Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Unboxing Insights

Agricola is a great new game that has hit the boardgame world the way the Beatles hit the pop music charts. Its a complex game for 12-year-olds that I decide to introduce to 8-yr-olds and their parents while trying to understand it myself. Great learning experience - for me.

insight: Packaged manuals are produced without regard to their audience. Populist replacements like Scott's video instructions are far superior.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Laundry Insights

Just got a new high efficiency washer/dryer. So I am seeking insights into the laundry process.

Claim: Soap nuts are more natural, better for the environment and cheaper. They are the dried berries from The Soapberry tree growing in India and China. I would be doing everything, but buying local.

Folks seem to like Maggies. She sell Soap shells :) 2.2 lbs for 200 loads of laundry for $35 (incl ship)


Claim: Making laundry is easy and costs one tenth what Tide costs.

Tide is only one of two things that I buy by the brand so it will be interesting to see how far I go testing or incorporating them into my life.