Spreading confusion over the internet since 1994
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seemed like a training session for office managers or something. Each had to receive instruction from a fireman, then take the fire extinguisher and put out the fire in the bucket. After, the bucket was relit.
There were huge, billowing clouds of presumedly toxic smoke, though because of wind patterns, most of the miasma went into SingleHop, and Meiji, and didn’t waft across the street.
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from the Whole Foods parking lot on Kingsbury, Goose Island
Probably because the lot is owned by the Hyatt, and the Pritzker family can’t afford to clean up their property.
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www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/us/02cncpulse.html
After issuing only one fine for a landscape ordinance violation from 2005 until 2008, the city issued 51 in 2009, according to records from the Department of Administrative Hearings. The city meted out $29,000 in fines to businesses last year for landscape ordinance violations. Ninety percent of the violations cited a lack of the required fencing.
Deadlines for putting up fencing were phased in by area. Other parts of the ordinance require trees, hedges and screening of stored trash.
This alley has been this decrepit for several years, but I think the Hyatt purchased the lot in 2006 or 2007, and obviously they have higher priorities than urban beautification.
Turning a blind eye, part two.
Another view of the fence and little shack of a lot owned by the Hyatt. Small businesses get fined by the City for eyesores like this; big corporations, not so much.
From Greece, no less. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch them myself.
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didn’t try them, this time. Maybe at some future moment, feeling adventurous.
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Noir Fixer, and Noir Fixer
41 and there’s so much more to do.
West Loop
and yes, it has been ten years, as of next week, that I’ve lived here, by far the longest stretch of time I’ve ever resided in one place.
April 6th, 2000, to be precise. Lots has changed, lots still needs to be changed, but the decade was a good one, all and all.
My photos have been viewed 1 million times.
amazing really. Thanks everyone!
Numbers add up to nothing…
After my Leica committed suicide, t-plus about 5 minutes.1
another photographer’s view:
www.flickr.com/photos/phule/4464047578/
but today, my Leica worked! Yayyy, maybe some capacitor had to discharge, or something. Regardless, now have to talk about my Leica’s attempted suicide…
Footnotes:Whole Foods parking lot, South Loop
from last fall. One day I’ll remember to bring a tripod down to this area – the view is quite spectacular actually.
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Original photo of Barack Obama in an Iowa bookstore, taken by Doug Mills, graced the front page of today’s New York Times.
Such a beaming grin; a man comfortable in his own skin, as the saying goes.
An account by the pool reporter, Carol Lee of Politico, who was traveling with Mr. Obama, offers the details. (To decode just a little bit for the average reader outside the Beltway, POTUS is the code name for the president of the United States, the Gibbs referred to is Robert Gibbs, his press secretary, and your “pooler” means Ms. Lee, the reporter assigned on this day to cover the president as part of a small contingent of print and TV journalists as well as photographers who are among the White House correspondents rotating pool duty, which requires sharing their reports.)
Here’s the pool report:
“Well, this used to be my favorite place,” Obama told the owner as she showed him around.
He remarked how as president he can’t really mosey around bookstores anymore, and said the office comes with the good and bad.
Obama walked around the store apparently in pursuit of the children’s/young adult section.
Along his way, he picked up “No Apology” by Mitt Romney and “Courage and Consequence” by Karl Rove.
“What do you think, guys?” he asked the pool, holding up a hardback copy of each in his hands before setting them back down
[Click to continue reading Obama Stops to Browse at a Bookstore – The Caucus Blog – NYTimes.com]
sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
from last year
Sounds a wee bit too kinky for me, but hey, live and let live
Apparently, this sign is no more:
gapersblock.com/merge/archives/2010/03/22/missing-puppies/
at least at this location.
First heard of this book when reading that St. Patrick invented lowercase letters
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out of print – this is the 1971 revised edition (not the original 1948 edition which is rarer).
purchased used for about $4, via the internet tubes.
Coast Guard is comin’ to getcha!
(slight photoshop work)
Two photos stitched together so that the sign and the boat are both in focus. Nothing spectacular, just a reminder that summer is approaching rapidly.
My bank got eated!
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Saving account, I think it held something like $400. Guess my retirement plan is shot now. According to the letter, if I don’t take action in the next month, they will just send me a check for the full amount. Whoo hoo. Birthday is coming up, maybe I’ll spend it on an iPad.
Also, especially in the enlargement of this photo, my fingers look like elephant legs. I guess I’m not a young man anymore.
