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Is walking on a puppy such a great thing?

My rule of thumb is never to buy fur from the side of the road. But that's just me.

I wonder what they have to treat Swedex monitors with to keep them from warping due to constant heat?

Sorta related: doesn't Will Truman have a wooden monitor in his Doucette office on Will & Grace?

Wow, AH! Was the Hollywoodloverug your posting? I saw this guy on a street corner a few months back and stopped to look at his goods. You are right, he's got some pretty decent quality stuff and the prices are okay--very competitive with what I've seen online. I actually had him checking into a 10-pelt sheepskin rug from New Zealand for me, but haven't heard back yet. For all the non-Angelenos, this is one the weird/wonderful things about LA--the guerrilla street vendors who set up shop on busy intersections. But, honestly, this guy's merch is not crap. And, the vendor was a grizzled old dude who's straight out of a David Lynch movie--which scared my friend but, of course, I loved.

Walking on a puppy? yech - getting creepy visions of Cruella DeVille going into the home dec biz.

I'm not quite sure what it would take to make me buy that kind of monitor. I mean, I feel weird enough about what I spent on that SONY VAIO computer that has, over the years developed numbers horizontal black lines, and the first of those started not that long after I bought it.

Those wooden monitors remind me of a movie that came out last year called Final Cut. It's set in some alternate future and the lead character uses a laptop and video editing system all made out of wood.

The benefits of the wooden computing items are environment and health - plastic is toxic and nonbiodegradable...

So, um, is the rug MADE from puppies???

Benefits, yes, assuming we've not dessicated a forest irresponsibly so we can all have really cool monitors.

Amy- You do realize that to make a wood monitor, they buy a regular plastic one and throw the case away, right? So you still get all that plastic nonbiodegradable goodness, plus you get to cut down a tree. Not to mention the fact that the wankers who buy these things typically want them in Rosewood or Purpleheart or some other similar non-plantation grown tropical hardwood. In fact, the product in the photo is Sapele (African Mahgonay), which is frequently illegally cut from rainforests in West Africa.

The rug is made from cute little alpacas--which seems insane--their wool is quite expensive, so why would you kill one instead of just shearing it every year? poor little alpacas!

I see cat people......

Oh great - I didn't realize they were alpacas. If I won the lotto I'd have my mod little house out on some big patch of land with alpacas running all over the place. I figured the rug was just a "feels like puppies" sort of description, but to actually know they are alpaca parts - blech. And, yeah, I know I have no grounds to be whining about this as I gaze down at my leather shoes....

PS Go cat people - mrrrrow! ;^ )

Oh wow, didn't realize they were actual animal hides either. I don't have a problem with that (he says staring at his leather boots), but some of my friends would. Guess I'll stick with my flokati rug for now.

And, um, Flokati grows on trees?

Arent't flokati rugs made from sheared wool (and not hides)? Wait, don't tell me I can't have a sheared wool rug either? Uh-oh...

OK, the wooden monitor is on a par with the station wagons with the paneling.

CARS ARE NOT MADE FROM WOOD, AND NEITHER ARE COMPUTERS.

Um, the very original Apples were made of wood.

And so were the very original automobiles, and the very original airplanes.

Fur went out of style so long ago.

sez you

"Um, the very original Apples were made of wood."

Fine, I'll have an original Apple sent to your office tomorrow to replace your current Mac. That monthly productivity award is as good as yours!

"And so were the very original automobiles, and the very original airplanes"

And the cars on the Flintstones were made of stone. What's your point?

:)

The point is that there's no moral or natural absolute about what computers or cars or airplanes are made of. Right now metal and plastic are what have worked best--that's all. Maybe the wooden monitors/TVs are just an interesting experiment, rather than a stupid flouting of the laws of nature.

But, um, there was NEVER a time when cars or computers were ALL wood. Just to clarify. :)

Right. And these monitors and TVs are not all wood. :)

Wood, plastic, pelts..... Everything impacts. It would be nice to purchase things that don't become obsolete so fast, that can be upgraded rather than replaced, etc. It reminds me of when I have my car at the dealership (cheap oil changes) and they are telling about the new models. Hey - if the car you sold me a couple years ago is as great as you told me then, why should I already be thinking to replace it???

On the same note, though, when I look at home dec items that at "green" and are made from reclaimed wood, recycled stuff, etc., the price point is way beyond my meager income. I feel stuck. Anyone else feel like this sometimes?

yes. all the time.

"The point is that there's no moral or natural absolute about what computers or cars or airplanes are made of."

Gosh, just because I wrote in CAPS, you're assuming I was dead-on serious??

Must have been the heat. :)

OH, heat-a culpa! 'Nuff said.

;-)

Uh ... maybe a bamboo monitor? They grow fast? Bamboo cars? Bamboo planes?

"Uh ... maybe a bamboo monitor? They grow fast? Bamboo cars? Bamboo planes?"

Add some coconut shells, and I think the Professor made them on Gilligan's Island.