500 W Monroe (2)
Originally uploaded by phule.

There’s a big fire in downtown Chicago today – not a whole lot of information yet, but thanks to Flickr, I was able to see some pictures.

I worked at 500 W. Monroe for several years, and my friend Jeff works there now. Our favorite diner, the …

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Thanks to a tip from Lifehacker (and

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 ), I decided to re-do mattstratton.com as a Tumblelog using the free Tumblr service. Of course, that doesn’t supersede my Livejournal, but extends it somewhat.

Basically, it’s an aggregate of public LJ posts, Flickr pictures, YouTube videos, my …