because i promised le trombone...and becayse its really cool:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/02/la_princesse_in_liverpool.html

Sharks do parthenogenisis

Nature is so cool!

I'm not sure whether I should laugh or cry. But the laughter is defnitely dominant.

Woody Harrelson as a cop, Michelle Rodriguez scrawling in chalk on the streets, and best of all Andre 3000 as a turtle!

I am so sad that my favorite free art near work is gone. It was an installation at the Chicago Cultural Center (Michigan and Randolph) which is on my way to several of my regular work errands. It was a collaborative project of two Brazilian artists ( Read more... )

So I'm signing up for the writing class I've gotta take, looking for sections that are open AND fit my schedule (not an easy task) and I notice that Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu (some of you may remember her from Wiscon) is teaching one of the sections. Of course its full and conflicts with an engineering class! Grrrr ( Read more... )

So I've undertaken the project of getting my transfer credits from Columbia fully vetted at UIC which was much easier than I thought it would be. I had thought I had to get descriptions of all the classes, which is no easy feat if you took them 15 years ago (I spent about a month trying with no luck last spring). Turns out I got a sensible and ( Read more... )

I finally biked to work today. I've avoided it all this time, using the bike mainly for the more optional kinds of transportation ( Read more... )

Has anyone seen the Remade statue at Congress and Michigan?

I noticed after the Think Galactic discussion last week that this statue which I have always been annoyed at because its all deco-ish and woman as nature, could actually be interpreted as a Remade: leaves for hands, roots for legs.

I'm gonna take a picture soon and I'll post it to think_galacticBTW: ( Read more... )

someday soon i will stop being mopey about the kitty. i had no idea it would be THIS hard ( Read more... )

...barring any miracles of verterinary science, that is ( Read more... )