Saturday, October 24, 2009
Tic tac toe...
Tic tac toe round I go Lookin around my collections to stow Tic tac toe no space like before what'll I do with all I have I do not know
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
When they call something "a collector's item", one would have thought
it means something worth having for everyone. But it's usually something that's rare. Why's that?
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
An interesting web-site I came across on collecting things...
Easier - A collection is a group of things gathered or collected. A person is a collector when they brings items together into a group. People collect different things. People collect things for lots of reasons - - including that it is fun! Harder - Collecting is a great hobby because it can be...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Contextualising the making of tomato soups
I just googled for recipes for tomato soups and found a range of soups on this oh so simple item. I could tell that it varied based on where it came from and also who it came from - that is income bracket. There are heavy tomato soups and plain tomato soups, not to speak of the differences in the...
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Post-death practices
I always lived with a feeling of guilt that I had not dressed my mother along with neighbours and let professionals, read as strangers, dress her up. Until my loved one explained that it's about professionalism and so many professional tasks like embalming and don't doctors deal with the body...
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Friday, July 10, 2009
Writing a sequel to "Interpreting objects and collections"
There is a book written by Brenda Danet and Tamar Katriel. It is called "Interpreting objects and collections". It looks at how various variables play a role in the collections people make. Strange, but that is exactly part of the theme of this blog. I think in a while I could be writing a sequel to...
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
Fans...
If you have seen the wide variety of hand fans, it is amazing how an item that has a particular utility value has such variety. That brings us to "contexts", I guess. The kind of fan you carry may also be a status symbol more than anything else. It could also be reflective of your choice of colours....
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Collecting anecdotes on how hate plays itself out...
I think someone should start a collection of anecdotes on how hate plays itself out. It is important to see and understand this from a holistic perspective to get to the root of it. What say?
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
Collecting wedding take-aways...
Sometimes the wedding take-aways are oh, so same, because there is no imagination in them. At best, it is a competition to give away bigger and more precious (read more expensive) gifts. What is the logic of the give-aways - a symbol that your guests matter and they are exqusitely hand-made...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Collecting the whatabouts of past American Presidents...
This is a repost... as the last time I posted it, it skipped everyone's attention! Collecting the whatabouts of past American Presidents... Collecting the whatabouts of past American Presidents and past Nepali Kumaris can be an interesting exercise. When people have held power, they are transformed....
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