Brickyard web site
Forgot to mention — we set up a simple web site for the Brickyard over the weekend. That’s the underground lair where I do this most of most days.
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work
Brickyard
Brickyard-Jan2008: 306 South Main. Come say hello!
2008-01-07
Not network
6 — common ground:
“People lack a place where they can have regular, meaningful dialogues with other people in a casual, social setting. Work and home don’t provide it, and many clubs or groups also don’t provide it because they meet in lifeless environments that feel like someone else’s turf.”
via: Knowledge Hydrant (PDF).
2008-01-04
Forms of work
80 — self-governing workshops and offices:
“Work is a form of living, with its own intrinsic rewards; any way of organizing work which is at odds with this idea, which treats work instrumentally, as a means to other ends, is inhuman.”
via: Alexander, re: brickyard and occupants.
2008-01-02
Your weird professional identity descriptions
From the party like it's Q2 2007 department — here’s the complete & unabridged list of weird professional identity descriptions reproduced for posterity and against that unhappy hypothetical day when the pageoftext server should be unplugg’d from the DSL line or whatever of its proprietor:
- aesthetician
- chief dog food taster
- cleaner
- computer psychologist
- corporate irritant
- decomplexifier
- dishwasher
- digital janitor
- doppelgänger
- dude
- feedback loop
- finisher
- fireball
- fixer
- fluffer
- information interior decorator
- infrastructuralist
- informationist
- internet-human duct tape
- last mile
- mechanic
- minister of information
- navigator
- post-production
- punching bag
- queen bee
- roustabout
- slacker
- sorghum consultant
- technology evangelist
- utility man
- wire monkey
- utility man
- bomb snifing dog
The other pageoftext of note — the wikiclock — was almost 20 hours of out date at this writing.
