David Thorne – how can I add you to my blogroll?

Yes, emphatically,  I am not able to move small objects with my mind – or I’d performed the task myself the first minute of reading his hilariously sarcastic and monty-pythonishly humorous “articles”.
Like this one. Just for the phrase
I do [however] feel a suitable and appropriate punishment for handing out medieval metaphysic[al] propaganda to children would [...]

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Job opening: Cinderella. Japanese version.

Honestly, I didn’t change a word in this Monster ad (underscores are mine):
Interior Designer, Intermediate (NYC) Responsible for interior, façade & structural*** drawings.​ Prepare presentation materials for interior design projects using computer & 3D rendering programs, coordinate work w/​US & Japanese clients in all phases of design.
Required Bachelor in Interior Design or Architecture, IDP(?) certification* [...]

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Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?

For those of you who were wondering what have I been doing for the past week here’s a visual proof for me being alive and well (and well-fed and even moderately intoxicated, in a best possible way). Following is the video of a party I attended, at my best flooring materials vendor R.D. Weis’, in [...]

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Objects derailed

There was something I collected for its own sake, and persistently, for a long time: electrical-mechanical junk. To this day I have a special feeling for broken bells, alarm clocks, old radio coils, telephone speakers and in general for objects derailed, worn out, abandoned, and which are given for the last time a chance to [...]

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“Dealing with Mr. Murphy and his law”

If you are one of the members of the public, who, in all  innocence,
a) see no difference between the job of interior designer and “decorator”
or
b) hint that the profession is outrageously overpaid (comparing to their own, no matter what that happen to be),
or
c) relay that words “duties of interior designer” suggest a pleasure rather than [...]

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Building code? What building code?

It must be a refuge architects are secretly aspire to retire to…after dealing with all manner of codes, zoning regulations and protective acts. Ah, the paradise.
See more here.

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Revelation: Beauty

[transferred from a comment I left at my friend's Kpoxa_Enot's post]:
Было мне 6 лет, и было утро субботы (я библейскими канонами шпарю, чтоб не заморачиваться оригинальностью стиля).
Прекрасное летнее утро. Я выбежала во двор в поскрипывающих новой кожей белых чешских босоножках, только-только купленых. Мир сверкал и переливался.
При внимательном взгляде оказалось, что это сверкание обусловлено, в том [...]

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Notes on a drawing set margin. N -1.8. Kwik handwriting: Freud says hi

Previous note.
I wrote dawn specification for acoustical panel during phone conversation with GC. In 2 hrs  brought my notepad to a construction meeting in the conference room , glanced down while talking about manufacturers and choke.
-Hello, says John, looking over my shoulder at the pad. -What’s there? What were you thinking of? It’s Tectum. “T”, [...]

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Notes on the drawing set margins. N-1.7. Work of others

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Notes on the drawing set margins. N-1.6

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