Sometimes snow looks like a comforter. Snow is the weather that makes me stop in wonder. Amazingly beautiful. 
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A wheel just fell off the Apple cart
Apple posted quarterly earnings today to the disappointment of Wall Street, but no real surprise. You can argue the point, but Apple is an aging computer hardware company. Margins are beginning to drop and prices will begin to fall as people figure out great design doesn’t mean performance and certainly not at the premium Apple has been charging for a decade. The days when Apple can release the newest version of its iPhone every 16 months are gone. Say hello to the new competition that hails from Korea. There are more than 100 notebooks out there competing with the iPad. Are they as good? A better question is are they good enough at a third of the price? Wait, what’s that sound, I should have known, it’s Google eating Apple’s lunch.
Apple maps along with Siri completely suck. Second rate trash. Not even second rate. Apple, a hardware store with fancy exterior designs that will lose their appeal and utility over time. Google wins by a landslide. Did I mention Apple, aka Mac is trash?
Overheard at the bike gala
Bike #2 to Bike #3 regarding Bike #7. “Oh, I totally disagree, I find him cold and aloof.”
The First Playboy Club
Palmolive Building from ralph braseth on Vimeo.
The Palmolive is one of the most distinctive and beautiful in the city. It sits in the heart of Streeterville within spitting distance of the Drake and Knickerbocker hotels just off Lake Michigan. At one point it was the tallest structure in the neighborhood and the searchlight atop the building used to attract lots of attention to the Playboy Club, the very first Playboy Club which opened up in this building in 1962. Can you imagine the parties? More on this at another time, but it wasn’t merely a sexy club with sexy bunnies, it was a status symbol for the established and the up and comers. Another story for another time as well, Chicago’s well heeled black community joined their wealthy brethren at the Playboy Club. Hugh Hefner wasn’t anywhere nearly as interested in black and white as he was green. Don’t for a second think the Playboy Club was first and foremost a capitalist venture. Hefner printed money.
Mine is the white apartment in the middle. I’m looking down from the 100 story John Hancock Building. The building where I live is 50 stories which makes the Hancock Building all the more impressive. The best part of living downtown is the commute. It takes me 12 minutes to walk to work.
Infinity Ice
The scale? Compared to what.
Lake Michigan from atop the John Hancock on January 22. This is one of the most remarkable sights I can remember. To see it in-person is stunning. It seems as if Lake Michigan goes on forever. It seems like this lake right now would define cold water. I hope the fish have sweaters. On second thought, they may be throwing a party. No barbed hooks with irresistible snacks on the end. Here’s to the good fish and damned be the Asian carp. Hail Michigan, not the university, the lake.
Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone……
…..they paved paradise and put up a parking lot. This one, 34 stories below where I live. Lyrics courtesy of Joni Mitchell
Pair of pictures
Like a smart perp in a Tallahatchie County courthouse, I ain’t got nothin’ else to say.
The Bellingham Sun 