penguins are pretty catchy
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| cheshire137 Oct 09, 2006 8:36 AM EDT |
I just returned from Chicago this past weekend, and I can say that I spent a good 15 minutes at the Shedd Aquarium's penguin section. My boyfriend and I just sat spellbound by the chubby little guys waddling around. |
| number6x Oct 09, 2006 10:01 AM EDT |
My grandfather was a carpenter on the crew that built the Shedd. (the original building built along with the 1933 worlds fair stuff). Great place to visit. They really keep the museums up to date, and the lake front setting is spectacular. |
| bob Oct 09, 2006 10:04 AM EDT |
So cheshire, do we get to see your penguin pics? |
| cheshire137 Oct 11, 2006 10:57 AM EDT |
number6x: Neat! bob: Oh yeah, that's an idea. :) The whole Chicago set is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/cheshire137/sets/72157594320420... |
| tuxchick2 Oct 11, 2006 11:11 AM EDT |
Squeee! and dolphins tail-dancing. Auggg, cute overdose! *thud* |
| wjl Oct 11, 2006 11:15 AM EDT |
First aid, first aid! TC just dropped unconcious... *g* |
| tuxchick2 Oct 11, 2006 11:23 AM EDT |
...beer...quickly..... |
| dinotrac Oct 11, 2006 11:48 AM EDT |
6x - And, let us not forget, one of the few (only?) aquariums anywhere to display a real honest-to-gosh Komodo dragon. |
| jimf Oct 11, 2006 12:04 PM EDT |
> Squeee! and dolphins tail-dancing. Auggg, cute overdose! *thud* After your little bobcat pics, you got no right to that behavior :D |
| number6x Oct 11, 2006 12:34 PM EDT |
I work right behind that tall building. It used to be the Standard Oil building (Big Stan). Its the # 2 tallest building in Chicago. Looks like you visited when the weather was perfect! |
| dinotrac Oct 11, 2006 1:01 PM EDT |
6x -- For some reason, I never want to give the Aon credit for being #2. I keep thinking that honor goes to the Hancock center. However...no. Aon beets Hancock by 9 feet, but Hancock has 100 floors to 83. This tall building stuff never ceases to confuse me. |
| jimf Oct 11, 2006 1:10 PM EDT |
dino, Hancock beats them all for clean aesthetic architectural design :). |
| number6x Oct 11, 2006 3:05 PM EDT |
With the Aon, you just have to dodge the fine Italian marble falling on your head. :) |
| dinotrac Oct 11, 2006 3:57 PM EDT |
jimf - Hancock is a brutally, beautifully honest building. |
| dcparris Oct 11, 2006 4:38 PM EDT |
Sounds like I need to see more of Chicago than O'Hare. :-) |
| dinotrac Oct 11, 2006 4:51 PM EDT |
Rev - Chicago is an amazing city. It's a lot more than deep dish pizza, Chicago dogs (NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER with ketchup), and Da Bears. Not that those aren't wonderful things. It's also about the World's largest (at least I think it is) Picasso, the "Bean" -- not to mention the rest of Milleneum Park, the Lake shore, the museums, the music, the....well we could go on a long time before we ever even reach Oprah. |
| jimf Oct 11, 2006 4:59 PM EDT |
> a long time before we ever even reach Oprah. Hopefully, forever ... |
| dinotrac Oct 11, 2006 5:52 PM EDT |
Hey!! No dissin' Oprah. |
| jimf Oct 11, 2006 7:46 PM EDT |
Ok, ok dino.... Maybe we need to put her on a pedestal... Like mount her on the tip of the radio antenna on the Sears Tower. That would do them both justice :) |
| number6x Oct 12, 2006 5:59 AM EDT |
jimf, That might not be a bad idea. The top floor of the Sears tower is higher than the top floor of the Petronas towers. The top of the antenna on the Sears tower is higher than the top of the decorative spire on the Petronas tower. Still, architects say this means that the Petronas towers are taller. How you might well ask? Its a matter of definitions. The decorative spire on the Petronas tower is considered part of the building, but the functional add on antenna is not. If you or I put on a stovepipe hat, we wouldn't consider ourselves any taller. But if Andy Warholl put on a stovepipe hat and called it art, architectural bodies the world over would clap their hands, say "Ooooh!, Aaaah! Look how much taller Andy is!" So, if we strapped Oprah up there and called it performance art, the Sears Tower would get taller! Maybe we could just have some of the kids from the Gallery 37 art program paint the antenna, and save Oprah the trouble. :) |
| dcparris Oct 12, 2006 9:06 AM EDT |
Maybe one day, I'll get the chance. We'll see. I just want to sit in on an alderman's meeting one day. I've read about Chicago politics, and think it would be fun to sit back with a bag of popcorn and a soda and watch them wrangle over various issues. Of course, visiting the museums and Lake Shore would be loads of fun, too. I need to get Bob cracking on drumming up more advertising revenue. ;-) |
| jimf Oct 12, 2006 9:52 AM EDT |
> would be fun to sit back with a bag of popcorn and a soda and watch them wrangle over various issues. Better bring a good book too. Those meetings are 'a lot' more boring than you could ever imagine ;-) |
| dcparris Oct 12, 2006 10:01 AM EDT |
Oh. I had imagined otherwise. So what you're saying is, gone are the days of Daly and Washington? |
| number6x Oct 12, 2006 10:04 AM EDT |
Actually its pretty boring. My wife was at a meeting a few months ago, and could help but laugh. Alderman Bernard Stone has a staff member sitting next to him whose job it was to nudge him awake whenever a response was needed from him. Why the city needs 50 aldermaen is beyond me. L.A. is much larger and has a 12 person council. With the taxes we could save in patronage based jobs handed out by the 50 alderman, Chicago could probably buy Gary Indiana! |
| jimf Oct 12, 2006 10:44 AM EDT |
> So what you're saying is, gone are the days of Daly and Washington? No Don, I'm just saying that most of the normal city business is boooring... Always has been. The action sequences are few and far between. You could sit for days without seeing anything of much interest. I remember going to a Kenosha city meeting and the feeling was like Chicago in miniature. I suspect that's true of any city. The nuts and bolts of government are usually pretty mundane. We only hear of it when something exceptional is on the schedule agenda. |
| Bob_Robertson Oct 12, 2006 11:41 AM EDT |
If it weren't for Chicago politics, Chicago would be a wonderful city. |
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