A Box from Attrition

(apparently with Tumblr you can have a zoomable photo OR a title above the photo, but not both… fantastic, guys)

Some time ago, @attritionorg posted a tweet asking if anybody would like to receive a “box of shit” in exchange for a blog post about the contents. Lacking any semblance of good judgment, I responded via email with my mailing address. What’s the worst that could happen?

My first mistake was providing an office address. The collateral damage from this was that a couple of my esteemed colleagues also received unsolicited “envelopes of shit” (1, 2). There may have been others. Lesson learned.

Incidentally, this all went down about three months ago, so I might be the last Box-of-Shit recipient to blog about it, but better late than never. Hell, I don’t even have a personal blog so I had to create a Tumblr account to do this. Yes, I now own a Tumblr account (sob).

On to the contents. Pictured above, starting in the upper left and proceeding roughly clockwise, we have:

1. A hedgehog eraser, made in Japan, which has since gone missing (I suspect the kiddos)
2. Some sort of plastic connector, possibly the mechanical contraption used on “scissor-switch” keyboards
3. Various attrition.org stickers and a pretty sweet red metallic Laszlo card
4. Two plastic dinosaur toys, undoubtedly outcasts from Jericho’s much larger herd
5. Brown leather (or fake leather) thing with a snap, useful for all one’s leather-doohickey-with-a-snap needs
6. Trojan-brand “extended pleasure” condom, expiration date September 2010
7. Limited-edition attrition.org rubber wristband, cool
8. Caps from various alcoholic beverages, including Pimm’s and something from Mexico which I will assume to have been tequila
9. Nessus sticker (that software still exists?)
10. Scraps of colored paper in various shapes, presumably leftovers from Jericho’s weekend craft binges
11. Pom-Poms, assorted sizes
12. Quite a few erasers in the style of a panda’s head; at least, I think they’re pandas and I think they’re erasers
13. Small envelope of silica gel, to protect the contents of the box by absorbing any remnants of booze that might be left in the caps (see #8)
14. An F5 (refresh) keycap, among others; I considered doing a frequency analysis of the keycaps to uncover any hidden messages, but I’m far too lazy

Final verdict: 6/10, would order again.