House of the rising Moonglum

I don’t know why, but I really love this picture. If you view the full image it is an amazing photograph from a technical perspective, but each of the girls is so expressive that you feel like you can get a sense of their character. Also, it is such a hodgepodge, it makes me laugh.

On noes! The spammers have found slow reCaptcha break. It seems to work at a rate of about 20-30 a day (human assisted I wonder?). Of course none of them get through, but I do have to moderate them. So I have instituted a fairly draconian black list. If you notice that a comment of yours isn’t approved in a couple days (or immediately if you are pre approved) please let me know and I will try to root it out of the spam bin. (7k and counting…) Next time I get a couple minutes I’ll have to look for new anti-spam technology.

Detroit is how bad it can get. Apparently you can buy houses in Detroit for $1.

I really feel like I’ve done this before. But I hope not.

Much though I love the new White House web site, the thing that really tickles me is that passes the W3C XHTML validator. That is actually somewhat difficult to do.

I haven’t been posting much lately because I have been working 2.5 clients, 1.5 of whom need me to be onsite. This is driving me a little bit crazy, but I have gotten a sick joy out of joining the commuting masses. I feel like I have become part of the US of A in some way that I wasn’t before. Interestingly, while I am in Roger’s Park, I am far enough from the red line to make getting downtown take a bit longer than one would hope. Car is of course the shortest at about 40-50 minutes depending on time and traffic. (And the most expensive at $14 when I park in my secret (cheap) lot.) Public is a little tricky. Purple Express is the best (and cheapest), but you have to time it right. And getting to the Howard stop is about 20 mins. I’ve been averaging 1:30 total on public, but did better this morning. And the Metra is really nice, but doesn’t go very close to me on the other end, and there’s no bus if it is -10 and I don’t feel like walking. One of the things that has been slowing me down of course is that ROGERS IS GONE. Behold:

A Big Hole

Working street construction in the middle of winter. That is a job I don’t want.

In Metric.