Atlanta... a retrospective

[mrz80]

So Monday morning suemac and I decamped for Hotlanta, ostensibly for me to do network work for UF. But we all know the REAL reason to go to Atlanta is for the plethora of vendors of culinary excellence, all designed to separate you from the bulk of your cash and all of your diet ambitions

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[jackshaftoe]

"Seriously, it looks all hip and mod and stuff from the front, but from behind it looks like a decrepit old apartment building that was on its last legs by the start of the Great Depression!"

That describes just about everything in Downtown Hotlanta in my experience. The big Death Star Telephone building downtown? Mostly empty 70s-era cubicles when I was there for scab -er- strike contingeny training in 2009.

(BTW, Verizon's CWA contract is up this weekend. They generally have good labor relations so the strike threat may just be noise, but ya never know.)

The local CIA aviation front company here in Portland runs a decent air museum, complete with its own rebuilt Titan II in a visitor-accessible silo. It is also the current home of the Spruce Goose -- highly recommended if you ever have to head out here for any reason.