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Saturday, September 21th, 2002
After a 12hours something flight we are in LosAngeles and we wait
almost 2-1/2 hours on our connection flight to Chicago O'Hare.
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Arrival
on 5AM in Chicago O'Hare. The local ground staff seems also to fight
with jet-lag.
We move to hotel and the lucky travellers wait another 2 hours to
then finally storm the first available cleaned rooms. Then, in the
afternoon a quick 30 minutes trip on the O'Hare -> Chicago subway
into city. A few hours walk and very tired we head back to hotel. |
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Sunday,
September 22th, 2002
Chicago with a blue sunny sky, not too warm, just comfortable. This
makes another trip into City advisable.
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The
"Subway" partially underground outside the city, then underground
and again in the center the loop circle overground is an extremly
convenient traffic means. Forget cars, parking lots are expensive.
Big parking lots (park and ride) outside Chicago do make the subway
attractive, but still the highways into town are full of traffic. |
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The
lower part of these towers are parking lots and without walls. Some
chains seem to protect cars from running over board. Better check
the gear lever before starting the engine! |
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Crossing
Michigan Avenue / Superior Street, the Fifth Avenue of Chicago, or
the Bahnhofstrasse of Zurich, a shoppers paradise.
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Tiffany
and Co, we first admire from the opposite street side. |
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We
then choose Bloomie's, another shoppers paradise, but better fitting
to our budgets. |
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This
is it now, the well known Hancock Tower. Up there we do want to explore
the unrestricted views but also the gastronomy, knowledgable that
the view is 1st and the culinarien views on a distant 2nd.
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Table
setting seems to be perfect. |
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But
first a cool drink and a cool view on the Sears Tower. For a long
time the Sears Tower was the highest building and later finally lost
out to the Petronas Twin Towers in KL, Malaysia. |
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Night
creeps towards and over Chicago.
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And
its definitelly the slow exposure time of the camera and not of the
photographer's brain creating twin moon images.
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Monday,
September 23st, 2002
Monday's report will become available only on Wednesday. We are here
in Chicago 7 hours behind Swiss time.
A brief check of the exhibition area on Monday 2PM still shows that
there are lots of efforts needed to get the exhibition halls ready
for Thursday morning opening. Our booth is pretty well advanced and
set-up. Gary, we might see him in a later report, since many years
working for Spirig, gets our booth well organized and properly set-up.
Just do not offer too much work assistance, it otherwise "disturbs
his circles". So I retreated to work on this report section. |
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An
important Question comes up in th meantime:
"Why these Reports?"
This reporting is considered as a test phase on how quickly and efficiently
informations can be distributed. For example by a Service Engineer
working on an equipment problem and things should be documented. Within
a few minutes, provided the software works smoothly, he would be able
to post his findings, photos and other informations into the hands
of a larger audience for preventive steps, for a learning session
or to get remote advice from other collegues. All he has to do is
to upload his material on the service site and within minutes hundreds
could check his material. There is no need to individually send a
complete file to each address , actually each of the e-mail addressees
to be contacted could get a short e-mail message to go to: http://www.spirig/
........ and a double-click and there it is! |
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