Domain: mcphee.com
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Comments · 29
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Re:How to get student interested?
I could see a dashboard holding my interest under the right circumstances.
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Re:Other Uses
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The picture is misleading!
What they don't tell you is that they photographed the notebook with this pencil!
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Re:Implications?
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Archie McPhee's
Do you ever get out to Archie McPhee's?
I've only been to their store once, but I mail order stuff all the time. Great cubicle toys. The best rubber chickens money can buy outside an art museum :-) -
Re:Protecting privacy
Who says Librarians aren't cool?
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Re:What I am waiting for
Well, may not be a diaper, but at least it does half the job..
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http://www.mcphee.com/items/10727.html -
Re:Christianity and Microsoft? - Embrace and Exten
If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:
So when will it be ready for the desktop?Will THIS do?
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Time for a Library Action Hero
They should make library action figure in her honor.
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Re:Librarians
Take that forces of evil.
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Re:Beaten?
No way man! Jesus has an action figure! He'd crush them with his kung-fu grip, or bless them with his glow-in-the-dark miracle hands!
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Librarian Action Figure
Can't mention libraries with out mentioning this:
Librarian Action Figure -
Re:Go librarians!
We obviously need this
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And...
Geek-Mans secret love can be found here.
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Re:Also seen Einstein
Einstein action figure!
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They should make an action figure out of her
Just like Nancy Pearl
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job-themed giftsMy parents got me a librarian action figure doll for Christmas, complete with shushing action! (Yes, I'm a librarian.)
A nice touch is the Notable Events in Library History timeline on the back of the package. 1989: The film "UHF" featured a scene where Conan the Librarian slices a borrower in half because he returned a book late.
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Re:Maybe Just Qualify the NameThen RPM's should be called mini-carts.
I don't get it. I get [Red] Fez, but what do mini-carts have to do with those Arabic/Mediterranean hats?
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it protects your brain too
I am surprised that no one has mentioned the alleged protective effect creatine may have for concussions and head injuries. Most of you will probably think this will never happen to you. I did, which is why I wasn't wearing that bike helmet.
Taking creatine could prevent you from diminished mental capacity and memory problems after suffering some kind of accidental fall. The brain is quite a bit more soft and fragile than most people like to believe. It usually makes people uncomfortable to realize that the brain has a consistency not unlike jello, and that the neural (axonal) connections are surprisingly easy to disrupt permanently with a sudden deceleration or impact. It is also possible that minor shocks to the head can accumulate over the years resulting in subtly reduced memory abilities, although there is no direct evidence for this. -
A cheaper alternative
You can almost certainly get anything United Nuclear carries cheaper at Archie McPhee.
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Mcphee!
Archie Mcphee has some great stuff all geeks should love, from the original rubber chicken to Senior Mysterioso to test tubes and urine sample cups (great for jello shots!) to just the plain strange and weird.
It's geeky in a non-technical way, in a social-engineering sort of way. But, unless everyone at your wedding abhors pop culture entirely, it is certainly a lot of fun. My wife and I (I am a geek, she is a non-geek) had pink flamingos (her idea) and 2' penguins (guess who's idea?). For party favors, we had all kinds of bendies, nuns, and other fabulous things.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun. -
Surely you can find something wonderful at
Archie McPhee. And if not, you'll have fun shopping.
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Archie McPhee's!!! You have to call them!!!
You have to call this place!!! Tell them that you are putting together a geek wedding, they will be able to help out. They have TONS of stuff that would be awesome.
I'd also get some Futurama items too.
Dolemite
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Re:Rejected IBM storage device shapes
Thank God we've turned another toy (Leggos) into a useful technology! I constantly lose sleep over the Aztec/wheel mistake: they had the wheel, but only used it in toys, not to advance their civilization. (Not sure if it was the Aztecs, maybe the Incas or the Olmecs...) I'm constantly worried we'll miss some great technology as well since we think of it only as a toy. Quick, someone put these things to good use!
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The art of quirkinessI'm one of those quirky engineers out there; at 30 years old, I seem to be one of the last. Most of my co-workers don't seem to feel like bringing color into the workplace from any source, let alone Archie McPhee [www.mcphee.com] or Despair, Inc. [www.despair.com]. My manager was slightly worried when I arrived at work and promptly put up a fuzzy stuffed gargoyle "trophy" head on my cube wall with a Pointy-Haired Boss doll gripped in its jaws.
I get very little trouble for being quirky, though. I've even had jobs where they make a point of bringing interview candidates past my office.
The most important part of being a quirky engineer is being competent. You have to make it abundantly clear that your quirkiness doesn't detrimentally affect your job performance.
Raw productivity, though, is not enough. You also need to be present during reasonable hours to be accessible as a resource to the other engineers, to answer questions for folks from other parts of the company (such as Marketing and QA), and you have to make it to the meetings.
I'm not sure how long this is going to last as an available mode of operation. As more and more people become programmers because it's a job, rather than because they like messing around with computers and are willing to redirect their messing around for pay, the fraction of quirky programmers will diminish. (I've experimented with inducing it-- when one previous job changed buildings, I purchased the Medium-Sized Treasure Box, the Bag of Mystery, and a gallon of Tiny Treasures from Archie McPhee, spread them all out on a spare desk, and said "It's free!" Unbeknownst to me, a friend in QA spread a lie that I'd be terribly hurt if people didn't take at least one. Weird goodies spread over the entire company, and some people started bringing in some of their own.) As long as we can keep the correlation of quirkiness and competence high, though, we should be able to keep software engineering safe for weirdness for a good while yet.
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Re:Are there geeks in Seattle?
Oh, there are plenty of geeks. They need to get down to Archie McPhee's on the double, that's all.
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Get extra cubicle pieces
We had corner pieces of which I "found" an "extra" one, and attached it like any other corner piece, except as high as possible (our cubicles were probably 5 foot, but maybe 6; been a while). It dimmed things very nicely. Was also nice storage on top for my Archie McPhee collection. And the 2 foot stuffed duck made for a good landmark.
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Archie McFee was there first!
Archie McFee has had these for years, and a lot cheaper, too. Great for Science Fairs and Department meetings.
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Who is Bob?
As I recall, Bob was a big smiley face, no doubt violating the trademark/patent/whatever of whoever owns the 'Have a Nice Day' logo. If the product had taken off, perhaps they could have sued. Still, this means Bob has less of a resemblance the Mighty & All Powerful Bob Dobbs, and more to 'Bendy' from Archie McPhee. So, those of you interested in test-driving Bob can probably buy a Bendy and save a good deal of money.