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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Join Me at the Gordon Tech Inspiration Celebration
I am a lifelong Catholic and a firm believer in the value of role of Catholic education in a strong society. I went to high school at Gordon Tech, on the corner of Addison & California. I’ve been an altar server, a lector, the chair of a Catholic elementary school board, a member of a…
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Trip to St. Louis
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NYC Spring Break 2014 Images and Videos
I take a lot of pictures. I especially take a lot of pictures while I’m traveling. Over the last few years I have also made a sustained attempt to produce “personal documentaries”– short-format videos made on standard Mac iMovie templates that show what I see. My family, and the vacations we take, are of special importance…
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Some Thoughts Toward the Maturation of the Civic Innovation Sector of the Technology Industry
I saw this blog post by Derek Eder of DataMade last week and it made me feel good that we are taking steps over at OpenGovChicago to have some concrete discussions about IT procurement in the municipal government of Chicago. Almost invariably, when one looks at things more closely— as the people of Chicago should expect when…
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Monthly Parking (A Short Play by Daniel X. O’Neil)
Scene: There is a small but growing fire on the top floor of a parking lot in the early morning cold in the downtown area of a major city. (Actual address: 191 North Clark Street). There are seven or so fire engines, alarms going off, and a steady stream of grey smoke pouring out of the…