my boyfriend had to do something similar for his modern poetry class - he assigned different words to the numbers, and then wrote out the words for the first 100 digits of pi!
i remember seeing a program on savants on the discovery channel, his segment was the main portion of the show. it showed video clips of him while on an icelandic talk show!
Dan - I went to Chicago twice in 2006 and took photos of Cloud Gate, and the police officers never had a problem with it. Maybe you weren't allowed to take photos of it while it was under construction? Millenium park is a cool place, though - even though Cloud Gate is amazing, I think that Crown Fountain beats all! http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/crown_fountain.html I've never seen any kid look happier than they are playing at Crown Fountain!
:)
fun post!
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