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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God Bless President Gerald R. Ford
And take him into heaven.He did us no harm.
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Defranchising Arby’s
Defranchise, originally uploaded by juggernautco. When I was a paralegal in the early 90s, I worked on a project for a large franchiser of convenience stores. My task was to drive to specific locations in Chicago and the near-western suburbs taking pictures of buildings that had previously been occupied by franchises of the client. I…
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Policy Analysis Market
I created a placeholder page for my new project, www.policyanalysismarket.net. Here’s the skinny: In the summer of 2003, the DARPA-run Terrorism Information Awareness Office of the U.S. Government, directed by former Iran-Contra scandal figure John Poindexter, planned a "Policy Analysis Market", an online tool at www.policyanalysismarket.org that would allow registered users to trade contracts on…
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In Poetry News Today
I’ve joined the following: Hi. Am Nikhil Parekh, a poet from India. I’ve always believed that there’s a poet in each one of us and each beat of our passionate hearts, irrespective of howsoever commercial be our exteriors. I am on a mission here at this community in Orkut to make it the “World’s Largest…
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GreenBean For Crazy Detail on Green Buildings in Chicago
Erik Olsen, a colleague of mine who I met in the context of work for the City of Chicago, runs GreenBean, a "news and discussion forum dedicated to reporting on built, in-progress, and unbuilt green building projects in Chicago". From the site: GreenBean is written and maintained by Erik Olsen, PE. Erik is a mechanical…