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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Reading, Amusement Parks, and AAA Baseball are Fundamental
CXO is participating in two reading clubs: Ozzie’s Reading Club at school for AAA baseball tickets in the Western Suburbs and the Six Flags Six Hour Reading Club for one free ticket to Six Flags and the opportunity to give Six Flags hundreds of more dollars in revenue associated with the redemption of that ticket.…
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MILF Violence
Imagine my surprise when I saw that there were 21 killed in an Army-MILF clash. I had no idea that MILFs were so violent.
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Limits
Limits Originally uploaded by juggernautco. Seems like there is a trend in retail food to reduce napkin consumption and waste with napkin dispensing hardware. Here’s an example from the McDonald’s in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago.
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Derivative Work: Annotation of “The Command Line”
Here’s an example of a great Derivative Work: “In the Beginning was the Command Line” by Neal Stephenson that is annotated and expanded upon by Garrett Birkel with permission. If the Derivative Works Manifesto takes hold, people needn’t seek permission. Here’s his introduction: In July 2004 I found myself sitting alone in the dark, on…
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Service Oriented Architecture
The focus of a small portion of my day job is turning toward Service Oriented Architecture. O’Reilly has an lucid & simple explanation of it here: Now we are able to define a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA is an architectural style whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents. A service…