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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BART QuickPlanner
If you’re looking to take a ride on the BART, hook yourself up right here:
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Swissotel Housekeepers Paid to Bust Smokers
Economic incentives spread across a wide set of specialized workers. Swissotel Housekeepers Paid to Bust Smokers Instead of letting smokers run wild with abandon, the 632-room property has begun paying its housekeeping staff to rat offenders out. If a housekeeper enters your room to do her daily clean up and suspects you’ve been sucking down…
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My Lunar Eclipse Pics
Feb 2008 Lunar Eclipse 7, originally uploaded by juggernautco. My new camera and zoom lens lets me do things I never could before, including zoom up moon-style the other night. Here’s the whole set.
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Math Crusade is Dumb
These parents crusading against their children’s math curriculum make my ears bleed, even when reading about it. But many parents are lobbying the School Board to kill the program. Opponents have submitted a petition with 1,000 names and started a Web site, http://www.pwcteachmathright.com. They have been checking out a video called “Math Education: An Inconvenient…
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News in Context
At EveryBlock, we’ve talked a lot about “context”. It’s one of the things that people– especially people in the journalism community– say that the site is missing. They’re right, of course, in that we collect and present an immense amount of data without textual analysis or narrative history. It’s one thing to note that a…