I’m glad to see that no one from the Department of Redundancy Department complained about “SDMB board”.
OSHA standard for factory illumination is 50 lux.
From Chicago, you’ll want to start off going Southeast.
Eep that’s 100 lux. Most photovoltaic instrumentation works in 50 lux. Sorry.
I was going for Footcandles myself… 
Could you bring back some hard-boild eggs when you return?
And if you started out from Detroit you’d wind up in Canada. That’s pretty amazing! Don’t you think?
I always thought it strange that tubadiva lives farther west than UncleBeer. Just musing.
That’s not true, at all. I spent a couple of summers heading Northeast from Chicago about once every five days. (From what I understand, the SS John Sherwin has been laid up at Superior, WI for several years and I am pretty sure that it could accommodate the entire Chicago Reader in its 30,000 Ton holds. (We may need to fit out one hold as a dorm since it only has berths for about 35 people.)
What, you got a problem with ending up in Lake Michigan? 
I hope footcandles are nothing like earcandles! 
“I knew that I should have made a left turn at Albuquerque…” :smack:
Shirley you’re yolking.
Polycarp, once again you wax poetic- this time, aurally.
–bows–
Sure. You want to end up in a Gordon Lightfoot ballad, that’s entirely your affair.
The legend lives on, from Waukegan on down,
Of the writer they call Cecil Adams
The Reader, it’s said, never brings out its dead,
Unless punning Dopers essay bad 'uns!
You and you there, come and help me hold him down.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes
When the posts turn the minutes to hours
The Dopers all say they’d have made Zotti pay
If the server weren’t given more power.
The posts o’er the wires made a tattletale sound
in the way they broke over the firewall
The Admins all say “Keep the hamsters at bay”
“Just put 50 more Gis there behind her!”
The legend lives on from the website on down
Of the admin they call Dexter Haven
The Dope board, as run, never stops having fun
When the rest of the mods are a sleepin’.
So Dexter wired in, he had hamsters comin’ in
And the good Board and posters were in peril
And later that night, when the upgrade went outta sight,
Came the wreck of the board and its upgrade…
They might have been hacked or they might have lost power
The Reader might have got tight and cut funding.
The posters all say things would all be okay
If they’d let them chip in for a server.