A short while back, Roland, one of our favourite UK readers, sent me an e-mail asking if I could do him a favour.

Roland: Hey Mike D. I want to buy a camera, and the camera costs WAY more in the UK than it does on Amazon. Can I buy the camera, mail it to you, and then have you forward it to me?

Mike D: You betcha.

So that’s what happened. But CLEARLY I had to include a few bonus items for Roland. So I decided to prepare: THE ULTIMATE CARE PACKAGE.

Yesterday Roland received the Ultimate Care Package.

Here were the contents (Warning: if you’re not viewing this webpage in FireFox or an equivalent awesome browser, you may have to do some serious scrolling to reach the pictures. Please, please update your browser):

Reese’s Merchandise:
1 bag Peanut Reese’s Pieces
4 Reese’s Cookies
2 Reese’s Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups
2 Reese’s Caramel Peanut Butter Cups
4 Reese’s Peanut Butter Bars
3 Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Packages (king size)
1 bag Reese’s peanut butter cups (miniature)
6 Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
1 box Reese’s pieces

Fort Knox Milk Chocolate Gold U.S. Coins (yay America!)

1 Automatic Reach Flossing Toothbrush

Full set of Star Wars Pez dispensers:
C3P0, Stormtrooper, Leia, Chewy, Luke, Boba, Yoda, Darth, & 3 containers pez
Roland, if you ever sell these for a sweet profit… I expect 3/4 of the proceeds.


1 Padme’ Naberrie Action figure
1 Queen Amidala Christmas Ornament

1 glowing lightsaber keychain

Pile of Junk:
4 crayons
Dice
Squirt Gun
The letter V from Scrabble (worth 4 points!)
Four bouncy balls
One set vampire teeth
A chain that Jesse didn’t want
Mouse to USB adapter
Plastic Jumping Frog
One used Battery.


4 Postcards. One each from:
A Pirate (probably a dangerous pirate)
Natalie Portman
Bjork
Angelina Jolie

1 Mini Disco Party Set

1 set of slippers from Beijing

1 “I’m #1 so why try harder” t-shirt

1 Cupcakezilla t-shirt
home made by mike d, this silk screened masterpiece was designed using Roland’s original cupcakezilla drawing. It should be noted that this was my first multi-color silk screen. and of the 6 t-shirts we attempted, this is the only one that came out even remotely close to ‘okay’

1 copy of America’s worst Pop Magazine: People

1 Star Trek Encyclopedia

1 Sock, previously lost

Expected Camera and Flash Card

1 picture of Jesse. Signed.

Certified House of Rock Frisbee, Signed.

A bag full of bags. (American bags!)

And finally,

1 poster of hot Miller Lite woman and 1 mini space explorer sky lab

Yay Roland!!!

Check out Roland’s Flickr pictures here.

ROLAND’S ULTIMATE CARE PACKAGE HAS LANDED!

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A mural of post-its.

From Shamus.

Comment spam is hilarious. Today I moderated a comment that was trying to advertise a Cheap Gazebo website. Cheap Gazebos. Unbelievable.

Last night I had my first Fluids class. It’s going to be tough. The good thing is that there is no book requirement and the professor communicates well. The bad part is that it will likely require a lot of work, and Pete, my study partner, will probably use MathCad to solve all the problems while I struggle with pen and paper to keep my units legit.

Discoveries of the Masses:

JonAbad discovered Bang Camero. It’s a band made up of 4 guitarists, a drummer and a chorus of about 20 dudes who belt out the chorus. It’s everything awesome of the 80’s.

Ryan Schenk found this sweet surfing video. It’s a video of the legendary teahupoo wave. Schenk described it as such: “The Teahupoo is one of the most dangerous big waves on the planet but also one of the best and most sought after.”

Kurt came across this amazing example of creative graffiti.