Every September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day and when it lands on a Friday as it does this year, well that’s an excuse to keep your tongue good ‘n salty all through the weekend. To help you keep up the shanty-banter via email, check out this Pirate Translation site that will take [...]
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Heads up, matey! It be a pirate translation service!
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Summer reading for gleeful cubicle eschewers
July 19th, 2008 · No Comments
Apparently there is not one but two books out right now that dissect the special hell that is cubicle life. Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris came out in 2007. The more recent, Personal Days by Ed Park (here’s the first chapter), was just reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. [...]
Goofy and archaic job titles
May 26th, 2008 · 4 Comments
We’re about to post some job listings for LaunchPad Coworking. We’ve been calling one of the positions “concierge” but aren’t yet 100% committed to that title, so we thought we’d look online for some inspiration. Lo and behold, we found the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. We’ve been amusing ourselves with this list on and off [...]
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My fried brain cells
March 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Admit it. You figured this was going to be another “OMG I overdid it at SXSW” post, didn’t you? Well, you couldn’t be more wrong.
It all started a few weeks ago. The Core77 Design blog pointed me to a very cool little company called Giant Microbes. They make stuffed animals. Actually, stuffed microbes. Black Death, [...]
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