
Life
"Do you want to meet your dolphins now?"
What do you do when you realize the company you applied to isn't the company you want to work for anymore? Especially when they have no idea anyone would ever turn them down?
Mike Doyle is a longtime autistic, gay, Jewish, Disnerd Chicago blogger.
Life
What do you do when you realize the company you applied to isn't the company you want to work for anymore? Especially when they have no idea anyone would ever turn them down?
Marina City
Two months ago I moved out of Marina City to head for a quieter life beyond downtown. But there's something to be said for living at the center of it all. I'm learning the grass isn't any greener outside the Loop--and the roaches sure do put up a fight.
Media
In Chicago, how people feel privately about the status quo and what they say about it in public are rarely the same. That applies to Chicago's blogosphere, too. In a new-media space where dissent makes people run for cover, how can local bloggers hope to make change happen?
Chicago
Two years ago, Pastry Chef Chris and I visited Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and I blogged that the most modern technology in the place was the Dyson hand dryer in the men's room. In March, museum staff read that post--and invited me on a private tour of MSI's jaw-dropping new Science Sto
Chicago
This summer, downtown Chicago has been handed over to the Transformers 3 movie shoot--to film scenes glorifying Loop devastation and the the deaths of rank-and-file Chicagoans. As citywide media goes ga-ga for gargantuan robots, I'm wondering whether $20 million is the going rate for ceding civic pr
Backstory
In 30 days, I'll be forty. As the final countdown begins, it's time to say good-bye to all the things I thought I'd be before August 2010. And wonder where the hell my flying DeLorean is.
Chicago
The urbanist in me loves that St. Louis and Milwaukee are vying for Chicago visitors with cheeky local tourism ads. Here's why the St. Louis campaign has me yearning to visit, while the Milwaukee campaign has me yawning and staying home.
Media
Chicago nonprofits and businesses often use unpaid social media interns as a cheap way to gain institutional knowledge about building online community. But according to the U.S. Department of Labor, federal law requires that unpaid internships be for the benefit of the intern--not the company. And n
Neurodivergence
ADHDers like me live in the now. It's not that we don't like to plan ahead. It's just that when we put things on the back burner, we tend to forget about them until they boil over. And then it's time to reach for the kitchen wipes...
Chicago
For months I dismissed Foursquare, the popular GPS check-in game, as a marketing gimmick. But a whirlwind day chasing down Chicago's official tourism badges showed a friend and me how addictive it can be--and taught us a lot about our own city that we never knew before.
Getting Around
The CTA blames bad rider behavior for the annoying, live 'doors are closing' announcements now made every time an 'L' train leaves a station. But the problem might not exist if train operators didn't abuse the existing recorded warning in the first place.
Chicago
There are many ways to enjoy an open-air concert date in Grant Park. Spending two hours trying to avoid being eaten by a surprise third wheel's life-threatening lizard feet is not one of them.