When Stephanie was staying with us in 2006 she really wanted to go to the Sears Tower, but when we got there the visibility was 0% so we decided to do something else. This visit she still wanted to go and I still had never been so we went on Sunday. It was a great [...]
Views From The Sears Tower
August 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
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Roundarch Summer Event
August 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
A couple weeks ago I accepted the position of Information Architect with a company called RoundArch. I will be starting on September 2, which was my dream start date when my Google contract ended at the end of May. I didn’t know if I’d actually be able to pull off having the whole summer off, [...]
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Oh, little Trump Tower, how you have grown in my absence!
May 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
It hasn’t been since December that I’ve walked past the Sun Times Destruction/Trump Tower Construction site on a daily basis. And it hasnt been since November that I posted an update on it. I used to go by every day, most times twice/day, and was able to notice each little step in the building that [...]
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Tubesand & Slabs of Granite
October 26th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized
I don’t know why it cracks me up that these bags of sand around the Trump construction area are called and sold as “Tubesand”. It seems like one of those things that’s so simple.. and whoever thought of it is a billionaire now.
Also, I noticed that they have a lot of the granite tiles [...]
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