St. Patrick’s day blessings to you!
Cosc ar bheoir uaine, i Chicago go háirithe.
(Avoid the green beer, especially in Chicago.)
Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig dhaoibh!
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Tag Archives: chicago
Holiday weekend so far
Windycon Purchase
Chicago and the Olympics
My fellow Chicago expat jeff_duntemann wrote about Chicago’s Escape from Hell, with references.
I agree completely.
A good Sunday
Ag ól as píobán dóiteáin arís
Norm Pellegrini, R.I.P.
mia_mcdavid is in Chicagoland this weekend, and called me with the news.
Norman Pellegrini: In Memoriam
The Last Great Oak Falls – Norm Pellegrini is dead
My family moved to Chicago in 1957, when I was 6 years old. I lived there and considered it home until mia_mcdavid and I moved to Minnesota in 1998. Throughout those 41 years WFMT, the Midnight Special and Norm Pellegrini were an important part of my life.
Convergence 2009
Convergence 2009 was a good con, though the sheer size of it exposed a basic structural flaw. In most of my decades in fandom, the social aspects of a convention have been more important than the programming. However, the highlight of this Convergence was one of the programming tracks. It was the most interesting programming I have seen in the several Convergences we have attended. The problem was with the party space: The parties of an ever-growing convention are squeezed into a finite and now very crowded space.
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Old pleasures rediscovered
City of the big shoulders — and 20,000 eyes that never sleep
Surveillance cams help fight crime, city says: Goal is to have them on every corner.
Via A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner?
[The figure of 20,000 is my own SWAG, based on Chicago geography,]
I can understand the civil libertarian objections to this plan. However, having had much too close personal acquaintance with crime on a few of those corners, I suspect Mayor Daley has plenty of local support for implementing it.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 