
Blu Dot 2d:3d Catch-All Tray
Metal origami from the clever designers at Blu Dot. For all the odds and ends that need to be put away, this desk tray comes flat, and you give it its shape with a few quick folds of the perforated metal.
Cool stuff. Seems a bit pricey but it’d sure help with my desk drawers.
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Tricks of the Trade: Win an Argument
If someone starts yelling to get their point across, don’t respond — just let them go on and on. Remain so silent that they eventually start wondering if you are even listening.
It doesn’t matter what the issue was, you will have won the argument.
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Frontyard Treasure? Just the Shaft - Los Angeles Times
Enrique Mora was convinced that his neatly trimmed lawn in a Montclair cul-de-sac topped a modern-day mother lode — so two weeks ago, he started digging for gold.
Mora’s flirtation with residential treasure began about a month ago, when he celebrated his retirement from a company that retrains injured workers by dropping nearly $600 on a metal detector.
Sure a $600 metal detector is good but it sure isn’t going to find something 60 feet down. Maybe he should have read the manual and figured out how to filter out all the crap.
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