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It’s been raining here in Chicago. Raining, and raining, and raining, and raining. We even had a sinkhole(1)!
On one hand, I’m not bothered since realizing the weather is of such little consequence when you spend your life hustling from one indoor setting to another.
I wake up in a comfortable loft apartment, I walk 5 blocks to an office to toil for about 9 hours each day. Then I go to the studio or back to the apartment.
But there’s that other hand, hidden right in the first sentence of that last paragraph: I walk. Everywhere. I like that about city life, I really do. But it means my socks were pretty wet yesterday, when for some reason I decided to wear my Chuck Taylors in spite of the forecast.
Anyway, the point of posting this is a) wow! That photo! and b) to mention how stunned I was by the effects I felt all day from the sudden blast of humidity. I had trouble taking a deep breath, and I struggled to focus on anything or think. It felt like a side effect of painkillers, or like my brain just wasn’t getting enough oxygen. This continued into the afternoon, culminating in a headache, which could have just been a symptom of caffeine withdrawal. I treated it all with a cappuccino and a croissant at Lavazza after work, then met Chava at the studio for bourbon ale and rock and roll.
Life is just stupid good, even when you’re humitarded all day.
Great thanks, how are you?
1. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-sinkhole-swallows-3-cars-20130418,0,4497819.story
(Note the laughter and clap after the car falls in. Also note the sinkhole was technically attributed to a break in a 98-year-old water main, not the rain itself, per se.)
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XKCD made a sweet, imaginary map of North America’s subways. As Chicagoist wrote: If only “we could take the Orange Line straight into San Francisco.”
I can’t decide if this is cooler than that model of Tokyo’s subways I posted the other day.
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I have this awesome problem where my friends are constantly sending me new music to check out. They send me so much that keeping track of it can be a challenge. My iTunes library is a cluttered closet full of hand-me-downs and unworn one-offs, and when I import something new, I’m just throwing it blindly into that closet. Finding it later to actually listen to it requires a combination of determination and organization.
In this post, I’ll tell you how to fix that using an iTunes feature called a Smart Playlist.
By following the steps below, you can make a playlist on your computer that will automatically update itself with new music you’ve imported into your iTunes library. You can even set it update on your devices automatically whenever you sync. You can customize it pretty much however you want, including how many songs it should contain (or how much space it can take up), and how it should pick them.
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Jowy Romano
I agree. Still cool, though. A grad student made the model by hanging tubes with wire, then pumped liquid through them of colors to match the train lines.
(Source: spoon-tamago.com)
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