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Fri, 14 Oct 2005
-ENOCLOTHFRISBEE - 14:12
The incredibly cool
Ximian
Frisbee I wrote about in January is no more. I leant it to
Mikal for a number of months so he could
ask the lca2005 schwag supplier
about getting them made for the conference. After annoying Mikal about getting
it back for a while, he had apparently had it in his car boot and kept
forgetting to bring it upstairs at DCS, he finally went to get it one day for
me and it was not there. Catherine had thrown it out thinking it was not
needed or supposed to be there.
Thus I no longer have an incredibly cool Ximian cloth frisbee, I wish I could
find someone who sold these things. As I described in January it is a light
weight nylon material with a canvas edge filled with ball bearings.
Kathmandu makes a travel frisbee
that is too thick and bulky, many many online sites mention dog frisbees,
however they all tend to be similar to the Kathmandu one and are far too bulky
feeling.
Does anyone know where Ximian sourced these from, or of a supplier somewhere
that can still sell them? I would be keen to buy a few, probably good as
Christmas presents or something anyway.
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Wed, 19 Jan 2005
Floppy monkey things - 16:38
![](https://svana.org/sjh/images/ximian/ximian_frisbee_small.jpg)
The Ximian frisbee on my desk full size
![](https://svana.org/sjh/images/ximian/ximian_frisbee_flight_small.jpg)
and in flight full size
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I attended the 2002
Guadec conference in Seville,
Spain. Brilliant conference. Anyway on the last day
Miguel,
Nat and some other people threw
Ximian frisbees into the audience. I
was lucky enough to catch one (pictured to the left).
This frisbee is made from a shiny material with the graphics printed upon it,
bunched up a bit with a material tube containing ball bearings surrounding the
material. Known commonly as a travel frisbee due to how well they compact (and
maybe due to how well they show up on airport scanners with the steel ball
bearings <g>) this is a
very cool bit of Schwag. Kathmandu
make a
travel
frisbee, however it is made from a more solid material and thus feels
different, it also does not have Monkey logos.
I know a few
people (that is where he works
now, however better pages are
here and
here)
who would kill for my Ximian frisbee. (Michael because it is cool Ximian schwag
with monkeys, Jason because it is a cool frisbee that tempts you to play with
it all the time and does not feel sucky like the Kathmandu one)
Of course now days, Ximian was purchased by Novell, you probably can not get
new Ximian schwag for love or money today. So unless
Jeff or someone has
secret contacts and can source such stuff I doubt Michael or Jason can get one
of these. It would however possibly be cool to get new frisbees made with the
ball bearings and equal floppiness.
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[/comp/schwag]
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