Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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What is an API?
A friend of mine asked me if I knew of a good definition of the term "API". I didn’t have one, but I know that I’ve explained it a number of times in presentations I’ve made to non-technical people. I never wrote down exactly how I’ve explained it in meeting rooms inside large downtown hotels,…
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Justice and Paper.
Exhibits for trial, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Here’s a couple of people outside of City Hall apparently getting ready to deliver some exhibits for a trail. One of the boxes has the name of the firm Robinson Curley & Clayton. A few weeks after this picture was taken, the won a case before the Supreme…
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DXO, Chicago News Examiner
So today I started as the "Chicago News Examiner" for the Examiner.com Web site. I am going to be covering Chicago news stories a couple times a week. I’m excited about doing it because it’s a low-impact side project where I can write my goofball thoughts and odd link-love research as I please. My first…
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Michael Bierut Appreciates Mad Men
And I do, too. I sat crying my eyes out during this scene: Design Observer. This device isn’t a spaceship. It’s a time machine. It goes backwards. Forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called The Wheel. It’s called The Carousel. It lets us travel the way…
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Barry Rodgers, Principal, North Side College Preparatory High School
My friend, Barry Rodgers, is finishing up his first year as the Principal of North Side College Preparatory High School. The school is one of Chicago’s eight selective enrollment high school. It is the highest rated school in the state and the 14th best high school in the country. This is a guy who, in…