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 Scratchy Blue Dusk of Late-Winter Lincoln Marsh
I was traveling back from Champaign and going to Winfield to be with the kids on Christian’s birthday, week before last. The traffic wasn’t bad at all, and I was zooming past Lincoln Marsh before I realized it was dusk with a light snow— a perfect time to capture the place in a different mood,…
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On EveryBlock and the Open Data Movement
Today marks the end of a website called EveryBlock. I was lucky enough to be a part of the team that first made that site. Here’s a post I wrote on our launch day explaining what it meant to be a meaningful contributor to the project. I had been obsessed with municipal data for years,…
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Results of Belleville Police Department Alcohol Compliance Check
The following information was provided by the Belleville Police Department: On Thursday January 31st 2013 the Belleville Police Department conducted an “Alcohol Compliance Check” at eleven (11) locations licensed to sell liquor in the city of Belleville. Of the locations checked three had employees who sold alcohol to a minor working with officers. The following…
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The Time I Called Scott McNealy on the Telephone
Today I am going to a talk at 1871 by Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and one of the fathers of the modern computing industry. In early 1993, I saw an article in the New York Times with a picture of McNealy and some of his colleagues looking at video over the internet: Tech…
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The Denuded Prairie of Lincoln Marsh in Early Winter, 2013
(Continuing my series of Lincoln Marsh Through Time). I popped over to Lincoln Marsh last week. I had wanted to get there at a mor magical hour, right at dusk, but important/ mundane commitments had me there when it was too dark. I ran back to the car, got the tripod, and clicked over to…