{"id":116,"date":"2005-03-29T17:04:48","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/116"},"modified":"2005-03-30T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2005-03-30T19:50:54","slug":"my-very-first-lifehack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/116","title":{"rendered":"My very first lifehack."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to my cousin Jason&#8217;s third birthday party tonight. I decided that as a newly appointed librarian-in-training,   I should get him a book. I&#8217;m actually giving him my copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0064430227\/qid=1112136025\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-2667124-6985461?v=glance&#038;s=books\">Harold and the Big Purple Crayon<\/a>. Plus I think this kid will get enough toys as it is.<\/p>\n<p>I brought it with me to work,   but realized (I think I&#8217;m rusty at giving gifts) that I should wrap it. He may very well enjoy unwrapping the gift than the gift itself. The Corporate Shill suggested using the comics page from Sunday&#8217;s Trib,   but someone had already ganked the Public Affairs copy. (Archives, people!)<\/p>\n<p>Then, I was struck by inspiration. Where else can you find paper products that are easily modified in an office setting? Yes, the easy answer would be to print out a image of something using the color printer, but I feel that my solution is much more personal, and much more &#8220;hands on&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0802135234\/103-2667124-6985461?v=glance\">(No pun achieved.)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-content\/hands.jpg' alt='My first lifehack' \/><br \/>\nI made two copies, using two sizes of paper &#8211; 8.5&#8243;x14&#8243; and 8.5&#8243;x11&#8243;.<br \/>\nI taped them together long-ways, and wrapped the book thusly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\">Update action:<\/a> Cheers to Lifehacker, who picked up this little piece of craft happiness and posted it on their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to my cousin Jason&#8217;s third birthday party tonight. I decided that as a newly appointed librarian-in-training, I should get him a book. I&#8217;m actually giving him my copy of Harold and the Big Purple Crayon. Plus I think this kid will get enough toys as it is. I brought it with me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-idea-ever","category-i-did-it-for-schmience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}