There were two things I'd picked up at Easter from friends that I wanted to copy into my journal for memory's keeping. The first, a poem I saw on Professor Michel René Barnes's Facebook page. This appealed to a number of people, apparently, as I saw more people pick it up and reprint it:Make no mistake: if He rose at all ( Read more... )

A largely intact gladiatorial school has been discovered within the ruins of the Roman city of Carnuntum. This has to go on the list of places to visit and study....Unique Roman Gladiator Ruins Unveiled in Austria

Rainstorm passing overhead without much fuss. Suddenly, after it seemed to have given up all its energy, it let loose with a sudden flash of lightning that struck nearby and a single thunderclap that not only shook the house but also set off all the car alarms in the neighbourhood. I confess a certain childish glee in that moment ( Read more... )

On Friday, ten years of nerdy glee come to a conclusion with the series finale of Smallville. Ten years is obviously a great run for a television series, and as I noted in an earlier entry, this makes Smallville the longest-running sci-fi or fantasy series in North American television history. Personally, it's the sort of thing that resonated on ( Read more... )

The down side of moving to New Orleans has just revealed itself to me. I was full of joy that cooler weather arrived the other week, breaking us out of the constant 90s and 80-100% humidity, with friede telling me that this was at last the weather and time of year that made living in the South worthwhile. Now, however, I'm finding that I have already ( Read more... )

Huh. I see that architect Bruce Graham has died. Along with being famed for the Sears Tower (now "Willis Tower," if I'm supposed to be believe that that will stick) and the John Hancock Center, Graham was also, if I recall correctly, the architect for Milwaukee's tallest building, the US Bank building.

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Heh. I just opened an email from earlier this evening from my friend Kevin, who lives out in Jackson, Wyoming. Jackson, for those of you unfamiliar with it, is one of the most ridiculously gorgeous locations in the United States, and the wider valley under the Grand Teton Mountains - Jackson Hole - has become a favourite location for secluded ( Read more... )

At the Palmer House in Chicago, lounging in their grand lobby where I only have to pay $7 for an hour of wireless rather than $15 for an hour of cable internet access in my room. (I was here my first year at Marquette, I think, when I got tix to Simon and Garfunkel's tour, and Kev, Stevie and Erin and I all met here in town, for drinks at the ( Read more... )

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