Kiyoshi Martinez - nerdlusus blog » Stamps http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus the geek wants out Mon, 16 Aug 2010 06:37:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Stamps: Dinosaurs are awesome http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/12/05/stamps-dinosaurs-are-awesome/ http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/12/05/stamps-dinosaurs-are-awesome/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:59:21 +0000 kiyoshimartinez http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/12/05/stamps-dinosaurs-are-awesome/

I was really into dinosaurs as a kid, so imagine how thrilled I was when the USPS issued these dinosaur stamps in 1989. After some googling, I think these stamps generated a bit of controversy as scientists claimed the labeling of “brontosaurus” was incorrect as the dinosaur is really an “apatosaurus.” I appreciate their geekiness, but that’s kind of splitting hairs. The brontosaurus was really lame as a dinosaur, especially compared to my favorite: the stegosaurus.

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]]> http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/12/05/stamps-dinosaurs-are-awesome/feed/ 0 Snail mail stamps http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/11/26/snail-mail-stamps/ http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/11/26/snail-mail-stamps/#comments Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:02:00 +0000 kiyoshimartinez http://kiyoshimartinez.com/nerdlusus/2006/11/26/snail-mail-stamps/ Growing up, I had lots of different hobbies and collected all sorts of things. While I’ve never consistently collected one particular category for an entire lifetime, I’m still rather smug in my ability to still have retained the bulk of my childhood collections.

During Thanksgiving break, I was ordered by my mom to clean out a closet and soon I stumbled upon my stamp collection. Inside two albums are perhaps a few hundred stamps (I never really counted) that instantly jogged my memories of my fascination with these tiny pieces of adhesive paper.

I’ve got stamps from across the world, which is even more amazing to me. So, I’ve decided to start posting a few of them on a regular basis for everyone to enjoy. The first is a stamp of a fire engine from the transportation coil collection. What struck me about this stamp is its odd denomination of 20.5 cents.

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