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Ode to the Curiously Mundane Office

Friday, April 10, 2009

Old maps. School supplies. Little white bowls. Graph paper. Wooden boxes. Libraries. Blank journals. Archives. Old cigar boxes. Index cards. Pencil stubs. Faded handwritten letters. Office supply stores. New erasers. Fountain pens. Air-mail envelopes. Rolodex files. Plain thumbtacks. Tins.
The inspirational allure of the curiously mundane puts me into a trance of appreciation.
I can get trapped [...]

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The Power of Community

Monday, August 18, 2008

Learning from Queers and Geeks

“A geek is…any dogged explorer or crazed inventor, anyone who fixates on a project and won’t let go, anyone who builds his own damn rocket! It’s a label to be proud of, in any star system.”
~ Editors, Wired

Remember when “geek” wasn’t a label to be proud of? When geekdom seemed to [...]

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