeal to misanthropic hermit-types deep into the Christmas season. With a week notice they can say screw it, you people or worth little cash and not thought at all. Presumably this may also appeal to the kind of people who buy lottery tickets sure that they will win, 'cause they can feel it, and just know that they'll score some truly awesome deal.
For the rest of us, not so much.
I just can't decide if the whole concept is brilliant or the dumbest thing ever.
So I'm basically blind.
I've got the same prescription in both eyes (which is actually supposed to be weird) and that happens to be the same prescription as Girlzilla's got, namely that I can burn holes through live redwood trees by cleaning my glasses wrong.
I've thought about LASIK repeatedly, and love the idea of being able to see my world without options like the stick-fingers-in-my-eyes-and-wonder-when-my-eyes-will-start-burning routine of contact lenses or the hope-nothing-happens-to-my-glasses deal or even the daily wonderment of how foggy my world gets after a day of working in a kitchen.
Feh.
All the LASIK stuff is mostly purest theory, what with being too broke to even consider the cost unless they start accepting dryer lint at medical facilities.
Enter LASIK at home.
Seriously.
I'm pretty sure this is all one big joke, but damn if somebody didn't take the time to make this look legit. Easy to navigate, testimonials, and all geared to selling a do-it-yourself LASIK kit.
To repeat: do-it-yourself, at-home, LASIK kit.
Blink.
According to the site, their lasers will come pre-programmed for correcting your prescription (which it asks for on the order form) and has the caution to never point any other lasers at your eyes.
And it's $99.95 per eye, natch.
The site claims a site launch of February 2006, and that soon after 100 kits had been sold.
Double blink.
Now, I'm fairly crafty, but still...
Tired of the student-ghetto milkcrate and boards look? Can't afford real furniture though? Love legos to a really unhealthy degree?
Thought so.
Found Bloxes, which are units of that nigh-indestructible cardboard for flat pack furniture. These are cut and set up ready to fold and lock together. The results are really strong but super lightweight, and endlessly customizable and changeable.
I've just got to wonder what they pack them in.
Actually, I've also got to wonder how hard they are to fold up, but I'm guessing this might be one of those things that are especially great for kid spaces. At that point I guess laziness and good parenting collide when you tell your precious carpet monkeys that they can make what they want but have to fold the little bits up themselves, before you start with the kind of speechifying expressed in comics with stars and spirals.
Of course emo people and art students should pretty easily get into these, as it both expresses their art and willingness to suffer for same. As well as keeping them busy, but not to busy to listen to Morrissey.
According to the site, they come in packs of 20, and are squares nine and a half inches on a side. They do give an idea of how much that will make, and mention that it's a fifteen inch box that the 20-packs come in. No mention of cool things the 15" box can do with the rest.
I like the idea of using these in a public space just to see the total anarchy that would result between the "don't touch" people and the "hell, I'm bored" people. Give 'em weapons and it would turn into lacrosse.
Over at wisebread they've got word of the Discovery stores closing, which means good deals on vaguely wonky fun stuff. They also have a bit on Frucall, a supercool thing that you can use to check sale prices on anything with bar codes just as long as you've got your cell phone with you.
Not only can you get over the "yeah, but is it cheaper somewhere else?" feeling but you can also order from your cell phone too.
Granted, there are other possibilities that fly under the radar, like garage sales and Freecycle, but it makes the big ticket stuff feel a whole lot better.
Enjoy.
Found this at boingboing a few days ago, and frankly I'm surprised at all the people who hadn't seen it yet.
Does that count as spoiling it?
You can get it at threadless. Love love love it.
Through iliketotallyloveit I give you...
What, my mom, the Cuban emigre wouldn't love a Castro action figure? If she thinks I can still someday become a girly-girl, then I can still think she'll develop a sense of humor.
Much more of a working vacation than I'd planned.Haven't been able to train since both cars are acting up. Patriarch's stalls constantly in city driving if it's had a taste of highway speed and turns out (over two days of taking the Ninja Protected Van of Vengeance(tm) into the shop) that my car has a small coolant from just by the head gasket, which means eventually a large leak and eventual automotive death. I take Patriarch's car to the dealer (since same shop has already determined they can't fix the stalling issue) Friday morning, and tomorrow I have an interview.
Haven't gotten anywhere near as much as I'd like done.
Did do the paperwork dance enough to discover that we're so behind that the income we have simply isn't going to cover things, but I think we can do a consolidation loan to get all the terms favorable enough.
Lastly, in a fit of consumerism, I bring you this:
Can you buy the ship? No...but you can go to Mr. McGroovy's and get reusable rivets for putting together heavy cardboard and building stuff. He gives tips on how to get lotsa big (say, refrigerator) boxes for free to put together all sorts of ways. Honestly, who can resist big cardboard castles and mazes that you can do anyway you want? He found out that there really are no good cardboard fasteners out there, so at the site he sells rivets that come in two pieces (both pieces are identical) to put together this stuff quickly and easily.
for why I should really be rich, via bookofjoe. Rip Reed (love that comic-strip name) the "startist" will come out and custom paint starmurals in your place, home, business, whatever.
