Today (Thursday) I decided to be cultured and look at famous paintings, like the wall-sized Georges Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte:

I really liked this painting called “Memory of the Orient” by Alberto Pasini, but stupidly did not photograph it. And the AIC thumbnail on their website is too small:

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Wednesday was The Field Museum where I saw Sue the world’s largest T-rex skeleton, the King Tut exhibit, and an intelligent response to “intelligent design,” a special exhibit called “The Evolving Planet”.

This is the first thing a visitor reads upon entering The Evolving Planet:

And this wall mural is the last thing:

Darwin rocks!

Amazing but true–the Cubs beat the Reds 8-3 at game I saw Tuesday night. It was actually a pretty good despite the 40-minute rain delay in the fourth inning. It was warm-ish and sunny at the start of the game (above), but got real stormy later (below). Ate two hot dogs but stayed away from [...]