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Looking for light freelance web work in/around Chicago?

2007-07-24T05:25:17Z

I've had more than one person ask me if I could refer them to a freelance web designer since I'm not doing any of that anymore. So if you're in or around Chicago, let me know and I can feed you the details.

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The Thing About Chicago's Olympic Bid

2007-03-14T13:00:26Z

This past week Chicago essentially said, "Yep, we want the Olympics and we will use public funds to do so even though we said we wouldn't." The thing that bothers me about this whole Olympics business is the speed at which it happened. It was very...

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2007-02-03T21:03:51Z

It is cold outside. But that's not the bad part: the wind is what makes it feel really, really cold. Temperature: 5. Wind chill: -16.

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Paul on the Street: Five Faces

2006-10-10T20:08:41Z

Introducing Paul on the Street, a semi-regular video food review. For the inaugural edition I review the hot dogs at Five Faces in Chicago. Do watch my marginal editing skills, won't you? The Place Five Faces Ice Cream/Gyros/Hot Dogs 10 W. Div...

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Reasons to Love Chicago

2006-10-08T13:28:16Z

Check out that awesome forecast: we're going from 76 and sunny to 40 and sleet/snow in four days. Per the weather guru Tom Skilling, if it snows Thursday that'll be our earliest snow since 10.7.00. And I thought we'd have a mild autumn....

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Big Box Store Size

2006-08-16T15:27:10Z

Final post for now. With all of the hullabaloo over Chicago's big box ordinance (summary: living wage if your store is over 90,000 square feet and you gross over $1B annually; all companies potentially affected are pissed) I've been wondering jus...

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Minor Celebrity Sighting: Alpana Singh

2006-07-16T13:43:45Z

This is the year of meeting (or at least, seeing) minor local celebrities. As readers of ennui will recall, my organization hired a former local news anchor and it was just kind of weird working on the same floor as her. (Ryan suggested I ask her...

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Sunday: Exploding Thermometer

2006-07-14T13:48:36Z

It cracks me up that ForecastFox's little icon for "very hot" is an exploding thermometer. Unfortunately, it's going to be really hot here. So hot, thermometers will explode! (Tom Skilling would never say that.)

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Move Your Car!

2006-07-13T17:18:05Z

Here in Evanston, our street cleaning only happens about 6 times a year. The dates are posted on signs along our street, and one has to remember those dates. We did get a flyer in the mail about two months ago with the dates for the whole city, b...

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Schwag!

2006-07-10T22:46:31Z

THE ITEMS ARE SECURED. REPEAT. THE ITEMS ARE SECURED. Thanks again, guys and gals!

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