Comments on: GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS: a "Keep calm and carry on" alternative for the econopocalypse http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 04:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: tuscadero http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443464 tuscadero Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443464 I have a 13 year old boy in my house, that shirt would be entertainingly disruptive. Giggity! I have a 13 year old boy in my house, that shirt would be entertainingly disruptive. Giggity!

]]> By: padster123 http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443738 padster123 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443738 Brilliant. I will print it out and stick it on the wall of my work. A new business, out of the ashes of a closed-down-by-big-fat-stupid-parent-company one. It's definitely time to be starting new things. Brilliant. I will print it out and stick it on the wall of my work. A new business, out of the ashes of a closed-down-by-big-fat-stupid-parent-company one. It’s definitely time to be starting new things.

]]> By: Sewnagain http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-444251 Sewnagain Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-444251 Instead of making things for sale on Etsy, my latest focus is in making things so I don't spend money. It seems futile to hype myself up to keep going in a direction that clearly isn't working. Instead of making things for sale on Etsy, my latest focus is in making things so I don’t spend money. It seems futile to hype myself up to keep going in a direction that clearly isn’t working.

]]> By: mikey p http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-444025 mikey p Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-444025 Thanks! It's my new desktop background, and just what I needed. Thanks! It’s my new desktop background, and just what I needed.

]]> By: mattdidthat http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443780 mattdidthat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443780 <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattdidthat/3365831521/" rel="nofollow">I couldn't resist making one of my own.</a> I couldn’t resist making one of my own.

]]> By: hypeful http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443282 hypeful Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443282 Definitely a more constructive suggestion than my "Now panic and freak out" t-shirt: http://www.typetees.com/product/1466/Now_panic_and_freak_out Definitely a more constructive suggestion than my “Now panic and freak out” t-shirt:

http://www.typetees.com/product/1466/Now_panic_and_freak_out

]]> By: kengor http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443574 kengor Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443574 I guess those "Hang in There Baby" cat posters just ain't hip enough for you trustfund pioneers, eh? I guess those “Hang in There Baby” cat posters just ain’t hip enough for you trustfund pioneers, eh?

]]> By: hundredsofthousands http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443874 hundredsofthousands Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443874 man, there are dozens of comments on the Flickr site like: "yay! great image! now please make a shirt for me." looks like only the first half of the message got across... man, there are dozens of comments on the Flickr site like: “yay! great image! now please make a shirt for me.”

looks like only the first half of the message got across…

]]> By: ianm http://boingboing.net/2009/03/18/get-excited-and-make.html#comment-443364 ianm Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-443364 Does constant learning, studying and writing papers count as 'making things'? I am always excited about the former, but physical creation - not so much. Either way - cheers to tinkerers and innovators - I am one of you but my media are words and ideas not nuts and bolts, but I feel a kinship nonetheless. Does constant learning, studying and writing papers count as ‘making things’? I am always excited about the former, but physical creation – not so much.

Either way – cheers to tinkerers and innovators – I am one of you but my media are words and ideas not nuts and bolts, but I feel a kinship nonetheless.

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