Super Sticky, by Jeffrey Veen

Super Sticky

At the café, we're reading the paper. I see something phenomenal.

Me: "Whoa...."

Friend: "What?"

Friend: "Um, what?"

Me: "Super stickies," I exclaim. "They're like regular sticky notes, but stickier. So you can stick them anywhere and they will stay. We use sticky notes all the time at work, and we'll put a bunch of the wall, each with a separate idea, then move them around and group them and see what emerges. You know, like extracting knowledge from information. But if a sticky falls from the wall, it's like the knowledge went back to being information. It's regressive. It's like we collectively forgot something. But now with stickier sticky notes, we can... What's that?"

Friend: "The travel section."

Me: "Huh?"

Friend: "Pick an island. You clearly need some time off."

This entry was written by Jeffrey Veen and posted 20 October 2004 at 2:03 PM. It was filed under Personal, Web Design. | View blog reactions

Comments

1. On 20 October 2004 at 2:47 PM Jeremy Flint wrote:

Funny...my wife has the same response when I talk about work like that.

2. On 20 October 2004 at 6:29 PM Michael Moncur wrote:

Heh. Brings to mind a nearly-identical conversation I had with my wife when the super-sticky notes came out and I insisted on buying some.

If it's wrong to get excited about office supplies, I don't wanna be right.

3. On 20 October 2004 at 6:33 PM Kevin Cheng wrote:

I think, "Whoa ... Super Stickies" pretty much covered it.

4. On 21 October 2004 at 8:54 AM Arno Bean wrote:

Aah, what a relief to know I'm not the only to go gaga over office supplies.

Thanks for saving me the therapist fees...

5. On 22 October 2004 at 7:10 AM Dave Marks wrote:

Hehehe, well the postit notes i have here are rubbish, they always fall off about 5 seconds after you stick them to anything :(

Bring on the super stickies :)

6. On 22 October 2004 at 10:39 AM veen wrote:

The problem with super stickies, though, is the cost. Their designed as a "special use" tool (sticking to monitors, lunch boxes, etc.) rather than the deeply commodity-priced regular ones. That is to say, the supers are 5x the cost at least.