Everyone and their brother has a plan to start a T-shirt company that they think will be the new Beanie Babies craze. Casual Industrees at least has the wherewithal to put together a website and start trying to sell their designs. This summer skier/snowboarder T-shirt lets everyone else who works in the hospital cafeteria know why you call in sick over the winter. Their shirts cost $24.Â
The Danish company HeatGear is rolling out this little water boiler called the Heat Stick. It slips inside your Nalgene and heats it to 198F in a matter of a few minutes. The HeatStick runs off a gas canister and warms the water through 70% infrared radiation and 30% convection. It was originally developed for the military, but a built-in pressure regulator prevents it from exploding as the water heats so it won’t make much of a weapon. The HeatStick unit that works with a 1 liter Nalgene weighs just over a pound including the gas canister. Better hope this company doesn’t disappear if you order one since those HeatStick gas cans don’t look like they could be bought from the 7-11.
via Backpacker [GetOutdoors]
A little bit of particle board and duct tape can turn a dumpster formerly used to store medical waste into a funky-smelling mini ramp. Instead of draining the neighbor’s pool while they’re on vacation, you can drag the dumpster they ordered for home renovations into your backyard and skate with impunity.
via NOTCOT
It’s going to be too expensive for even those wealthy Canadians with their solid gold Looney coins to head to Jackson Hole for a weekend of skiing. Jackson just released their rates for the coming season, and a day lift ticket is going to run $85. What the hell? Do they all come with a night in the Jackson Motel? This is the price you get to charge when you’re the only game in town. Colorado is still running the $400 super pass, but hey, there’s a lot of competition. Those Republicans might be onto something with that competitive market—of course, if we were socialist like the Canadians and had the state owning these things I’m sure rates would be more reasonable (plus all the ski bums would have healthcare).
via Backcountry Blog
Darth Messenger on the right of the group was interviewed for this Wired story about the declining need for bike messengers.
“There is really not much left. It’s dying,” says Matt Flores, co-owner of Wheels of Justice, a San Francisco courier service. Flores recently halved his full-time bikers — “document clerks,” as he calls them — from eight to four. His top runner earns $50,000 a year, he says.
The $50k a year was the most surprising part. With courts and businesses accepting electronic signatures the need for official copies of documents to be shuttled among office buildings is going away. At least the pro bikers who lose their jobs will be immortalized in the ultra popular messenger bags that we all use to carry our laptops.
