Orbit In

The googie Orbit In in Palm Springs. It makes a satisfying break from February in Chicago.

Brooklyn Historic Railway Association

Tunnel Exploration, originally uploaded by Nat Hansen.

I just returned from a long weekend in NYC with friends, concluding with a tour of an abandoned subway tunnel from the 1840s. The tour was organized by the Brooklyn Historic Railway Association.

We entered the tunnel from the middle of the street.

Grice, Austin, Witters, Moore

In Siobhan Chapman's Paul Grice: Philosopher and Linguist, he cites J.L. Austin's quote "Some like Witters, but Moore's my man". (Though it has been circulating around Chicago's philosophy department for a long time as the superior "Everyone's wild about Witters...".) It occurs on p. 51 of Grice's "Reply to Richards", in Grandy and Warner, eds., Philosophical Grounds of Rationality: Intention, Categories, Ends:



Chapman also points out that the title of the book where the passage occurs is an acrostic that reads P GRICE.

Making a Purchase

Hindi phrasebook.

Photo by Melody.

Transportation is Here

A Hindustan Ambassador in Hyderabad, India. The "TN" license plate indicates this Ambassador is from Tamil Nadu.

Photo by Melody.

Hoodies

Custom hoodies being made by House of Billiam. Tweed by John G. Hardy.

Thanks to Will S. for pointing this place out!

Audible Feast

Ira Glass and his control panel at WBEZ Chicago Public Radio's Audible Feast. Ira would turn on snippets of the signature This American Life background music to lend support to his anecdotes.

I'm convinced that if I am ever required to give lectures to a large class I need a similar audio-visual rig.

"...we have University of Chicago here..."

When the owner of Chant describes the kind of people who come to Chant, she says, "We get professors, we have students here, we have university of Chicago here", (40 seconds in) and when she says "we have University of Chicago here" it cuts to a shot of Melody, me and Christa sitting and talking. Jay is off-screen to the left.

Here's the link to the video.

The owner also says that she created Chant because "there is no nice place to hang out in Hyde Park".

Thanks to Chris K. for telling me about the video.

Georgetown

Georgetown, Feb 3, 2009, originally uploaded by Nat Hansen.

It snowed yesterday morning in Georgetown, then it cleared up and got sunny.