:: When Art Meets Science

My love for architecture and design happily collided with Mr. Galavanting's love of science while we were recently house-hunting.

But on the lookout for a house big enough for our five (million) kids, we didn't expect to find something that would become an awesome story.

We'd narrowed down our favorite home and were taking another look before making an offer -- which we ended up doing. Before leaving, we noticed the owner left out some historic documents about the house and original blueprints. Turns out it was a Sears Roebuck Catalog home. 

I noticed the Sears letters were addressed to the original owner at his place of work -- the University of Chicago and that he was a professor. I called Mr. Galavanting (a professor and geologist / hydrogeologist) over to take a look. This was a cool tidbit, not only was the a well-maintained older house, but had a interesting history.

Then, something magical happened.

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:: Oh Facebook, So Creepy

I got  sucked into the sub-culture known as facebook several months ago. I had this creepy feeling about it, but after a while got used to finding out everyone's updates, sharing links, and posting pictures.

It also relieved some of my laziness in sending photos of the kids around to family and friends, or giving short updates. And being able to connect with other cool writers, bloggers and editors has been an added bonus.

But tonight I was reminded of the creepiness of facebook.

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