Archive for April 2007

26 Apr 2007 0831H

Conveyor-belt sushi in Chicagoland

Last weekend E, J, and I had the pleasure of driving around the northwest suburbs on a brilliant spring day in Chicagoland and we ate.
One of the highlights of the trip was the obligatory stop at Mitsuwa, nee Yaohan for okonomiyaki, takoyaki, baked goods, and ice cream, and we also had tasty, smooth Italian ices [...]

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22 Apr 2007 2303H

Guilty listenings

According to the Tribune (thanks to E & J, or J & E for this), Rolling Stone has published its list of 25 bands people now are embarrassed to admit that they like listening to. Hmph. 20 years ago you didn’t feel bad about it, now you feel bad? Color me doubtful. Here’s the list.
1. [...]

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22 Apr 2007 0749H

Malcolm Gladwell on Spaghetti Sauce

Thanks to Joel for hooking me up with this. It’s a talk by Malcolm Gladwell that says in essence that there is no one perfect product, only clusters of preferences across a horizontal continuum of products. We call them personas. Selected TED Conference talks are now available on the TED site.

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19 Apr 2007 1521H

Seung Cho, vengeance, and me

As the latest news about Seung Cho’s past emerges, I’m unsurprised. It was to be expected.
I’m almost ready to declare that he was a victim of his circumstances. While it is a tragedy that 33 people died at his hands, and he should not be absolved of that, the people who really should have [...]

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18 Apr 2007 0845H

His name was Cho Seung Hui. No wait. Seung Hui Cho. Oh, bother . . .

I’m tired of hearing about VT. Rather than compassion fatigue, I’d rather call it media bombardment shock. Observations on what the media are telling us:

Too much emphasis on the killer’s foreignness, on his immigrant status, on his unassimilated name. Dude. The guy grew up in a suburb of DC. How foreign could he be? Yo [...]

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17 Apr 2007 2219H

Tomorrow’s a new day

The State of Things in Chicago has changed a little this evening, and for the better.
Well fought, Naisy. I think you and the team proved your might.
It’s the start of something grand. And pretty soon, I think.
Now everyone get some rest.

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17 Apr 2007 0643H

VT massacre underscores need for Asian American student services; Vote for Naisy

Angry Asian Man has the low-down on the shooter, who is now confirmed as an Asian student who lived in one of the dorms. I’m puzzled mostly about what pushed the guy over the edge. There will still be the usual cycle of soulsearching, blame, anger, so on. But as details about the identity of [...]

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16 Apr 2007 0838H

The ethnography of traffic in Chicago Chinatown

I’ll probably do a screencast, a la Mike Madaio, about this soon, since it’s an obvious fit, but I just want to throw this out there first for potential feedback.
The traffic pattern for this street is quite predictable given the design of the mall across the street, and yet it’s astounding to me, as [...]

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14 Apr 2007 0949H

Asian Chicago: victory after three years

As this press release shows, after three years of slogging against Chicago’s city bureaucracy, a lot of denial on the city’s part, a lot of denial on everyone’s part, thanks largely to the leadership of the Asian American Institute, and aided by a study by a Dartmouth economics professor, Asian American contractors in Chicago are [...]

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12 Apr 2007 1307H

Update: making better use of del.icio.us

So in the process of keeping up with all the articles I didn’t read in the last two weeks, I remembered a better way to keep track of them, as Scott Weisbrod of Critical Mass does on his blog, Experience Planner as “Weekly Linkage.”
See, when you publish a feed via FeedBurner, you also can [...]

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