Some of you know that I collect postcards -- any that interest me, or friends send me (I've even been known to send cards to myself!) In my LP office I have a perpetual calendar that I bought in London at the Tate Modern. It has transparent plastic pockets for cards that combine to make the day's date on one side and postcards of artwork on the other. It's mix and match.
I use the pockets to make daily postcard displays rather than as a calendar. While I fire up my computer for the day I pick a card at random from my collection. I use this as inspriration for a theme for the day and search though the rest of the pile to find others to fill the remianing six pockets. Often finding vertical postcards is a challenge -- there are many more horizonal than vertical scenes! Usually by going through my collection one by one I manage to complete the set; only very occasionally do I need to change themes.
The point of this post?
This morning I had the theme of "work" -- so all day I was inspired by a selection of postcards the cards showing women and men people working in different industries.
My postcards set the stage for a day of concentrated work on the trial Donor Decisions database The "trial" includes all possible variables from four different rating services (a total of 83) for the top 25 charities from the 2007 NPT Top 100.
Diana and I worked together on it this morning, then I checked several of the sources, added some more variable and completed the code book. I emailed the Excel spreadsheet to Diana this evening for her to convert it to SPSS. Then the fun part begins! We could have a 25x83 correlation matrix. And endless regression equations to test our hypothesis.
I wonder what theme I will come up with tomorrow for my postcard display. I hope I have a more leisurely inspiration.
1 comment:
your mind and its workings amaze me, but in the very best of ways.
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