After months of seeing Vincent on our local NBC affieliate affiliate I finally got curious enough to do a web search to see what his deal was. Not knowing his last name made it difficult but my first search on Google gave me excellent results using the search phrase “vincent chicago suit”.
Last month, NBC5 posted an article about Vincent on their web site. So, the mystery is solved now. I’ll definitely be keeping my eye open for the documentary being shot about him.
I liked the picture of him doing his job as a programmer. It reminded me of my friend Larry who is also legally blind and looks exactly the same when laying down the code. Except for maybe the flashy suits. I think I’ll recommend that to Larry. He can become Boston’s Vincent.
I’m not sure why I took this picture. Something about the Bible word-finds hanging on a garbage can like that said I should take it. I didn’t stage this photo in any way, I found this layout at lower Michigan and Hubbard when I got off the bus this morning.
The camera in the hiptop is not the best, but I at least have a camera on me. Its pretty terrible in low light situations. I fixed up the photo as much as possible in gimp, but its still not hot. I need to get a better small camera I can carry with me at all times.
Its been in the news that Nicolas Cage has named his new baby boy Kal-El. Us comic geeks know that Kal-El happens to be Superman’s birth name. Not sure if this is better or worse than Harley Quinn Smith, Kevin Smith’s little girl. I’m thinking Kevin wins here.
In any case, this makes me feel less bad about how Sarah and I named our daughter.
We saw Serenity over the weekend. Being huge fans of the show, we’re probably biased, but we loved it.
There were some really surprising parts. I don’t want to say anymore due to dropping spoilers. However, Sarah is still pissed at Joss over one part of the movie. She love it, but she’s still pissed.
If you haven’t seen it, go see it now! Linky says in his post on the movie that he enjoyed it without seeing the series first. So go see it! (However, watching the series first helps and makes a few things resonate more, IMHO.)
We went to the mall over Labor Day weekend and passing through some of the department stores, I was disappointed to see they have their Christmas decorating displays out already. In September?
All I can say is: What the fuck? I love Christmas, don’t get me wrong, but September seems way early.
“Happy Valentines Day! Get your Christmas supplies early!”
The joint is on the ground floor of the National Association of Realtors building, and when you walk outside you can see the Capitol dome.
The association’s headquarters is in Chicago, and the Goat has been sitting in the belly of its building at 430 N. Michigan since 1964.
“They were the first people we thought of when we put up this building,” said association spokesman Lucien Salvant. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will cut the ribbon and speak at Monday’s grand opening, as will association executive vice president and CEO Terry McDermott and president Al Mansell.
One of the Chicago Goat’s employees, early morning grill man Spiro Sarivasilis, was flown in for the occasion and entertained Monday’s crowd by crowing the Goat’s legendary spiel: “Cheezborger, cheezborger! No fries … chips! No Pepsi … Coke.”
Well, that explains where Spiro has been. My fried egg, cheese (cheeze?), and ham just weren’t the same.
The Economist had an article on the social impact of video games titled Chasing the Dream. Its been posted elsewhere on the net before me, but I have to quote this one paragraph because its so good.
Another analogy can be made between games and music—specifically, with the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s. Like games today, it was a new art form that was condemned for encouraging bad behaviour among young people. Some records were banned from the radio, and others had their lyrics changed. Politicians called for laws banning the sending of offending records by post. But now the post-war generation has grown up, rock and roll is considered to be harmless. Rap music, or gaming, is under attack instead. “There’s always this pattern,†says Mr Williams of the University of Illinois. “Old stuff is respected, and new stuff is junk.†Novels, he points out, were once considered too lowbrow to be studied at university. Eventually the professors who believed this retired. Novels are now regarded as literature. “Once a generation has its perception, it is pretty much set,†says Mr Williams. “What happens is that they die.â€
The article also goes on to mention the book Everything Bad Is Good For You and quotes the author Steven Berlin Johnson. My point in mentioning this is just to give a shout out to that book. It was an excellent read and made me look at a few things differently, including my television watching and how I interact with video games and the ones I really enjoy playing. Unfortunately, its been two months so I read it, so I can’t point out more specifics. GO READ IT!
In the Chicago Tribune‘s food section today was a recipie for bacon-fried corn. It actually sounds really good, but what doesn’t when made with bacon. I reprint it here for two reasons 1) so I don’t lose it and 2) so MARK NOTARUS, who has eaten bacon-wrapped bacon, can see it.
Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 5 minutes; remove bacon with a lotted spoon to a paper-towel lined pan. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons of the fat.
Add the onion to the skillet; cook, stirring often, until crisp-tender, about 4 minutes. Add corn and bell pepper. Cook, stirring often, until corn is crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in the parsley, milk, salt and pepper to taste. Garnish with bacon pieces.
Andrew Ho is today’s Real Man of Genius for his blog comment follow-up smackdown titled Real Woman of Genius. Which appeared on this blog attached to this post.
