The Daily Parker

My to-do list today only has 14 items on it, of which 6 are checked off already. The actual time it will take to accomplish the remaining eight items varies between 20 minutes (laundry, tonight, essentially a fire-and-forget activity) and four hours (Staging release of the Holden Adaptive Platform).

So, once again, I'm going to shove a bunch of articles to my Kindle:

• Within a 10-minute walk from my house is a mausoleum built in 1858 that the city didn't move when it created Lincoln Park.
• Virgin America will fly A320s from San Francisco to Honolulu, which means we really are living in the future.
• Deerfield, Ill.-based Walgreens will close 200 stores in the next few months. No word yet on which Chicago stores it might close.
• Wildlife porn alert! Urban coyotes.
• I missed the Last Week Tonight episode last October in which John Oliver asks, Ayn Rand: How is this still a thing?
• Another one from Citilab: see L.A.'s amazingly-clear parking signs. How come we don't have them in Chicago yet?
• Did I already link to the new Azure Table Storage design guide?

Now to do the next few things on my list...and watch the thunderstorm outside my office window.