Monday 9/14/2009
Karmaloop
The Asset Organizer in Blue is made from silicone, and is as light as a money clip but can hold as much as most wallets. The AO is soft, making it comfortable to sit on, and is expandable and water resistant. It has three slots to accommodate whatever you want to put in there, and a foldover clos…
The Asset Organizer in Blue
Great for cards, lousy for cash.
Zagnut
Los Angeles, CA
9/14/2009
2
5
Pros:
Unusual, Colorful, Durable, Comfortable
Cons:
Floppy, Grippy
Best Uses:
Casual Wear
Describe Yourself:
Casual Dresser
Comfort vs Style:
Style Driven
I’ve been trying out a number of small wallets lately. I like to carry some cash and a few cards, pop them and my phone into a front pocket. The Asset Organijer was certainly comfortable to use in this way, and it was plenty easy to get cards in and out. Cash, on the other hand, was a chore. The silicone material doesn’t allow non-rigid items, to slide in and out easily, so I had to wrestle my dough in there every time I needed to put my change away. Folded US bill fit awkwardly into the AO anyhow; folded in half twice they are too narrow, in thirds too wide. For now the AO is sitting on my dresser waiting for another assignment; I’ve moved on.
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Sunday 9/14/2008
On our most recent trip to Northern California (for me just ended, for the daughter and her lovely mother continuing a few more blessed days) I left the books at home and brought
Stanza
on my iPhone. Among many other works available to read for free via Stanza is Cory Doctorow’s ”
Little Brother
.” I haven’t finished it yet, the ride from Los Angeles to Oakland being barely an hour each way, but I can already tell that you should
read it
. Now.
Go
. And when you are done, if you liked it or thought it was worth reading or know someone who ought to read it,
buy a paper copy
and hand it off to a friend who is less likely than yourself to read a book online or on their phone.
Monday 5/12/2008
I’ve changed the look of the site temporarily to try to squash some WP2.5-related bugs with my usual design. You’re free to call me and complain if this persists for too long.
Tuesday 11/13/2007
It alarms me that so many sites have no background color. That’s right, NO background color. Sure, they look fine, but only by accident: I changed my browser’s default colors to blue text on a yellow background, and I’m seeing a lot of yellow these days (and a little bit of blue). Not everywhere, but enough places to know that a lot of sites are RELYING on your browsers default settings being unchanged. A quick look into the code confirms this.
Come on, site owners! All it takes is a
body { background: white; }
and you are in the clear, as they say.
