I want this couch: Knobbly foam sphere furniture

Each piece in the Mutation series is made from foam spheres, cut so they fit together, attached to a frame and coated in rubber or flocked. De Ceulaer’s work is also on show at the Triennale di Milano and as part of IN Residence at Ventura Lambrate.

I think maybe I don't understand the difference between ethnicity and nationality, then. I thought ethnicity was more than just shared geographical boundaries. And not all people who live in the US have a shared cultural and ancestral heritage of Kraft dinner.

That's what I'm saying -- that the group of people who do have a cultural heritage of mac and cheese (and hamburgers, etc.) ARE a cultural group. "American" might not be the best name for them, since it also means a bunch of other things, but it is a culture just as much as any other culture.

I don't know that culture is the same as ethnicity, though.

All other things being equal, "chick sexer" looks way better on a business card.

Now I'm wondering if Young MC was actually referring to this job. "A chick walks by and you wish you could sex her/But you're standing on the wall like you was Poindexter."

FYI - if the racehorses on Keen Eddie were supposed to be thoroughbreds than they were wrong, wrong, wrong: the General Studbook (like the US Jockey Club) doesn't allow ai.

Sue-- that sounds like a really neat project. I wonder if I will see them out and about? One of the pictures they posted (on a rooftown) would have shown a falling down (thought still occupied) building at the heart of downtown rochester.

A chick walks by and you wish you could sex her/But you're standing on the wall like you was Poindexter."

I think I just realized that I thought he WAS talking about it in the sense that he couldn't tell what sex she was. My lyrics comprehension is very low.

FYI - if the racehorses on Keen Eddie were supposed to be thoroughbreds than they were wrong, wrong, wrong: the General Studbook (like the US Jockey Club) doesn't allow ai.

Quite possibly: god knows it wouldn't be the first time a tv show got facts wrong in the service of a good joke.

My project is falling apart. Right now I'm waiting desperately for some biologists to tell me there aren't any birds nesting yet on an Oregon island, so I can send people out there in a helicopter.

Note to self: never hire a contractor to go out to an island without having a plan for how to get them there, since you can't rely on them to figure it out. ARGH.

Am I writing a cover letter more for the benefit of HR or for my future manager? How technical should I be?

I would describe the culture I grew up in as American. The national background of the people in my area was German/English/Scots, but no one ever referred to that. We were a bunch of people who ate casseroles, watched Walter Cronkite on the news, had cookouts and went to fish frys. As pretty Mid-Century American as you can get.

I would describe the culture I grew up in as American.

So, does "ethnicity" = "culture" in your example? (I'm terribly confused by all of this; hence, all the questions.)

Am I writing a cover letter more for the benefit of HR or for my future manager? How technical should I be?

In my org, at least, HR weeds out a bunch and sends what they consider the best possibilities to the appropriate managers for consideration. So ideally the cover letter would appeal to both, but (again, in my org--others may vary) it definitely has to make it past HR first.