During my time with Emmis Interactive, in the early days at Q101… we made a Flash Game for Prison Break.
It is with great sadness that I tell you that the Wayback Machine did not archive this page. What a shame.
An odd thing: I never actually watched the show Prison Break. But it’s available on Netflix, and I started binging it (slowly). I’ve been getting in a few minutes here and there, during lunch breaks and in the evenings on my own.
So we trekked out to the suburbs, each of us with a large book in tow. And just like it was in high school, the book was actually filled with high quality liquor.
“Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys
in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us
to our parking spots before we head up
two flights to the passenger deck,”
“Are you having any fun?
What you getting out of living?
Who cares for what you’ve got if you’re not having any fun?”
Today, we added some more drywall along the North window. But Liz also made a pretty custom piece, to fit the gap that we left. A shame gap, if you will.
Happy to report, it fit quite well. At least, well enough – since this whole thing is going to get covered in another 1/4″ layer of drywall.
Now let’s never speak of this again.
It always goes like this: it’s hard for us to work on the house. At the end of a work day, we’re both tired from our jobs… and the last thing we want to do is suit up for a few hours. On the weekends, all we want to do is lounge and relax, and it’s difficult to suit up and spend the day getting dirty.
But once we do – we get into a good rhythm. We get energized, and we get some momentum. And it makes suiting up the next time just a little easier.
With that other piece installed, we tried to shake off the ugliness of it. And Liz focused on yet another custom cut, to go near the top.
Spotted this out the window, and it gave me a chuckle. I guess we know where the sun hits the yard, and where the shade is.
Daisy has… not been doing well, lately. She continues to struggle moving around, and the back half of her legs are losing strength. Unfortunately, a side effect of this is that she has difficulty going to the bathroom, and isn’t really able to relieve herself properly.
Spotted this vehicle as I was walking to work. There was no one around, the doors were open, and all I could see inside was just bags and bags of potting soil.
Spotted this, on my way home. There’s a part of my commute that involves walking down a set of stairs, down to Lower Michigan. It’s a bit grungy, but gets you in to Millennium Station through one of the less frequented entrances (at the track level).
I’m a little late to the news, but apparently the Sears headquarters (at Hoffman Estates) has been torn down.
I got to visit the building a few times, though I think I only documented one of my visits. To say the place was massive is… an understatement. Inside the complex (and it was a complex), there was a coffee shop, restaurant, beauty salon, travel agency – a ton of actual shops.
This most recent 20×2 Chicago event was definitely on the top ten list. My all time favorite event to date was How Does it Work?, back when we were all at the Hideout.
But this event? It came quite close, and had all the hallmarks of what, to me, makes a stellar 20×2 show.
“Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is still widely used for scaffolding in construction. It’s flexible, strong and cheaper than steel and aluminium — metal alternatives that are now more commonly used in mainland China and elsewhere in Asia. In Hong Kong, skilled armies of scaffolders can erect enough bamboo to engulf a building in a day — even hours — using techniques that are thousands of years old, and have been passed down through generations.”