Letters from the Zeitgeist
Joel Spolsky:
During the lease negotiation, I sent the landlord a long list of upgrades we wanted—at our expense, of course. Glass partitions, floor-to-ceiling mosaic tile, imported German fittings by Dornbracht, granite and marble—and that was just what we wanted for the shower. …
Like many architects who do a lot of commercial work, they were thrilled [...]
Interviewed by CBC’s Sook-Yin Lee, January 2008.
Ugg Boots?
I don’t quite understand the appeal to them. If you ask an Australian about them as a fashion statement they’d laugh at you, because they’re for housewives in the outback.
Going back in the time machine, to the 1970s I think. Candies, plastic stilettos from the 1970s. What do [...]
Call me weird for holding a personal grudge against a dictionary fragment, but this one is slightly grating. ‘Consult’, like a type of uncle, is inherently shifty. Even the meaning of the word is a runaround, disclaiming actual results: it’s just a consultation.
I brought this up to Marc who explains,
Consulting is an awesome word. It [...]
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