NY Times
So, it happened, with little fanfare, and no linking, The NY Times, and NYTimes.com released the Altoids mod story (free account required) featuring me along with some other great Altoids modders, including that genius MIT girl, Limor Fried, who built an MP3 player from scratch in an Altoids tin. My battery doesn’t seem so great compared to that. But it’s still pretty cool to be in an article in the Times.
Unfortunately, my buzz has been killed by both the photo selection (I look fat, tired, mad, and as if I have just been crying or doing coke) and the fact that they NEGLECTED TO INCLUDE MY WEBSITE ADDRESS in the fucking story. Thanks guys. I got approximately 3 new people to arrive here from the article. That really blows. I was worried that the site might buckle under the pressure of all the new traffic.
CNET’s News.com picked up the story too, directly from the Times. Also no URL. Sweet.
They’ll be more to come. Popular Mechanics March issue, and MacWorld, but I forget which month. Hopefully they will include my URL.
[photos by Dith Pran]
I’ve got your URL right here, baby.
Boo-hoo…
I was in the NYTimes and CNet ad no one listed my web site - woe is me!!!
Now there will be no one to click on my links to giant breasted girls or iraqi diving videos that came out 4 years ago!!!
Shut the fuck up you fucking fuck!
Seriously - choke on a turduckin bone you miserable fuck.
…oh - and congrats!
Jesus Chris, you could actually be making some dough if only you’d signed up for Google Adsense.
you’ve made it to canada!
the toronto star has you in the ideas section of the sunday paper, strangely not in the online edition *boo-urns*
cheers
I think the picture of you makes the perfect illustration to your description of the experience from a couple days ago. You don’t look like how you described yourself. Rather, you look precisely how you said you felt with Mr. Pran, shoeless on your chair, photographing your battery pack: embarrassed.
Way to wear your heart on your sleeve. Nice to know you’re such a terrible liar. Remind me to play poker with you sometime.
And now you have your head shot.
You look like Elvis… post-bender.
He looks like some Italian guy from Staten Island, or maybe Perth Amboy
Whatever happened to good ‘ole Tic Tac boxes?
Congrats on getting in the Times!
Hi Chris! remember me? I’m Lauren the person you banned from the i hate cats article!
I’m late, as usual, but this is awesome. Nice work!!
well that sucks, but if you want i will have my local shit ass paper feature you, and include your web address in the article, i sent you an email last night for a mod that goes right with the battery pack, the email is from my gmail account, and should have a title of battery tester, ive included pics, and if i can find where to get the damn little parts i will make more testers and sell them in pre made “ALPod iTOIDS” tins.
when i make a couple of them, look for them on ebay, they will be buy it now, non battery meter ones will be 20 bucks and the ones with the meters built in will be 30 bucks, thats a flat rate too, shipping is included, i guess since i have a nice “apple” to trace from, you can have an apple engraved on the tin for an extra 50 cents or something, im not trying to advertise, more of saying whats up, and to hope that some of you may buy my tin with the meter and copy the idea, and sell em, but anyways, chris, hope you can understand the pics in the email to copy the idea, i made some schematics, and to the best of my knowlege they are accurate, but i might have 1 trace positioned wrong, im going to look it over a few more times and if i see its not right, i will update the schematic for you.
Nice work tiger you made it all the way down to sunny Oz Sydney Australia crappy Sunday Mag Feb 27 2005. Again no url but did a quick Google and here i am
well done Ozy Ozy Ozy Oi Oi Oi