Put a bird on it

The building that houses the San Francisco TFA office is undergoing some renovations, so part of the lobby is blocked off with temporary drywall. The wall has some colored lines painted on it to make it less construction-zone-y, but this week there was a new decor addition:

Yes, those are dozens (hundreds?) of creepy fake birds. It looks kind of like a demented taxidermist got a hold of a glue gun and went to town.

Honestly, I'm not even sure if it was a purposeful redecoration or if it's a prank - it seems too weird to be intentional, but like too much effort to be a gag. Maybe this is California being way ahead in the home decor fashion scene, and in a few years we'll all be hot gluing stuffed animals to our walls...

A Beautiful Map

We had this great idea at work to buy a giant map of Philadelphia, put it on the wall, and mark all of the schools where we have teachers. Then we thought it would be even better to put all of the teachers' names along with their schools, but they didn't quite fit so we thought it would be cute to connect names and schools using color-coded strings:

While we were successful in our aim, the unintentional result is that it kind of looks like the work of a paranoid schizophrenic.

THE KEY TO CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP IS DESTROYING THE NETWORK OF SPY SATELLITES THE CIA IS USING TO CONTROL OUR THOUGHTS THROUGH SMARTBOARDS.