• That the ballpoint pen was invented in 1899 in Budapest by a journalist who got the idea from watching a child roll a marble through a puddle?
• An American version debuted in New York City in 1945, for $12.50 each.  Gimbel's Department store sold over $100,000 in pens that day.  

Our friends at Samsill had some serious fun on a slow Friday afternoon. The object of their fun? The Titan 6 inch binder, the largest binder available on the market, which holds over 2.5 reams of paper.

There have been so many times that I sat at my desk wishing that I had invented the sticky note or the paper clip - seemingly simple items that made somebody other than me a lot of money.  Why can't I come up with an ingenious idea so I can be filthy rich?  Just think of all the paper clips that are used in all the offices and homes throughout the world - it's staggering.

In case you've missed all the hubbub, there is a lot of conversation going on right now about how environmentally unfriendly K-cups are.  It is a valid point - the plastic is not biodegradable or recyclable (in the traditional sense) and they just end up in a landfill. According to a March 2, 2015 article by James Hamblin, published in The Atlantic, in 2014 enough K-cups were sold that if placed end-to-end, they would circle the globe somewhere between 10.5 and 12 times.

Ladies - Are you tired of carrying the same BORING black tote bags and using run-of-the-mill office supplies?  Does your office look tired?  Do you feel tired sitting in your office?

Well, give it some life!  Who says corporate has to be drab?  Sure, there are certain types of office supplies that have always come in colors (file folders, correction tape, pens, highlighters, sticky notes) but I'll bet I've got some here that you haven't seen.  Let's give your office some pizzazz!

A local Rainbow Child Care Center sent us this pic for Valentine's Day.

....For those of you who are old enough to remember life before the Internet, smartphones and tablets....