What To Do With 78 USB Drives Next Christmas? 381
ArfBrookwood writes "Every year, I write a Christmas Letter and send it to about 50 people, and every year, it's different. One year it was just the word blah blah blah over and over with keywords, one year I made papercraft wallets with full color cards and money in them, another year I created a Christmas Letter writing contest that instructed the recipients to create our Christmas Letter for us and we awarded prizes to winners, last year, I took a fake retro photo of my family, Inkscaped/GIMPed in a chemistry set and some wall art, printed it onto CD covers, and burned retro Christmas songs onto digital vinyl and sent everyone in the family what looked like a miniature Christmas album. Last week, I came into the possession of 78 2GB USB drives. I have already taken the time to wipe them clean and reflash the memory so they are blank slates." Now, Arf's looking for suggestions for how to best use all these drives; read on for more.
"My first inclination was to remove the USB drives from their careful packaging and plastic enclosures, dump them into a slurry of glue and rock dust, sandpaper the USB port to make it look ancient, and then make some videos or include some oddly formatted numbered/whatever text files to make them look like they cam from some dystopian wasteland fallout-3 type future and then package them in envelopes that looked like they were from some central futuristic government post office. The idea would be that in the future, incidents that happened this year would have had a profound affect on the future. I never tell anyone what the Christmas Letter will look like, and I have only one rule — I have to outdo whatever I did the last year."
Unetbootin (Score:3, Informative)
Yeah, I guess I am kind of boring that way. Hooray for utility over aesthetics!
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
Altered for the Slashdot audience (Score:4, Informative)
Two Words: (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Books (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project [gutenberg.org]
Re:Send them to me. (Score:5, Informative)
You make some sense. Christmas letters are obnoxious.
Re:The world's best christmas cards? (Score:0, Informative)
No kidding, this guy sounds like a douche bag. I also sense some condescension in this one. Perhaps he's feeling inadequate, like all that outlandish shit in the past has earned him a unanimous silent treatment and everyone thinks he's off his fucking rocker so he comes here to reffirm his efforts and brag shamelessly. In fact, I have seen this very same style of gloating and request shit on MMORPG forums.
Re:Kill yourself (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Fill Them With Random Data (Score:1, Informative)
How would you feel ? (Score:4, Informative)
How would you feel with x-mas to be lectured about security ? ...
The post was about a X-MAS PRESENT, not a X-MAS bomb ...
Re:Send them to me. (Score:2, Informative)
Then use Facebook, and it becomes such a part of daily life you won't have to wait for Christmas to find out about how your distant friends are doing. That's what it's for.