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Bloxes

April 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

When I was at SXSW I saw Andrew playing with these odd cardboard boxes and building things with them. He told me they were Bloxes and that he was involved with the company and that they were local to Chicago. I thought they were neat, but couldn’t think of a use I’d have for them.. plus they seemed a little too pricey. Andrew told me he made a side chair for his desk out of 20 Bloxes. But 20 Bloxes will cost you $59.95 and all I could think is that I could buy a nice chair for $60 bucks. Anyway…

I came back to our office in Chicago after the conference was over and we had TONS of Bloxes here. Every few days someone thinks of something new to build and we rearrange them into a new shape. It’s been fun to think of different things. My favorites have been the scooter parking that I conceived and John helped me build and the igloo that PaulBaker built. Someone also built some cubes to sit at that were pretty neat. So, I guess we’ve had a lot of fun with the Bloxes in the office, but I still don’t know if I’d have had to pay for them, if I ever would.

More photos of our office Bloxes creations here. Ill probably keep adding to that link as we keep making new things.

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A BBQ – Sort of

September 10th, 2006 · 1 Comment

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Our housewarming/birthday bbq sort of just turned into a party because the weather outside wasn’t the greatest. It didn’t rain, but it seemed like it was going to any second. Plus, it wasn’t that warm out. Oh well. It was still a fun time. Lots of great food and good friends, and tons of sake and beer. More on the food coming up!

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The Pill Harmful?

November 2nd, 2001 · Comments Off

John Rock’s Error is a very interesting article by Malcolm Gladwell from last year on the Pill and how it may be harmful to women as it is currently utilized:

“In other words, what we think of as normal–frequent menses [bleedings]–is in evolutionary terms abnormal. ‘It’s a pity that gynecologists think that women have to menstruate every month,’ Strassmann went on. ‘They just don’t understand the real biology of menstruation.’

“To Strassmann and others in the field of evolutionary medicine, this shift from a hundred to four hundred lifetime menses is enormously significant. It means that women’s bodies are being subjected to changes and stresses that they were not necessarily designed by evolution to handle.”

Some reproductive specialists are making a case for longer contraceptive periods to bring a woman’s number of lifetime periods down to the historically normal rate (from 400 to around 100), thereby reliving them of much pain and sharply decreasing the risk of ovarian and breast cancers in the process.

~via kottke.org (I read every word.. so interesting)

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