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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
I envy you a lot. I wish I could visit Chicago, at least I'd visit the city whew my favourite fantasy saga is set into (the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious).
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I envy you a lot. I wish I could visit Chicago, at least I'd visit the city whew my favourite fantasy saga is set into (the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious).
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
den2k88 wrote:
Chicago... ...fantasy saga is set
Forgetti the Barbarian? The Lord of the Lakes?
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I envy you a lot. I wish I could visit Chicago, at least I'd visit the city whew my favourite fantasy saga is set into (the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious).
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
The Dresden Files was a good series of books, and a good (but unrelated) TV series. If they had stayed closer to the books they might even have got a second series, and then it could have got interesting! Pity really.
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The Dresden Files was a good series of books, and a good (but unrelated) TV series. If they had stayed closer to the books they might even have got a second series, and then it could have got interesting! Pity really.
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You forget the awful casting :D BTW The Dresden Files is a good series, it's ongoing and I'm craving for Jim Butcher to finish the next one :D
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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You forget the awful casting :D BTW The Dresden Files is a good series, it's ongoing and I'm craving for Jim Butcher to finish the next one :D
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
I'm still waiting for "Peace Talks", never mind "Mirror, Mirror" ... :sigh:
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I envy you a lot. I wish I could visit Chicago, at least I'd visit the city whew my favourite fantasy saga is set into (the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious).
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
den2k88 wrote:
(the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious)
Wasn't it cancelled in Chapter 8 or so? I liked it as well, but never saw anything else... :sigh: :sigh:
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
I hear the water in Detroit is very good. :rolleyes:
I'd rather be phishing!
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den2k88 wrote:
(the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious)
Wasn't it cancelled in Chapter 8 or so? I liked it as well, but never saw anything else... :sigh: :sigh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
There are fifteen books: dresden files books - Google Search[^] - which were the "basis" for the TV series. And while I enjoyed the TV, the books were a whole load better!
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den2k88 wrote:
(the saga is "Dresden Files" for the curious)
Wasn't it cancelled in Chapter 8 or so? I liked it as well, but never saw anything else... :sigh: :sigh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Actually Butcher is writing the 16th, he has plans for 19-20 short novels like the one he's writing now and an ending apocalyptic trilogy for which the titles will be "Stars and Stones", "Hell's Bells" and "Empty Night" [JB said "they are called curses for a reason"].
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
Rage wrote:
in Detroit for my first time in the USA
Detroit is a dump. It is a failing city. Although, I do understand that someone is putting money into revitalizing the downtown area finally so some of it is getting better. But it is possibly the worst big city in the US. Chicago is not much better, as I understand it. Lots of poverty and crime and rundown areas.
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There are fifteen books: dresden files books - Google Search[^] - which were the "basis" for the TV series. And while I enjoyed the TV, the books were a whole load better!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
the books were a whole load better!
as 99.99% of the cases
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
I loved Chicago when I was in the US of A.
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Actually Butcher is writing the 16th, he has plans for 19-20 short novels like the one he's writing now and an ending apocalyptic trilogy for which the titles will be "Stars and Stones", "Hell's Bells" and "Empty Night" [JB said "they are called curses for a reason"].
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
good to know... I will have a look Thanks for the info
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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good to know... I will have a look Thanks for the info
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
You're welcome - here in Italy there is no edition of The Dresden Files. I discovered it through tvtropes, downloaded them in "ebook" and then ordered the whole bunch from Amazon to my great impoverishment.
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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You forget the awful casting :D BTW The Dresden Files is a good series, it's ongoing and I'm craving for Jim Butcher to finish the next one :D
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
BTW: If you liked Dresden, have a look at the "Supernatural Investigation Series" by Justin Gustainis[^] - it's not bad!
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
Rage wrote:
I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it.
I recall listening to a band from Europe talk about coming to the US and saying the same thing. They added that due to the food they found their turds were also bigger while here. It's not a stereotype. We even have bigger number 2s.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet. The interesting thing about software is it can not reproduce, until it can.
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BTW: If you liked Dresden, have a look at the "Supernatural Investigation Series" by Justin Gustainis[^] - it's not bad!
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Thank you. It's a while I'm looking for something similar... and being given an advice like this from a person who I esteem a lot promises really well. :D
DURA LEX, SED LEX GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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So I arrived yesterday in Detroit for my first time in the USA ( actually first time in the continent). I am going "Wow, this is big" for about everything for the moment (roads, cars, hotel rooms, ...)- stereotypes, here we go -, but I think I will slowly get used to it. Something worth seeing in Detroit or in the area that I should not miss ? I'll be staying until end of next week, so the oncoming weekend will be dedicated to visiting. I was thinking driving over to Chicago (maybe seeing O'Hare in real life, after hundreds of flight simulator hours trying to land on it when I was little :rolleyes: ) to get the big-city-with-tall-towers-kind-of-feeling.
My gf says Belle Isle Park (982-acre island featuring trails, an aquarium, museum, conservatory, golf course & playground.) is nice to visit. Otherwise, maybe take a quick jaunt over to Canada, assuming the lines of mass exodus aren't too long. ;) Marc
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