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Orville Wright Did Not Have A Pilot’s License

I recently read Gor­don MacKenzie’s Orbit­ing The Giant Hair­ball, an excel­lent book about cul­ti­vat­ing per­sonal cre­ativ­ity — par­tic­u­larly how to do so in the work­place. It is a bril­liant book, chron­i­cling the author’s expe­ri­ences as an employee at Hall­mark.  The book is filled with doo­dles, sketches, sto­ries, and anec­dotes chron­i­cling ways in which Gor­don man­aged to […]

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I Hate Shirt Pins

Ear­lier this evening I took the fam­ily to the mall to hunt down some deals.  Daddy needed to score some new threads, pre­ferrably dis­count threads.  Well, that part of the trip was a suc­cess.  I man­aged to get 5 new dress shirts — nice ones — for under $50 bucks.  Not bad right? So then we […]

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