HIGHLAND PARK — Recess Eatery, the large and ambitious restaurant that opened in January after lengthy delays, has undergone an abrupt transformation. Recess and its Mediterranean-inspired menu have been replaced by 51 Tavern, “a cross between a neighborhood tavern and a small town restaurant,” according to the restaurant website. One diner who tried the 51 ...
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Chris Aldrich is reading “10 Great Last.fm Apps, Hacks and Mashups”
A look at some of the best apps, hacks and mashups available for music streaming and scrobbling service Last.fm.
Curious about alternatives Last.fm’s broken RSS feeds and what people are doing with their listening data. Some relatively interesting ideas in here, but nothing earth shattering. One or two were focused on visualization, but otherwise nothing I felt I could use.
🎵 Hall & Oates – You Make My Dreams – Remastered
"You Make My Dreams", sometimes referred to as "You Make My Dreams Come True", is a song by the American duo Hall & Oates, taken from their ninth studio album, Voices (1980). The song reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1981.
https://open.spotify.com/track/4o6BgsqLIBViaGVbx5rbRk
Chris Aldrich is reading “Why I Left White Nationalism”
I grew up in a family that embraced extreme views. I’ve moved on. The country can, too.
📖 25.0% done with Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
📖 25.0% done with Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
We’re off like a shot. Somehow it doesn’t seem terrifically believable that the escape convicts so easily take Fletch’s advice on where to hide, but he does a fantastic job of coralling them in the opeining.
Some of the overt “Southernness” feels overdone to me, but perhaps it was the effect of Mcdonald’s many years living in Tennessee which had a tarnishing effect.
🎞 Watching Straight Outta Compton (Universal, 2015)
Checkin Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
Something warm on a rainy cold winter day.
Chris Aldrich is reading “How to print your posters on fabric”
Veronika Cheplygina (Veronikach.com)My material of choice became fabric. After some searching, I settled on this product, in particular the “vlaggendoek” or “flag sheet” variety. This material weights just 115 grams for 1m2, which is conveniently almost the same size as an A0 (841mm × 1189mm). Printing + delivery costs just over 20 euros, which is actually cheaper than an A0 paper poster with a plastic coating. That’s not all: apparently the material is fire retardant, because you never know when fire could break out at a conference. But the best thing of all? You can fold it and it still looks great when you unfold it!
Chris Aldrich is reading “5 easy ways to do more with your poster”
Veronika Cheplygina (Veronika Cheplygina)How can you make your poster stand out at the poster session, if you only have a limited amount of time? There are many tips out there on how to design the poster and how to structure all the infor…
📖 13.0% done with Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
📖 13.0% done with Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Fletch has a son. He’s a convict and he’s on the run after a prison break. Will Fletch help him out?
📗 Started reading Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
📗 Started reading Son of Fletch by Gregory Mcdonald
Checkin Goodwill
It’s the season for giving.
Chris Aldrich is reading “Off-Grid in Alaska: Farewell and Thanks for the Fish!”
I'd like to share some of our lessons learned to aid anyone dreaming of going entirely off-grid in the wilderness.
🎞 Watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros., 2005)
Directed by Mike Newell. With Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint, Eric Sykes. Harry finds himself mysteriously selected as an under-aged competitor in a dangerous tournament between three schools of magic.
📕 Finished reading Fletch and the Man Who by Gregory Mcdonald
📕 Finished reading Fletch and the Man Who by Gregory Mcdonald
There’s some great stuff in the last half of the book about Wheeler’s platform that is eerily prescient of the situation we now find ourselves in with regard to a heavily internet connected world and who owns it. It’s also an odd feeling reading this after experiencing what’s recently happened in the 2016 presidential election and it’s ensuing results.
