The Chicago(land) Adventures Begin

Installment #1: In which the newly unemployed adventurer travels past the factories her city has chosen to outsource to a (not-so-distant) shore, leaving them to (not) deal with the environmental/social consequences, and then onward to the wilderness (located right between the train track and the aforementioned factories).
I have (though the intro above may not [...]

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technology and wildlife in the city

So stepping off the #6 bus roughly 20 minutes ago, we walked by a car on Hyde Park Blvd. whose alarm was going off.  Nothing unusual, until we noticed that at least half a dozen sparrows were sitting flat on the ground and perfectly still, all around the car, and looking directly at it.  We [...]

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transitioning

Well, it’s my second-to-last day at work and the majority of folks in my department decided they needed to make it a four-day weekend rather than just the already longer-than-usual three-day weekend. This greatly amuses me; it seems somehow fitting of the spirit of my office.
It also seems to somehow match the other general [...]

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