Pizza ideas: -Peperoni + hot peppers -Ground beef + green peppers + tomato

Mmmmm…

AND!

Have you ever considered putting garlic powder on a pizza? How about some hot sauce? (Frank’s Red Hot, if you please)

When you eat pizza as often as the average student does, innovation is required…

Best pizza ideas in the comments.

As most of you know, right around Christmas, my bike was stolen.

Today, in this beautiful day, I went out of my last class around 2:30 and walked over to St. Jeromes to drop off an outline for english and then, to my amazement, I saw it! My own bike!

W00T!!

One problem - it’s locked up to a bike rack. With someone else’s lock. Damn.

So, I walk over, take off my front tire (I didn’t want anyone riding off with my bike!) and then I went into the STJ office to call the campus police. They informed me that the process is as follows: I call in the bike They put their OWN lock on the bike We wait a week, and see if someone reports their bike being locked up, OR the other lock disappears.
If, at the end of the week, no one has reported the bike as being their own, I call ‘em up and it’s mine. If, on the other hand, someone DOES report it, then we are both brought in and we have to prove who own the bike.

I’ve got the original receipt, manual, AND I called this exact bike in as stolen a few months ago. I’m not too worried.

So, the cops come by to lock up the bike, and I walk out to put my tire back on. After a brief misunderstanding (the cop thought that I was the one who may have stolen the bike); all was well.

Now, I just need to decide whether or not I should walk off with the front tire - last thing I want is to have it taken in thrown in a river or something.

But, yeah, I’m hyped - I never thought I’d see it again.

So, I’m going to have trouble bitching about STJ for a while - UWP lost me my bike, but I guess STJ helped me get it back. (Of course, it’s also possible that STJ is a den of theves, one of whom had originally stolen my bike… bastards).

It’s an interesting industry, which seems prime to hit the mainstream with more then just T-Shirts.

Ponoko is CafePress for 3-D objects. You create the design, send it to them, and on demand they build it.

For an example, this table costs $124 in materials and cutting fees. (here’re some assembly pics - as you can see, it’s basically IKEA)

This whole idea just blows my mind - no upfront materials cost, and no time from “idea” to “fulfillment”. The only thing that stops me from making something up (or… more accurately… begging Brendon to help me diagram something…) is that shipping to Canada is, like always, pretty pricey (it looks like prices start at about 25-30 bucks per sheet; I assume price per sheet goes down with more sheets). When the price of an entire fancy table is $124, $60 in shipping is pretty crazy. If you were in the US, though, it costs about $4.60 for the first sheet; which is just plain awesome.

With a great idea, and a wee bit of marketing, you can come up with some designs and put them up - if people go for them, wonderful. If people don’t, well, you’re just out your time.

The other thing that’s really great is that the entire thing is customizable on demand - want it taller or shorter? Email the designer; it’s a quick edit on his end of things. Want a glass top? Get him to put a hole in it for you. What you want, when you want it. Maybe you’re running an event, and you want your logo in the table - for a few bucks, you’ve got it.

Where it gets creepy is when you start to consider some of the future implications of this - all of a sudden, physical property IS intellectual property! You get a design for a table, and for the materials cost you can HAVE the table! I’d wager that, 10 years from now, people won’t just be sharing movies and music online, you’ll be able to get your entire living room set through bittorrent.

So, should we get together to make some Red Card Group furniture?

“Hello” “Hi, a large with milk and sugar, please” “Okay, will there be anything else?” “A winning cup, ha…ha…” withering stare “You get that a lot, don’t you?” “Yeah”, in a tone that made me want to crawl into a hole

On the plus side, the coffee-retriever laughed, and said that she’d never heard that before.

The moral? Know your audience - the soul-sucking depressed retail employees are beyond being saved - treat them like mindless automatons, they’ll be happier that way.

But, if at all possible, find the funny ones with souls, and try and make their day; or at least help ‘em along.

I love the “made at home” music for it.

How dare Apple create such an unrealistic case size image! Performance laptops just can’t be that thin!