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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Labor Day.
Labor Day., originally uploaded by juggernautco.
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Fine Example of Government – Private Cooperation: Harper Reed Wins an Inaugural MCIC Data Innovation Award for the Chicago Transit API
This is a feel-good story about loose, effective collaboration between a private citizen and a government agency that bears real fruit for minimal money. Tonight Harper Reed, the creator of the “CTA Bus Tracker “API”, is going to be one of the inaugural winners of the MCIC Data Innovation Award. The other two worthy winnsers–…
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Recap of Chicago Forward: Conversations About The Future” Forum re: Education
So tonight Shawn–Laree and I attended the first of a series of "Conversations About the Future” sponsored by Chicago Tribune and PNC bank. It was a really good civic event– thrown by a newspaper, sponsored by a bank, peopled by the people whose opinions matter about the subject at hand. James Janega of the Tribune…
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Filed Under: Passive-Aggressive Signage (Recycling Toilet System > Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, August 8, 2010)
Recycling Toilet System > Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, August 8, 2010, originally uploaded by juggernautco. Notice the bottom two pieces of paper. If something is worth saying once, it's worth saying twice. This was in the bathroom of an awesome nature sanctuary in Cape Cod. Here's the complete set of nachur pik-chas.
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The "Is photography a crime?" meme has got to stop
This thread comes up once ever three months, somewhere. It’s an outrage searching for a reason. As a practical matter, there is very little interference between government officials and casual photographers. Whatever strum und drang there is can almost always be solved with calm, honest communication instead of getting yer backs up. Photoblog – Is…