Category Archives: Bronder Luck

Ice Skating at Wrigley Field.

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Today Julie and I met up with Laura and Bedford for some ice time at Wrigley Field.  The Cubs sold tickets to members of their email list and Emily was able to hook us up.  It was a unique experience to say the least.  They setup one hour sessions and resurfaced the ice between sessions.  The weather was perfect as well.


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Side Note:

* The photo below is of the ‘designer couple’ as Laura describe them, they were there to see and be seen.

** The rest of my photographs from the skate can be found on Flickr.

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ClownDown 2008: Team Cosmopolitan Warrior.

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On Saturday Todd and I formed team Cosmopolitan Warrior to compete in the ClownDown 2008.  For those who don’t know ClownDown is a citywide adventure race in Chicago similar to the Amazing Race.  This years race included 42 teams and 13 destinations throughout the city.  Cosmopolitan Warrior fared pretty well considering it was our first year.  We ended up finishing 11th (just missing our top 10 goal) and in under 3.5 hours.  We ended up making 2 tactical mistakes that probably put us out of a top 5 finish:

  1. Missing a stop on the Red Line and ending up at the Clybourn stop.
  2. Heading for the Harold Washington Library instead of the Original Library (ie Cutural Center).

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The highlight for me during ClownDown was after running about 3 blocks we stopped to wait for a bus in Greektown.  While waiting a couple teams ran by us before the bus finally came.  About 3 blocks later we see the teams running up ahead to the next bus stop and Todd told our bus driver not to stop for the other team.  His response was simple:  “If they’re not at stop I’m not stopping”.  Good to his word, our bus just kept rolling as the other team tried to flag down the bus.  It was glorious.

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* A special thanks to our Camera Crew: Josh & Eric.

** I plan on posting a video in the next couple of days from all of our footage; it should be interesting.

*** The rest of the photographs can be found on Flickr.

$700 Billion Man (Lex Luthor)

Does anyone else find it just a little bit odd that the one man solely responsible for spending $700 Billion is a dead ringer for Lex Luthor?  Neel Kashkari, the Treasury’s assistant secretary for international affairs has been chosen to lead the $700 Billion economic rescue effort.  Now I’m not questioning Kashkari’s (Lex Luther) age, though it is a mere 35 years, I am question his striking resemblance to a diabolic megalomaniac hell bent on world domination.

Another minus in my book is the fact that he worked with NASA on the James Webb Space Telescope.  Now putting aside the fact that I despise NASA, this guy actually helped develop something that looks a hell of a lot like a space laser.

Actual sketch from NASA.

To recap:

  1. Free reign over $700 Billion
  2. 35 years old
  3. Looks like Lex Luthor
  4. Worked for NASA
  5. Has experience building Space Telescope that just so happens to look like a giant Laser.

I’m just saying… this seems like a bad idea.