Last year for our vacation we visited Mrs. Mosquito Eaters sister in Chicago.  As we were sitting in her house one day, she handed me a book on Chicago Architecture that had lots of old photos of famous Chicago buildings and a smattering of history.  My immediate thought was, wow, I wish I had one of these for St. Louis.

Fast forward to today, when what should I find on my desk at work, but a shiny new copy of  Historic Photos Of St. Louis .

I’ve only just thumbed through it, but I like what I see so far; lots of old black and white photos of St. Louis with a smattering of historical context. I’ll bring it home tonight, and let the larvae read it over and give there impressions as well.

Here is one from Flickr.  The person who took it was told it was a Mosquito Eater, but I think the consensus is that he got bad information.

Nice looking bug though.

It turns out that the term Mosquito Eater can be used for not only the “Mosquito Hawk” but for other items as well.

This week’s Monday Mosquito Eater comes from Husky Musher.  It is a carnivorous plant.

1. Think About Me (The Tubes)*
2. Very First Lie (Material Issue)**
3. Burn For You (INXS)
4. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Nirvana)
5. Somebody Told Me (Killers)
6. Mediate (INXS)
7. Pure Energy (Information Society)***
8. Dim (Dada)
9. Theme from Flood (They Might Be Giants)
10. Capital Letters (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin)****
11. I Won’t (Replacements)**

Artist Introduced By:
* Brother Rick
** Brother Joe
*** Brother John
**** Brother Mike

• New Feature coming Monday: The Monday Mosquito Eater.
• Brother Joe may have introduced to INXS’ music.  If so, Joe completely dominated the Friday iPod Competition this week.  After previous weeks of dominating, Brother Mike had a very pedestrian performance.

via: Yet Another Web Site

Note to self - don’t crap in the recycle bin.

Had the management for our office space not included that in the memo, I never would have known.

My friend Tony, from a previous employer sent me an email.

Last week I was walking through the halls in the new Engineering building for a “little” local brewery downtown. The conference rooms are the latest in fashion, glass walls, built in LCD screen projectors, etc. Well, what should I see when I passed one of those rooms but a curious X-Y plot on the board, Vertical axis labeled “Time to Resolve Issues” and horizontal axis labeled “Complexity of System”, with two curved lines on the plot that intersected at 0,0. One line curved out then up, the other line curved up then out.

I poked my head in the door and asked of they knew what that was, the leader responded “It’s the Hofer curve” but I’m not too sure why he knew it was called that.

You should have gotten a patent on that thing.

Cheers, or as they say in Belgium ‘Op uw gezondheid’.

Tony

My response:

So someone I’ve never met was doing a presentation about a concept I threw out in a conversation over ten years ago!?

That is funny.

I guess that was my 15 minutes of fame and I didn’t even get to enjoy it

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