Look out the window
BuffaloGeek has asked us to take a picture of what we see out our windows, as a glimpse into our daily lives.
I’ll submit a shot Amanda took today, literally out the window. It’s our first dinner on our new patio.
I love architectural photography. For this trip I rented a Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens to take with me, and I wasn’t disappointed. Most of the photos you’re seeing in this series were taken with this lens, as it’s great for walking down narrow European streets and pulling as much into the frame as possible. It…
A day after our third major event at the Terminal in a month, the Buffalo News published this excellent article about the progress and vision of the CTRC.
Kids, you can’t write comedy better than this. Tim Tielman has come up with a plan to turn the Skyway into a park. Here’s the image and story posted over on Buffalo Rising. Now, let’s think back to all the reasons that people bellow forth as to why the Skyway “needs” to come down: It’s…
Steven Horwitz, a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, published a study that shows why local businesses are more effective in assisting in an emergency than the federal government. The study says Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowe’s made use of their local knowledge about supply chains, infrastructure, decision makers and other resources to provide…
Another great article on Buffalo Rising, this time showing just how little of the core of downtown has actually been preserved since circa 1960. The fact is, one of the few bright spots in Buffalo’s economy has been the power of the city’s high quality historic architecture and a recent wave of restorations to stimulate…
Myspace.com has gotton a bit of bad press recently because some parents finally decided to wake up and figure out what their kids were doing online. Lo and behold, some kids are stupid and will post every single piece of personal identifying information they have online without thinking twice about it. But that’s a parenting…