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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Suburban Office Park Nature
Pipes Originally uploaded by juggernautco. In my job, I often have the task of driving to low-slung suburban office buildings to speak with human beings about things like Software Requirements Management and Software Configuration Management tools. It’s less soul-crushing than it sounds, really. Especially when I have my camera and am able to…
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Now That’s a Coat
Serious Red Coat Originally uploaded by juggernautco. With matching purse and white hair. Seen in downtown Chicago near Daley Center.
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Merv Griffin and Eva Gabor Appearing Prominently Heterosexual at the Opening of the Reagan Library, by Robert Christy. Artist
Merv Griffin and Eva Gabor Appearing Prominently Heterosexual at the Opening of the Reagan Library, by Robert Christy. Artist Originally uploaded by juggernautco. When I read this entry at Gawker about Nancy Reagan and Merv Griffin stepping out to see Spamalot, I was reminded of this classic piece of art by my friend…
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Donald H. Ryan, 80, Entrepreneur in Repair, Is Dead
Wolfgang Saxon is one of the best at writing obits for unsung leaders. Donald H. Ryan made his money by doing the little things in a place where people stopped doing them. Donald H. Ryan, 80, Entrepreneur in Repair, Is Dead By WOLFGANG SAXON Published: May 30, 2005 Donald Hillsdon Ryan, an American entrepreneur with…
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Decaying on Laurels
The NYT always has an array of archival obituaries available on its website, and it is always insightful to read them. Here’s the one for J. Edgar Hoover. It shows that he started his 1/2 century tenure with startling innovation and pretty much coasted from there. Mr. Hoover’s power was a compound of performance and…