Late summer heat comes to an end
Chicago experienced its warmest October 1st through 4th ever, clocking in at 24.4°C, before a cold front pushed through this morning. Many of my friends, plus another 25,000 runners, look forward to...
View ArticleFriday after the cold front
A rainy cold front passed over Inner Drive Technology WHQ just after noon, taking us from 15°C down to just above 10°C in two hours. The sun has come back out but we won't get a lot warmer until next...
View ArticleEasy Saturday
Not a lot happened today, except that I and other members of the Apollo Chorus sang at the wedding of one of our own. She asked for some pretty challenging repertoire, but we nailed it, and we may have...
View ArticleMonday, Monday (ba dah, ba dah dah ba)
I woke up this morning feeling like I'm fighting a cold, which usually means I'm fighting a cold. One negative Covid test later, I'm still debating whether to go to rehearsal tonight. Perhaps after a...
View ArticleTuesday Night Links Club
Just a few:US Representative George Santos (R-NY) faces another 21 felony charges in New York, with prosecutors alleging he stole donors' identities and misappropriated their donations.Isabel Fattal...
View ArticleSure Happy It's Thursday
I'm iterating on a UI feature that wasn't 100% defined, so I'm also iterating on the API that the feature needs. Sometimes software is like that: you discover that your first design didn't quite solve...
View ArticleWent to the doctor, and guess what he told me?
Sadly, my doctor did not tell me to try to have fun no matter what I do, though we did have a brief conversation about which Bourbons we both like. Nope, he just said I'm perfectly healthy: I exercise...
View ArticleWhat the better writers are saying
Yesterday I wrote down some of my thoughts on the Gaza war, and promised to curate a list of other writers who have done a better job than I have. I don't necessarily agree with these folks 100%, but...
View ArticleGoogle gets Thompson Center demolition permit
Google plans to move 2,000 employees into what used to be the State of Illinois Building at Randolph and Clark. The 1985 Helmut Jahn building has stood vacant for several years, literally leaking...
View ArticleWhy Americans like European cities
Travel writer Rick Stevens points out that European cities made deliberate choices to become walkable. American cities can do that too:You know, it's funny, when Americans are in Europe, they marvel at...
View ArticleChicken soup with rice
Last weekend I made approximately 5 liters of chicken soup due to an unfortunate decision midway through the process to add more salt. Given the saltiness of the soup I put in mason jars, I recommend a...
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Long way to go for pizza
I did a thing yesterday:Yes, the pizza at Barnaby's in Northbrook, Ill., is really that good.Today will be a bit lighter.
View ArticleThe cargo cult of happiness
Writing in the current Atlantic, Joe Pinsker points out that emulating the pastimes of happy cultures won't actually create a happy culture:With the release of each [World Happiness] report, which is...
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Do not prevent me from giving you money
For my real job, I'm evaluating graphics packages to report (informally) at tomorrow's sprint review which ones I think we should investigate further, so that at the next sprint review in two weeks, I...
View ArticleWhy am I indoors?
It's 22°C and sunny right now, making me wonder what's wrong with me that I'm putting together a software release. I probably should fire off the release, but I'm doing so under protest. I also...
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Quick photo dump
I've had a few things on my plate this week, including a wonderful event with the Choeur de la Cathedrale de Notre Dame de Paris at Old St Patrick's Church in Chicago. We had a big dinner, they sang...
View ArticleHow is it Friday already?
I spent way too much time chasing down an errant mock in my real job's unit test suite, but otherwise I've gotten a lot done today. Too much to read all these articles:Julia Ioffe interviews Ambassador...
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Very autumn
I really love the Lakewood-Balmoral neighborhood in Chicago's Edgewater community area. I only had 25 minutes to walk Cassie while my car got serviced nearby, so I didn't stop to photograph everything....
View ArticleGrey Sunday afternoon
We have a typical cloudy autumn day, good for reading and not so good for long walks with the dog. So I'll read and Cassie can wait for a bit:Turns out, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is even more...
View ArticleToday's complaints from the field
With a concert on Sunday and other things going on in my life before then, I don't know how much I'll post this week. Tomorrow I get to walk Cassie to day care and hop on a train to my downtown office...
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