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FRIDAY PHOTO POOOOOST!

I have no icons for you this week, but I kept failing to link to some that girlpearl made that I think you will enjoy!

These random-ass Blackhawks ice sculptures were all over town at the start of hockey season. I don't really get it, but how often do you see random ice sculptures melting in the middle of the sidewalk?

When I went to the MSI for the conference earlier this month, I was walking around northeast of the museum when I found this strange little construction in the park. I have no idea where it came from -- I assume it's another relic of the World's Fair -- but it's pretty cool to photograph.

And here's the MSI, as viewed through a program on my iPhone that filters photos to make them look old-timey.

Remember when I told you guys that Giant Marilyn Monroe needs her feet washed? This is why. I shot that this week -- guess she's due for another pedicure...

This is a shot looking down a crane shaft of the Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago. Those silver boxes are archival boxes full of books, stretching down five storeys underground. The robot cranes fetch the requested box when someone needs a book and brings the box up the shelf for the librarian to get the book from.

Here's the reading room at Mansueto -- and the version I snagged with my pinhole camera.

I got quite a few interesting, if not overly awesome, shots with the pinhole camera. One of my favourites is this tree, somewhere on the northwest corner of campus.

This is a pinhole photo of an enlarged printer's mark on display in, for lack of a better word, the gangway to the Mansueto Library. I think it looks like some kind of strange idol.

The courtyard where I ate lunch, a random ivy covered wall, and an arched gothic doorway, all pinhole. If nothing else I'm reasonably pleased with my aim.

I think this is my favourite though -- the Lamassu at the Oriental Institute. Eerie, huh?

I couldn't resist taking photos of these two ads at the Sheridan El stop:
I mean, do these peppers look evil to anyone else?
GrubHub ads are the sexiest ads.

That's my Chicago this month: sexy ads, dirty feet, library robots, and pinhole cameras :D

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One of our staff members is moving out of state when she leaves this week. This has led to a couple of events for me personally, including the whole "Catering for twenty" thing where the caterer was totally on time but totally forgot to deliver two of the sandwiches, necessitating an apology to the sandwichless and sending them out for lunch on our corporate credit card. (And also a stern lecture to the caterers and a refund of some money).

I feel bad for Coworker Awkward, who was one of the people whose sandwich never arrived, but he bore up well and we had the most coherent conversation I think we ever have.

Me: So, I don't think your sandwich is coming.
Coworker Awkward: It's okay. I had a good lunch anyway!
Me: The thing is, they can't get hold of their driver, so they have no way of getting the sandwiches here.
Coworker Awkward: Hasn't it been like two hours? Where did he go?
Me: Well, he had that "just coming off meth" look about him.
Coworker Awkward: We may never see him again.
Me: I can only hope.

I also was the recipient of our departing staff member's plant, which means my cubicle is beginning to look a little bit like I'm re-creating a rainforest. I don't know what kind of plant he is, but I've named him Archie.

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Our work kitchen microwave is the happiest microwave ever.

New post up at Extribulum: True And Good, about the discipline to write a good ending. It's not my most coherent ever, but they can't all be genius.

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Despite the fact that Dreamwidth just gave out a bunch of codes, I wasn't going to do Codefest V: FESTIVAL OF CODE, because last time not many people seemed to want them.

That being said, LJ is being a dipshit again (that's the simple version; find a major link roundup here). I don't really understand the technical aspect of what's going on, but I'm pretty sure it's the reason semagic doesn't like to post to LJ anymore.

So, you can thank iamshadow and axeslade for this DREAMWIDTH CODEFEST. If you have a code you'd like to share, put it in comments; if you'd like to migrate over to Dreamwidth or just start mirroring there, comment to someone's offer and let them know you took their code.

Here are mine. Take and use if it pleases you.

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