Monday, January 30, 2006

Monday, January 16, 2006

Hyde Park Digital Clock and Thermometer

The Mr. G's Co-op on 53rd and Kimbark has the most pathetic, unintelligible digital clock and temperature gauge imaginable. In the following photos, try to distinguish what time it is and how cold it is.







Sunday, January 15, 2006

Dandelion and Burdoc

Oxford, Winter 2002.

I came across this picture while cleaning out some old files. Nothing quenches your thirst like...dandelion and burdoc.

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Parag Khanna Saves the World

My good buddy Parag has an article in the latest Harper's about whether Bill Clinton can save the world by becoming U.N. secretary general. Along the way, Parag talks about a lot of insidery U.N. business, and draws parallels between the real U.N. and the Model U.N. he messed around in in high school and college. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the U.N. is a big, self-perpetuating, ineffectual bureaucracy. Fun stuff.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Wyeth was featured artist for awhile over here.

While we were home we played some futurist basketball:


He looks kind of like this.

Monday, January 09, 2006

A Relaxed Social Occasion

Last Thanksgiving, while I was browsing the new book table at the Seminary Co-op, the guy who works there who knows everything saw that I was holding the Nicola Lacey biography of H.L.A. Hart. He said, "Hey, let me show you the best part of that book". He opened to the section of photos and showed me the following picture:


(By the way, I think that that's John Foster in the tux on the far left.)

Wednesday, January 04, 2006

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin



The Seth Peterson cabin, designed by FLW, on Mirror Lake in Wisconsin.



The Schwartz house in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, November 2005.