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Awesome Things

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We’ve all seen sites where you are presented with two options and you click on one or the other to vote for that option. Two favorites around our house are Puppy War and Kitten War, in which you vote for cute puppies or kittens, respectively.

So that’s great for finding the cutest kitten, but what if you wanted to determine the Most Awesomest Thing Ever? Prepare to waste some time. It’s not as easy as you might think, for example, how do you compare “oxygen” to “popcorn chicken”? I mean, oxygen is pretty awesome, but popcorn chicken is popcorn chicken! You can also click on links at the top to see which things have the highest winning percentage or those with the lowest (I’m looking at you Kevin Federline)

In case you need some inspiration on what sort of thing is awesome, also take some time to check out this photo gallery of Barack Obama looking at awesome things, deep in the secret government tech labs.

Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight! Thundercats ho!

Oh man, it must be awesome to be president!

Barack on Check Please

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For those of you who aren’t in the know, Check Please is a fairly popular PBS show that reviews local restaurants around Chicago.  It is actually a pretty good place to find out about interesting restaurants, and we have gone to several featured on there.  Basically, 3 guests come on and each recommends their favorite restaurants.  Before the show airs, each of the guests goes to the other guests’ favorites and then they all discuss them.  They intersperse these clips with interviews with the owners, etc.  The camera men do an amazing job of making the food look delicious.

Well, it turns out they have a previously unaired episode in which Barack Obama was one of the guests.  The episode will be airing Friday January 16th @ 8 p.m.  Not surprisingly, he recommended a restaurant close to home that I have tried to go to several times, but it has been too busy.  We always end up going to the one next door, which is actually really good as well and owned by the same people.  

Here is a clip to wet your appetite (get it?):

Link originally courtesy Hyde Park Urbanist.

Big news for my neck of the woods

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Two separate front-page-of-CNN news stories that greatly impact this little neighborhood of mine:

1) Barack Obama officially gained enough delegates to lock up the nomination, although Clinton hasn’t officially conceded yet.  As you probably know, Obama lives right by me.  We’re practically neighbors. 😉

2) The list for the 2016 Summer Olympics was just shortened by 3, leaving Chicago as #3 of 4.  Tokyo and Madrid were ranked #1 and #2 respectively at this point in the game (odds listed for all the gamblers out there).  There are 16 months until the final decision, which means Chicago needs to get it in gear!  As you probably know, if the Olympics come to Chicago, they will be situated basically in my back yard.  We’ll practically be neighbors.