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Information Insertion by Dennis Carwyr
August 9th, 2010 10:53 AM
Every day I view the comic at Learn Something Every Day. I decided to print out one of the facts and put it somewhere.
The fact I chose was the metal circle joining a pencil to an eraser is called the ferrule. But where to put it?
I wanted somewhere that people would find it, and it had to be devoid of information. Hmmm...
How about a mail box lid? That way, when people mail something, they will see the (normally) blank inner lid with a fun fact.
When I finally got to the mailbox, there had been a label already there. Fortunately for me, though, somebody had removed it with extreme prejudice.
(Well, not EXTREME prejudice. There were still scraps of it there. Extreme prejudice would have meant there wouldn't have been any remnants there.)
The fact I chose was the metal circle joining a pencil to an eraser is called the ferrule. But where to put it?
I wanted somewhere that people would find it, and it had to be devoid of information. Hmmm...
How about a mail box lid? That way, when people mail something, they will see the (normally) blank inner lid with a fun fact.
When I finally got to the mailbox, there had been a label already there. Fortunately for me, though, somebody had removed it with extreme prejudice.
(Well, not EXTREME prejudice. There were still scraps of it there. Extreme prejudice would have meant there wouldn't have been any remnants there.)
Information
From http://cargocollective.com/learnsomethingeveryday/558502/August-9
The Target
The mailbox I posted the information in.
A closeup of the target
Smug looking, isn't it...
The information inserted...
I almost ran into a problem here. There was an official notice that had been put in here before. Fortunately, somebody had already removed it, so there was no information on the lid.
When my coworker came in today, he told me (in a low voice) that defacing a mailbox is a federal offense. (He had seen it last night after he used the mail box.)
I figure I made it easy enough to remove, hard enough for the mailman to find, and interesting enough for the average person to enjoy it instead of getting pissed at it.