Month: August 2006

  • My Times > New RSS Reader from the New York Times

    Today I got an email from the NYT about their new web-based service, My Times: a new way to personalize NYTimes.com. My Times lets you create a customized page gathering your favorite information from The New York Times and elsewhere on the Web, with guidance (if you want it) from Times reporters and editors. So…

  • George Bush, Helen Thomas, and Cabrini Green Demolition

    Next in the “Car Music” series– 60 seconds of confluence between where I am in my car and what is on the radio. This is George Bush answering a typically combative question from Helen Thomas about the war in Lebanon while filming/ driving by the demolition of yet another Cabrini Green high rise. A classic.

  • Grave Panorama

    Here’s a panorama shot of 14 images while standing on my father’s grave in Sewickley Cemetary in Sewickley, PA using Double Take.

  • 1835 S. Canalport

    Permit #: 100129465 Applicant: MMT Demolition Inc. Owner: John Podmajersky Permit Description: Wrecking/Demolition 4-story brick [building] Status (if applicable): Hold released 8/23/06 [Building under an agreed-upon order of demolition by the Circuit Court of Cook County]

  • 1015 W. Webster

    Permit #: 100131285 Applicant: Quality Excavation Owner: Melrose Partners Permit Description: Wreck and remove a 2-story masonry building, excluding the front facade and 12′ of the east and west side walls [application modified to retain the front facade with new construction behind] Status (if applicable): Released 11/28/06