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Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
hole lotta love
Walking the downtown westside highway, I came upon this old hotel sign.
Must be something historic, right?
It is.
The building is landmarked after a very chequered past.
The 1897 Knickerbocker Hotel was designed in the Renaissance Revival style and remained in business until 1910.
After WorldWar 1 the docks grew busy with trading ships and the renamed “Keller Hotel” had the good fortune and the very bad luck to be close to all the action.
Sooooo... for almost 100 years the Keller served up by-the-hour affection to transient, foreign sailors, while the Keller Bar behind a cast iron storefront was reputed to be the oldest gay leather bar in the city.
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Only the building itself and that old hotel sign remains.
What stories this hole-in-the-wall could tell.
1970
Gonna give you every inch of my love.
Monday, July 22, 2013
do as we say. do it now.
For a few days last week ClockTowerTenants looked like this:
Do a Google search for “people leaving Facebook” and the reason appears. Social networking is slipping and Google is making its move.
Last week they forced a Google+ account in my name whether I wanted one or not, and it linked CTT to that account.
Then Google auto-imported 10’s of thousands of my photos into a Picasa account it also opened in my name, and since the initial Picasa photo defaults are set to “Privacy” (such as it is) ClockTowerTenants went dark.
I had to change all the settings to “Public” so the images could show again, but now my photos are REALLY PUBLIC.
Overnight they are now subject to tagging based on facial recognition, location and other metadata in keeping with the Google+ “Circles” feature.
Google is generous in their free software and website hosting.
But forcing social networking kinda sucks.
newworldofwork.co.uk
Sunday, July 21, 2013
the hardest thing about learning to ride
is the road.
There are over 500 ghost bikes in the world just like this one. They are installed in over 180 locations.
The first was in St. Louis, Missouri in 2003. Last year, 18 bicyclists were killed in NYC traffic crashes.
This ghost bike is for 18 year old Eddie Morales, struck and killed by a truck leaving the Fed Ex facility here.
Ride safe.
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