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franklin institute, pub, etc.
I'm going to update, and then I'm going to pack, and then I'm going to watch TV/movies/whatever until I'm tired, and then I'm going to get up tomorrow and get on a plane and come back to Pittsburgh. Assuming the 28x runs okay and the plane runs okay, I'll hopefully be back in Oakland around 2 or 3pm... that should be fine... what I won't be fine with is that I hear we still have a lack of network in my apartment. Very unhappy thing that will be. I also hear my copy of DDR 6th mix hasn't shown up yet. More unhappy. Actually... that inspired me to go look at the UPS site and they say it was delivered on Wednesday. I bet Eli just didn't go pick it up, which is ok. I think he got faked out by this package that Eli's grandparents were sending me or something.
I just went and bought a ton of Tastykakes to bring home with me... damn I ate a lot this week. I'll have to play a lot of DDR when I get home... and you are all welcome to come over and play DDR with me. This is not an empty offer, I would love to have people over to help me unlock songs in 6th mix.
Today I hung out with Stewart and Mike. We went to the Franklin Institute and to the Pub in New Jersey. I guess only a few ex-Claritechies and some Phillyites might care about this one.
Mike picked me up a little after noon and we met up with Stewart at the Franklin Institute. For anyone who doesn't know what it is... it's a big science center that has been around in Philly since 1934 (and the institute itself dates back to 1824). Usually I totally adore it, but they seem to be between exhibits right now or something... it was really annoying, the whole Futures Center on the first floor has been knocked down and mostly replaced with a big science store, and they took out all of the Math stuff on the fourth floor, although the space stuff was still there. A lot of the things I really liked about it as a kid have been totally removed, actually... the whole 3rd floor has been changed. It used to have stuff about boats and nautical stuff, and a room about physics with pulleys and waves and this huge lever with a 500-pound weight on one side and various ropes to a lever on the other side... now the floor has a variety of stuff from other exhibits compressed into a small area, and the physics room has become a "sports science" room. Bleh. The Math room on the fourth floor is now just full of computers... and the aviation wing has mostly gone away when they built the IMAX theatre anyway. The planetarium is being revamped, too. Shrug. What we did get to see was a 3D movie in the lecture room in the basement, and the train museum, and the electricity stuff, and of course the Heart, and the exhibit about aging... that was depressing, I really didn't need a whole exhibit reminding me about what happens when you get old. Ugh. We also got to see an IMAX movie about Shackleton's Antarctic Adventures, which was finally a movie involving a boat in the first quarter of the 20th century that had a happy ending... these guys go to Antarctica and have quite an adventure not dying, although they sure do almost convince you about ten times that the guys are going to die. I still can't figure out how they didn't get scurvy. Anyway... I had no idea the Heart exhibit was so old, it was built in 1954. Weird. I was also sad because the machine with all the moving parts and golf balls was broken and so I couldn't watch it. It was moved up to the third floor for some reason anyway.
Hm... so I guess it was good to hang out with Stewart and Mike but I felt bad because I had said how totally cool the Franklin Institute is and I don't think it lived up to the hype I was giving it. I guess I really love it because I've been there SO FREAKING OFTEN all my life, but still... whee.
After the Franklin Institute we decided to go to my favoritest restaurant in New Jersey, the Pub (at the Airport Circle. Of course, there is no longer a traffic circle there, nor has there been an airport there in like seventy years, but still). I had prime rib and ordered it medium rare and Stewart had a larger portion of prime rib and ordered it medium and somehow mine was medium and his was medium rare. Apparently that's just what happened with the proportionate cuts... it was pretty good anyway, and it was nice to have dinner with Stewart and Mike, so that I don't have to be the only one spreading gossip about Stewart here.
Ok... I'm going to go do something else for a while. Bye for now.
I just went and bought a ton of Tastykakes to bring home with me... damn I ate a lot this week. I'll have to play a lot of DDR when I get home... and you are all welcome to come over and play DDR with me. This is not an empty offer, I would love to have people over to help me unlock songs in 6th mix.
Today I hung out with Stewart and Mike. We went to the Franklin Institute and to the Pub in New Jersey. I guess only a few ex-Claritechies and some Phillyites might care about this one.
Mike picked me up a little after noon and we met up with Stewart at the Franklin Institute. For anyone who doesn't know what it is... it's a big science center that has been around in Philly since 1934 (and the institute itself dates back to 1824). Usually I totally adore it, but they seem to be between exhibits right now or something... it was really annoying, the whole Futures Center on the first floor has been knocked down and mostly replaced with a big science store, and they took out all of the Math stuff on the fourth floor, although the space stuff was still there. A lot of the things I really liked about it as a kid have been totally removed, actually... the whole 3rd floor has been changed. It used to have stuff about boats and nautical stuff, and a room about physics with pulleys and waves and this huge lever with a 500-pound weight on one side and various ropes to a lever on the other side... now the floor has a variety of stuff from other exhibits compressed into a small area, and the physics room has become a "sports science" room. Bleh. The Math room on the fourth floor is now just full of computers... and the aviation wing has mostly gone away when they built the IMAX theatre anyway. The planetarium is being revamped, too. Shrug. What we did get to see was a 3D movie in the lecture room in the basement, and the train museum, and the electricity stuff, and of course the Heart, and the exhibit about aging... that was depressing, I really didn't need a whole exhibit reminding me about what happens when you get old. Ugh. We also got to see an IMAX movie about Shackleton's Antarctic Adventures, which was finally a movie involving a boat in the first quarter of the 20th century that had a happy ending... these guys go to Antarctica and have quite an adventure not dying, although they sure do almost convince you about ten times that the guys are going to die. I still can't figure out how they didn't get scurvy. Anyway... I had no idea the Heart exhibit was so old, it was built in 1954. Weird. I was also sad because the machine with all the moving parts and golf balls was broken and so I couldn't watch it. It was moved up to the third floor for some reason anyway.
Hm... so I guess it was good to hang out with Stewart and Mike but I felt bad because I had said how totally cool the Franklin Institute is and I don't think it lived up to the hype I was giving it. I guess I really love it because I've been there SO FREAKING OFTEN all my life, but still... whee.
After the Franklin Institute we decided to go to my favoritest restaurant in New Jersey, the Pub (at the Airport Circle. Of course, there is no longer a traffic circle there, nor has there been an airport there in like seventy years, but still). I had prime rib and ordered it medium rare and Stewart had a larger portion of prime rib and ordered it medium and somehow mine was medium and his was medium rare. Apparently that's just what happened with the proportionate cuts... it was pretty good anyway, and it was nice to have dinner with Stewart and Mike, so that I don't have to be the only one spreading gossip about Stewart here.
Ok... I'm going to go do something else for a while. Bye for now.