Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago School economists and fellow travelers.
Details here. If you are in the Chicagoland area, drop by: 1172 E. 55th, 7:00 pm.
(Jimmy’s has been aptly described as “like colonial Williamsburg for booze hounds”, as well as being the watering hole of the University of Chicago. This is the perfect excuse to visit a cultural landmark.)
My band Bald Cow will perform at Jimmy’s, in beautiful Hyde Park (near the University of Chicago) this Saturday, July 14, 2007, at 7:00 p.m. This is only our second show since 1990. Our 2004 show was “reviewed” here. We have practiced a few times and I think I can hit most of the notes. (Our MySpace page has some songs recorded back in 1990, and two videos from the 2004 show.) The musical style is traditional 1970s punk rock, with some pretensions to grandiosity.
A view from one of my son-in-law’s window, where he has now been joined by my middle daughter. My other son-in-law is spending his time looking at his wife, my older daughter who is entering the last weeks of pregnancy.
Item 1: Microsoft’s new photo-search technology looks like a big deal.
Item 2: This is great. A guy puts a small digital camera, cleverly modified to take photos at one-minute intervals for 48 hours, on his cat. The cat wanders off and returns with photos of all kinds of things his owner never knew were going on.
A cat is perfect for this experiment, because it is big enough and has a wide enough range of behavior for its travels to be interesting, yet also small enough that it can be allowed to roam. I assume it’s only a matter of time before people start putting cameras on birds and even smaller animals.