My Bountiful October Cornucopia (aka, Bag Of Crap) arrived today!
For the unwashed among you, the deal-a-day website Woot! has a number of quirky traditions. Among these are occassionally holding non-stop one-deal-after-another marathons called "Woot-Offs", and another where they sell you a bag of random crap for a buck. Both have become ritualized and fetishized, and actually scoring a Bag Of Crap (BOC) is a tremendous challenge. Demand is great, robot auto-ordering tools common, and Woot's servers are historically fragile.
Nevertheless, during a Woot-Off in late October 2010 I was successful, and my BOC arrived on Wednesday, 03 November. I photographed the unboxing for you.
It looked much the same as many others reported on the Woot! blog from that recent Woot-Off, and arrived neatly and safely packed in a lovely Woot! box with lots of bright green bags of air. It contained:
It's a pity that the tee is a small, because as a professional mad scientist it works for me, otherwise. Still, a pretty good haul, I'd say!
(Note: I have since scored more bags of crap! See the August and December 2011 scores.)
Each thumbnail below links to a much larger image of about 575 kB in size.
The box finally arrives! Such excitement! |
Detail of the lovely Woot! box, made of the finest cardboard. |
Filled with bags of fresh air from Carrollton, Texas. |
The crap revealed! |
Some kids' stuff to start with... |
Barbie "Scratch & Design" stickers . |
"Brothers In Arms" action figure. GI Joe better be on his toes. This guy looks like a tough hombre. |
"The Chemist" tee-shirt from Shirts.Woot. Cool design; sadly for me, it's a women's size small. |
Now some electronic goods and accessories... |
A mysterious box-within-a-box, holding two HDMI expanders. |
A separately included HDMI adapter. |
All the HDMI goodies together. |
A red and black iPhone 3G case. Not quite big enough to hold my HTC HD. |
A pink Snap digicam by Blue Digital, masquerading as a carabiner. |
Now the good stuff... golf cap and sling bag from the McGladrey Team Championship PGA tournament. |
The cap is, well, a cap. |
The sling bag is nice. Good size with an outer zip chamber, bottle pocket and a phone pocket on the strap. |
My first bag of crap! Not bad... |
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