Minnebar 8

  • Minnebar crowd assembling.
  • Getting serious in advanced MongoDB session!
  • Attending Hadoop session. Lot of people here. Clearly Hadoop is hot point via “big data”.
  • Exploring dimensions of free content with Marc Grabanski.
  • At Ian Dees Obama Tech talk!
Large indoor conference gathering with hundreds of attendees seated at round tables eating and talking in a bright atrium with trees

See also Minnebar collection.

Seeing Chastity Brown at The Cedar tonight. Very good.

No really, that’s cool, keep talking on your cellphone and being annoying to everyone else on the elevator.

Seated for Sigur Rós show. Excited to see them play.

Large crowd filling a concert venue floor in front of a tall illuminated stage curtain with spotlights above it.

Sigur Rós blew that up!

Dark concert venue with a lit stage and a cloud of glowing white and blue lights floating above the performers. Concert hall viewed from upper seating with a distant stage bathed in red light beneath a large LED screen displaying abstract red and white imagery

Delicious espresso at Metropolis.

Espresso with golden crema in a white ceramic demitasse cup on a saucer with a silver teaspoon, on a dark table.

Standard espresso at Wormhole Coffee in Chicago.

Wormhole Macchiato! WINNER!

Dysfunctionale at Piece Brewery and Pizzeria!

Pint glass of golden ale with a frothy head on a Chicago flag coaster at Piece Brewery and Pizzeria in Chicago

Macchiato at Gaslight in Chicago.

La Marzocco branded white espresso cup with a macchiato on a saucer with a spoon, resting on a dark wood bar counter in a busy cafe.

Chicago-style from Lou Malnati’s tonight.

Chicago-style deep dish pizza in a well-seasoned pan with one slice removed, topped with chunky tomato sauce, a spatula resting in the pan.

Chicago My π Pizza!

My Pi Pizza box held open showing a deep dish pizza inside, with Everybody Loves My Pi Unique Pizza in the Pan branding Chicago deep dish pizza in an open white cardboard box, topped with chunky tomato sauce and dried herbs, cut into slices