Three Events in My Life
They're selling Obama hats at my local 7-11. I know 'business is business' but this is the first time I can recall when the 'swag' from a presidential campaign was thought valuable enough to hit the retail shelves.
Chicago
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Fri, 11/07/2008 - 9:10pm.
TECH cocktail 5 (Chicago)
Chicago Geekdom on parade at the Tech Cocktail gathering on Thursday, July 12 at John Barleycorn in Wrigleyville. At least 500 people in the business showed up. Here I am with part of the SingleHop team -- one of the primary sponsors of this great Event.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Thu, 07/12/2007 - 8:39pm.
TECH cocktail 4 (Chicago)
TECH cocktail 4 (Chicago): Free drinks and a bar full of geeks. What better recipe than that? This time round it was at John Barleycorn in Wrigleyville.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Thu, 04/12/2007 - 8:53pm.
Go Cubs!
Once a Cub's fan, always a Cub's fan. It's a fact of life on the North Side of Chicago.
(Today's Opening Day at Wrigley Field.)
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Mon, 04/09/2007 - 1:24pm.
Gored For Women Dot Org?
Probably not the intended message but we put spaces in between words for a reason. 'CamelCase' might have helped.
In any case, as seen on the Marquee of the now closed Esquire Theater on Oak St. in Chicago.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Mon, 03/12/2007 - 2:42am.
Props to the Chicago Public Schools
From the Chicago Tribune:
After-school tutoring, better-trained teachers and new classroom assessments in Chicago public schools helped drive an "extraordinary" increase in state scores that improved the fortunes of nearly every city elementary school last year, district officials said.
This is just one year's results and from year to year there are enough changes in the way the test is given to make drawing longer-term conclusions problematic. That said, anyone familiar with our school system knows how hard everyone works -- particularly the teachers!
These results are a great credit to their efforts.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Thu, 03/08/2007 - 7:53pm.
Snowy Chicago
Snowy Chicago - UIC (2/13/2007): Snowy Chicago. UIC looking west at around 4:30pm. Classes for the afternoon were canceled.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 02/13/2007 - 4:14pm.
Go Bears! (CTA Edition)
The Chicago Transit Authority makes clear its preferences.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 10:22am.
Mayor Daley at UIC
Chicago's Mayor Daley came to speak at UIC today. While some of his talk seemed to ramble on and was, to be honest, less than inspiring, it was clear that Education is a big deal for him. He literally said it came after God and Family.
A funny moment came (at least for me) when he was talking about how even prison immates needed vocational training and then as an aside, said something along the lines of:
"The unions used to be against it [work done by immates] but that's when we made everything here. Now you've got things made in China so why not in our jails?"
I'm sure the mayor wasn't advocating prison labor and maybe China wasn't the best example to pick for comparison but it sure had me tittering in the back row.
Posted in Submitted by Leo Klein on Mon, 01/29/2007 - 9:10pm.
TECH cocktail 3 (Chicago)
I had a great time at TECH cocktail 3 last night. It was held at Amira in the NBC Building and the place was so packed at times that you could hardly squeeze in.
