A year ago October, I went to Pittsburgh for a metadata conference, and stayed an extra day to wander around and visit, including a visit to my parents’ grave. Where I was quite surprised to find that they’d never set the marker for my mom. Even though we’d paid the cemetery some $4000 to open [...]
…. or at least, you can’t buy your old home again. The house my parents owned from 1967 to 2000 was a big, old, Pittsburgh house. Built in 1911, 3000+ square feet, above ground basement, attached garage, real plaster walls, 12-foot ceiling in the first floor. Five toilets: sink & a toilet in the basement [...]
I hope I didn’t make the Steelers lose. As a Pittsburgh girl, who’s lived in Wisconsin for more than half my life, I tried to have an even mix of Packer food and Steeler food to eat during the game. The Milwaukee paper ran some recipes for Superbowl food – that’s what the football depicted [...]
The folks that make the ‘sconnie shirts – as in Wi-scon-sin – have this Mr. Rodgers Neighborhood shirt: Don’t think they knew that the real Mr. Rogers Neighborhood is in Pittsburgh. Visiting Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood WQED Pittsburgh
But the marker is just for my dad – my mom’s ashes are interred there, too – and when we brought them, in February of 2005, we ordered a new marker with both names. Somehow, somebody who worked at the cemetery left, somebody screwed up, and it never got done. The good thing about visiting [...]
Saturday morning I got up in my hotel in downtown Pittsburgh (formerly the Hilton, now … who knows …), and went and retrieved the car from the self-park, to start my day of uncovering the mysteries of Pittsburgh. I lost my ticket, but the maximum was $20 and I was going to have to pay [...]
I skipped the conference lunch and went and got a Primanti Bros. sandwich and ate it outside in market square, with a cup of Starbucks coffee in my own to-go mug. Surely the ultimate Pittsburgh meal. All for about $7. I got cheese, what they call combo – Swiss and Provolone, and there was a [...]
So, like I said, I’m at a metadata conference, and the picture below is kind of a metadata conundrum. Metadata is descriptions of information resources – “structured data about data”. The picture is actually a lot of different things, many of which are hard to convey, especially because one of the key interpreters of metadata [...]
Like I wrote to my brother last night, it’s so familiar and so strange to be here. The hotel where I’m staying for the conference I must’ve gone past a million times as a kid – it’s one of the first things you see when you drive into downtown Pittsburgh from the airport – but [...]
Somehow, the last time I posted was a whole week ago, and I’m not sure why that is. In between then and now, we went to the premier concert of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and tried out a new-to-Madison restaurant (#21 of a Chicago area chain). Nothing that we ate there – a pasta bolognase, [...]
