Comments on: Subscribe to receive boxes of items that I've curated

By: Bob Knetzger

Bob Knetzger — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:34:00 +0000

read all about it here: http://makezine.com/25/interview_tos/

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:07:00 +0000

Finally, to be on the safe side, please avoid Archie McPhee at all costs.

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:03:00 +0000

And now that I’m thinking about it, please avoid those plastic dinosaurs that my “artsy” 1987 ex-girlfriend would hot-glue to a lunchbox that she’d carry as a purse.

By: David Pescovitz

David Pescovitz — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:00:00 +0000

I’d like to request a quality set of wind-up chattering teeth. Also, that very difficult Snapper hook-the-rubber-band trick you challenged me with in Detroit.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:58:00 +0000

‘You’ is plural.

By: zarray

zarray — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:46:00 +0000

But there’s no English for a plural of ‘you’

By: Ito Kagehisa

Ito Kagehisa — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:33:00 +0000

I’m not much of a plastics fan. I would prefer a box of interesting sticks and rocks.

By: gypsydoctor

gypsydoctor — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 20:29:00 +0000

When I was a kid in the 1960′s, I had a subscription to something similar called “Things of Science.” See here:
http://ecg.mit.edu/george/tos/

By: petite poubelle

petite poubelle — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:58:00 +0000

I will totally cop to my misplaced apostrophe, but “y’all” is a perfectly cromulent word.

By: Mark_Frauenfelder

Mark_Frauenfelder — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:47:00 +0000

You get 4-5 rad items. I’m not sure yet.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:09:00 +0000

I hate it when people write “don’t.” And “I’m” and “we’re” and “it’s.”

I can deal with it when I hear it spoken, but the written abbreviations just drive me up the wall. It sounds like you are writing the way you would talk. Ugh!

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:22:00 +0000

I’d like to subscribe to an anti-box service, where I can take stuff I don’t need and send it to someone at random.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:18:00 +0000

Perhaps it means you’ll get plastic that has hardened.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:17:00 +0000

Mark, this is just your way to clean out your house, isn’t it.

By: Robert Baruch

Robert Baruch — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:14:00 +0000

Simply sign up and receive one box each month. If you decide that you don’t want what’s in the box, fill in this card two weeks before you get what you don’t want, put a postage stamp on it, and send it to us. If we receive it at least three weeks before we send out the box, we won’t send the box! But remember: the postmark on the card must say “Sunday” or our staff will not be able to process your request.

By: Miche

Miche — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:57:00 +0000

Seriously? You pay $25 a quarter to “subscribe” and then they send you a “curated gift”? I think they are unclear on the concept of “gift”. Also “curated”.

By: Stephen Schenck

Stephen Schenck — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:50:00 +0000

Can we all agree that flagrant apostrophe abuse is never OK? There’s at least a case to be made for “y’all”, but “ya’ll” just makes you look stupid. Apostrophes mean things.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:29:00 +0000

In the average entrepreneurs defence the best approach to starting a business is doing what you know. Improving a product/service you use; quite often the business side of it can be a consequence of solving the problem.

Pet rocks and Makie dolls are a little different… I’ll give you that.

By: NateXT

NateXT — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:20:00 +0000

This is why I’d fail as an entrepreneur, because I could never believe that enough people would pay for something that I don’t want, from Pet Rocks to Makie dolls, the western world’s desires are beyond me.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:19:00 +0000

Here is my statement about my package

Something something penis joke.

By: ImmutableMichael

ImmutableMichael — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:16:00 +0000

I’m in!

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:14:00 +0000

I’d love a little personally curated box of goodies from you Mark, but to be honest I have enough plastic tat lying around the house, already forming a testament to a waste of the worlds resources.

So although I appreciate the intention (which is cute), I’d much rather have a few of your favorite comics and perhaps a couple of maker bits – something to that effect.

Not that the world revolves around my wants and needs, but just a little feedback in case others feel the same and this is a regular thing.

By: TJ Lambert

TJ Lambert — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:06:00 +0000

All I can think of is that I would get so caught up in the “Discovery Phase” no boxes would ever get shipped, and I’d get fired.

By: oasisob1

oasisob1 — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:04:00 +0000

Oh wow, Cowboy Junkies! I haven’t listened to them actively since the mid-90′s. Now I have to go back and see…

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:49:00 +0000

Antique in the sense of, “this Pez dispenser was curated by Mark Frauenfelder himself! Really!”

Or antique in the sense that plastic is made from oil?

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:01:00 +0000

curate is code for “I have a discerning eye and great taste.”

According to the New York Times, in 2009.

By: David Horton

David Horton — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:37:00 +0000

Am I already a “cultural icon” and if not, would following in your footsteps make me one?

By: Senor Schaffer

Senor Schaffer — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:23:00 +0000

Do I get one Pez Dispenser for $25 with a letter about how rad it is or will there be a bunch of awesome shit in there or what?

By: Max

Max — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 08:14:00 +0000

Have a look at one of the others like :
http://quarterly.co/contributors/cool-hunting
Assuming the pics are what’s in the boxes, then some of it might almost be worth the $25 now. And some of it will be worth a lot more in 50-100 years time, assuming people will be into “antiques” in the same way as we are now.
(“antiques” in quotes because I don’t really think it’s old enough to be antique but I can’t think of a better word for it. The sort of crap that some people (not just hipsters) think is cool.)

By: Rezeya Montecore

Rezeya Montecore — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 07:29:00 +0000

I’m kind of a hater about language prudes who can’t deal with a little regional variation. Usage, not elitist grammatical prescription, is the god of linguistics.

IMO, denigrating a common usage like this as “ignorant” just makes people sound rather classist. It’s perfectly valid dialect. If y’all don’t think English has room for a second-person plural pronoun, y’all can kiss my degree.