Lynne Kiesling I am a geek of many stripes — econ geek, shoe geek, yarn geek, and so on. I am also a weather geek. I love the Weather Channel, I love the NOAA website, and above all I love Tom Skilling, Chicago’s most famous weather forecaster. He brings an intellectual fascination to weather forecasting …
Lynne Kiesling While noodling about this morning over my cup of tea, I wandered into some places that I should mention. Some are new to me, some are places I go and just don’t mention. 1. Grant McCracken’s This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology & Economics. One of those funny things, really; I …
Lynne Kiesling Today Wired News has an interesting commentary entitled “Like It or Not, Blogs Have Legs”, from Adam Penenberg of the NYU School of Journalism. In addition to his sharing my dislike of the word “blog”, Penenberg shares with me a lot of beliefs and perspectives on how meaningful and valuable this current gale …
Lynne Kiesling I am finding unknown literary treasures in my perusals of web sources related to Pittsburgh, including this A-Z essay entitled “My Mysteries of Pittsburgh” from Stuart O’Nan, a writer. For example, under I: For Isaly’s, an ice cream company with a chain of neighborhood restaurants with soda fountains that have pretty much disappeared. …
Lynne Kiesling There are several ways to commute to Evanston from our house, and none of them is particularly simple or superior to the other. Usually I take the #22 bus 10 blocks down Clark to Belmont, where I catch the Evanston Express train. The KP Spouse, on the other hand, takes the #22 bus …
Lynne Kiesling There are several ways to commute to Evanston from our house, and none of them is particularly simple or superior to the other. Usually I take the #22 bus 10 blocks down Clark to Belmont, where I catch the Evanston Express train. The KP Spouse, on the other hand, takes the #22 bus …
Lynne Kiesling When I was back in my hometown in December for a conference, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the future for US Airways. Bankruptcy, etc. Over dinner when I got home I speculated to the KP Spouse about whether or not Pittsburgh would be an attractive city for Southwest Airlines. …
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Lynne Kiesling We’re having comment goofiness here at KP (and of course the timing couldn’t have been worse), so please be patient. Thanks! UPDATE: Fixed. The KP Spouse absolutely, completely, unequivocally rocks.
Michael Giberson The switch of local rock radio station WHFS to spanish pop has spurred a number of stories in the local media. Many have noted, as Lynne did, that the station was no longer what it used to be. (See Marc Fisher’s column from the Sunday Post: In a Way, WHFS Was Already Gone.) …
Lynne Kiesling Teaching today and Thursday (we’re starting Wealth of Nations today, yay!), running experiments all week, and I have an obnoxious head cold that is interfering with my sleep. Light posting is the likely consequence. Stay warm!
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