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La Licor Panamericana
I've never had a bad experience at this slept-on Logan Square restaurant and cocktail bar. Their "thing" is that every ingredient is exclusively from Latin America (sorry, no PBR), and it works.
LearnedLeague
If you like Jeopardy! or other trivia offerings, you need to be on LearnedLeague. It's a seasonal head-to-head trivia league, and it's so much more. It's invite-only, but if you've found your way to Rec League, you're savvy enough to find an invite.
The Dispossessed
You've heard of plenty of books that have won both the Hugo and the Nebula (e.g., Dune, Ender's Game, Ringworld, American Gods). Now you've heard of another: My seventh-favorite book, The Dispossessed, Le Guin's exploration of what an anarchist utopia might look like.
Go!
This song's lyrics, comprised of the audio from the Apollo 11 moon landing, contain the line "1202 alarm [...] We're go on that alarm?" The 1202 alarm indicated that the guidance computer was overloaded with tasks. Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer who worked on the guidance computer (and also literally created the term "software engineering"), anticipated this and programmed the computer to deprioritize lower-priority tasks and prioritize high-priority tasks (like landing on the moon). This is a great song, but it's also a great running song because your body is going to send you a lot of 1202 alarms. One of the goals of a good training regimen is to understand which alarms should make you stop, and which alarms are a "Go!"
My Rec League Starter Pack
La Licor Panamericana
I've never had a bad experience at this slept-on Logan Square restaurant and cocktail bar. Their "thing" is that every ingredient is exclusively from Latin America (sorry, no PBR), and it works.
LearnedLeague
If you like Jeopardy! or other trivia offerings, you need to be on LearnedLeague. It's a seasonal head-to-head trivia league, and it's so much more. It's invite-only, but if you've found your way to Rec League, you're savvy enough to find an invite.
The Dispossessed
You've heard of plenty of books that have won both the Hugo and the Nebula (e.g., Dune, Ender's Game, Ringworld, American Gods). Now you've heard of another: My seventh-favorite book, The Dispossessed, Le Guin's exploration of what an anarchist utopia might look like.
Go!
This song's lyrics, comprised of the audio from the Apollo 11 moon landing, contain the line "1202 alarm [...] We're go on that alarm?" The 1202 alarm indicated that the guidance computer was overloaded with tasks. Margaret Hamilton, the software engineer who worked on the guidance computer (and also literally created the term "software engineering"), anticipated this and programmed the computer to deprioritize lower-priority tasks and prioritize high-priority tasks (like landing on the moon). This is a great song, but it's also a great running song because your body is going to send you a lot of 1202 alarms. One of the goals of a good training regimen is to understand which alarms should make you stop, and which alarms are a "Go!"