Megan’s Week in Geek: The White Elephant Christmas nonsense!
With the Week in Geek, I normally I like to provide a list of links of shenanigans I find on the interwebs during the week, but this time around I feel like the internet needs a single page of all the weird things that i’ve found and gifted to people over the years for Christmas. Geekly and odd, and reasonable to give to your nerdy friends, brought to you by Dorkadia!
Free to make, and always a conversation starter (usually a conversation that starts with “what did you sign me up for??”): Print out membership cards for all your friends and family to the Traffic Cone Preservation Society! To quote the site, “Until the late 20th century, traffic cones were not thought worthy of scientific study. It is the Society’s mission to counteract these centuries of neglect. By preserving and studying these “Helpers of Humanity,” we hope to allow future generations the opportunity to enjoy these magnificent creatures in their natural habitats.” Free to make, everyone I knew needed membership cards when I was making Christmas gifts a few years back.
Egg cuber! Have you ever looked at an egg and thought to yourself, “this is just entirely too round for me to enjoy”. You are a really strange person first off, but for less than $5, have I got the product for you! It doesn’t slice them, it doesn’t dice them, and it doesn’t make julian fries – but if you take an egg right after boiling it and shove it in a plastic cube mold and then put it in the fridge, you get a cubed hard boiled egg. And who doesn’t need one of those right?? About 5 years ago, I ordered 20 of these and put one on top of every gift I gave people. I think there hasn’t been a single cubed egg made yet. But I have hope!
Maybe your gift just doesn’t have the pizzazz that you would are generally known for (since you have previously wowed people with traffic cone preservation membership cards and egg cubers) and your gift is something a little more tame. Why not box it up in a (gag) gift box for a Gravy Fountain! If someone is silly enough to want a snugee… you should at least put it in a silly box first.
Air Swimmers! And lastly for this round, if you really want to give a gift to the kids that really is for you to play with on Christmas morning, hit the grocery store that fills balloons and fill up this remote controlled inflatable shark that will swim above everyones heads and you can steer it to dive into peoples unsuspecting faces (but then again, after sharknado we should ALL BE EXPECTING SHARKS). And a word to the not so wise, and this is totally not from personal choices but a txt message received from my cousin the day after Christmas two years ago… these fish are entirely for indoor use. Turns out, they will fly away outdoors no matter how much you try to make it fly down to the ground and it will have to be shot down with a pellet gun. But it can be patched and filled to swim another day!
Stay tuned this month for more Christmas geekery gift guides from Dorkadia!
