24 January 2008
Nothing Like...
There is nothing quite like conversing with a young lady so pretty that she makes you feel older, balder, fatter and scruffier each second that she smiles at you for fixing her printer.
23 January 2008
Not sure
Not quite sure which is more odd: the fact that someone is planning to make a movie based on the video game 'Gauntlet' or the fact that I know someone auditioning for a role in it.
And she's not going for the role of Blue Valkyre. Pity.
And she's not going for the role of Blue Valkyre. Pity.
22 January 2008
The problem with...
The problem with getting a little exercise is that it shows you how little exercise you get.
21 January 2008
The Adventure Ended - Aftermath
If every good adventure has a backstory, I guess it should have an aftermath as well.
George, perhaps not for the first time, has vowed to never return to that state. I’d love to say something like that but I know it wouldn’t stick. I tend to have business there in that place.
In an effort to figure out where we went wrong in missing the connection to 23, George did some investigating online. Turns out that, while 90 and 23 do cross paths, they don’t connect in any way. The directions he’d gotten were wrong. It wasn’t our fault.
Was it all worth it?
Sure. As tiring as the experience was, there were some interesting things to see and experience. Again, while not a fan, the ‘Star Wars’ stuff was neat to see and I’m glad I got to see it.
Writing through this has also let me ponder the museum itself. Right after we got back from the trip, I wanted to go back, feeling that my impression of the museum would be different on a less crowded weekday and without the need to monitor small children as I went through it. As I’ve reconsidered it, I’ve decided that, on the whole, the Museum of Science and Industry was a disappointment. In my opinion, there was too much of it incomplete, messy or pointless.
Let me explain what I mean by using the word ‘pointless’. As we first started down the ‘Yesterday’s Main Street’ exhibit, George and Amy reacted very positively. It’s similar to the ‘Streets of Old Milwaukee’ exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum insomuch that both show what a main street would look like around 1900 or so. The difference is that the ‘Streets’ exhibit in Milwaukee has depth, corners, levels. ‘Yesterday’ is a brief street in comparison. The only advantages are that the street is wider, has the ice cream store and had a couple young ladies in period dress near the movie theatre that was actually operating.
Another problem is that ‘Yesterday’ doesn’t fit into the theme of the museum. There is no context to the exhibit, no comments on the technology of the day and how it’s led to what we have today. It’s just a collection of store fronts that belongs in a natural history museum not in a science and industry museum.
While I’ve not been to the revamped ‘Discovery World’ museum in Milwaukee and hadn’t been in the version 2 setup since it opened, it has generally been more focused than what I saw in Chicago. Don’t get me wrong; the Museum of Science and Industry has some really excellent and unique things in it. There’s a submarine, the trains and planes; it has stuff that draws the interest. I just don’t feel there’s enough interest to make a two and a half hour drive down there on any kind of regular basis.
Or maybe even ever again.
(Post #150 = Hooray!)
George, perhaps not for the first time, has vowed to never return to that state. I’d love to say something like that but I know it wouldn’t stick. I tend to have business there in that place.
In an effort to figure out where we went wrong in missing the connection to 23, George did some investigating online. Turns out that, while 90 and 23 do cross paths, they don’t connect in any way. The directions he’d gotten were wrong. It wasn’t our fault.
Was it all worth it?
Sure. As tiring as the experience was, there were some interesting things to see and experience. Again, while not a fan, the ‘Star Wars’ stuff was neat to see and I’m glad I got to see it.
Writing through this has also let me ponder the museum itself. Right after we got back from the trip, I wanted to go back, feeling that my impression of the museum would be different on a less crowded weekday and without the need to monitor small children as I went through it. As I’ve reconsidered it, I’ve decided that, on the whole, the Museum of Science and Industry was a disappointment. In my opinion, there was too much of it incomplete, messy or pointless.
Let me explain what I mean by using the word ‘pointless’. As we first started down the ‘Yesterday’s Main Street’ exhibit, George and Amy reacted very positively. It’s similar to the ‘Streets of Old Milwaukee’ exhibit at the Milwaukee Public Museum insomuch that both show what a main street would look like around 1900 or so. The difference is that the ‘Streets’ exhibit in Milwaukee has depth, corners, levels. ‘Yesterday’ is a brief street in comparison. The only advantages are that the street is wider, has the ice cream store and had a couple young ladies in period dress near the movie theatre that was actually operating.
Another problem is that ‘Yesterday’ doesn’t fit into the theme of the museum. There is no context to the exhibit, no comments on the technology of the day and how it’s led to what we have today. It’s just a collection of store fronts that belongs in a natural history museum not in a science and industry museum.
While I’ve not been to the revamped ‘Discovery World’ museum in Milwaukee and hadn’t been in the version 2 setup since it opened, it has generally been more focused than what I saw in Chicago. Don’t get me wrong; the Museum of Science and Industry has some really excellent and unique things in it. There’s a submarine, the trains and planes; it has stuff that draws the interest. I just don’t feel there’s enough interest to make a two and a half hour drive down there on any kind of regular basis.
Or maybe even ever again.
(Post #150 = Hooray!)
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