That's what I call it in H-town. :-) Most of these Texans lack the creativity to come up with something other than "work out."Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
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That's what I call it in H-town. :-) Most of these Texans lack the creativity to come up with something other than "work out."Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
I get it now!Quote:
Originally Posted by rhineaux
Saw your bowed up bod in the pics from your visit to Cajun Field a few weeks back. What, did you tell that young lady you only had a few months to live? Surely she has better things to do with her time?? :)
Thread jack!
Back to the task at hand...
CONGRATS TO MS SARAH OBRIEN!!!
I was wondering the same thing...Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeebart21
Man, that is one helluva fruit basket. She is one talented SOB (Sarah O'Brien)
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Oh, those lonely plums, hidden beneath the banana bunch, forgotten until they are nearly prunes. Fill a bowl with fruit and a piece or two will invariably rot.
Enter Sarah K. O’Brien. Her Elizabowl is more honeycomb than basin, its shape-shifting white plastic folds resembling an Elizabethan ruff. The bowl’s petals expand to yield more than a dozen flexible, fist-sized compartments. Each holds one round fruit, keeping it visible and away from the other fruits’ discharge of ethylene gas, which speeds spoilage. When folded, the collar design can cradle one or two grapefruits.
<center><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/education/edlife/ideas-fruitbowl-t.html" target="_blank">The rest of the story</a>
By CHRISTINE LAGORIO
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Ms. O’Brien conceived of the bowl last winter as a senior at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She had been seeking a fruit-spoilage solution for the International Home Housewares Student Design Competition, and cordoned herself off in her dorm room with, well, a lot of fruit. “I knew that I needed something to make me really stand out from the pack, being an unemployed, 30-year-old senior,” says Ms. O’Brien, now 31.
Before enrolling in the university’s industrial design program, she had held a job as director of research for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, forgoing college until she could find a focus. “Then I was looking around my room one day and thought, ‘Well, I built my couch; I designed my curtains. I had my table shipped from New York. I realized this was what made me different.”
Ms. O’Brien won the housewares contest. She received a patent in October, and is exploring ways of putting the bowl on the market, perhaps by selling the design to a housewares company.
The Elizabowl still makes her smile. “You can examine something intellectually forever, but it’s someone’s facial expression when they first interact with it that tells if it’s a success for me,” she says. “I can see a kid being excited to eat an apple just so he can move around the bowl.”
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