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... I'm stuck in your damn airport. Help me get home. As for the a2kers, I plan on doing some recreational travel back here in the new year. Tell me some cool things to do when I come back and actually want to be here.

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[+1] - eoe - 12/22/2008First of all, eliminate all travel into the city before May and after October. Once things warm upâ��June, July, Augustâ��Chicago is a great city. Beautiful skyline, terrific lakefront...
[+1] - Rockhead - 12/22/2008which airport, it makes a big dif... (hoping you are at Ohare)
[+1] - Nick Ashley - 12/22/2008The wrath of O'Hare. I've been in your situation before. Sucks. As for recreation, I never much cared for the city personally. I've been to millennium park, and had $12 martinis in the top of...
[+1] - joefromchicago - 12/22/2008[quote="Diest TKO"] ... I'm stuck in your damn airport. Help me get home. As for the a2kers, I plan on doing some recreational travel back here in the new year. Tell me some cool...
[+1] - Rockhead - 12/22/2008museum of science and industry, spend a day, and do the sub twice...
[+1] - Diest TKO - 12/23/2008[quote="joefromchicago"] [quote="Diest TKO"] ... I'm stuck in your damn airport. Help me get home. As for the a2kers, I plan on doing some recreational travel back here in...
[+1] - sozobe - 12/23/2008Good! (That you made it back in one piece.) I miss the Field Museum.
[+1] - Butrflynet - 12/23/2008When I visited a friend in Chicago a couple times in the mid 90's we went to what I thought was called the Chicago Museum of Technology but I can't find any reference to it on the internet. It...
[+1] - Butrflynet - 12/23/2008Hey Diest, how goes all the logistics for the inaugural crowds? You planning on representing us with your eye-witness blog reports?
[+1] - ossobuco - 12/23/2008We had an a2k meeting there in May (I was at the 2006 one) and the weather was just perfect. Some of us did architectural tours; one with a visit through a Frank Lloyd Wright House among much...

@Diest TKO,

First of all, eliminate all travel into the city before May and after October. Once things warm up—June, July, August—Chicago is a great city. Beautiful skyline, terrific lakefront and tons to do every day and every weekend.

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@Diest TKO,

which airport, it makes a big dif...

(hoping you are at Ohare)

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@Diest TKO,

The wrath of O'Hare. I've been in your situation before. Sucks.

As for recreation, I never much cared for the city personally. I've been to millennium park, and had $12 martinis in the top of the Hancock building. Millennium park was definitely worth seeing. As for the Hancock building, I guess I'd rather have a $5 martini on the ground!!

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@Diest TKO,

Diest TKO wrote:

... I'm stuck in your damn airport. Help me get home. As for the a2kers, I plan on doing some recreational travel back here in the new year. Tell me some cool things to do when I come back and actually want to be here.

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Well, you can meet up with the other A2Kers in the area -- we're a pretty fun bunch.

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@Diest TKO,

museum of science and industry, spend a day, and do the sub twice...

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@joefromchicago,

joefromchicago wrote:

Diest TKO wrote:

... I'm stuck in your damn airport. Help me get home. As for the a2kers, I plan on doing some recreational travel back here in the new year. Tell me some cool things to do when I come back and actually want to be here.

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Well, you can meet up with the other A2Kers in the area -- we're a pretty fun bunch.

Can't say it hasn't crossed my mind. Plus my host can't entertain me all the time. A lunch or dinner would be quite enjoyable I imagine. It at least would give me something to blog about.

The headline...

"Meeting internet people in RL: Spell check not required."

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Oh, and by the way, I made it back to DC in one piece.

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@Diest TKO,

Good! (That you made it back in one piece.)

I miss the Field Museum.

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@sozobe,

When I visited a friend in Chicago a couple times in the mid 90's we went to what I thought was called the Chicago Museum of Technology but I can't find any reference to it on the internet.

It had displays of old communication/telephone equipment and computers and also had a lot of hands-on virtual reality exhibits much like an Exploratorium. We spent an entire day there and still didn't see it all.

If I remember right, it was somewhere down near the Lake.

I also remember a lot of friendly bantering back and forth about the patches of tall weeds Chicago folks call forests. Wink

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Hey Diest, how goes all the logistics for the inaugural crowds? You planning on representing us with your eye-witness blog reports?

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@sozobe,

We had an a2k meeting there in May (I was at the 2006 one) and the weather was just perfect.
Some of us did architectural tours; one with a visit through a Frank Lloyd Wright House among much else, and one including a Chicago River boat ride.
Art Museum was wonderful. A2kers are wonderful. Neat bar, Duke of Perth..
Great music town. Lots of good food.. A few of us walked the city a lot.

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@Diest TKO,

The arts and music in Chicago are fantastic. Street popcorn was excellent the last time I had some. Great city, though I'm not a huge fan of it in summer. Give me mid-September to mid-November, mid-April to mid-May.

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@Butrflynet,

Butrflynet wrote:

Hey Diest, how goes all the logistics for the inaugural crowds? You planning on representing us with your eye-witness blog reports?

Did you really have to ask?

By the way, if you go to my youtube channel, you can watch my election night adventure. To get to my YouTube channel click the link on my blog.

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@Butrflynet,

Butrflynet wrote:

When I visited a friend in Chicago a couple times in the mid 90's we went to what I thought was called the Chicago Museum of Technology but I can't find any reference to it on the internet.

That's because it's called the Museum of Science and Industry.

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@joefromchicago,

Yeah, I saw their website yesterday. The building didn't look anything like what I remember going inside of, nor did any of the inside photos of the various exhibits.

What I saw must of been just a temporary exhibit, or my memory of that visit has been completely corrupted with lost clusters.

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I probably won't wait until summer. I'm just crazy like that.

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@Diest TKO,

Last time I was there it was in early-mid December -- we had a great time.

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@Butrflynet,

Butrflynet wrote:

Yeah, I saw their website yesterday. The building didn't look anything like what I remember going inside of, nor did any of the inside photos of the various exhibits.

What I saw must of been just a temporary exhibit, or my memory of that visit has been completely corrupted with lost clusters.

They've done a lot of renovation since you last visited. I hardly recognized the place the last time I was there.

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@joefromchicago,

Same here. I went last summer for the first time in many, many years and of course, things were quite different. My husband was as excited as a child. Coming from a small city and not one to visit museums when traveling, he took at least 100 pictures and was blown away by it all. The submarine especially.

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