This is a photo of the crazy huge model train set at the Museum of Science and Industry here in Chicago. I went there for the first time this past weekend with Ry, a developer who used to work on my team. Man, people seriously loved that train set. They loved it so much they were taking video footage of the trains going by. They were also taking lots of photos, which made me feel like I should've been taking photos. So I did. Voila.
I didn't care much for the train sets to be honest -- psshhtttt, train sets -- but I found the baby chick incubators completely fascinating. They had one for baby chicks a few weeks old and another for eggs that are about to hatch. Oh man, those baby chicks were cute. All fluffy and yellow and hopping around. The eggs were less interesting. Only two out of a dozen or so had hatched and the newborn chicks looked kinda dead. Wet and sort of regurgitated-like. They looked so sickly that I asked aloud to Ry, "Are they dead or alive?" Before he could answer, a mother next to us said to her little boy, "It's tired! It's tiring being born!"
Oh, right. I must have forgotten. It's tiring being born. Yeah.
If you want, you can see a chick hatching in this time lapse video from the museum web site. It does look pretty tiring. Lots of squirming and slime. If you watch the whole thing, you'll notice a second chick comes into the picture towards the end and they're almost rough-housing or something.
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