Oh wow. Bottles.

A friend of mine remarked recently that she thought I had good taste in containers. Which, on reflection, might be the result of a heuristic I developed awhile back when deciding how much money to spend on stuff.

I reasoned that the stuff you have to deal with on a daily basis, or that performs an essential duty, should be of the highest quality that one can afford at the time (given other budgetary concerns, of course).

Some items that fit this criteria can be:

• bed and sleep related stuff (6-8 hours of your life per day)
• glasses, contacts (in use when you’re not sleeping)
• computer (used to earn a living)
• and containers (the real subject of this post)

Containers generally hold things that one finds important to store, and in the case of food, eat. So I have put some thought into the best way to store stuff, particularly food.

I love the storage containers Pyrex makes. The important bit is made of Pyrex, which means it has a nice solid heft to it, and you can microwave and freeze it without having to worry about plastic leaching bisphenol-A into your grits.

And just now I ran across this outfit called Specialty Bottle which looks like it has super sweet containers for just about anything one would want to put into a bottle.

I learned about Specialty Bottle from Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools blog. Which you should go and subscribe to right now. He’s been around awhile and is an incredibly interesting and smart guy. So he tests really cool, useful, interesting and sometimes expensive stuff.

He also wrote a book called Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World which will help you understand the principles behind current revolutions in biology, technology, culture, and computer science. It’s up online for free (legally!), so you should go there now and read it.