I have been working hard to release the work that I have been doing to expose some of the more interesting real time data about chicago transit. Currently it is very bus-centric, but that is hopefully changing.
The genesis for this API is some work I did awhile ago reverse engineering the CTA Bus Tracker mashup. [...]

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On Thursday the 29th, the TechCocktail Conference is happening at Layola. You should go, and while you are there, you should come check out Scottv and my talk on technology agnosticism. It should be delightful. For those of you that know me – the time slot is hilarious: 9:30 in the morning. Wth. I rarely [...]

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Tonight, Scott and I presented at the Chicago Ignite tech meetup. It was pretty fun. The event was “eventful” and the people were the usual. I was able to meet up with trow and the hosted labs guys – so that was good. It is always fun to involve ourselves in these affinity events. This [...]

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Happy thanksgiving!
It has been a long and lazy day today. Pretty awesome. We are about to head out to a party at our friend Jill’s house. it should be fun. There were so many options this year. Quite a few people offered to include us in their families thanksgiving – it was a hard [...]

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It has been a week, and I am still reveling in how much fun we had. Lollapalooza has always been really fun. I have enjoyed going to the shows since I started in 92. There were a few rough spots here and there (I.e. after 98) but lollapalooza has turned out to be an amazing [...]

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When hiromi lived in Tokyo, she had this amazing service that delivered produce and whatnot every week in the form of a somewhat blind box. It was great. She got awesome produce, fresh and magically. She didn’t really have a choice in what produce arrived, and was only guaranteed that it would be in season and [...]

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This weekend was a lot of fun. It isn’t over yet, but it has been so full of activity and good things that it has ruled.
So first off, Hiromi got a job. It is still about 5% tentative, but all she has to do is sign the contract and start. It is for a [...]

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This weekend my parents visited. It was really awesome. They haven’t visited since Hiromi moved back – and they really wanted to see her. So they stopped by for a quick trip and some excellent dining.
They got in Thursday night – so Hiromi and myself went downtown and visited them at the Hard Rock Hotel [...]

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I know I know. I have been a bad bad blogger. I basically I have been ignoring the fact that I have a blog. For a long time – – pretty much since I got back from japan at the beginning of January. eep. What weird is that I have been playing computer a lot [...]

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Ahh Halloween. How I love the city during Halloween. It is absolutely madness. This Halloween was quite a bit of fun. Not as crazy as last year – but more fun. On Friday skinnycorp had a nice Halloween party that I was responsible for. We had mark the knife perform and some really awesome costumes. [...]

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