Great Tips: How to Open Blister Packages

Ever buy something that comes in one of those blister/clamshell packages and then swear in nine different dialects as you attempt to open the sucker and get your goods out? This happens with me constantly when I buy things like cell phone accessories or other kinds of electronics. I just found this over at Lifehacker and the sheer simplicity of it knocked me over. Can opener! Who woulda thunk it?

Ok, not my most inspired post, but handy nonetheless.

Stuff I Like: The Go Bag

If there is a Web site out there that I cannot recommend highly enough, it's Lifehacker. Spend a few minutes there and you will rapidly see a large piece of inspiration for my own site (although I happen to do a number of tweaks that they do not and have a slightly different focus). Regardless, it's a wonderful site and they come up with cool tips and nuggets of goodness daily.

A recent fave of mine is their concept of the "Go Bag" which you can see all sorts of examples of here. Essentially, a Go Bag is any kind of bag you would use to throw all of your daily essentials in before heading out to attack the day. The Lifehacker crew wanted to see what various members would use for bags and what life equipment they would put in it before venturing out into the adventure that is human life.

I just put my own Go Bag into action after picking up the REI Singular Sling Bag 2.0 (in Madrona... 'cause I guess calling it "maroon" was too tricky) and setting it up for daily use. And the results you can see here to the right.

So far I don't have everything in it I would like to, but off to a decent start thus far. Starting from the top and working my way down there is:
- my camera
- my Nintendo DS Lite
- my cool wallet my bro got me in Argentina
- my Moleskine notebook that I use to jot down random thoughts and, especially, blog ideas
- my 30gig iPod (ok, so the link is to the 80 gig one)
- my Motorola Q
- my Cabela's mini multi-tool (seriously handy little bugger)
- hand sanitizer
- a basic pen
- my current R.A. Salvatore book (I find these things addictive)
- my latest copy of Men's Health.

The one thing missing is a laptop, but I am working my way up to that slowly but surely. And please bear in mind... this is a sling bag... not a Seinfeld style "European carry all"/man purse. *shudder* But thus far, I am finding the Go Bag handy because everything I have in it is something I used to find myself thinking before, "Damn... I wish I had my..." The big thing is the camera and the notebook since with my seeking to get this blog moving, I need to be able to get ideas and snap up photos for content when the moment strikes.

Give the Go Bag a try and let me know how it works out.