FINALLY!

(from my SME email)

Retailers, Manufacturers Offering Safer-To-Open Product Packages.

On its front page, the New York Times (11/15, A1, Stone, Richtel) reported, "A number of retailers and manufacturers" are offering "product packaging that will not result in lacerations and stab wounds." The companies, such as "Amazon.com, Sony, Microsoft and Best Buy, have begun to create alternatives to the infuriating plastic 'clamshell' packages and cruelly complex twist ties that make products like electronics and toys almost impossible for mere mortals to open without power tools." According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, "impregnable packaging 'has sent about 6,000 Americans each year to emergency rooms with injuries caused by trying to pry, stab and cut open their purchases.'" The Times noted, "Even offline companies that do have those concerns are joining the movement."

Just say NO

So, when my mom was up visiting a few weeks ago, we went and explored the new library.

It was all I could do to NOT bring home any books. Somehow I convinced my mom to let me just get a library card and that's IT.

See, I have so much on my plate right now that I'm not completing, and I have such a thirst for knowledge of anything, that I'd bring half the library home if I had the chance, postponing the less interesting but higher priority items on my project list.

That's what I feel like today.

I am being brought into development of a new tool and I just spent the last 45 minutes with a co-worker giving me a very basic tour of the development software we'll be using.

I looked at my co-worker and said, "Mom, please don't take me to the library anymore!"