Announcements

Rendezvous

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(Ref this earlier post.)

Saturday, 4 PM CDT, 171 W Randolph (lobby of the Allegro Hotel). Wear your official ChicagoBoyz attire for prompt recognition. Agenda:

  1. introductions
  2. walk to Millennium Park (3/8 mi E), take pictures
  3. walk to Blommer Chocolate factory (W to Canal, N to Kinzie, W 1 block; just over 1 mi from Millennium Park), take more pictures (this spot recommended by Jonathan)
  4. sunset, 6:04 PM
  5. eat someplace
  6. proceed to Buddy Guy’s Legends (E to Wabash, S to venue; 1 ¼ mi from Allegro); artist info

Forecast is for sunny and 60 ° F at midafternoon, winds ENE at 8 mph. Hit it!

Tatyana in Chicago

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Tatyana, who comments here frequently, will be visiting Chicago on the weekend of October 18 and is interested in getting together with members of the Chicagoboyz community. If you’re interested, please leave a comment here, or email me at the Chicagoboyz support email address and I will forward your message to her.

New! – Your Weekly Reptile-Oriented “Caption This Photo” Contest

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Record your entries in the comments. The winner will receive tremendous praise and a congratulatory email from Chicagoboyz management.

gecko on finger

[See below!]

UPDATE: I couldn’t decide on only one caption. My two faves:

Soon to be bigger than the S&P 500. [Robert Schwartz]

and

Ok… little up.. little left – not that far left! Ok… now down… easy does it… now, remember what I told you… control… alt… delete! See, it’s so easy, even a lizard could do it! [Sgt. Mom]

There’s also:

You can lead a lizard to a keyboard but you can’t make him blog. [me]

Unfortunately, our prize fund was short a lot of WAMU puts, so our customary payout to contest winners will not be possible this year.

Score!

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Yahoo! News/AP: “American Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago won half of the prize for the discovery of a mechanism called spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics.”

We are great and we are grand … we make bombs beneath our stands!

UPDATE: UofC news office release.