About
I’m 21 years old. I grew up on the campus of the University of Southern California as the daughter of resident faculty. My email address is britta g at gmail dot com.
I’m a Literature student in the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara with an unofficial specialization in Literature and the Culture of Information. I lead the Lit major club and I’m working on a redesign of our college website. CCS is a small, eccentric college inside a large research university, and I like it a lot.
I’m also the Delicious community manager intern, which means I answer support requests, deal with spam, and generally act as a kind of mediator between the people who use the website and the people who work on it. I’m the odd type of person who enjoys doing all that, and I love Delicious; I was one of its first users and I’ve been working for it since October 2005.
I sometimes collect Mac OS X menubar items, edit Wikipedia, help with the Bedbug Registry, make silly art, and collect images.
A few of the blog posts have tags:
architecture books food insects losangeles maps memes naturalhistory netart osx plants prettypictures sanfrancisco santabarbara self toys transportation typography ucsb webdesign yahoo
What is a jeweled platypus?
When I was maybe 11 years old, I found this image in an issue of National Geographic Magazine and decided it looked like a jeweled platypus. I cut it out and pasted it in my binder, and it’s stuck with me ever since, even though I lost the original when I was 14. When I was 19, I researched the image and found out it’s a picture of an ancient Peruvian duck earring, which confirmed its status as my favorite thing.
