tech: March 2005 Archives

Zoid Shelves

Three Stripa shelves from IKEA, a few drywall anchors and some touch-up paint later, I have a shelving solution for the collection of boxed 1980's wind-up toy robots from Tomy in the shape of dinosaurs, Zoids:

Hasbro has recently started marketing these again in the States, but the ones I remember from my childhood bore the Tomy brand and came in the distinctive boxes shown above. Later on I'll try and transcribe some of the strange Engrish pseudo-poetry that passed for marketing slogans on some of them.

No salesman will call

I've always been puzzled by this dialog box in Microsoft Windows Messenger:

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Is it meant to be tongue-in-cheek? Or are people really worried they'll some guy pitching discount Ronco knives pounding on their door during the dinner hour if they participate in an online survey?

Bio

Peter Leonard
Graduate student in Scandinavian Literature at the University of Washington.

2007-08: Fulbright Fellow & Guest Researcher at Uppsala University's Centre for Multiethnic Research.

Spring 2007: Exchange student in Nordic Literature at the University of Copenhagen, Scan|Design Fellow. Intern at Museum Tusculanums Forlag, the University Press.

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