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krista4 said:
Hmmm, Baltimore has areas - who knew?  Just looked at a map and it seems to be Inner Harbor.  Will I be near the Sobotkas?  Or at least Valchek's stained glass window?
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Yep. Pig Town, Hampstead, Pimlico, Fells Point, Canton Little Italy, and more!

Fells Point and Canton have some cool places, but they are a bit of a hump from the Inner Harbor. - though maybe not for an experienced hiker :D .  Same with the Charles Street corridor running up toward Johns Hopkins University. I honestly don't know many of the newer places to hang down there these days. Obreckis (sp?) is a legendary crab house in Canton. Maybe see an Orioles game while you're in town? Camden Yards is a great ballpark.

If you have time to travel just a bit, look into going to Annapolis or Ellicott City though you'll need wheels for those places.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
Yep. Pig Town, Hampstead, Pimlico, Fells Point, Canton Little Italy, and more!

Fells Point and Canton have some cool places, but they are a bit of a hump from the Inner Harbor. - though maybe not for an experienced hiker :D .  Same with the Charles Street corridor running up toward Johns Hopkins University. I honestly don't know many of the newer places to hang down there these days. Obreckis (sp?) is a legendary crab house in Canton. Maybe see an Orioles game while you're in town? Camden Yards is a great ballpark.

If you have time to travel just a bit, look into going to Annapolis or Ellicott City though you'll need wheels for those places.
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:thanks:   One of the work events I have to attend is an Orioles game.  I'm looking forward to that, but for the weather.  Holy crap, it's hot there.  I've become a delicate Seattlander who melts in temps over 75.  We're also going to some crab joint one of the nights, though I don't think it's the one you mentioned.

 
badmojo1006 said:
Sorry, I screwed up. Was thinking about some Mr Pack posts in other threads. I will delete it
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Not sure what other threads, but no problem, I've been a richard in the past, not sure if I was to you or not, but I'm trying to dial it back. I never saw it and yes it's my daughter. Most people here that know me, have been following her attempting to break into the music scene.

Thanks @krista4 for having my back.

 
mr. furley said:
this might be long. 

i had no idea he was coming with the rest of the crew that arrived. they got in to town at 3 AM. terrible drive through thunderstorms. i guess they mostly fell asleep around 5. it was a morning wedding (9:30) and we'd arranged for a limo to pick them (and a few other people) up. the limo arrived at 8:15. the ladies were just getting organized and nowhere near ready. no one has ate, so i picked them up some breakfast (bagel sandwiches and some smoothies - he had never seen a bagel sandwich before.. and i'm pretty sure i'm the first white dude that he ever interacted with so he looked at me handing him a sandwich like one would an alien). he tentatively picked at it while i was in the kitchen, then when i walked in to another room, he choked down half of it in about 15 seconds.

took the two boys with me to keep them from ####ing around and making mom, aunt and grandma mad.

we drove on the highway from where they were to my place. on the way we passed Lambeau. both boys thought it was so cool. he asked if i played for the Packers (no), did i know any of the Packers players (not anymore), did i go to the games (yes), could he go to a game (yes).

we got to my house and he asked if we lived in a "mini-mansion" (it's a 2-story, not that great, in a middling neighborhood.. but we have a nice yard). when we got inside he asked if he could stay because our house was so nice. not just stay and skip the wedding, not for the weekend, but for the summer. we have a dog. he loves dogs. he showed me pictures of his dogs and told stories with the fervor of a religious zealot.

i told him not today, but he was welcome anytime... and that maybe we could come back and hang out with the dog after the reception.  or we could go swimming. there's a muni pool down the street from my house with a couple big slides. we drove past it on the way to the wedding. i thought he was going to hop out of the car and make a break for the pool. he said he didn't know how to swim but that he was going to jump off the diving board :thumbup:

the thing that stuck out most was when we walked in to the reception (at a local botanical garden) he was just wide-eyed. speechless and slack jawed. it's nice outside but nothing shocking. when we walked inside and down the stairs, there was a play area for kids. younger kids. he was ECSTATIC! he ran right to it with my youngest (6) and the three other younger girls (almost 2, 3 and 5) and didn't want to leave. not all that shocking for a kid, but it's really more a play area for 2- 6 year olds. he said "is it okay to play in here?? can i stay in here??" with a level of excitement that i absolutely did not expect from an 11 year old boy.

it was pretty clear that he hadn't seen anything like it.  room was like a library with toys and a bunk bed setup. highly doubt he goes places with toys where kids are just free to... be kids.

after playing for a bit i went to round him up for breakfast.. the buffet spread was not quite setup but they had a few things out. he saw that bacon and nearly yelped "THEY HAVE BACON! THEY HAVE BACON!" and grabbed.... 20? pieces?  ate every last one of them :porked:

he had no idea what eggs benedict was. he wouldn't touch it. they looked like marshmallows on an english muffin with diced peppers. he couldn't sort out that it was an egg. 

they had stuffed cinnamon french toast. he was agog because it looked like "rich people food". it was so richly flavored, heavy and sweet. amazing.

there was a tray piled high with all kinds of fruit. he demolished the fruit. he tried the mango juice, cranberry juice, he even drank what i think was creamer from a pitcher setup near the coffee.

he wanted to walk around the garden grounds but there wasn't time before the reception portion closed down and they got back on the road for home.

(rewind, on the way out of the church service he called his dad. i had no idea at this point but he was visiting his grandma the night before, he was supposed to go home but decided he wanted to take the 3 1/2 hour drive to GB instead. didn't tell his dad. 11 years old. so he calls his dad via facetime and says "dad, i want to stay here. it's so beautiful. i love it here. can i live with uncle matt???" his dad say "what? where are you? buddy, you have a haircut appointment at 7! tomorrow is father's day"!

he told his dad he wanted to stay so we could go see a Packers game, the zoo and go swimming! when i suggested there was enough time for one of the three he picked swimming but it was a toss up between that and the zoo since he'd never been to one)

he lives in Englewood. i doubt he's been much outside of there. maybe to the park near his house (quite possibly not as it's dangerous). i know his dad (not his mom) and have known him since his dad was.....  3 or 4 (pushing 30 years). to say they had a rough upbringing and some family tragedy would be kind. so much loss to violence. so little to get by. i can remember visiting them, years ago now, at their apartment.  they had a table, a tv, a refrigerator and that's pretty much it. 

things have changed some. they are doing better now.. by a lot.. but you can see the physical and emotional scars. he's timid and fearful. i've met a lot of kids through my relationship with these people.. some have had it worse.. some better.. but most are outwardly tough and or appear confident to at least some degree.  he's the opposite. you can tell he has suffered. 

he's one of those kids you want to love on because you can see he needs it. not to say his dad and grandma don't love him but he lives in a tough, tough, cold environment and he doesn't appear suited to it. breaks my heart.
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Should have told him you were Tony Mandarich.

 
Will one of you do me a favor?  When I die, will you stand in front of my coffin dressed as the Grim Reaper without saying a word to anyone?

 
Hawks64 said:
I can only imagine how mind blowing middle class/upper middle class America would seem to a kid from Englewood.
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can still remember when my buddy's little brother came back with me to visit for a couple days.

north of Milwaukee is almost all just farmland. a few small towns that you can barely see from the highway.

he had never seen cows in a field before. or horses. he was just so excited the whole way here. at that point he had never left Chicago. the experience definitely left a mark on him. he would talk about it almost every time i saw him. he lives in a small town in Minnesota now. far away from home but he's safe, happy, working and a dad :thumbup:

there's a really cool program going on in Chicago to help kids see outside their own neighborhood called My Block My Hood My City whose aim in part is to expose kids to other parts of their own city.

"MY BLOCK, MY HOOD, MY CITY'S EXPLORERS PROGRAM TAKES TEENS FROM UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES ON EXPLORATIONS AROUND THE CITY. 

MBMHMC provides youth with new experiences, exposing them to possibilities beyond their own communities. Our mission is to help teenagers overcome the poverty and isolation they face, boosting educational attainment and opening them to opportunities that make a difference in their lives."

 
mr. furley said:
can still remember when my buddy's little brother came back with me to visit for a couple days.

north of Milwaukee is almost all just farmland. a few small towns that you can barely see from the highway.

he had never seen cows in a field before. or horses. he was just so excited the whole way here. at that point he had never left Chicago. the experience definitely left a mark on him. he would talk about it almost every time i saw him. he lives in a small town in Minnesota now. far away from home but he's safe, happy, working and a dad :thumbup:

there's a really cool program going on in Chicago to help kids see outside their own neighborhood called My Block My Hood My City whose aim in part is to expose kids to other parts of their own city.

"MY BLOCK, MY HOOD, MY CITY'S EXPLORERS PROGRAM TAKES TEENS FROM UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES ON EXPLORATIONS AROUND THE CITY. 

MBMHMC provides youth with new experiences, exposing them to possibilities beyond their own communities. Our mission is to help teenagers overcome the poverty and isolation they face, boosting educational attainment and opening them to opportunities that make a difference in their lives."
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It's amazing how finite and stuck most people's horizons are... for whatever reason. Exposure to worlds beyond that horizon, even other neighborhoods, provides such incredible opportunity for growth. Heartbreaking to see kids trapped outside of their control. That sounds like an amazing program.

 
El Floppo said:
It's amazing how finite and stuck most people's horizons are... for whatever reason. Exposure to worlds beyond that horizon, even other neighborhoods, provides such incredible opportunity for growth. Heartbreaking to see kids trapped outside of their control. That sounds like an amazing program.
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There are lots of kids here who live within site of downtown Cincinnati but have never crossed the river or been 10 miles the interstate to a shopping mall. Last year our school district did a "poverty simulation"  where you went through a month of living with limited means. The thing was rigged so you couldn't "win" by constantly throwing curveballs at you, but the thing that struck me the most was how absolutely frustrating, crippling, and demoralizing lack of transportation can be.

 
krista4 said:
:thanks:   One of the work events I have to attend is an Orioles game.  I'm looking forward to that, but for the weather.  Holy crap, it's hot there.  I've become a delicate Seattlander who melts in temps over 75.  We're also going to some crab joint one of the nights, though I don't think it's the one you mentioned.
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I was kidding about Pimlico, by the way. Do not go there.

 
Rustoleum said:
There are lots of kids here who live within site of downtown Cincinnati but have never crossed the river or been 10 miles the interstate to a shopping mall. Last year our school district did a "poverty simulation"  where you went through a month of living with limited means. The thing was rigged so you couldn't "win" by constantly throwing curveballs at you, but the thing that struck me the most was how absolutely frustrating, crippling, and demoralizing lack of transportation can be.
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imagine having to take the bus. except the bus stop is in a neighborhood you can't go to. or at least one where you're plainly exposed to threats and can't just hang around. and then the route crosses through neighborhoods where people want to kill you just because you're from X neighborhood. and since there aren't decent jobs in your area, you have to ride out to the suburbs every day on some bus/train combo. not because you like the commute, or you chose to live an hour away from your job and can drive in or telecommute..

you can't have a regular routine or someone is going to catch up to you. so 9-5 at the same place is out. could work part-time jobs with varying hours but when the schedules overlap or the times are too close, you can't make it from one to the other in time with any regularity.

maddening, frustrating, stressful and it feels like you might never get ahead because you can't 

 
bostonfred said:
Automation taking over in finance

@General Malaise - interested in your thoughts as a somewhat but not totally esoteric investment guy
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Part of why I love working where I work is that our investment focus isn't ordinary and it's not based on trading algorithms, which I couldn't market because I simply don't understand them.  Are money managers going to be replaced by robots?  Maybe.  I could make the same statement about airplane pilots but you're still going to want a human in a cap in the cockpit.  I'll be honest, I didn't read the article in full because it's really over my head.  I'm not smart.  But I've carved out a pretty nice career talking smart people into hiring me.  What we do here is simple and it's not going to be replaced by machines.  We find opportunities in weird metals, buy them physically, store them and then sell them when they are higher.  Doesn't always work. There's been multiple failures.  But I get it.  I can sell that.  Why are you investing with us? Because we are way different than anybody else and you want exposure to tangible assets that you can't buy down the street.  It's about relationships, finding these opportunities.  Who buys cobalt for you?  Where do you store it?  How do you sell it?  How do you capitalize on it?  Can a robot make all those moves?  

But yes, robots are coming.  Brace yourselves. 

 
General Malaise said:
Part of why I love working where I work is that our investment focus isn't ordinary and it's not based on trading algorithms, which I couldn't market because I simply don't understand them.  Are money managers going to be replaced by robots?  Maybe.  I could make the same statement about airplane pilots but you're still going to want a human in a cap in the cockpit.  I'll be honest, I didn't read the article in full because it's really over my head.  I'm not smart.  But I've carved out a pretty nice career talking smart people into hiring me.  What we do here is simple and it's not going to be replaced by machines.  We find opportunities in weird metals, buy them physically, store them and then sell them when they are higher.  Doesn't always work. There's been multiple failures.  But I get it.  I can sell that.  Why are you investing with us? Because we are way different than anybody else and you want exposure to tangible assets that you can't buy down the street.  It's about relationships, finding these opportunities.  Who buys cobalt for you?  Where do you store it?  How do you sell it?  How do you capitalize on it?  Can a robot make all those moves?  

But yes, robots are coming.  Brace yourselves. 
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In a cruel twist the robot that replaces you will be made out of cobalt

 
If you're on a flight and the sky waitress gets to your row and says to you and your seatmate, "For breakfast we have only one egg dish left, and the other option is a quinoa oatmeal," do you:

A.  Ask your seatmate if he/she has a preference and hope that you can come to a mutually agreeable outcome.

OR

2.  Blurt out, "I'll take the eggs!" as quickly as possible to avoid the quinoa crap.

 
krista4 said:
If you're on a flight and the sky waitress gets to your row and says to you and your seatmate, "For breakfast we have only one egg dish left, and the other option is a quinoa oatmeal," do you:

A.  Ask your seatmate if he/she has a preference and hope that you can come to a mutually agreeable outcome.

OR

2.  Blurt out, "I'll take the eggs!" as quickly as possible to avoid the quinoa crap.
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Both sound awful,  but assuming it was something I wanted I'd go with option 2

 
Dan Lambskin said:
Both sound awful,  but assuming it was something I wanted I'd go with option 2
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You and my seatmate and your respective families are a ####.

ETA:  egg dish was a big ol' egg tart/quiche thing that looked and smelled delicious.

 
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 I'll be honest, I didn't read the article in full because it's really over my head.  I'm not smart.  But I've carved out a pretty nice career talking smart people into hiring me.
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"And you wanna be MY cobalt salesman?"

 
I didn't spend a bunch of time in Baltimore my one time there, so not many suggestions, but Camden Yards is as good as it gets when it comes to ballparks. Easily my favorite and I've been to about 1/2 of what MLB has to offer.

 
And there was a dive bar close to the park, in the inner harbor, that had a fantastic soft shell crab sandwich. Think it was called Pickles

 
krista4 said:
If you're on a flight and the sky waitress gets to your row and says to you and your seatmate, "For breakfast we have only one egg dish left, and the other option is a quinoa oatmeal," do you:

A.  Ask your seatmate if he/she has a preference and hope that you can come to a mutually agreeable outcome.

OR

2.  Blurt out, "I'll take the eggs!" as quickly as possible to avoid the quinoa crap.
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2 because once you board a plane it's pretty much Lord of the Flies, but how are you making this rookie move?  Always order some special meal based on some imaginary dietary restriction when you book.   They're always better.

 
-fish- said:
2 because once you board a plane it's pretty much Lord of the Flies, but how are you making this rookie move?  Always order some special meal based on some imaginary dietary restriction when you book.   They're always better.
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I always used to get a vegetarian meal for this reason, but the Delta food has improved significantly the past few years.  Except the quinoa.

 
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