Preliminary and final floor plans for our custom home in Derwood, MD.

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A look at the ideals that shaped our design and building process.

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The various Hemera Photo-Objects libraries aren’t much use to designers anymore, since the image format is proprietary and the browser software obsolete. But it turns out the file format is basically a container for a JPG of the image and a PNG of the mask.

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CeCe dug up an interesting article from 2006 in Baltimore’s City Paper (no longer available online). Here she recounts the bizarre tale of how Joseph Di Giorgio escaped death at the hands of his banana-importing rivals.

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For the first millenia of modern humanity, major new inventions were pretty rare. But recent generations have seen numerous technological milestones. For no good reason, I thought I’d jot down what strike me as the most important inventions each recent generation was the first to grow up with.

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