Tonight, we got a goodly amount of snowfall. We had some over the weekend, but tonight’s snowfall just kept on coming and coming. And accumulated. As I was turning off the lights around the apartment, this is what I saw out the windows. Late at night, with the streetlamps on, everything takes on this rich,…
While walking around during lunch today, I spotted this flower… nestled perfectly within a sidewalk crack. I walked by, stopped, and then walked back and pulled out my camera. I think it’s a poinsettia, but I’m not 100%. Seems a bit small. As I was photographing, I noticed everyone else was just walking by. I’m…
A few weeks back, a bunch of us signed up to attend the Chicago portion of Colin Moock’s Actionscript 3.0: From the Ground Up tour. This morning, I woke up bright and early (along with Chris and Masha), and caught a bus over to Navy Pier for an all-day, 9-hour lecture on AS3 from the…
Chain Factor as an addicting little game, once you get your head around the rules. I’ll have to confess, it took me a few tries before I fully grokked what was going on… but after that, I lost a good amount of time to it. The basic premise is this: it’s like Tetris, to some…
Over the weekend, TJ and his friends got a Whirlyball court reserved. He opened up the invite to us coworkers, and me, Ben, Allison, Chris and Leslie all joined in on the fun. Driving at the red goal… Leslie and Allison, taking a breather and watching the game from the sideline. A photo of TJ,…
While Liz and I were out today, we got caught in an afternoon snowstorm. I’m not sure if this was the first snowfall or not (I think there may have been one in Chicago while we were in Texas). It was the first one I’ve seen, at any rate. And given my recent project, it…