Category Archives: Totally random stuff

Playing the spoons and Kangaroos

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Playing the cups is kind of a variation on playing the spoons Add in Kangaroos and you really have something!

Posted in Totally random stuff | 3 Comments

Six girls, two cups

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Gangnam is so yesterday

Posted in Totally random stuff | 19 Comments

Drone this

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This is pretty amazing. Each one of this guy’s videos get better This is taken with a remote control quadcopter that is transmitting images in real time so the pilot can steer it wherever he wants. The battery lasts around … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology, Totally random stuff | 12 Comments

The rain in Des Plaines falls mainly in Spain

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Fred Stiening

This is a tributary of the Des Plaines river that runs through our office complex What the stream normally looks like

Posted in Art's Big Adventure | 11 Comments

Des Plaines flood warning

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Fred Stiening

I live maybe three blocks from the Des Plaines river on the ground floor. I wondered if this building has potential flood issues. I guess I get to find out now.

Posted in Art's Big Adventure | 13 Comments

Food Desertification

Posted on April 13, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Here is the reason for food deserts, but it isn’t possible in America to state what everyone knows is true. Locusts. It’s in the Bible. The location is Logan’s Square, a very significant location in Chicago. It’s a stop on … Continue reading →

Posted in Art's Big Adventure, Collapse of America | 4 Comments

Your Google Personhood

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Fred Stiening

Let’s say one morning you wake up and you’re dead. Google has your emails for the past decade, your YouTube videos, your Google Voice account, your Google Wallet, your search history, your Adsense account, your building models for Google 3D, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dead Things | 2 Comments

Caribou fleeing Chicago

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Fred Stiening

It was warm enough today to walk outside anexplore my neighborhood. It’s right next to O’Hare airport, a few blocks to the subway and expressway – an ideal location for commercial office space. There was a noticable lack of activity. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art's Big Adventure | 2 Comments

A Taste of South Chicago

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Fred Stiening

I remember as a young child in the 1960s reading a magazine (popular science?) touting the urban planning idea that as cities started building freeways, it would be a clever idea to put mass transit trains in between the two … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Art's Big Adventure, Collapse of America | 14 Comments

Margaret Thatcher invented the Internet!

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Fred Stiening

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/04/08/video-early-adapter-margaret-thatcher-loved-the-internet-before-it-was-cool/ Google News is interesting today about the death of Margaret Thatcher. The main list of stories I get are highly negative – how she had troubled relations with UK Sports, how Northen Ireland was mishandled, being divisive, how her … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse of America, Dead Things | 22 Comments