Guys, let me show you something. Something embarrassing about my city. So, this kind of happened last night, the tl;dr of which is: Bunch of high school role-players got part of Millennium Park shut down and evacuated with a "suspicious package" made of duct tape and two bricks (and, according to one report with an earlier timestamp than the ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to begin to start. Did I even mention I was going to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear? I probably didn't. It kind of didn't register in the midst of the giant Thing that was the Paris trip, and then the middle of October went pchoooo and suddenly I was on a bus populated by Redditors and hippie liberals. (Now with ( Read more... )

I've had a lot of projects lately that have required thinking. None of them, of course, had anything to do with work. In fact, they've all been things I've wanted to do outside of work ( Read more... )