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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Improvisation
The lobby of the building where RFB&D has its Washington offices on the third floor is being renovated. Scaffolding and plywood platforms everywhere. Somehow the workmen have rigged up a dual-direction call button for the elevator. I count five different hands adding instructions and admonitions to the board. Judging from the cutout, I think the original idea was just to frame the existing two-button panel, but frass happens on a job site.
Get lost, Julie
It’s like Facebook is a cruise ship. There’s a facsimile of everything you’re used to getting elsewhere. It is easy to enjoy the many Facebook-approved activities. But the Facebook ship never docks at any ports of call.
Entropy reduction
I’ve just returned from a family business trip that consisted of mostly sorting paper, so I am all fired up to do more of the same here at home. I’m going to deal with the crew of dust nubbins under my monitor; I’m going to ask myself, Do you really need this stack of paper? When I threw out my stack of utility bills from Northern States Power (the electricity company for the Twin Cities) several years ago, I never missed them.
Meanwhile, my connectivity at home is sluggish, especially weekday evenings. My wireless connection to the router cuts out for five seconds at a time, and even wired, I’m seeing timeouts. Maybe the internet has too much clutter in it.
The other shoe drops, and then another
Expect to read more of this bad news in the future: DCist reports that Olsson’s Books and Records has converted its bankruptcy filing to Chapter 7 and closed all of its remaining stores, while Washington City Paper’s parent company has also sought bankruptcy protection.
