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Sat 06 June 2015 — filed under potentiality. So we're looking at going on a vacation road trip this summer, an adventure made of diesel fuel, fried clams, Canadian currency, overnight ferries, and fresh oysters. From Chicago to Pittsburgh to my own original hometown of New London (funnelcake! That smell of my grandparents' attic I remember so distinctly from childhood visits! Then on to Portland, Maine. From there, an overnight ferry (! Looks like the reading list will be:. Island: The Complete Stories.

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Where the hot dogs were. Fri 08 May 2015 — filed under chicago. You may have read a recent interview. Anyways, here's a map of the 84 hot dog stands they reviewed in 1983. 30 of them are still open. Ted whalen Powered by Pelican. Icons by Font Awesome. And Font Awesome More.

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Preliminary investigations into the six-pointed stars of Erbach. Sun 09 August 2015 — filed under history. My grandfather was born in the village of Mömlingen, Germany in 1907, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1930s. Here's his dad, my great-great-grandfather, and the city crest of Mömlingen:. You might note the two 6-pointed stars. In German, the "zwei sechsstrahligen weißen Sternen". Mömlingen is in the Miltenberg district of Bavaria, and just east is Odenwaldkreis, in Hesse. And Font Aw...

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Sat 06 June 2015 — filed under potentiality. So we're looking at going on a vacation road trip this summer, an adventure made of diesel fuel, fried clams, Canadian currency, overnight ferries, and fresh oysters. From Chicago to Pittsburgh to my own original hometown of New London (funnelcake! That smell of my grandparents' attic I remember so distinctly from childhood visits! Then on to Portland, Maine. From there, an overnight ferry (! Looks like the reading list will be:. Island: The Complete Stories.

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More family trouble from the 19th century. Sat 14 November 2015 — filed under history. A fistfight on the courthouse steps. A grand larceny charge. Preliminary investigations into the six-pointed stars of Erbach. Sun 09 August 2015 — filed under history. My grandfather was born in the village of Mömlingen, Germany in 1907, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1930s. Here's his dad, my great-great-grandfather, and the city crest of Mömlingen:. You might note the two 6-pointed stars.

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Change in population mix in Chicago 1950-2010. Wed 13 May 2015 — filed under chicago. Continuing my quixotic tilt against policies which treat the "hot" areas in Chicago as if they're great examples of complete neighborhoods, I made more charts. Earlier, I looked citywide at which neighborhoods are most atypical. In terms of having a huge mass of young adults. Let's drill down a bit on a few of them. Where the hot dogs were. Fri 08 May 2015 — filed under chicago. You may have read a recent interview.

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Change in population mix in Chicago 1950-2010. Wed 13 May 2015 — filed under chicago. What was once a gently-rolling landscape of ages is now a desert with a single mountain. Where the hot dogs were. Fri 08 May 2015 — filed under chicago. You may have read a recent interview. In the Chicago Reader with Rich Bowen about the book he wrote in 1983 with Dick Fay: "Hot Dog Chicago: A Native's Dining Guide". I dunno, I didn't read the article until I started writing this post. I have an ex-library . You get fr...

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Changes in young adult population in Chicago 1950-2010. Sat 25 April 2015 — filed under chicago. Here's a cartogram of the change in the population of young adults, age 20-29, from 1950 to 2010, by community area. From 1950 to 2010, Chicago's population decreased by around 1 million people, but look: in some neighborhoods, the number of young adults actually increased, in some areas significantly! Here's the graphs for 1950 and 2010 individually. Each shows the proportion of each neighborhood's popul...

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Neighborhoods where babies grow up and leave. Sat 04 April 2015 — filed under chicago. Children age 0-3 per child age 4-7, by community area. Boxes scaled by number of kids age 0-3. A score around 1.0 would indicate that infants stay and become school-age children, a score above that means there's a net outflow as babies age. Basically, this shows the neighborhoods . Making chicago community area cartograms. Fri 27 March 2015 — filed under rhetoric. Tue 10 February 2015 — filed under history. Those in fa...

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Fri 01 March 2013 — filed under rhetoric. Dreher has this post on how the Western world would react if an African pope is elected. It’s wonderful. There’s this amazing panoply of rhetorical amazingness within. It’s primarily a blockquote of something Mark Shea wrote, wrapped in more fireworks. First, I love the use of the . Sat 23 February 2013 — filed under rhetoric. No, the economy is not a peg-board full of . Who voted against the Thirteenth Amendment in the House? Mr Spielberg doesn’t want you to know.