Very nice to see from Crossway these lovely new editions of some of Jim Packer’s books.
Mid-century modern lives on.
ebooks bad
This Ian Bogost essay on e-books is an oddity, in the sense that about a decade ago we had thousands of essays on this same theme, but have had very few since. That, I think, is because everything got hashed out back then as thoroughly as it is likely ever to be. I am not sure what Bogost’s essay adds to that long-ago conversation, but I know the chief thing it neglects: eyesight. Many people who love codex books (myself included) read e-books when the combination of poor eyesight and poor book design makes reading a given codex painful or even impossible.
R.I.P. Norm
You know, I think about my deathbed a lot.
What do you think about it?
I think I should never have purchased a deathbed in the first place.
This by Jonathan Liew is beautiful:
Certainly this final felt like a turning point of sorts: a pause in hostilities, perhaps even a burying of the hatchet. “My heart is filled with joy and I’m the happiest man alive,” Djokovic said after the match, paying tribute to the crowd. He had just lost a devastating final. His tilt at immortality had come crashing down at the last. And yet it was hard to shake the suspicion that on some level, he finally had what he had always wanted.
where have you gone, Hamburger University?
I just spent a few days in Chicagoland, visiting dear old friends and my very dear son. I got a deal from Expedia and stayed at the Hyatt Lodge in Oak Brook, which used to be a hotel owned by McDonald’s as part of the Hamburger University campus. But Hamburger University is no more. (At least, not in Oak Brook.)
If you walk around the site you see immaculately-tended grounds:
And the buildings are well-kept also:
Very mid-century modern. But as you look closer you see that the buildings are totally empty:
Rather disconcerting. The property has been purchased, and its billionaire owner appears to have undisclosed plans for it. But nothing is happening at the moment, and around the edges things are starting to look a little shabby.
I think it would be an ideal location for The School for Scale. Just saying.
