Postacquisition Evaluation

In Hand
Got the Macpac Rucksack in tact via postman

Postive Disconfirmation
After much checking,testing and spending an hour fitting a double duvet in the pack, I realised that double wasnt going to fit so used the contents of the airing cupboard. It all fitted and the performance exceeded the standard I have had set of fitting a warerobe into my bag.

I have reached the Optimum Stimulation Level.

A re-written dialogue between me and the guy who persisted on lecturing me about ethical travelling...

Hippie: So, I'm just back from South America

Me: Oh, hey cool, I'm going there next year!

Hippie: oh, it's amazing.

Me: Yeah,I can't wait.

Hippie: But it's become very westernised...

Me: oh yeah?

Hippie: It's, like we have this cultural imperialism

Me (surreptitiously getting spade): mm-hmm?

Hippie: Like we think our culture is somehow superior...

Me (giving spade a few test swings): oh, totally...

Hippie: I mean, who are we to say that adequate healthcare is a good thing?

*SPADE!!*

Me: I am Tiger woods.

Visa application (abbreviated)

Are you, or have you been known by any other name?
There's a small mexican mining town that know me only as El Baldo.

Have you ever been convicted of a crime or offence in any country?
I've caused offence. I called this one guy a dick. he was pretty offended. I did it with conviction too.

Have you ever committed or been involved in the commission of war crimes, or crimes against humanity or human rights?
Question of semantics. if getting a truckload of prisoners in Kosovo to dig their own grave, then turning a machine gun on them is a war crime, then I'll be the first to put my hands in the air.

Travel Pack (Rucksack)

I have at last purchased a Macpac rucsack.


Problems encountered

Seen the bag I wanted in Belfast, wanted to purchase but they didn't have in stock anytime soon, went online discovered that they aren't sold in Eire.

So contacted UK company that don't ship to Eire and not willing to either, after push asked for £50 for p&p ouch.

So used my work contacts and DHL, to get it sent to their offices and forwarded to me, ETA Friday yipeeee

Why Mac Pac ?

I recognized I had a need for a rucsack, began search, found product, product not readily available, product became unattainable so need/want increased, began external search,evaluated choice, chose and await postacquistion evaluation


Which one is it?

Check this - http://www.macpac.co.nz/products/display/catalogue/do,displayitem-view/mid,76/miid,2485/diid,637/

Science club #1 - Rucksack testing

Apparatus:
1 brand new rucksack, bought on afternoon of experiment
1/2 bottle of wine, 2 cups of coffee and a small quantity of gin. (to
be ingested in the hours leading up to experimentation)
1 Brother, 20. (preferably bored, full of coffee and study)
1 Brother's girlfriend. (on phone)
1 brother, 11
1 suite of furniture
1 staircase
1 shelf of books

Other considerations:
everyone else in house must be asleep - for best results perform
between 1 & 2 in the morning.

Procedure:
-Return from rucksack purchase / dinner.
-have vague plans of going to bed.
-Find brother still up, talking to girlfriend on phone.
-Wave rucksack at him in excessively gleeful way
- motion to brother to tell girlfriend that rucksack is brilliant.
- Brother should stand back, and say 'that doesn't look so big'
- You should say 'horseshit'
- Brother should shrug, and finish conversation with girlfriend.
- Both of you should then look around room for something to test the
size of bag.

IMPORTANT: For the next step to work, all must be asleep in the house.

- Dismantle couch, and start squishing cushions into rucksack.
- Have brother discover secret latch that trebles the size.
- keep squishing cushions into bag.

Make some tea. (see caffeine procedure #2334)

- Return to find brother triumphantly squishing last cushion into rucksack.
- discover that there is weight in squished cushions.
-Speculate on possibility of fitting smallest brother in bag. (maybe
even bet money)
- Demonstrate 'adjustable torso system' harness to brother.
- Repeatedly point out how 'the weight goes straight to your legs'
- Notice brother's skeptical look
- Wave arm towards brothers leg. He may not, after all, know where his legs are.
- Position brother at bottom of stairs, with bag on his back.
- Stand halfway up stairs, and push down on bag.
- Get brother to do the same.
-Debate on distribution of weight. (glean arguments from half
remembered applied maths classes)
-spot bookshelf
-fill rucksack with books.

NOTE: Do not replace cushions on couch, rather, leave them all over the floor.

-be barely able to lift book filled rucksack.
- have competition with brother on lifting the bag.
- Wake up smallest brother. (he should appear bleary eyed at the top
of the stairs, bewildered as to why his older brothers are loudly
stuffing books into a bag, in the manner of literate burglars.)
-Remember bet.

RESULTS:
smallest brother can fit in rucksack up to his waist.
It's very difficult, nay impossible to carry him like this.