The location is on specifically on the gravelly footpath (not the asphalt bike path - yes, they are different) and is directly across the street from the 625 South Skinker high rise apartment building at Skinker and Northwoods. It is a very easy domino to miss, considering the white domino blending in very easily to the white-gray-ish color of the footpath surface. Normally, they can stand out pretty well as a white rectangle against a black asphalt street surface.
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| all photos courtesy of P-Weezy. |
So as you can see, it is either a 4-1 or a 4-0 tile. It is hard to know for sure, though I could probably go there and chip away at that little piece of asphalt schmutz that is obscuring the true identity of one-half of the tile. It is worth noting that the tile sits at a "random" angle to the pathway. it isn't laying parallel to the path or perpendicular to it either. Which kind of makes me think that the orientation of these fucking things doesn't mean a whole lot, but rather it's just the location.
This path isn't quite gravel, nor is it asphalt. It's really more of a chip and seal. I may have been more loose gravel at one point, but had been oiled over or something like that. And that is a huge departure from up-until-now always being found in asphalt, and always being on actual roadways. All I know is that if I now have to start wondering if these goddamned things are on all the bike and footpaths AS WELL AS every street in the city, then I'm going to have to get a bigger budget.
With this kind of upheaval of general conventions, what will be next, a domino sewn into the carpet in the Arch viewing deck?
