December 05, 2005

My Website Finally Pays Off

Forget the pages where I try to educate people, the technical pages where I try to share my expertise, or even my political ramblings where I try to convince people to see things the same way I do. The page that really paid off on my website is the one where I explain how to fold a paper airplane from a Post-It note. The book publisher, Weldon Owen, has made a book titled, Post-It Notes: Ideas That Stick. Below are pictures of the front cover of the book, and the page spread that has my paper airplane.

Post-It Book- Front Cover
Post-It Book- Fatboy's Spread

The book officially goes on sale tomorrow. When I last checked, Amazon only had one copy left in stock, even though it didn't even have any pictures of it, yet. Who'd have thought that such a frivolous book would be so popular? Or maybe it's just all the contributors' families buying copies (just like when I went to see the Nutcracker here in Wichita Falls, you could tell that 95% of the audience was there just to watch somebody that they knew).

Update: I fixed the link to my website to point to the correct paper airplane page (yes, I had directions for more than 1 paper airplane on my site).

Posted by Fatboy at December 5, 2005 01:47 PM
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Congratulations on your achievement... you're now published. Although it may be for a book on Post-It Notes, it's clearly far and above any sort of thing the rest of us well get in (save for Roy, but he's been in school for like, three decades now).

Posted by: Rick at December 5, 2005 02:33 PM


Nerd alert, DefCon 1. And yes, I had to look it up to figure out which DefCon was the most severe.

Nutcracker?

Posted by: John at December 5, 2005 04:07 PM


Yeah, a few years ago Irma and I went to watch the Nutcracker as a date. The following year we went with two other couples, and both me and Irma fell asleep and missed most of it. We were thinking of going this past Sunday to take Alex (she's probably old enough to appreciate it, now), but, well, yardwork and hanging Christmas lights seemed like a better use of the time.

Posted by: Fatboy at December 5, 2005 05:10 PM


Congrats Fatboy.

FWIW, as in, if some chick that reads this is easily impressed and ignores everything else I "contribute" here, I am also a published writer now...if a hot rod magazine counts as journalism. Every month baby, three to four sotries.

Posted by: Chris at December 5, 2005 11:09 PM


Writer?

johna.jpg

Posted by: The Other John Albers at December 5, 2005 11:12 PM


I totally write. You need to check out the back issues of Crotches, Bacardi-O, Karl Jung, and .... whatever we decide for the week. Yes, I know it is terrible, and no I don't care. Gotta start somewhere.

Posted by: John at December 6, 2005 12:19 AM


Is that a denim shirt? Jeez.

The only thing I've value that I've written is some paper on computer hacking/security for a assignment freshman year. Since Gemstone put it up on the web, it's now part of Securityflaw's Information Security Bible (thankfully the link to my horrible paper is no longer). Clearly the only time "Rick Nelson" and "bible" are ever going to appear together in any sort of nontrivial sense.

Posted by: Rick at December 6, 2005 10:52 AM


As you might recall, that guy in the photo is dead. And he was from Kiester, Minnesota. *snicker*
Though it seems as though he must have left behind some relatively young children.

Posted by: John at December 6, 2005 11:17 AM


Rick Nelson fucked a bible once.

Posted by: Some Bible Thumper at December 7, 2005 09:31 AM


Once?

Posted by: John at December 7, 2005 11:56 AM


Rick's fucked a lot of things most people wouldn't admit to. I'm usually just along for the ride.

Posted by: Rick's Penis at December 7, 2005 01:07 PM


Rick, why don't you re-post your paper, or at least resubmit it to that website? Is it now an anachronism?
Also, I believe the reputation of Rick's penis is blown out of proportion due to limitations suffered under the condition known as "Tequila Dick." Not to say that his dick is not outstanding. Boy, is it ever.

Posted by: John at December 7, 2005 03:13 PM


Despite its current state of semi-retirement, the fact the very little ever stopped Rick from using his penis, while others were in the room, and awake, has established an image that no amount of tequila can wash away.

No matter how hard I try.

Posted by: Chris at December 7, 2005 08:14 PM


If my penis gets used in public, rest assured that all of humanity benefits from the experience. Especially the drunk girl. (Good think the J doesn't read this site)

An when's the last time it's been used in public anyway? I'll go with rubbing against Chris at a beer pong table.

Ahh, memories.

Posted by: Rick at December 8, 2005 01:00 AM


I'd be willing to be it was Chris doing the rubbing. Boy do I miss those days...

Posted by: Nate at December 8, 2005 06:45 AM


My god, that yacht-club party. That yacht-club party, oh my god. These chocodiles, Haley, oh my god.

You know it's a good party when 75% of the people are a) strangers and b) convinced you're gay, and you still pull a cute blonde. Well, I did. I think Rick ended up getting sucked off by whomever lost that last 3 a.m. game of beer pong. After, of course, he walked around smoting people. That he didn't know.

I miss Colby and her apparently disposable income.

By the way, I ended up dating that chick for a few months, and it was a disaster. Because it's always a disaster.

Posted by: Chris at December 8, 2005 02:43 PM


And yeah, that's an American Dad reference, but I don't know how I feel about that. I don't think it'll be a regular thing.

Posted by: Chris at December 8, 2005 02:43 PM


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