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What do you have on your Shelf Of Interesting items? I’m slowly building up mine, with an eye to “things that will spark creative thoughts”
by jf 7y ago
What do you have on your Shelf Of Interesting items? I’m slowly building up mine, with an eye to “things that will spark creative thoughts”
- Waterluvian 7y agoEvery item has a story attached. Like a badge from when I spent two weeks at a certain factory in Fremont or a calculator from the 1970s when my parents met in math class in university. Dozens more.
- cbanek 7y agoI totally know what you mean. I have a couple of boxes of stuff like this, where everything has a meaning. I try to cycle my shelf with the random things. (I thought I was the only person who did this :) )
- jf 7y ago(You aren’t )
- Darkphibre 7y agoI have some carbon fiber rope used by a space elevator startup I kickstarted, prototype devices in the development of the Kinect or 360 Camera (mounted in a Tupperware box with the camera poking through a carved out hole, no less), a Benham's Wheel and Euler's disk, and lots of Halo ephemera collected over the years (like an extremely rare Halo-3 branded gum handed out at PAX early in Bungie's life), a Dragon Illusion by James Dean, and Xbox 360 processor chip, a copy of and a lot of knick nacks with personal stories. :) Then people started gifting me things like a cherished slide rules and the like. I love my wunderkammer!
- Waterluvian 7y agoDidn't realise until now how interested I am in hearing about other people's shelf. Maybe this is a quaint, fun website idea.
- cbanek 7y agoI absolutely love HN, what a small world. I worked on the 360 software and thru the Kinect days! I'd love to hear more about this space elevator, feel free to email me.