Events

In Chicago, I usually take the 156 bus or the El to work in the morning. Today, I took this: That's how I got to see this on my commute: Of course, now that I have arrived at the client's office, I should probably do some work.

I'm traveling for business right now so I don't have my real camera with me. I do, however, have a little pocket camera. I'm not disparaging the thing; it really does take better photographs than any digital camera I've owned except for the two SLRs. But after just shy of 29 years of photography, I've learned a couple of quick and easy techniques to help it along. (I wish I'd known these things when I shot on film, but who could have predicted the mind-blowing power of this decade's digital image...

The Economist's Gulliver blog has a summary this afternoon about two-hour wait times at Heathrow to pass through immigration: [O]n Saturday BAA, which owns Heathrow (but is not responsible for immigration), duly resorted to handing out leaflets apologising for the situation and suggesting that passengers complain to the Home Office. Marc Owen, the director of UKBA [United Kingdom Border Agency] operations at Heathrow, was none too impressed by this tactic. The Daily Telegraph saw emails he sent to BAA...

The bad news is I've been in meetings with clients all day. The good news is their office has a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Updates as warranted. And as I have time for.

Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein yesterday expanded on how American Airlines' unions bested management by dealing directly with US Airways: Bankruptcy has changed [the unions' bargaining strengths]. Suddenly, airline executives discovered a way to unilaterally abrogate their labor agreements, fire thousands of employees and impose less generous pay and more flexible work rules. Indeed, the technique proved so effective that several airlines went through the process several times. The unions’...

The Tribune has a graphic this morning pointing out a number of things about our lack of snow this past winter. It turns out, the snowfall on March 4th was the earliest last snowfall. That is, in the rest of recorded history (back to 1884), we've always gotten snow later than March 4th. Until this year. Our entire season gave us only 11 days with 25 mm or more of snow on the ground (normal is 43); it was one of only 10 seasons (out of 128) with less than 500 mm of snowfall total (normal is 932 mm); and...

New video from the Obama campaign, featuring one of the dumbest things Mitt Romney ever said:

He lasted less than four weeks as office dog. Workplace tip: when you greet the boss first thing in the morning, do not immediately thereafter poop on his carpet.

Oh yeah.

Despite the rise of right-leaning economics ideology, reality stubbornly retains its liberal bias, with further evidence today coming from the latest UK economic figures: The UK economy has returned to recession, after shrinking by 0.2% in the first three months of 2012. A sharp fall in construction output was behind the surprise contraction, the Office for National Statistics said. "The huge cuts to public spending - 25% in public sector housing and 24% in public non-housing and with a further 10% cuts...