Reply To: Selinker & Max make a game on a boat
Re: Chicago
1) Fermilab’s about 35-40 miles away, just FYI for travel planning purposes, which you probably already knew but just in case.
2) Everything. Everything is awesome.
C) Some of my favorite things in no particular order:
i. Field Museum
ii. Museum of Science and Industry
iii. Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company (home of the pizza pot pie and the 45 minute wait!)
iv. The Magic Cabaret
v. Redmoon ( http://www.redmoon.org/ ) if they have any crazy event or performance going on
vi. Live theater, bajillions of small theater companies everywhere being awesome because they are part of a team
vii. Lincoln Park Zoo (admission is free, unlike that stinky Brookfield Zoo which is not technically in Chicago and thus less awesome and also they smell)
viii. Mold-O-Ramas, available at aforementioned museums and zoos, like any great museum or zoo anywhere (hey…they’re kind of like old-timey 3D printers!)
ix. The tall ship Windy out of Navy Pier, though not this time of year, and not anything else at Navy Pier ever except Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
x. River architecture tours, again probably not this time of year, which is unfortunate because they really are great.
xi. Inconsistent ordering schemes.
I’ve never actually been to the Adler Planetarium (which is all up near the Shedd Aquarium and the Field Museum general area) so I can’t vouch for that.
It’s not unusual for visiting friends to want to make a trip to Powell’s Bookstore down by the University of Chicago campus too.
I now return you to the awesomeness that is being told there is going to be a 3D printer on a cruise ship…is it possible this will be the first time something is 3D-printed on a cruise ship?