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  • On Winter and Payback

    I spent nearly an hour this afternoon digging my car out from a pile of snow and slippery ice. I had done the same thing yesterday, though it was less ice and much more snow. Winter in a cold climate tests one’s will to commune. All those hours holed up indoors means that you’re not…

  • Get out and vote

    And all you people are the heroes I’ve known We’re staring off the edge into the unknown We are not there yet, but we cannot go home So we cry and we sing Yeah I remember everything How for once in our lives We saw what we wanted and took a bite. We picked the…

  • Karen says I haven’t blogged in a long time

    And she’s right. I haven’t uploaded pictures in a long time. I’ve slowly stopped putting myself out there, up on the web. I don’t know why. Mostly I think it’s because I’ve been busy. I’ve been spending far too much time on planes. And at work. My brain has just spent too much time running.…

  • A day at the ballpark

    Welcome to Wrigley! Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. Today was a great day. Jason and I headed to a Cubs game at Wrigley. Man, that place knows how to turn a relatively slow, boring game into an unforgettable experience. There’s just something about the old fashioned style, the sense of history and cameraderie. You can’t help…

  • Never a City So Real

    I’m generally not the kind of person that makes a it a point to read books about cities. Even if I’m visiting or traveling to or even living in an interesting place in the world, I haven’t been known to read about that place. A few weeks ago I picked up Never a City So…

  • It’s -6 Degrees F in Hyde Park

    …hereby marking a new personal record in coldness. Did I mention that my car’s wheels froze to the axles yesterday evening? Umm…yeah. Lesson learned: Do not get one’s car washed on a below-freezing day.

  • ThoughtWorks Chicago Entrance Sign Mockup & Photoshop & Human Performance

    ThoughtWorks Chicago Entrance Sign Mockup Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. This afternoon I threw together a mockup of what the new sign in the entrance of the new ThoughtWorks Chicago office will look like. I worked with Michael, who did the actual design of the sign. Photoshop is, in fact, quite powerful. I’m becoming really in…

  • Is Chicago the next hotbed of Digital Design?

    Now, I have no hard evidence to prove or disprove my hypothesis, but I get the feeling that there’s a Design tradition brewing in the Chicagoland area. Heck, it may precede my days here. Still, before I came to Chicago, if you were to ask me (and most of my design-minded friends, I’m sure) where…