Post-it Notes

[porphyry]

Why do post-it notes have to be so hideous? I mean particularly those very tiny ones that you could never write upon but would use to mark library books while reading for later reference so as not to make a check mark upon the page. Why must they be those monstrous day-glo colors? Literarly so, since who has ever seen them in nature? Is it any wonder that you have to indicate those repellant shades with a trade-mark rather than a real word? Why can't they be cut from sheets of vellum for a start, and printed in nice Empire color schemes--dark red and gold? lovely shades of gray? Has no one at 3M ever seen a David painting? Are there not a host of abstract deigns from the archaeological remains of anienct Germany and Gaul that could be printed on them, or some tiny marginal sketches of Piranesi? Newton annotated his books with tiny sketches of hands he was clever at drawing, their fore-finges pointing at the important text--they could at least scan and copy that!

Comments

[majolika.livejournal.com]

there is a very posh little shop here for useless things, and they have wee post-its with copperplate insects printed on them very faintly. Problem is, they cost too much to use them.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I think post-its are a lot better than highlighters. Hardly anything more ridiculous in my eyes than certain students with their multicoloured textbooks. (That's where the post-its have got their colour from, I think.) I think they're very handy (as long as that don't leave the pages sticky as some do) and I use them all the time to underline a quote and also to make very short notes. For longer ones I always stick (not glue) folded sheets of paper into my books.

Though I usually don't write into books (except "Finnegans Wake"), two weeks ago, when I was in Basel, I saw some pretty sketches Hans Holbein drew in the margins of his friend's Erasmus' Stultitiae Laus. So I'm not totally against this form of "vandalism".

(Martin here.)

"Ich hab doch keinen Geldscheißer."

[(Anonymous)]

Haha! And in Vienna you can get unbelievably expensive, black *toilet paper* in designer shops.

(Well, they say that constipation and too much money are friends, so there.)

[filialucis]

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[malkhos.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine used those, but I need them by the hundred.

they're archaeology.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

I think you fail to appreciate post-its for what they are, a fossil of the 1980s, when fluorescent colours were new and all-the-rage.

[benicek.livejournal.com]

....although I do agree with you. Some archaeological Windows themes would be nice too. You could have Mycenaean icons and wallpaper one day and maybe Greek the next, and then Roman and so on. In fact, they could be set to cycle in chronological order, automatically.

Re: they're archaeology.

[stefanie-bean.livejournal.com]

Good point.

Re: they're archaeology.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of that. I thought the folks at 3M used flourescent colors simply for visibility. I mean, you could find what page you wanted in the dark, even if you couldn't read what was on the page itself.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

You could probably sell that idea to somebody.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

Actually you can do that now, since you can set any image on your computer as the wall paper. I don't change it everyday, but pretty frequently.

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

I do so love these 'rant' posts of yours.

Usually because I agree wholeheartedly with them...

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

You should have to live with it! ;) I get them all day long.

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Hehe!

Well, admittedly, although I agree completely as to content and sentiment, I don't think I could quite expound about such things with the same fire... ;)

But then I am after all pretty feeble, haha.

[malkhos.livejournal.com]

It is rather funny most of the time though I don't think he expects me to laugh when he tells me these things in all seriousness.

I don't know about the feeble part--how could someone who makes such beautiful artwork be feeble in any way?--but I certainly would love to have one/one-hundreth of the talent you've got. :)

P.S. This morning he was going on and on about homeopathy (again) and then decided that last night I hadn't cut his hair closely enough above the ears, took his electric razor and promptly took out two chunks all the way to the scalp. Now in addition to sounding he crazy, he looks crazy to match!

[himmapaan.livejournal.com]

Now in addition to sounding he crazy, he looks crazy to match!

*Stifles guffaws*

Oops...

(Thank you again for your very kind words)