July 2011
1 post
Nissan Leaf startup
aka we live in the future
January 2011
1 post
Steve Jobs
You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever—because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.
October 2009
2 posts
July 2009
1 post
my ride on Google Patents: http://www.google.com/patents?id=8iYMAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0
June 2009
1 post
beer and chicken breast and red onion for post-workout meal. protein window must be met at all costs!
May 2009
3 posts
Things I will miss about Chicago
heather-rivers:
Hitchcock Movies in the Park
People knowing who Wesley Willis is
Daaaa Bears!
Stopping by the Ghirardelli downtown for free samples so much that they probably have our pictures behind the counter
The Art Institute, one of the few museums I could actually live in
How each miserable winter unites us all in commiseration
How each miserable summer unites us all in...
March 2009
1 post
February 2009
3 posts
The measure of a man’s wealth is in terms of cattle and children. A herd...
– Maasai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
January 2009
3 posts
Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive...
– Karletto Marx, 1867 (via umanesimo)
December 2008
9 posts
checking upcoming.org for happenings in PDX next weekend. Seeing stuff like “Tuba Christmas Festival” makes me realize that CHI isn’t so bad after all
stuck in the sfo, catching up on all things social
going for indian for bfast! notably, downing a whole bottle of Ridge’s Zinn didn’t give me a headache, but you can never be too sure, hence the indian
November 2008
4 posts
trying to cope with 2 week email backlog. someone: help!!!
back from Ukraine… alive. The two worthwhile things in that country now are the beauty of its women and the price of alcohol.
Deep stuff (from Review of my perennial favorite...
The books read by Celine and Jesse may have given them a sense of the other’s inner workings. Celine is reading a George Bataille anthology: ‘Madame Edwarda’, ‘Le Mort’ (The Dead Man), ‘Histoire de L’Oeil’ (The Story of the Eye). Jesse has actor Klaus Kinski’s autobiography, “All I Need Is Love’.
Bataille promotes intense experiences and heightened awareness of them (both pleasure and...
October 2008
30 posts
trying to find a working pool in Chicago is an adventure of itself. Olympic City 2016, my ass!!! I miss California all the more… :I
Just Wondering
livejamie:
Am I the only one who thinks Amy Poehler is awful?
absolute worst SNL actress ever. makes me cringe every time i see or hear her.
poor old GOB, what is he thinking???
jstn:
I’m so sick of honking. Over the last couple years I’ve more or less adapted to the myriad insanities this city throws at you day in and day out, and in some cases learned to love them (even a packed rush hour subway is a cultural adventure). Honking is not one of these things, and it drives me absolutely crazy.
Section 24-221(a) of the city code bans a “claxon” from being sounded...
National Review says Obama's deceased mother... →
livejamie:
The depravity of this argument is breathtaking.
mind-boggling :o
came home, discovered a plate full of country-style pork-chops & sourcream-tomato-cucumber salad waiting on the table. living at home rocks!
came home, discovered a plate full of country-style pork-chops & sourcream-tomato-cucumber salad waiting on the table. living at home rocks!!
Just saw a very bow-legged Julia Allison outside of Amalfi Hotel downtown Chicago. Grotesquely bow-legged Julia Allison. Yuck!
I am a diplomat of the American vernacular
switchbladesusie:
I introduced the terms “dive bar”, “clusterfuck” and “Eiffel Tower” to two Norwegians and a German tonight.
sweet (and bitter) video about the end of tech bubble circa now
Illinois sheriff scolds banks for evictions of... →
he’s my personal hero.
he’s like the coolest sheriff ever :)
marco:
Justin Johnson:
My 11 days in Europe in 5 minutes.
great inspiration for my next euro trip