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April 28, 2006
I swung by Liz's tonight, to hang out with Lisa and Jake. The four of us ended up cooking out and made a ton of food on Liz's new grill. Hers would be the one on the far right (and yes, everyone else in the buiding likes to grill... (read more)
More construction. Support beams are up, and now my front door is inaccessible. The new porch should be pretty sweet (and sizeable), once everything's done. Nothing I can do but wait...... (read more)
As you may recall, my friend Matt recently became the best Barista in the United States. I forgot that, today, Intelligentsia was opening up a new store on Randolph... and Matt would be there, serving coffee to customers. Around 4 PM, I headed towards the Brown Line with Chris,... (read more)
Today, there were a few folks from a touring Sumo Wrestling show in the office... here to plug the tour, and to show off a few moves. There was an announcement over the intercome, inviting folks to come see the sumo wrestlers in the conference room. Hotness. There were four... (read more)
April 27, 2006
Tonight, Liz and I went out for dinner, to celebrate her birthday. We ate at this nice Moroccan place that her roommate, Katie, recommended. Good food and some very interesting "sweet tea," that was served with mint leaves. I thought about taking pictures while we were out, but decided to... (read more)
My schedule's been hectic lately, and I've missed a few chances to attend a few events thrown by Jason for his latest project: LaPorte, Indiana. He threw a release party in the city of LaPorte, which I was (sadly) unable to attend. Would have been pretty awesome to be... (read more)
Got a call this afternoon from Jane, who was down by the loading docks during her break. She told me to hurry and bring my camera, because there were tons of little baby geese, wandering around. After stopping off to grab some cookies from the vending machine, I joined... (read more)
April 26, 2006
In Praise of Loopholes, by Matthew Baldwin. Simply some great writing here, and a fun read.... (read more)
April 25, 2006
Jane's working on a "face book" for ourtrip to Mexico this year. It's got group shots of every city/cluster, with a breakdown of who's who. We've been growing a lot thesepast two years, so much so that there's a need to create this sort of thing. Names to the... (read more)
April 24, 2006
Gretchen has updated her site with a recap of my birthday party. Go take a peek!... (read more)
To help Liz celebrate getting a new apartment today (she's moving to Ukranian Village, and getting an apartment with her friend Lisa), we decided to pack a picnic and head over to Lincoln Park. Everybody's celebrating. As we got into the park, the light was already dimming somewhat. I liked... (read more)
Construction's started on my porch. Wondering how far the new porch will extend...... (read more)
April 22, 2006
Back at Guthrie's, hanging out with Jake and Liz, playing some Yahtzee and Tribond.... (read more)
April 20, 2006
This morning, on his way in to work... Mike saw a guy jump into the Chicago river. When I walked in to the office,I heard him telling the story and all day, people have been asking him what he saw, what happened. Over the course of the day, today... we... (read more)
April 19, 2006
To: Felix From: Blog Visitor Subj: Cool Site (I work for Superior) Hey man I like your site. I work for Superior Ambulance. I was just running a google on my work and found this. I often wonder what other companies think about our name? But the company started in... (read more)
Since we both work downtown, Liz and I decided to meet up for lunch today. It was a really great day outside, and on the train ride over... I kept imagining how wonderful it would be to get everyone at work, en masse, and head out to Millenium Park for... (read more)
It's been a long time coming. Sorry for the delay, but I hope you enjoy. Birthday entries below: 03/10/2006 03/11/2006 03/12/2006 03/13/2006... (read more)
Chicago folks! Monastic DJ is spinning at Clubfoot tomorrow night, 10 PM - 2 AM. Swing on by and say hello.... (read more)
An interesting concept, even if Diesel ends up owning your work if you win. I may try my hand at this and submit something. Check out Diesel Wall. Link via Bryan.... (read more)
I like my job, and my coworkers in particular. Have I mentioned that recently? Thanks to Jane, for the photos.... (read more)
Chris and Ben don some luchador masks and... shenanigans ensue. Anybody recognize that blue mask? Red versus Blue! Blue versus Red! Who will win? Separated at birth? Blue gains the upper hand, er... head! Red goes over the top! A random spectator gets too close to the action, and... (read more)
April 16, 2006
I posted a few tracks from the United States of Poetry CD I got, recently. There are several poems from the series that I wish I had, that weren't included on the CD. But these are three that I remember liking - give a listen.... (read more)
From: Hillary Subj: Phobias and You Hello peoples, As many of you know, I'm working on a novel about kids with phobias. Maybe you also know, I'm putting together a radio piece about phobias. But did you know I need people like you to tell me about your phobias for... (read more)
My friend Hillary contacted a lot of us, a while back, asking for info/stories about our respective phobias. I meant to post this ages ago... but just got around to it tonight. As you may recall, Hillary and Johnathan recently left Chicago for Philadelphia. And, even farther back... some... (read more)
Instead of taking the Red Line back home from Addison, I decided to walk all the way back. The sun was out, the sky was clear, and I felt like exploring a bit. Plus - a walk would do me good. So I plugged in my iPod, pulled out my... (read more)
April 14, 2006
I got a call from Liz after she got done working, and headed over to meet her at her place. My headache thing was sort of fading by this time, and I spent the rest of the evening trying to shake it off. Since it was so nice out, the... (read more)
Ok. This is a pretty big step for me. Up until now, I haven't had a cellphone. EVER. I just never liked the idea of always being "accessible" and, to be honest, have always been a pretty big homebody. Lately though, there have been several occasions where having a... (read more)
April 13, 2006
Got a call this morning from Justin, asking to borrow my car so he could run some errands during the day (he's currently working from home this week, trying to keep his head down and avoiding all distractions). Thankfully, the call woke my ass up, as I had gotten up,... (read more)
April 12, 2006
I meant to post this a while back, but just remembered this evening. Check out the opening titles to "Thank You For Smoking," by Shadowplay Studio. I'm impressed by the feel of the images, and I marvel at how difficult it must have been to evoke the look/logos of... (read more)
Jan von Holleben has a fantastic series of photographs, entitled Dreams of Flying. I came across this at the end of the day via Metafilter, and Ben was viewing them with me on my computer. At several points, we both shouted out with joy at some of the images.... (read more)
About a week ago, I ran into my friend Matt (aka Tha.Riddla) as he was en route to compete in the United States Barista Championships. Well, guess what? As is evident by the oversized check... he fucking won! Ahhhh, awesome! He posted an update on Twelvestone, and is currently in... (read more)
Had two random encounters today, with people I haven't seen in a while. First, I ran into Karen's friend Carrie - who I met at my birthday party, last month. Turns out, she works downstairs in the Mart on the first floor. I had just bought some lunch and was... (read more)
A while back, many of you may recall we had a little game here in the office. It involved a small bouncy ball and the Lord and Master Stein™. Well, since then the game has grown in difficulty. Ever since Gretchen sent me all those wonderful bouncy balls, we've been... (read more)
Nothing brightens the day like a little monkey... What is it about us and our affinity for animals as talismans, on cars as well as on bicycles?... (read more)
April 11, 2006
Not much of an entry today, but I will offer up a bit of audio. Mid-afternoon, Kevyn (one of the many talented audio guys who work here) came back into our area, looking for a few dudes. He wanted about four guys to help him do some background audio on... (read more)
April 10, 2006
I got this today - the CD version of the documentary The United States of Poetry. I first saw this documentary ages ago, and my roommates and I taped several (if not all) episodes of the show when it aired on TV, back in college. The whole thing was... (read more)
April 9, 2006
Yehuda Amichai rocks my fucking world. If you want to read more of his work, check out: A Dog After Love Forgetting Someone My Mother Comes From The Days On A Roof in the Old City The Diameter of the Bomb When I Hhave a Stomachache Statistics... (read more)
by Yehuda Amichai I saw clay jars covered with barnacles that were saved from the ocean bottom, and thought about the sailors of ancient times who gave half their lives to sail to those jars, and the other half to bring them back here. They did what they had to... (read more)
My friend Melissa (aka Mellzah) recently posted up her recounting of how the robot came to be. Her reminiscing about the Twelvestone convergence on Chicago made me look over my own pages. Good times, good times.... (read more)
April 8, 2006
Leaving Liz's place, we met up with her friend Jake - who I've heard tons about. He's a schoolteacher, and recently returned from a long trek in South America. He's planning on going back, and has recently taught himself how to play poker so that he can support himself, when... (read more)
Tonight, Liz and I had plans to meet some of her friends for dinner. I putzed around all day in my apartment (translation: fell asleep at 9 AM, woke back up at 1:30 PM) while she worked her second job at Crate and Barrel. I planned on meeting her when... (read more)
April 7, 2006
Stumbled across this while browing Coudal Partners. Check out Verse By Voice, a cool page featuring audio of people phoning in, and reading one of their favorite poems. What better way to celebreate National Poetry Month? I phoned in a poem. Maybe, if I'm lucky, they'll post it up!... (read more)
Every once in a while, the maintenance crew at the Merchandise Mart set up the main atrium area for a fancy dinner, fashion shows, displays... it's a big area, and there's always something being set up here. However, on the way out... whatever this thing is, it reminded me... (read more)
Scott, on his last day here. I mentioned taking his photo on his first day, but forgot to do so. Several weeks went by, and I snapped one on his way out. Scott was helping us out doing backend dev work, spending a good portion of his time working... (read more)
Letty joined our group a few days ago, and her official title is "Interactive Market Development Manager". I snapped her photo for use in one of our upcoming (internal) newsletters, but got her permission to put this on the blog. Our little group is growing pretty fast these days,... (read more)
After a few days of random crashes and freezes (complete with several trial and error diagnostics on our end), Jane sadly packs up her iMac to take over to the Apple Store. Much like any good hospital, there they'll try to figure out what's wrong, patch things up and,... (read more)
Surfing around this morning, Jane found a mention of my 3 Years 3 Minutes project on Coudal.com. Awesome!... (read more)
April 6, 2006
I was over at Liz's tonight, as we had plans to clean out a lot of her storage items in her basement. She's planning on moving out in about a month plus, and has been slowly going through a lot of her stuff, preparing for the move. To help make... (read more)
For the past two weeks, Kashif has been overseas travelling in Turkey and the surrounding area. He returned today, and brought with him a bunch of souveniers for everyone in the office. The image (above) is called a "Latu," I think. It's like a top, but with a bit... (read more)
Earlier this year, my friend Matt (aka Tha.Riddla) placed first at the Great Lakes Regional Barista competition. That victory grants him an automatic entry to the semi-finals, at the the United States Barista Championship. This morning, on my way in to work, guess who I see on the opposite side... (read more)
April 4, 2006
Saw this book at Liz's, last night. This looks to be a must-have guide, and should be required reading for the upcoming Singularity.... (read more)
April 3, 2006
Two guys I know from Twevlestone (StinkFist and Arsis) have teamed up with a third friend to create snepo.com. I know Stinky better than I know Arsis, but from what I've seen of their work (and their posts), they're amazing coders. Jaw-droppingly amazing coders. Even though there are no... (read more)
April 2, 2006
Met up with Thaddeus this evening at Filter, to kick around some possible ways I could help out on his website. He's having a friend redesign the whole thing, and he and I were talking about ways in which I pitch in - namely, smaller Flash modules that he could... (read more)
April 1, 2006
Pretty sweet concept. Even though I don't think it's all that feasible, what with the average number of hours a regular person works... wow. This would be pretty awesome to try out. Check out Machine Readable's blog post. I'd love to see someone actually give this a serious go.... (read more)
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