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November 30, 2006
Thanksgiving meant 2 flights (one home and one back here). I decided to pack up a few books that I’ve been meaning to read. I started “Out of Our Minds - Learning to be Creative” by Sir Ken Robinson. We posted Sir Robinson’s wonderful speech on creativity and education from last years TED conference. That’s […]
November 27, 2006
A while ago we wrote about a kid in my sister’s class who was ahead of his times. Fashion forward. Long story short, we explained that you never can tell who has their finger on the trend pulse. Last time, it was a second grader.
This time, a home builder/restorer has called one of this fall’s […]
November 20, 2006
Where have we been? We have been consumed with our managing our fantasy football teams - and we are getting killed, but we wanted to re-enter the land of the blogging! With a whole DAY of football coming up this Thursday we thought we would share Part II of the worst mascots ever.
Seriously, we […]
November 9, 2006
by Abram Sauer
Tigers. Jaguars. Pirates. Lions. Rebels. Falcons. Panthers. Raptors. Hawks. Kings.
Snooze.
The modern professional sports franchise has two necessities when picking a name. The first is that a name shouldn’t be so specific so that a team cannot be moved. Paradoxically, the second is to mean everything to everyone, therefore meaning nothing to anyone, and […]
