The 40 most recent articles where I left a comment
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Heidi Spring on Instagram: “One last #rivellawithaview #snackbreak #switzerland🇨🇭 hiking #wanderung”
#chugitchugit
Stored on: August 16, 2018
Instagram photo by Tee Chant • Jul 3, 2018 at 4:42 PM
Wow you made this look so beautiful! The composition is fantastic with the tree branches and flowers framing the photo.
Stored on: August 15, 2018
Heidi Spring on Instagram: “Suspicious cow. #art #painting #cowpainting #switzerland🇨🇭”
This cow #overherd something.
Stored on: August 11, 2018
My Time in the Luis Medina Archives | The Art Institute of Chicago
Wow! 22,000 items. Will all 22,000 make it into the online collection? Currently here's the top five photographers in the collection: Peter Cohen 803 John Gossage 600 Yasuhiro Ishimoto 304 Aaron Siskind 246 André Kertész 246
Stored on: August 9, 2018
Ian Chillag from Everything is Alive Interview by Looking Glass Podcast
I love this story about the "wonderfully weird" show and the "totally weird and great" choices. And how she could take her ideas and make them. That inspires me to record weird podcasts.
Stored on: August 9, 2018
Hidden Materials in Sargent’s Watercolors | The Art Institute of Chicago
"Always use a full brush and a larger one than necessary."
Stored on: August 9, 2018
'Spectacular' ancient public library discovered in Germany : books
I'd like to see them make this back into a library again.
Stored on: August 7, 2018
7 favorite Chrome extensions | Diverse Tech Geek
Thanks to your list, I now installed "HTTPS Everywhere" in both Chrome and Firefox
Stored on: August 6, 2018
Heidi Spring on Instagram: “I made a beastie at #ballenberg today.”
This is very cool! More wooden beasties, please!
Stored on: August 6, 2018
Andy on Instagram: “New office building has a strangely long hallway 🤔”
Needs some art on the walls.
Stored on: August 6, 2018
Cleveland: Celeste Ng visits polka-dot Yayoi Kusama trees | urban plant research
When a tree is wrapped in paper, it says, "ahhh, welcome back my fellow tree, wrap your arms around me"
Stored on: July 23, 2018
The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: Sharing Some Pictures
You might be interested in this article on brainpickings: Celebrated Writers on the Creative Benefits of Keeping a Diary Reflections on the value of recording our inner lives from Woolf, Thoreau, Sontag, Emerson, Nin, Plath, and more. https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/04/famous-writers-on-keeping-a-diary/
Stored on: July 20, 2018
‘Peanuts’ and NASA are collaborating again — five decades after Snoopy’s moon mission
Who is drawing Peanuts these days? I understand that the syndicated comic strip is in re-runs. Who does the drawing for the licensing? The image in this article with the Peanuts characters in astronaut outfits wouldn't seem to be a drawing from the Charles Schultz's archive. The drawing is really fantastic. It would be great to give props to the person who is currently drawing Peanuts for the licensing side.
Stored on: July 11, 2018
The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: A Little Something I Wrote
I need to see a photo of this written on paper.
Stored on: July 11, 2018
Harry Briggs on Instagram: “It’s coming back! #fashion #jorts #fannypack #humor”
First Instagram image to be tagged with #fannypackcomic!
Stored on: July 10, 2018
I'd like to see Sock Monkey perform some Shakespeare. #Shakespearemonkey #actingmonkey
Stored on: July 9, 2018
Victoria Mia on Instagram: “People watching at the Getty”
#peekaboo #peekabooatthegettywho
Stored on: July 9, 2018
Laura @ Rather Square on Instagram: “#Potato harvest! 🥔🥔🥔”
These are beautiful! #purplepotatoes
Stored on: July 9, 2018
ESPN is shutting down its site's comments | Diverse Tech Geek
Eventually we might get to the point that having comments on a website is a unique thing.
Stored on: July 9, 2018
LED Lighting – Exhibit Branding Solutions
I love LED lights. Very cool to hear it from your signage perspective.
Stored on: June 30, 2018
Wow! Andy Crestodina's brother did yardwork for Michael Jordan!
Stored on: June 28, 2018
“One of Sargent’s Good Things” | The Art Institute of Chicago
What a lovely painting. I'm glad the Art Institute was able to acquire this painting.
Stored on: June 27, 2018
The Indispensable Feed Reader Now an @Ontarioextend Curator Module Activity – CogDogBlog
I feel the same way about Instagram. Their algorithm feed kept showing repeat images for me. Instead, I set up RSS feeds for each person I follow. Plop those into my RSS reader, and I never have to see the same image twice! Plus, I can categorize the accounts I follow into specific folders. So handy!
Stored on: June 26, 2018
Instagram photo by Lisa Hillmer-Poole • Jun 22, 2018 at 8:55 PM
#invasionoftheclouds
Stored on: June 25, 2018
The Classic Chicago Three-Flat – The Secret Knowledge of Spaces
My dad and grandmother were Estonian refugees to America and lived in a two-flat. Good memories of that place in Ravenswood Manor.
Stored on: June 21, 2018
https://secretknowledgeofspaces.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/tribune-tower-a-vertical-museum/
I enjoyed your blog post, especially as we (the Chicago Tribune and other Tribune companies) moved out of the Tower last week. I worked in Tribune Tower for 18 years. Seeing your post brings back good memories. Thank you.
Stored on: June 21, 2018
I did a five-foot wide pencil rubbing on my last day in the Tribune Tower - Spudart
Pencil rubbings certainly make you pause and slow down a bit. Photos are so quick and easy. The rubbings take a little more time—which sometimes can be good.
Stored on: June 16, 2018
16 Reasons to Love 1991 Score Baseball Cards
You totally captured the greatness of the 1991 Score set. A few years ago I bought an entire set for all the reasons you outline. This set carries an immense of amount of wonderful entertaining subsets.
Stored on: June 16, 2018
Erik Maldre (@erikmaldre) • Instagram photos and videos
What this shot with your fancy iPhone? With Flickr, I could see the camera model. With Instagram, notsomuch. I hope you are posting this on Flickr!
Stored on: June 15, 2018
I like that you cropped out Trump Tower. That will be one of the things I certainly won't miss working in Tribune Tower—having to pass by the giant stupid Trump sign every day.
Stored on: June 15, 2018
Do hashtags only "count" when they are in the caption of the photo? If I put a hashtag in the comments, does the photo not appear in the official hashtag index?
Stored on: June 7, 2018
Thoughts on Apple's 2018 WWDC announcements | Diverse Tech Geek
As an iPhone 5s owner, I’m very pleased to hear that iOS12 will give better support than iOS11. Every day I denied Apple’s pop-up request to upgrade to iOS11. Then one morning, my phone showed a message welcoming me to iOS11. Since then my iPhone has become incredibly slower. Hopefully iOS12 will be more friendly to my iPhone 5s.
Stored on: June 6, 2018
Reflections on 2 Years Without a Car — Strong Towns
Kevin, I so highly admire that you have a family and are car-free. I've lived in Chicago my entire life (i'm 42 years old). In my adult years I never owned a car until I got married at age 39 (my wife has one). I've always said that single people living in the city of Chicago should not own a car. Families are the exception. So the fact that your family is living without a car is really amazing to me.
Stored on: June 5, 2018
Freelancers as the Future of the City – Chris Thilk
I'm so glad that I have never bought a car in my life. The only time I became a car owner is when I married one, when I was 39 years old. I've always lived around rail, and I love it! Whether it was on the south side in Beverly with the Metra. Or Wrigleyville with the red line. And then 13 years in Lincoln Square with the brown line. Through all those years I managed to date people that lived within walking distance of a train. Even my car-owning wife lived in Oak Park three blocks from the Green line. I absolutely love the train. Chicago could use more rail and better rail.
Stored on: June 5, 2018
Google announces YouTube Music changes; Google Play Music to stay (for now) | Diverse Tech Geek
For the past year I've been a paid subscriber for Google Music. I pay, because I get two services for ten bucks. Google Music and Youtube Red. Previously I was a subscriber to Spotify for about the same price. But since Google Music includes Youtube Red, I went over to Google for the extra service.
Stored on: May 20, 2018
T3: New Audio Transcription App | The Andersen Library Blog
Thank you for posting this! On and off through the years I've been looking for an affordable (preferably free) transcription service. The closest I've gotten was Google Voice's transcription of voicemails. That caps off somewhere around two minutes. I would break up podcasts into two-minute segments and send them off to Google Voice. I will gladly try Otter Voice.
Stored on: May 10, 2018
Spudart.org is back to a semi-regular frequency of blog posts - Spudart
These numbers do not include what I’m writing on my other blog, mattmaldre.com
Stored on: May 8, 2018
The Ramblings of a Chicagoan: Podcasts You Listen To
Podcasts on cassette! They run about 50 cents to a dollar these days. The vinyl, that would be crazy. Back when I originally read this blog post, I did some quick research and found a place that will make one record for $99. Also, you reminded me. I need to blog two things. 1. Downcast vs. iTunes. 2. The 39 podcasts I listen to. So far, I'm digging Downcast. I haven't gone back to iTunes, nor have I missed it at all.
Stored on: May 8, 2018
How to cut the noise out of Facebook (use a friends list sorted by most recent) - Matt Maldre
I guarantee you if you use this method, when you revisit the actual homepage of Facebook you'll be shocked at how inefficient and noisy it is. You'll never want to see the homepage ever again. Your Facebook list will become your Facebook regular bookmark.
Stored on: May 8, 2018
Chicago Spire redevelopment plan gets debut date - Curbed Chicago
I’m hoping for an eight-tentacle structure to crawl out of the hole. Each of the tentacles could serve a different public purpose. We’ll call it the Chicago Octopus.
Stored on: May 8, 2018
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