Pavementalities: Bentonville & Rogers, Arkansas
Nat and Adrianne travel to Bentonville and Rogers, Arkansas, a megalopolis where there is no “there” there, and provide an expansive review of the best places to eat, drink, and shop.
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Michigan Growth Strategy: Gretchen Whitmer Needs To Step Up Her Politics, Not Her Leadership.
The governor wants to figure out a strategy to grow the state. It’s going to have to start with investing in things that matter to real people, rather than things that matter to quarterly earnings reports for automakers. But it’s not that gloomy. There’s plenty of opportunity to think about how to do this.
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Top Douchemobiles, Rated
A completely unscientific list of the most douchey cars, ranked and with commentary of the kinds of people who drive them.
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Automate: The Day The Robots Took Over
It was a robot party at Huntington Place last week. I got to see a lot of machines showing off.
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Diesel Exhaust, Potholes, and A Vision of Better Commercial Corridors in Southwest Detroit
Greg Mangan, real estate advocate for the Southwest Detroit Business Association, picks me up at the northwest corner of West
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When Did The Police Become So, Uh, Anti-Law?
The latest insanity out of America’s Largest Strip Mall (a.k.a. Michigan) is the bold declaration of some police agencies in
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Adventures in Wooster, Ohio
Last week began what will be the first of a few actual summer vacations. This first adventure took us to
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Dreaming In Isometric: Variations on Midjourney Prompts
I’ve been experimenting quite a bit with Midjourney, a generative AI platform that produces images based on text prompts (and
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Hazy Air, Coughing? Don’t Worry. That’s Just The Latest Apocalypse!
Tuesday morning coffee thoughts. On our long drive back to M*ch*g*n from Pennsylvania/Delaware yesterday, I started reading snippets on the
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Midjourney: The Imagination of the Sane, the Insane, and the Unseen
Imagining a better light switch may well first require imagining a better outlet. Or not. We’ll see.
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