Month: September, 2011

Pittsburgh’s Hill District – Now and Then

8 September, 2011 (10:48) | Pittsburgh

Here’s some interesting past and present pictures of the Hill District.  I can’t even imagine the Hill District being as lively as it used to be.  So many buildings and businesses and people.  It seems like it truly was connected to the hustle and bustle of downtown at one time. http://multimedia.post-gazette.com/ThenNow/Hill/Center/default.asp http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11226/1166781-53.stm

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Throw the chairs into the fireplace

7 September, 2011 (12:00) | House Ideas

I want a huge fireplace.  big enough to stand in.  A walk in fireplace.  Something you can have a bonfire on.  I don’t want to have to bend over and hit my head on the mantle.  Oh, and the mantle should be awesome too.  Ornate, or just big and awesome as well.

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Hall’s Rule of Social Order #236

5 September, 2011 (12:00) | Hall's Rules of Social Order

wikipedia may not be a valid source to cite, but all the cited sources on the wikipedia page are free game.

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Words… are… slowly demeaning their meanings

2 September, 2011 (12:00) | Thoughts & Ideas

Talking with Chris Olivieri one day, we got into how cursive is useless and shouldn’t be taught any more.  If we wanted to teach children how to write differently, teach them a different language.  To take that a step further, you could teach everyone in the world the same extra language.  That might draw us all a […]

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