All my life I dreamed of a ride in an F16 - and I finally got to fly back-seat with Thunderbird #8 a few years ago.

While it was great, and amazing, and an absolute one-in-a-lifetime thing, making...

Eh, I still check in once in a while. Living in the flatlands with newborn twins = lots of time to read, but not much to say.

My company has a pretty big operation in Memphis (right downtown) and I'm there 4-5 times a year.

I am only here to say that Gus's Fried Chicken changed my life for the better. Go there. Just...

Ok - that's a good outfit too - nice boats - just good to avoid Shoreline, Wendella, etc. You should have a great time. This way you can completely avoid the tragedy called Navy Pier.

One other...

In Chicago, make sure you use the Chicago Architecture Foundation for your river tour; http://caf.architecture.org/page.aspx?pid=574

There are a like 7 companies that do the boat tour thing, but...

Yeah! Congrats!!!!!!!

Hi - in Alabama for work through Thursday PM - probably won't be back in time to make it - thanks for posting this though!

I've got a vimeo plus account for work - sending you a PM with my email, happy to help.

We just did a Munich to Prague trip - it involved taking an ICE (DB) train out of Munich for about an hour, and then connecting to a very nice bus for the remaining 3 hours of the trip. I was kind...

That's what we call a "Wisconsin Double Chair".

Bros will be going right to Utah - not even bothering sending them to Chicago.

We're coming back once a month these days to ski thanks to a bunch of free tickets + a companion pass for my wife on...

SFB - great - hey, I'm going to get some Bros in the current deal Splat's got going - would totally trade the jersey for a mount if you're still set up to do that.

Found this while doing some New Years cleaning - I ordered it as part of a group buy here on TGR in 2005 - never worn - found it still in the bag SkiGuide shipped it to me in!

It's a Mens medium -...

I've got an hour of dual in an F16 - does that count? Nothing like making a sharp left at 650mph and pulling 9.2g's in the process.

Incidentally, speaking from experience - it's not possible to...

Same here - glad to have got to meet Fritz a few years back - I'm not on here that much these days but your pics with Fritz are definitely come of the most memorable ones I've seen in the last 6...

SuPu - I'd say L20 if you can get in - awesome place, 4 course is $110 - http://l2orestaurant.com/menu.pdf - caviar and foie both present.

Also second Avec, or maybe Moto if you're into molecular...

We live 3/4th's of a mile from Wrigley straight down Clark toward the city.

If you don't mind spending some cash - there are 4 great tix together available on Cubs.com right now for the Sunday...

My wife and I are going to ski somewhere in the Midwest right at the end of the year - like December 29/30/31 - not sure where yet - maybe Devils Head, more likely Granite Peak - just need to get...

wow, it's Ning! a "web community in a box" - wasn't expecting that.

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I just grabbed an ORD to SLC RT for $125 for early January - looks like tons of availability through mid-February for any Midwesterners who want to ski Utah, or for any Utahns that want to come...

Along with what's already been said - a big empty Windows Media Player is kinda ugly too.

Not trying to be harsh - you should really switch to a CMS platform like Wordpress for what you're trying...

Tell you what, I'll turn mine on in Chicago and you see if you can pick it up, ok?

You might have to sweep a little further from the ground than usual... :)

Its a big day for my little project - http://livenewscameras.com/map.html - we've got great coverage along the Gulf Coast of Hurricane Ike in a format that's not really available anywhere else - with...

Yes, running season is very much still "on"...

We did the Nike Human Race (Chicago) last weekend - that was a blast and one of the best organized 15,000 runner races I've ever seen.

I'm heading...

Yeah, I mean Google Chome's been out for like SIX HOURS, how could they not have one ready yet? :cool:

I've been listening in (reading) this thread for a while, but haven't had much to say...we've got the Banco Popular Half-Marathon coming up in September, and the Moab ("Other") Half Marathon coming...

If you want a guide in Escalante, my friend Rick is great, contact info, etc is all here:

http://excursionsofescalante.com/

Definitely skiable - the snow surface was in great shape and like I said, I saw at least one pair of skis in the advanced base camp when we were hiking above it.

Pix are from a Canon G9 - great little camera - can't say enough good things about it.

Huaraz is a great city - small enough you can walk everywhere, the locals are friendly, its not touristy, and...

After two years away from Utah and living 500' above sea level in Chicago, my wife and I found ourselves missing the mountains quite a bit, and rather than just fly back to Utah and see our old...

fez - good idea - wouldn't be too hard to do, we already have the infrastructure in place - thanks for the tip!

I never really left...just haven't skied in 400 days! :nonono2:

However we are leaving for 15 days in Peru on Tuesday and climbing a 20,000'/6000m peak while there, which will be very cool.
...

So we've got this really nice helicopter at my TV station, and a really nice camera (really, 3 cameras on it) and it sends back live video, and I got to thinking - what if we could track it with GPS...

After one 4 hour, 9 hole round at Waveland, I've decided its not worth golfing that slow, even if I can walk there from our house.

Also - FYI to anyone who ever goes to the driving range at...

I would, but it's SO much more fun playing with other people's money...

PS: I voted for your Dad and sent it to our Sports department too.

I posted this site here way back when it was in early Alpha and got my ass handed to me by the TGR interweb police (who don't like scroll bars or crappy dev code)

Well, its grown up a little since...

True, squeaky cheese just made the trip through the Star Valley that much better....

unrelated - hey RideIt - I have a Peru related question for you - going down there in a few weeks - shoot me an...

That's going to be tight at Spiaggia - the tasting menu we had was $165pp plus wine.

You could go a la carte: (menu link)...

Seriously, its so easy to drop $100 for dinner for two here it's almost comical.

We went to Zapatista in the south loop last night and it was $100 for fajitas for two, a guacamole appetizer, two...

I (obviously) don't live in Utah anymore, but please don't let that skybridge get built over main street in downtown.

Skybridges are like the one thing city code prohibits downtown - and of...

Whorehey - I'd meet ya' at Wilmot tomorrow (saturday) - Sunday weather looks like crap - saturday looks good - maybe I'll call ya' tomorrow and see what's up.

Sorry for the hijack...

It doesn't have as much to do with the lake effect, etc as much as it does when you start counting - as in the date -if that makes sense..

In the early/pre season, when the PC areas are getting...

Nice!

I work in the building on the far right side of picture #3 - the big black one at Michigan & Lake.

it's not lunch, but I bet you could hike to the yurt at Solitude or The Canyons for dinner, rather than snowshoe, XC or take the sleigh ride. just a thought.

TJ - great concept!

Just be careful about using the word "Olympic" - leading up to and during the SLC games, the IOC and USOC went after anyone they could - even a greek diner called the...

Ok, we're in - thanks Whorehey for the PM - I might have missed it otherwise. We actually saw that restaurant last week and wanted to check it out - see you there.

Trackhead, are you sure you didn't leave your backyard blizzard on again last night? :D

K - I read the press release about your new job - you now officially have a very cool job title - congrats! Sounds great!

snow interval is not a great data point - its hard to measure snow when the wind is gusting to 65mph!

looks like about .30" (1/3 of an inch) of water so far which should be around 3" of snow or...

I've just completed a PhD level research project conclusively concluding the amount of conversation leading up to a storm has a direct inverse relationship to said size of storm.

In other words,...