Today as I was walking to work I saw a piece of spectacular art in the window of the Atlas Gallery on Michigan avenue. I have a smaller version, this looks life sized, a Jules Verne dream come to life. You can find more of his work on my walls at home, or at http://www.atlasgalleries.com/ under Sergey Tyukanov. His daughter is great as well, Tanya Miller, under painters at http://www.perfectpeargallery.com/ .

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Then out the window of the office I spied an long ship heading north, probably laden with iron ore in this modern age. Imagine working on that ship, out in the lake, today was a wintry day (unusual I know) with temps in the teens. On land. This was telephoto both optical and digital, so its dark, I did catch the Lighthouse blinking red.

and now the word/phrase of the day defined in Wikipedia:

Folie à deux (literally, "a madness shared by two") is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille or even folie à plusieurs (madness of many). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (folie à deux) (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name.