adrian is rad

(You can find some more gift ideas/ philosphy over at Colin’s blog.)

Gift cards are really easy. They also show something slightly more personal than cash or a check. They say “I know you enough to know that you might enjoy something from Best Buy[1] but I don’t know you well enough to actually pick something.”

Here’s the thing: gift cards tie your money up in plastic that is non-transferable and often expires. You are basically guaranteeing that some of your money will wasted or that the receiver will have to spend some of their own money to get full use out of it.

My recommendations:

• ask the person what they actually want
• cash

[1] And if you are being a total hippie about it, gift cards usually requires the person to patronize a large corporate retailer, which the receiver may not wish to do.

Jesse and I have been having conversations like this forever. Jesse’s new phone can send email.

OH WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD tHAT wOULD bE!!@^$@$^#$^

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 08:00:14AM -0800, Adrian wrote:

INTERNET SHOULD BE coNNECTED STRAIGHT TO OUR BRAINS PERMANENTLY

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Jesse wrote:

yea tell me about it… this seems to happen way too often, considering
it should happen oh about … NEVER!

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:35:09PM -0800, Adrian wrote:

oh disaster!

Adrian

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 jesse@ wrote:

My wireless stopped working…

I walked out my back door this morning to grab my bike and head off to work. There was a lid of a container that had overturned and filled with some water. This water had turned to ice. I think this is the first time I remember seeing naturally formed ice in Palo Alto or Menlo Park. There was frost on the neighbor’s grass.

I need to figure out if I own gloves in this state. My hands didn’t work for many minutes after I got to work today.