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The Wayne ([personal profile] thewayne) wrote2009-01-01 03:55 pm
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Ice Castles

I've heard of ice hotels and such. Right now in Las Vegas (not the one in New Mexico) they've built an ice bar in a huge freezer warehouse where you can buy tickets for 30 minutes that include a free drink (in a bowl of ice, natch') and rental of furs to keep you warm. This article talks about a company who uses CNC milling equipment to pre-fab such things and ships them around the world.

Some interesting bits, such as an ice hotel in Alaska that had to close and reopen as a museum when a building inspector decided it needed sprinklers. Yeah, it's a tragedy how many people die every year in ice hotel fires.

Yes, I am a geek. I think this is pretty cool, no pun intended. Maybe.

http://www.wired.com/culture/design/magazine/17-01/ff_ice_king?currentPage=all
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[personal profile] silveradept 2009-01-02 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
That's totally hot, this ice club idea. Although, for me, it would be like "Hey, it's kind of like home, only with more structure to the ice structures." I don't know if that would be worth the $30.

[identity profile] thewayne.livejournal.com 2009-01-03 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen some strange things and been to some strange/unique places in my time, so this has some appeal for me. For example, we honeymooned on an island on Lake Eerie called Put In Bay. There is, I kid you not, a walk-in GEODE. A winery was drilling for a well and the drill punched into a void. They started inspecting and found they were in a geode. Sadly, it's not a pretty mineral, it's a dullish material called Celestite. Very little commercial value. But it's still a unique experience.

Oh, turns out that conference that I went to in Seattle is going to be in the same place this November, so with a little luck and no further deterioration in the economy, I'll be back up.
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[personal profile] silveradept 2009-01-03 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
That would be worth the experience, even if the geode isn't that pretty. I think the ice club would be the same - mostly novelty, worth one run, maybe.

Good to know that the conference will be there again. I'm hoping I can sneak back to the Chicago-area conference I went to in November, too, so we'll have to hope for non-conflicting days.

[identity profile] thewayne.livejournal.com 2009-01-03 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
Mine will be the first week in November, 3-6.
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[personal profile] silveradept 2009-01-03 08:36 am (UTC)(link)
Mine is around that time, too. So we might end up being in opposite places at the same time.
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