Author: DXO
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The Denuded Prairie of Lincoln Marsh in Early Winter, 2013
(Continuing my series of Lincoln Marsh Through Time). I popped over to Lincoln Marsh last week. I had wanted to get there at a mor magical hour, right at dusk, but important/ mundane commitments had me there when it was too dark. I ran back to the car, got the tripod, and clicked over to…
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An Appreciation of Aaron Swartz
Aaron Swartz, an Internet freedom leader, committed suicide yesterday, January 11, 2013, in New York. On this page of his personal Web site, he gives instructions about what to do if he gets hit by a truck. One of the instructions: “Feel free to publish things people say about me on the site”. I have some…
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Apparently The Peninsula Chicago Has Had Some Food Inspection Violations Recently
Today the City of Chicago updated their Food Inspection data. I have a custom list of this data showing only inspections that were triggered by a case of suspected food poisoning. At the top of this list is The Peninsula, at 108 E. Superior. It passed a “Suspected Food Poisoning” inspection on last Friday, but…
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Community Technology Training + Me
Week-Long Computer Camp for Kids at Wright College This month I taught a course of 15 elementary and high school students in a week-long “computer camp”. We had a great set of people who were eager to learn and well-behaved. On the first day of class we learned about our backgrounds with computers and the…
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Four Short-Burst Videos of Days in London
I think I would have done well in an era of vacation slideshows given in living rooms ( This is not a wheel– it’s a carousel– “It lets us travel around and around and back home again.”) I use Vimeo instead of Kodak. And I crib music and shove as much as I can in a…