Extreme downsizing: up for grabs: my plant
19-May 2009
Update: This plant is now happily living at The Sellery
Here are my unused glowsticks and accessories, and some old pads I used to use for caving. All are still fully functional, clean, and in pretty good condition.
The glowsticks are super-bright and last for about 15 minutes. Great for putting on a good lightshow. I never honed my glowsticking skills to the point where I thought that I deserved to light them up.


My lease is up on 8-June. By this time, I plan to have whittled down my immediate possessions to only include what is on the list at the bottom of this post.
In preparation for the move-out date, I will be getting rid of one significant thing per day. Today, I cleaned out my kitchen shelves and will be getting rid of most of my cookware and serving dishes. Make me an offer because they are going to Goodwill by the end of Friday.
So, blog, I am making a commitment to you right now that each day, I will make a post about at least one of my significant possessions (over $50 in value) that I am going to get rid of by the end of the day. If I don’t get any offers, I’m going to take it to Goodwill, or to consign on eBay through The Sellery, depending on how much I think it’s worth.
To keep score, this is what I plan to keep after I get rid of everything else:
I was charged with making an advertisement for my eBay consignment shop for the 2009 O.Henry Pun-off. Half as an experiment, and half out of necessity, I decided to see what I could come up using HTML + CSS to make halfway decent-looking advertisement for print.
The result uses SVG, so the only browser that renders it properly right now is Safari, but since it was being printed, all that mattered was that I could get a PDF from it at the end of the day.
The only real problem was Safari’s lack of honesty when interpreting units in millimeters for printing to PDF; 1mm in Safari v.3.2.1 actually means 1.125mm when printed.
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