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Take advantage of the snow in Chicago
Friday, February 1st, 2008
I normally either bike or run in the mornings for my workout… but this morning I woke up to a foot of snow trapping me indoors. After being inspired by the local news telling me that I can burn 500 calories an hour shoveling snow, I decided to do just that.
I highly recommend it, […]
Chicago Early Voting Site Map!
Monday, January 28th, 2008
As a follow up to my earlier posting about the locations for early voting in Chicago… here is a handy map to use for a reference if needed. Remember, you can vote at ANY of these sites, no matter where you live! Pick the one easiest for you!
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Illinois Primary Elections Early Voting
Monday, January 14th, 2008
From here:
Early Voting Sites & Hours
Chicago voters may use any of these sites for Early Voting, which will be offered January 14 - 31, 2008, for the February 5, 2008 Primary Election. Remember:
1. Bring a government photo ID.
2. You don’t need an excuse or reason to vote early.
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Field Museum Provost on the Colbert Report Tonight!
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Just caught this through the internal mailing list at the Museum:
Field Museum Provost Neil Shubin will appear on the Colbert Report tonight to discuss his new book, Your Inner Fish, which will be released the following day. The Colbert Report runs at 10:30 p.m. (Central Time) on Comedy Central.
Your Inner Fish uses new fossil finds, […]
Ignite Chicago Presentation
Friday, December 7th, 2007
About a month ago, Harper asked me to do a presentation with him at Ignite Chicago. It looked like fun, so I said yes. But then we failed completely at planning anything for it, and it came down to us throwing something together at the last minute today. We found out we […]
Talking to an OLPC pilot school
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Tonight, Harper and Gabriel came over to talk about TinyLanguage, but we also spent a lot of time messing around on the XO machines we have. It is a lot of fun to have a couple of them together right next to each other, you really can have a good time with the collaborative […]
Savage Inequalities.. 15 years later are we any better off?
Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
I’m reading a book called Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol (read it there). It is a brutal look at the American public education system, and how it reflects racial inequalities and the inequities of how our tax dollars are applied to the school system. It covers the Chicago Public School system circa the […]
The Small Problems of Distributed Sustainable Energy
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
Sometimes the largest solutions seems to have some of the smallest problems. Recently, a friend of mine and I have been talking about small wind installations. We have looked at the costs of developing a small vertical axis wind turbine system for installation in the countryside of Illinois. The largest expense in […]
BP’s ludicrous hypocrisy
Sunday, July 15th, 2007
What a cute commercial. From what I understand though, the proper ending should have been one baby stuffing the gas pump down another baby’s throat and pumping toxic sludge and ammonia into his stomach.
I read from the Tribune.
The massive BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., is planning to dump significantly more ammonia and industrial […]