gonna nerd you so hard
i have gone back in time with someone. this is not a joke. i got paid after we got back. i had to bring my own weapons. safety was not guaranteed. i have only done this once before.
the icing on
cakecar. the scene off lake shore drive.note to self: don’t leave car parked near LSD on cold/windy nights.
Panoramic (yeah it’s kinda bad) of an alphabet wall in Wicker Park, right next to the Damen Blue Line stop. It’s missing some letters, anyone know why?
— we think we know why. the missing letters are E-L-O-V or ‘no love’ as it were. we aren’t exactly sure why the fine folk at The Violet Hour decided on this decor yet, but we definitely find it intriguing. we also reblogged it a little while ago from eff-this. :)
My alma mater stays nerdy.-
An $81 million library opened Monday at the University of Chicago.
And there’s not a book in sight.
Designed by architect Helmut Jahn, the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library provides 180 seats for students and faculty to study under a glass dome constructed from 691 panels, none of them exactly the same shape. The library also expands digitization and conservation operations for the university’s collections, which include a piece of a Gutenberg Bible and books printed on papyrus, ancient Egypt’s version of paper.
Fifty feet below ground on the Hyde Park campus, a system of five automated cranes retrieves and stores volumes that are sorted according to book size, not content. The new library has room for 3.5 million volumes in the underground area, which is not accessible to anyone but select library staff.
(via windycity)
