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Savonarola

August 05, 2016, 03:37:31 PM
I'll be in Fort Worth, TX (:alberta:) from August 28 - September 2.  Is there anything that's a must see in Fort Worth?  Does anyone here live in the area (and would be up for an IRL meeting)?
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Hamilcar

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August 05, 2016, 03:38:19 PM
DFW is a very large airport with an assortment of shops and restaurants.

MadImmortalMan

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August 05, 2016, 03:39:38 PM
My dad lives there. Maybe take the old-fashioned train to Grapevine and back. Call it professional research. Eat Mexican food. I can get some recommendations if you want. Hell, I might be in town then.
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Savonarola

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August 05, 2016, 03:43:19 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 05, 2016, 03:39:38 PM
My dad lives there. Maybe take the old-fashioned train to Grapevine and back. Call it professional research. Eat Mexican food. I can get some recommendations if you want. Hell, I might be in town then.

Yeah, I'd definitely like recommendations for restaurants.  Last time I was in the greater Dallas area the locals kept recommending chain breastaurants.  (While I'm not denying they have an appeal, I'd rather go somewhere else.)
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

mongers

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August 05, 2016, 04:07:45 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on August 05, 2016, 03:38:19 PM
DFW is a very large airport with an assortment of shops and restaurants.

Doesn't that describe much of the developed world?
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Admiral Yi

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August 05, 2016, 04:29:15 PM
Seems to me DFW is exactly the place you would want to go to an over the top titteraunt.  When in Rome.

11B4V

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August 05, 2016, 04:57:00 PM
Carry a gun. :P
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MadImmortalMan

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August 05, 2016, 05:00:46 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on August 05, 2016, 04:57:00 PM
Carry a gun. :P

My dad does. Not joking.  :P
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

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August 05, 2016, 05:07:37 PM
Sav: Is this for BNSF?
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

MadImmortalMan

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August 05, 2016, 05:09:29 PM
My dad says:

Del Frisco
Reata
Texas de Brazil

Shady Oak for BBQ. Which is near BNSF if that's where you're going.
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"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Savonarola

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August 05, 2016, 05:19:15 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 05, 2016, 05:07:37 PM
Sav: Is this for BNSF?

Yes, I'll be at BNSF headquarters for a third party vendor training.
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Baron von Schtinkenbutt

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August 05, 2016, 05:21:11 PM
I'm not all that familiar with the Ft. Worth side of the Metroplex.  What's is a decent choice, but Hard Eight just north of the airport is better.  There are some interesting places near the Will Rogers Auditorium and the museums.  I will have more input when I get home.  Put me down for the meetup, though.

garbon

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August 05, 2016, 05:52:59 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 05, 2016, 04:07:45 PM
Quote from: Hamilcar on August 05, 2016, 03:38:19 PM
DFW is a very large airport with an assortment of shops and restaurants.

Doesn't that describe much of the developed world?

No? Most of the world is not a very large airport.
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MadImmortalMan

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August 05, 2016, 05:55:25 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on August 05, 2016, 05:19:15 PM

Yes, I'll be at BNSF headquarters for a third party vendor training.

My dad's wife...my mom-in-law...whatever you want to call it, works there. She's pretty great TBH.
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"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
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Valmy

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August 05, 2016, 05:56:26 PM
Damn I am going to be there just a few days after you leave.  :(
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