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What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas?
ArfBrookwood writes "Every year, I write a Christmas Letter and send it to about 50 people, and every year, it's different. One year it was just the word blah blah blah over and over with keywords, one year I made papercraft wallets with full color cards and money in them, another year I created a Christmas Letter writing contest that instructed the recipients to create our Christmas Letter for us and we awarded prizes to winners, last year, I took a fake retro photo of my family, Inkscaped/GIMPed in a chemistry set and some wall art, printed it onto CD covers, and burned retro Christmas songs onto digital vinyl and sent everyone in the family what looked like a miniature Christmas album. Last week, I came into the possession of 78 2GB USB drives. I have already taken the time to wipe them clean and reflash the memory so they are blank slates." Now, Arf's looking for suggestions for how to best use all these drives; read on for more.
"My first inclination was to remove the USB drives from their careful packaging and plastic enclosures, dump them into a slurry of glue and rock dust, sandpaper the USB port to make it look ancient, and then make some videos or include some oddly formatted numbered/whatever text files to make them look like they cam from some dystopian wasteland fallout-3 type future and then package them in envelopes that looked like they were from some central futuristic government post office. The idea would be that in the future, incidents that happened this year would have had a profound affect on the future. I never tell anyone what the Christmas Letter will look like, and I have only one rule — I have to outdo whatever I did the last year."
"My first inclination was to remove the USB drives from their careful packaging and plastic enclosures, dump them into a slurry of glue and rock dust, sandpaper the USB port to make it look ancient, and then make some videos or include some oddly formatted numbered/whatever text files to make them look like they cam from some dystopian wasteland fallout-3 type future and then package them in envelopes that looked like they were from some central futuristic government post office. The idea would be that in the future, incidents that happened this year would have had a profound affect on the future. I never tell anyone what the Christmas Letter will look like, and I have only one rule — I have to outdo whatever I did the last year."
Yeah, I guess I am kind of boring that way. Hooray for utility over aesthetics!
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
On the link to the blog talking about the Christmas album, it says the cover was "Photoshopped". Here on Slashdot, to appease the FOSS freaks this slang gets changed to "GIMPed". That's real classy.
"When you see a unixer brainwashed beyond saving, kick him out of the door." - Xah Lee
Christmas Botnet. Not only are worms the gifts that keep on giving, but you'll always be that much closer to everyone you give them to!
With 2Gb to play with, you could even go audio-book.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project
You make some sense. Christmas letters are obnoxious.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No kidding, this guy sounds like a douche bag. I also sense some condescension in this one. Perhaps he's feeling inadequate, like all that outlandish shit in the past has earned him a unanimous silent treatment and everyone thinks he's off his fucking rocker so he comes here to reffirm his efforts and brag shamelessly. In fact, I have seen this very same style of gloating and request shit on MMORPG forums.
Seconded. I came here hoping to read everyone rant about how his link to "fake retro photos" is an invitation-only private blog. Unfortunately, it looks like nobody cares enough to even follow the link.
Indeed you can. Two of my USB sticks have Ubuntu on them. 8.04 on one, and 9.04 on another.
How would you feel with x-mas to be lectured about security ? ...
The post was about a X-MAS PRESENT, not a X-MAS bomb ...
--- I am known for the ones who want to find me on the net. Is that a privacy risk or a privilege? One might wonder..
Then use Facebook, and it becomes such a part of daily life you won't have to wait for Christmas to find out about how your distant friends are doing. That's what it's for.