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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Do you recognize this font?
Driving home from work yesterday, I got stopped at the traffic light at Sixth and Juneau. Looked to my left and immediately started puzzling over the font above the Johnson Controls Entrance. Anyone know what it is?
Posted in architecture, Art, Milwaukee
Tagged basketball, Fiserv Forum, fonts, Johnson Controls Entrance, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bucks, sports arenas, typefaces
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Visiting Sim – Part One
This past Saturday I went to a lecture/tour at the Milwaukee Public Library marking 90 years since Simba the lion came to live at the Milwaukee Public Museum, which then shared half of the building with the Central Library downtown. … Continue reading
Misinformation Reigns
Misinformation Reigns Misinformation Reigns — Read on justthis.video.blog/2019/04/17/misinformation-reigns/ Another excellent post on the fire at Notre Dame.
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Memento Mori: Notre Dame
Memento Mori: Notre Dame https://karenullo.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/memento-mori-notre-dame/ — Read on karenullo.wordpress.com/2019/04/17/memento-mori-notre-dame/ Beautiful post reflecting on the fire this week.
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Snowy birch at night
Took this picture after yesterday’s snow finally ended, shortly before turning in. Any photos I take at night with my phone are usually greenish and hard to make out. This one looked really striking though, and practically black and white … Continue reading
Springtime in Milwaukee
I actually DID see some daffodils yesterday. But today looks like this. At least it’s mid-April, so no one is stressed about getting it all shoveled before the polar winds sweep down from northern Canada bringing -20 degree temperatures and … Continue reading
CypherCon 4.0, the Milwaukee River dyed green, and three homes of the Milwaukee Bucks
Taught my morning class today and then walked over to the convention center (maybe 20 minutes away) to attend CypherCon, billed as “Wisconsin’s Hacker Conference” mostly centered on network security but also containing bigger-picture sessions on societal implications of data … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Art, Life, Milwaukee
Tagged Bradley Center, Cypher Con, Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee River
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Atrium staircase, late afternoon
I am in the middle of grading midterms today. That involves lots of sitting, punctuated by the need to get up and stretch my legs more often than I usually think to remember. There is lots of late afternoon sunshine … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Higher education, Life, Milwaukee, Photography, Teaching
Tagged Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee
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Radiant
I liked the circles of light reflecting off the waste can at the elevator late this afternoon 😄
What’s in a tagline? My blog’s identity: Version 4.0
I’m developing a new course at MSOE called “SS 3700 Digital Society.” To say I’m excited is to understate my enthusiasm for this topic. As a political science major who took computer programming classes in the late 1970s using a … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education, Learning, Life, Popular culture, Science, Teaching, Technology, Writing, blogging
Tagged blogging, curiosity, digital society, lifelong learning
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