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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Nix Tape: 10 Closed & Abandoned Blockbuster Stores
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Blockbuster Video’s torn-ticket logo once fronted thousands of stores worldwide. That was then, this is now… by late 2013, Blockbuster was...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Found My Spot
Greenery outside, mountains and sky,In my chair, no one around, viewing theworld in my magic screen.Somewhat protected from some criticalmovements in the world.Somewhat at a distance, monkish, cutoff...
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Ezra Velazquez '10: PuppyPics
Name: PuppyPicsPlatform: Chrome Browser, WebAuthor: Ezra VelazquezTechnology: JavaScript, HTML, CSSSource Code: Available on GitHubVersion: 0.9About PuppyPics:Â Chrome extension that replaces page...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Focus on Blur: Bokeh Cityscapes Celebrate Color & Light
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Photography & Video. ] Stretching and reversing conventions for balancing foreground and background, one urban photographer in Tokyo is taking the Japanese concept of...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday,...
Gonna get to that New Year’s resolution next week. Promise.Theater of Pain: The Knicks as Performance Art Robert Silverman The ClassicalIf there is one thing that’s been good about this Knicks season,...
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Arjendu Pattanayak: meblen
As someone whose job includes both teaching and research, I’ve always found it valuable to attend both research-oriented conferences and teaching-oriented conferences. Reading the literature on physics...
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Kevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: January 6-12, 2014.
Waiting until the crowds thin out. Watching basketball until then.Monday: Orlando Magic at LA Clippers (7:30 PM PST on League Pass)There’s only three games on the docket tonight, and they all suck...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Socialism with a Chinese characteristic: materialism
China is neither a pre-materialistic nor a post-materialistic culture. Perhaps Adam Smith was more perceptive about human nature than Karl Marx. And if Mao Zedong was right about saying that there were...
View ArticleDavid Ocker '73: Images Without Meaning
I'm sure that you know what karaoke is ... pre-recorded music for which some talented or courageous or drunken person supplies the missing vocals. Â Not being either courageous or talented, I would...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: My Schedule's Off
sense of time being lost....3 o'clock, feels like eight,mind blowing chunks of memory....am I followinga trail of crumbs? Am I hopelessly lost in a familiarspectacle of dissolution like generations?...
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Margaret Taylor: Screen shot 2014-01-06 at 5.49.51 AM
So, when I got up this morning, I found this on weather.gov:It’s cold, everyone!
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: To All The Women That Read Me On This Blog
Help!(No, that was too abrupt)Ahem!(That's better)I don't do FacebookI don't get feedbackI'm turning Japanese.How can I seduce you(Oh oh)How can I introducemyself?How can  we findeach other...hard...
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Allie Schwartz '10: 2014 Reading Challenge
This was written for my work blog (what are the odds, right?) Read @ MPL.A common complaint about cookbooks is there aren’t enough pictures. Boy howdy do I have a cookbook for those complainers!...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Winter Weather Postpones Carleton Hoops on Monday &...
The extreme winter weather affecting much of the country has brought about Minnesota’s coldest wind chills in two decades. That scenario created unsafe travel conditions leading to the postponement of...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Walkability & Hyperdensity: 14 Concepts for Future Cities
[ By Steph in Architecture& Cities & Urbanism. ] The city of the future addresses problems like overpopulation, pollution and sprawl by building high-density vertical neighborhoods that are...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00: 1-4-2014
Adams Loop. 72 minutes. 10 miles.Chilly (32 degrees) and nice! Relaxed and easy run. Felt OK.
View ArticleDan Schofer '00: 1-5-2014
Treadmill. 69 minutes. 10 miles.Easy run at 1.0% incline. Felt pretty good. [Week: 74 miles]
View ArticleDan Schofer '00: 1-6-2014
Treadmill. 69 minutes. 10 miles.Easy run at 1.0% incline. Felt pretty good again.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Giants in Living Color: Massive Street Murals by Etam Cru
[ By Steph in Art& Street Art & Graffiti. ] Polish duo Sainer and Bezt, collectively known as Etam Cru, paint massive-scale murals of people and animals on blank building faces around the...
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