[Waterluvian]

That is absolutely beautiful and one of the kinds of things I'd love to have for my Shelf of Interesting Items.

I have two older brothers so growing up I was exposed to a ton of stuff way outside my age range (but I credit a lot of my success to this). I played countless hours of Riven when I was 9 or 10. I really didn't get far at all. But I am still wildly proud of figuring out their numerical system using the fish game. Watching your clock flooded back deep memories about that.

I continue to crave games that make me feel that way. Outer Wilds (not Outer Worlds) is the closest since.

[jf]

What do you have on your Shelf Of Interesting items? I’m slowly building up mine, with an eye to “things that will spark creative thoughts”

[Waterluvian]

Every item has a story attached. Like a badge from when I spent two weeks at a certain factory in Fremont or a calculator from the 1970s when my parents met in math class in university.

Dozens more.

[Darkphibre]

I have some carbon fiber rope used by a space elevator startup I kickstarted, prototype devices in the development of the Kinect or 360 Camera (mounted in a Tupperware box with the camera poking through a carved out hole, no less), a Benham's Wheel and Euler's disk, and lots of Halo ephemera collected over the years (like an extremely rare Halo-3 branded gum handed out at PAX early in Bungie's life), a Dragon Illusion by James Dean, and Xbox 360 processor chip, a copy of and a lot of knick nacks with personal stories. :)

Then people started gifting me things like a cherished slide rules and the like. I love my wunderkammer!

[cbanek]

I absolutely love HN, what a small world. I worked on the 360 software and thru the Kinect days! I'd love to hear more about this space elevator, feel free to email me.

[Waterluvian]

Didn't realise until now how interested I am in hearing about other people's shelf.

Maybe this is a quaint, fun website idea.

[cbanek]

I totally know what you mean. I have a couple of boxes of stuff like this, where everything has a meaning. I try to cycle my shelf with the random things.

(I thought I was the only person who did this :) )

[jf]

(You aren’t )