In The Family
On Saturday evening I saw In The Family at the Asian American Showcase. It’s a film by Patrick Wang, who I may have last seen in a production of Grand Hotel at MIT when I was just starting college....
View ArticleQuote of the day : the folly of money as language
This post is a bit of a start towards thinking about things. The two things do not immediately connect, but they are both in my mind. We have chosen the wrong weapon for our struggle, because we...
View ArticleTeatro Luna : Living Large in a Mini Kind of Way
I saw Teatro Luna’s Living Large in a Mini Kind of Way, by Diane Rodriguez. Teatro Luna usually does pieces written by their own collective, so it was a shift for them to do someone else’s play. Living...
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Somehow, I had never heard of the Arnold cat map. Meow. I am definitely guilty of reading and walking at the same time. Serious Eats Chicago ate all the things at Hot Doug’s, to which I have still not...
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An animation of integer factorizations. Goes well with music. (h/t BK). Graphics from the Chicago L (via Chicagoist) Tony Kushner is kind of a tool. I find this unfortunate. But I still want to see...
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The City of Chicago has a big open data initiative, and they are putting data online at the City of Chicago Data Portal. Lots of interesting stuff here, and some potential to get data sets for machine...
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I’m sick today so here are some links. Click That Hood, a game which asks you to identify neighborhoods. I was lousy at San Diego, but pretty decent at Chicago, even though I’ve lived here for half the...
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A rather pretty video of an L-system made by my friend Steve. LACMA, which I finally saw with a friend in February, has decided to offer high-resolution downloads of many of the items in its...
View ArticleA week later, a response from Ventra
I wrote to Ventra a week ago to ask them if there was any way for me to get an automated notice when it would charge my bank account. This was a nice feature of the Chicago Card — by letting me know...
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My friend Cynthia her friends have a tumblr on inclusivity in STEM. See also the quarterly Model View Culture, which I think I had seen an article from but didn’t realize it was a whole journal. Thanks...
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