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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iWay Software Universal Adapter Framework for GIS
See, this here is how it’s going to work:
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Big Black Reunion: Cables
Sixty seconds of Cables, the first song Big Black played at their short-lived reunion at the Hideout last weekend. They blew me away. They were holy. Set list: Cables, Dead Billy, Pigeon Kill, Racer X. That was it. Update: Excellent videos of every song from peainspace.
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Things Change
Pretty much one of the biggest causes of static in this world is the inability to accept change. Neighborhood groups fight over condo development. Haters of eminent domain reject even the possibility that a local unit of government can decide that land could be better used for a different purpose. History starts with whatever moment…
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Starbucks, Logan Square, and the State of American Unions
So it seems that the local Starbucks– the one just across the alley from my house– has unionized: Starbucks workers add shot of unionizing | Chicago Tribune Just ahead of Labor Day, baristas at the Starbucks in Logan Square told management that they wanted to be represented by the IWW. A veteran of battles that…
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Auction Action
I am always fascinated by auctions, no matter what is being autctioned off. It’s a primal economic venue– buyers and sellers, optimists and losers, people coming and going. In any auction, there is a side who thinks it’s better to be rid of something and a side who thinks it’s better to have something. Tension…