The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

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The New Hotness

  • Amazon Packaging

    The ample padding around this bag of fragile pecans leaves nothing to be desired:

    Amazon - well-packed pecans
    Amazon – well-packed pecans

    They’re firmly held in place on all sides, well protected from injury, and survived their shipping ordeal unscathed: not a bruise or break to be found. Well done!

    That’s not always the case. A padded envelope recently arrived with an obvious wound:

    Amazon - envelope perforations
    Amazon – envelope perforations

    Which came from its completely unprotected contents:

    Amazon - unprotected PCB pins
    Amazon – unprotected PCB pins

    Fortunately, the fragile glass front plate of that OLED managed to put itself flat against a small box inside the otherwise empty bag. it wasn’t broken, but due only to good fortune.

    “Static sensitive parts enclosed”, indeed …