Events

In the reading queue: DUKE WON. Air Canada and Porter Air are squabbling over Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport. Hard to tell who's winning. A sad tale of how it really is possible to run out of integers in a badly-designed program. What is this new quick-fired pizza thing? My most culinary friend said it's pretty good. Guess I'll have to try it. James Fallows and The Atlantic have published online a story he wrote in 1982 about the dawning age of personal computing. Did I mention that DUKE WON?!

Today is the runoff election in Chicago between Rahm Emanuel and Chuy Garcia: "This is a big election, with clear choices," Emanuel told reporters at a Lakeview campaign office, with a backdrop of volunteers calling potential voters. "There's a lot at stake for the city of Chicago." Defending his Democratic credentials, Emanuel pointed to backing from some elements of organized labor, his support for raising the minimum wage and having real estate developers set aside money for affordable housing. "That...

Parker and I walked about 10½ km yesterday, resulting in plenty of sleep and (probably) sore paws for both of us. We also got caught in a pneumonia front, in which late-afternoon cooling stops driving a land breeze and allows denser, cooler air from the lake to spread outward over the shore. Temperatures dropped from 18°C to 9°C in twenty minutes—unfortunately, the 20 minutes coinciding from our farthest distance from home. This bothered Parker a lot less than it bothered me, owing to his two fur coats...

First run

It's not a bad morning in Chicago:

My first real Euchre tournament is coming up in a little more than two hours, so I'm preparing by doing exactly what I would do anyway: listening to Weekend Edition. The last guest was Mary Norris, copy editor at The New Yorker, who has written Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen: On the best way to become a good user of English Well, a person should read. And read, and read. Preferably good things. I might suggest The New Yorker, for instance ... [Henry James] is a wizard, the master! Yes...

Guess the city by its transit stops.

I didn't post this yesterday for obvious reasons. I've just executed a lease on a new place about 5 km northwest of where I live now. I'm extra-special-happy that I won't have to move a whole damn server rack, but not especially happy that I'm renting the new place because I can't yet sell my current place. At least, not for an amount that would make me extra-special-happy. The new apartment is twice the size and has probably double the electricity bill of my current place. It also has lots of east and...