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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The Temporary Nature of Leaves
I was in Lincoln Marsh this afternoon as a storm rolled in. Fast eviction of leaves from a tree.
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Lincoln Marsh, Mid-October: The Storm and The Boardwalk
Today was an auspicious visit to the marsh. There was a large storm fixing to blow, and there were already raindrops by the time I got out of the car and began snapping.
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A Look at the Databases Used in Reporting “City gives felon six-figure grant to open liquor store”
This morning I read the story, “City gives felon six-figure grant to open liquor store: Liquor store with ties to felon just the latest problem for a blighted neighborhood that has suffered for decades” by Chicago Tribune reporters David Jackson and Gary Marx. I was struck by two things: the complexity of the issue of economic development in an area that…
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S-L Birthday Celebration / Hyde Park Jazz Fest
Today we celebrated S-L’s birthday. Here’s a video: SLBirthdayAndHydeParkJazzFest from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo. We had dinner at Francesca’s on Chestnut then went to the University of Chicago campus for the HydePark Jazz Fest. We saw Angel d’ Cuba, walked around campus for a while, and then saw the amazing Ken Vendermark Ensemble.
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On Parsing Restaurant Inspection Violations (Subtitled: Goddess and the Grocer on Elston Had a Bad Day Last Week)
This morning I was reviewing a saved view on the City of Chicago data portal for restaurant inspections conducted by the Chicago Department of Public Health based on a suspected food poisoning. I used a feature of Socrata, the software used in the portal, that The Local Inspector Value-Entry Specification (LIVES) is an effort by Yelp, Code for…