Perfect fall day downtown, except perhaps for the fact that I was @ the office.
Still, a certain majesty in walking across the street on lunch to hear chicago's finest on the decks.
so underground; the 37 other people that had also heard about it were dancing.
went to palos hills forest preserve for mountain biking.
best biking near the city; it's not even 45 min out - right @ archer & 95th - and it has 200' or so of elevation.
Laugh at will, those in more fractal geographies. but that's good in the midwest.
Even better, it closed a long loop of knowledge - i had been told that the original bricks from the squash court @ UoC - the first controlled chain reaction - the official start of It All - were randomly buried in some park on 95th st.
well this is that park - and more. In fact this is the site where they rebuilt the reactor after fermi's curious game of squash. As well as a dumping ground for the remains of that & other pre-Argonne experiments.
Fantastic & eerie to have such late summer idyll with historic nuclear waste just below.
next time i'm bringing a geiger counter...
oo, oo-topos.
had to flip the disc to run on apple ][+.
found a working copy for three dollars in madison wisconsin thrifting one morning after a party in , oh, 1997 or so
the driver was informing me how her friend's roomate & his brother (who went to my highschool 500 miles away) had been robbing banks for a while & were now in jail. This same kid got sent to principal for selling NoDoz in 5th grade. Dull and unsuprising.
unlike oo-topos.
then in 2003 @ my brother's wedding one of his friend's wives family's owned one of the banks he robbed.
creepy and mind-warping, just like oo-topos.
