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Small places

Another great pleasure is the effective use of small physical spaces, from airplane galleys to efficiency apartments. I love novel approaches to fitting a given amount of things into a three-dimensional space, all the while making them easily accessible and approachable.

Flying

I like flying coach. Really. Hell, I don’t even mind sitting in the back seat in your car. And I'm 6 foot 6. And I've flown over 1,200,000 miles in my lifetime.

Massive places

I also love massive structures and the engineering and design that goes into building them.

I particularly like the idea of extremely tall buildings, such as the mile-high skyscraper proposed by Frank Lloyd Wright (to the right), or the two mile-high one envisioned by Tsui Design and Research. Especially interesting are the concept of living entirely within the structure, and the details of how such buildings might work.

Along those lines - and inspired by an old issue of Mad Magazine - I've always wanted to build a perfectly normal suburban ranch house, with a nice garden and a patio, on the roof of a skyscraper. Maybe someday I’ll end up in a Loftcube:

There's just something calming about strapping yourself into that narrow seat, knowing that you have the next few hours of uninterrupted time to get something done on the laptop, read, relax, or otherwise do nothing.

Small rooms

My first office at my college work-study job was an amazing benefit of the job. It was on the third floor of an older brick building, on an unused corridor, in a room created largely by a dormer in the roof. The office was about 6-by-8, with a built-in desk down each side, leaving just enough room to move around on my roller chair. I found out in early 2006 that the building was demolished. Too bad.

Come to find out, my parents also worked with a "smaller space" when they were first married. A while back, my father wrote to say:

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