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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Crash-Test Dummies
Very funny, well-writtenly wry passages in an obit written yeaterday by Margalit Fox: Samuel Alderson, Crash-Test Dummy Inventor, Dies at 90: In the 1930’s, with traffic fatalities becoming a growing public health concern, manufacturers began to explore the design of safer cars. But the new science of crash testing raised a seemingly intractable problem: to…
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Trut & Bullshit
Even though he wrote it many years ago, an essay that is getting a lot of play right now is “On Bullshit” by Harry Frankfurt of Princeton University. First five lines: One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his…
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Dunkin Donuts Coffee Cream & Sugar
Dunkin Donuts coffee is the second best coffee ever. When I’m in the mood for coffee (not an espresso drink from Starbuck), I go to Dunkin Donuts. The best thing about them is their overuse of sugar. If you say "extra large coffee, cream & sugar" to a Dunkin Donuts employee, they get a catatonic…
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Children Valentines
So yesterday was Valentine’s Day. I have two children, boys aged 4 and 6. They both go to a full-time daycare/ education facility and the older one goes to Kindergarten every day as well. Valentine’s Day for people like us mean that last week we got a list of every kid in each class. This…
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Two Formerly Living Things
Two Formerly Living Things Originally uploaded by juggernautco. So I was going to see a client in Lake County, IL and I stopped at a McDonalds. I parked next to a pickup truck. I get out of the car and see eight hoofs sticking straight up. Dead deer. The hunters/ McDonalds customers were…