Where in the World has the Forum Gremlin gone Now? Complaint Thread
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how did people wrap christmas presents before scotchtape was invented?
Cut your finger once, and it will be the last time you floss...the shark or you!
Dana
if I am not in bed my midnight I will turn into a pumpkin or something like that. Bed time is ten pm and I do not know what time it is right now. I know it is past ten pm.
they used the force
http://howdidyoumakethis.com/gift-wrap-with-string-and-paper/
REVELEEEEE rise and shine up and at 'em
nooo wanna go back to blankets and sleep
Ribbon works as well as string
click image to play
Went to bed before midnight and woke up at six thirteen give or take. I did not get enough sleep.
Woke up bored. I didn't think it was possible, but faced with an entire day consisting of nothing but writing documentation, there's no no motivation in me aat all.
I sure hope a Venti late' gets me moving, or today is going to be painful...
Ribbon & paper (sans Scotchtape). Works very well. I remember when the recommended procedure for sending packages through the post office was that you use string and brown paper. Now days it would foul up their automatic sorting machines.
Nearly midnigh, there is the Geminid shooting star thing happening this week but don't hold much hope of seeing it from here but iz a reasonably clear night so who knows? Iz seriously warming up here there are mosquitos around this year maybe not quite as big as a 747 but getting to be as loud if you are trying to sleep :)
whoa new tricksss, video I mean is that easy huh?
eta OK I give up how do you do that?
Yes, you just copy and paste the share link. It is not true embedding, but the next best thing.
ok thanks was confused cos the url seems to be malformed witth a dot in the wrong place but hey, even works on my ipad so awesome :)
I missed another Victoria 4 sale. Bummer
I forgot my coffee at home. Bummer
I got a free coffee with star reward and also purchased a cookie
Blech, I hate mosquitos!
Coffee and a cookie good!
One of my daughters is home sick today, so now I'm bored and can't really do real work or 3D work... But I can sit here and make stupid replies to posts... Here goes....
Bored.
Bored. 
Bored. 
Writing documentation is dull at the best of times, but it's gray and overcast and I just want to lie down and sleep.
So, I'm thinking about my end-of-project party and where I'm going to go. It'll be my last blowout before I enter austerity mode. 
After this weekend, it's back to sending out resume's all over Austin.. don't really want to relocate. 
A Venti quad-shot latte' and still sleepy.. wth..
Seems about right...
oh boy. i wish. lol. V-Ray for Cinema 4D On Sale Now! http://www.vray.com/newsletter/vray_for_cinema_4d_christmas_sale_12_15/
sucks about contract work >.< you do a good job, you work yourself out of a job.
the 40$ coffee cup?
ribbons
brown paper packages tied up with string, these are a few of my favorite things .. .. sing ittttt
Sorry to take so long to reply...
How far back?
The Egyptians used papyrus and camel wool, which was poplar until the aliens came along and taught them to use a high tech kind of Mylar that created a force field which blocked light and acted as a stasis field preventing the contents from aging... Which was good because previously the majority of the Santa-Time gifts (it was before Christ's time) were dates or live cats... Which is why today we have the famous Egyptian Bald Ass cats who are apparently a side effect of wrapping a cat in a stasis field... With highly neutrino saturated dates... The ancient Greeks used intricate marble boxes made of a lightweight stone only found on the island of Atlantis... The Romans used either pig intestines or lead foil... For small things like piles of ground dried meat they used the pig intestines, which is why we have Salami today... Well I had it yesterday, but I ate all five pounds of it... Anyway, for bigger stuff like vases, Macedonian unics or Ferrari chariots they used lead foil in happy bright toxic colors... Later in Rome's history as society declined into a spiral of madness and debauchery, they just gouged out the eyes of anyone who would see the gift before it was presented. Those were awkward times. The dark ages were pretty dark and plaguey, so nobody really needed to wrap the gifts... That and the gifts which were mostly spoiled turnips or chunks of mossy Rat's milk cheese aged in a hollowed out goat, so nobody would have been surprised anyway... Although kings and nobility would often commission elaborate gilded and bejeweled wooden boxes which they would then use to pummel random peasants to death with... This is the origin of Boxing Day which is still celebrated in exotic lands like Canada and the Republic of Meow... I'd explain that last one, but it was covered in one of my readmes. By the time of the Renaissance things had become more enlightened and most wrapping material in Europe was made from the skin of orphans and stitched together with cat gut... This was one of the main reasons that the orphans and cats eventually began the overthrow of the French aristocracy on July 14, 1789... Although nobody really paid much attention historically to the role of cats and orphans in the storming of the Bastille there are subtle homages to their role in such plays as Les Misérables, Annie, Cats and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes- The Musical.... By the time of the Industrial Revolution the alliance between the orphans and cats had fallen apart and the cats formed their own island republic off the coast of Japan... But there was little need for the cats help by then because the average wrapping material contained less then 10% orphan, but because of this the material was less sticky and needed something to hold it in place, at first "Orphan Strips" was a common early predecessor to tape, made mostly of Scottish orphans (hence origin of 3M's name "Scotch Tape"), these sticky strips held the wrapping paper (which was commonly just sooty bloodstained old newspapers) in place until "All Santa's Eve"(It wasn't officially "X-mas" until 1947 when zombie FDR signed it into law at the first World X-mas Conference in Lake Success N.Y. This venue would later go on to be renamed "The United Nations" and move to the upper east side of Manhattan)... On that day children would get a half hour off from work after midnight to go home and unwrap their gifts... Usually a half smoked cigar or delicious rat and pigeon pie... As conditions improved and the cost of orphan based adhesives increased some people began to use strips of cloth or ribbons to hold the newspaper in place, but it wasn't until around 1922 when an employee working at the Minnesota Mutant Mining corporation (later to be called 3M) discovered an old box of "Orphan Strips" and decided to make a cellophane based version that could do the same... Tragically he used nitrocellulose and blew himself up, but eventually by 1933.4 Richard Drew, another 3M employee figured out a better way of making non-explosive tape...
I hope that answered your question and made you appreciate scotch tape even more.
This one was a real roll of the dice - small startup, private investors, niche market.. but the product concept is sound and it was worth taking a risk, since I'm single. It just didn't work out, the investors chickened out, and we're all out of work for the holiday season.
I really feel sorry for the folks with families and bills, they're going to take a real hard hit...
I am disturbed by this video... The disembodied talking hands frighten me... Your sinister magical ability to make YouTube videos work on these forums is nothing short of witchcraft.
I sometimes use layers of duct tape... This is especially entertaining when used in conjunction with small children... Watching them trying to figure out how to get at the contents and then finding yet another layer below is what really makes the holidays for me.
it's that time of year for me too. i'm a yearly contract employee. every january worries if they'll renew me, i'm always the last to know.
bought my lotto tickets, it's the backup plan.