29 July 2002
More of the exciting people I share the buses & trains with: a guy at State and Van Buren who threw a glass bottles onto the sidewalk. After a reprimand, he tore up papers and threw them at the passengers. And, at Southport station, a man wearing the infamously racist A&F t-shirt, carrying a bundle of “lucky bamboo.” Hm.

27 July 2002
Okay, supermarkets will have to wait a few more weeks. Today’s randomly useful knowledge: how to fix rattling Shimano STI brake levers.

24 July 2002
A lovely day to play hooky. Updated: Break the Gridlock. I’ll try to get the first of the urban supermarkets feature uploaded this weekend.

22 July 2002
It turns out that Neumann owns a bunch of vacant lots around the ‘hood and will do scattered-site housing development. Just like the CHA, I suppose. Fellow bakery lovers in TO really should check out Yummy Baguette.

15 July 2002
Welcome to Bill Owens’ suburbia. Or look for reclaimed urban public space: Jan Gehl’s New City Spaces.

9 July 2002
Neumann Homes, the newest suburban production builder to invade the city market, brought its tacky suburban marketing with it. And where exactly do they plan on building single-family homes around here, anyways? There aren’t any cornfields around, and their sales trailer is stuck in the middle of an industrial corridor.

8 July 2002
bbc news roundup near-namesake Lleyton Hewitt takes Wimbledon, while British scientists coo over their access to the Overwhelmingly Large Telescope. phrase of the day “magical realist foreign policy.” locally the Meinl cafe opening soon at Southport and Addison may fulfill a craving (i.e., Viennese pastries) that’s gone unfulfilled since the Viennese Kaffee-Haus Brandt closed a few years back. and to think that it’s actually Viennese. personal three cheers for Mac OS X! just upgraded today and it’s a breeze.

6 July 2002
another only-in-America threat to your cardiac health: hot dogs, “boiled in oil.”

5 July 2002
beware! today’s threats: drunken animals and unsolicited attacks by Ann Coulter.

4 July 2002
idealism gone too far? HIV-positive South African AIDS activist Zackie Achmat has contracted TB, but refuses to take anti-retrovirals until the South African government makes them widely available.

2 July 2002
ugh. sweat, sunscreen, and smog – just what I hate about summer. and remember – heat kills more Americans than any other kind of natural disaster. who says climate change might be a good thing? (of course, the real implication of Heat Wave: social isolation kills, sociability saves.)

21 June 2002″To find the fishball noodle soup, which is served from late morning to early evening, follow these directions: Go down Yaowarat Road, the main street of Chinatown, in the direction of the traffic. Look for the Grand China Hotel on a corner on the right-hand side of the road. At this intersection, turn left. Then turn left again at the 7-11. Follow that street about 50 meters, and you will see the fishball vendor on the left, at the start of an alley.” So says today’s Wall Street Journal.