Will Smith Doesn't Understand: DC Metro Area Thread 6

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― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

DC Cab ought to be hilarious but it's kind of unwatchable. Bill Maher is in it, he is terrible. Mr T doesn't get a lot of screen time but I am pretty sure he tells the kids to stay in school

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, dg - i found it strangely totally watchable. i resisted, and my friend INsisted, and it turned out pretty awesome.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck Mr. T and his milk and his staying in school, he's got nothing but bad advice.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

well this is a clever play on words, right. You see, in his career as the Fresh Prince, Will Smith complained that parents don't understand. But in Enemy of The State, it is he, himself, who does not understand. Until Gene Hackman helps him out, and blows up his own TEMPEST-shielded safehouse.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

why don't you just call the thread "GENE HACKMAN YR MY HERO LUV KISSES TOMBOT" already

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

That's not even clever at all

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes one has to sacrifice cleverness to be truly honest.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

maybe I just like it when people kill angelina jolie's dad, how about that?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Do you remember the episode of Seinfeld where he bit Kramer?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think it had something to do with George buying his car and then he bit Kramer but maybe he bit George actually. All I know is they had to test the bites to find out if some other bite marks were actually John Voight.

Wow it sounds totally unfunny and confusing when I write it down.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

BTW guys apparently Deep Impact has several bits shot in and around DC/MD/NoVA. Netflix here I come.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

you've got to be kidding me.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wow it sounds totally unfunny and confusing when I write it down.

No, that's seinfeld in general

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh snaps from technicalities sportswriter man

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

who went to berkeley, don't forget

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you were in latin class or english class or some kind of class.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

maybe you just have class. Who am I to say?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and the movie where Steve Guttenberg turns himself invisible.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

haha insert "funny" film thread joke about how art imitates life.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

You guys should move to VA. They practically pay you to live here.

This is the first time in like 10 years I've actually filed past the federal. Usually I don't do it when I do the fed bc I am too lazy and I convince myself that I will do it later but then I never do.

I got yelled at today by a mom for not appreciating her 2-yr-old's learning style. :(

I tried to do the e-file but it stopped working half-way through. Not sure if it was the program or if my mom's computer is going the way of my own.

DC taxes sound scary. I wonder where I should move when I get my life straightened out.

What Ethiopian restaurant are we going to tomorrow night?

Why is modern-day seesucker so clingy?

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

roffle

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

how about this one?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

FA's, what's your set time tomorrow night?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Meow, Catholic girls at the print station getting catty.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

What Ethiopian restaurant are we going to tomorrow night?

Wait until Thursday and come up to Boston to go to Addis Red Sea with me and Ned!

― Dan (Coastal FAP) Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, I want Ethiopian so badly now!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dan - you're not coming to RI to see Neddypoo are you?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 April 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

lol taxes, complaints, internets

― nervous.gif (eman), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.anawa.org.au/power/calvert-reactor.jpg

― nervous.gif (eman), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

Neddypoo is coming to Boston to see ME!

― Dan (Booyah) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

apparently Deep Impact has several bits shot in and around DC/MD/NoVA

If your idea of excitement is seeing Tea Leoni pulled over by the Secret Service off of 29 in Georgetown, or a traffic jam on 66W (hey, that's something new!) PREPARE TO BE THRILLED.

Extra-super-special bonus hate for Tom: This movie was slated to be directed by Spielberg but he gave it up to do "Amistad."

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

FA @ 9:30 according to ZR. Now where/when Ethiopian?

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

Dukem @ 8:00?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

Works for me!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

are you dudes gonna get drinks after dukem? i got shit til 830, but after that im totally frei.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

LIES!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

dude?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

you are so not totally frei. HELLO SET @ 9:30. gosh!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

I am out for this evening - sorry, man. I hope you guys rock out with your socks out.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

FINALLY

after 2 years of running DOWN metro escalators two steps at a time I have done something (bizarre, more numbing/sore than painful, not apparently restrictive of my range of motion -yet) to my left leg below the knee.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

What is a good cure for feeling pins & needles in your calf for three hours? Drinking VAULT? That's what I thought.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

try elevating above the level of your heart? (i.e. a good excuse for putting your feet up on your desk)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait - i didnt closely read the post - "tomorrow" = "tonight." ok, well, i WILL be there tonight.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Jon and Dan are coming for Ethiopian.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

new possible topics for discussion or else just a survey:

1. what is the best beer?
2. when you next move cities, what city will you move to?
3. should i start a faulkner book? which? should i instead read rushdie's midnight's children?
4. should i go to grad school?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

1. fuck that shit. pabst blue ribbon. (not really, I just don't have much of an opinion on the subject)
2. san diego
3. no. none. mmmmmaybe but is it really long? just read a biography instead.
4. hells no.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

1. This is like asking what season is best. First, it is a question that is fraught with opinions, and second, it does not allow for a conditional best, as in best for what particular moment. At the moment, money is very tight for me - so any beer I can get is the best. Were I to have my choice, I would say a well poured, not-to-cold pint of Guinness is best.
2. I am moving to LA in like 40 days. Fuck, I am scared.
3. I have read The Sound and the Fury, Absalom! Absalom! and A Light in August. All difficult reads, and I am no expert on which to read first. I have heard good things re: Rushdie's writing, but have never read any myself. The Shah of Iran was not a fan.
4. I would recommend going to grad school only if
1) You don't have to pay for it
2) If you have something that you really want to study
3) If you have to pay for some or all of it, you can justify the cost with increased earning potential.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

1. So hard to choose. . . can't pick just one! I really liked that unpronouncable hefeweizen I was drinking last night at Paradiso. And that other beer in the girlie glass.
2. Not planning on moving anytime soon, but I'm partial to Portland.
3. I like "As I Lay Dying." Have not read any Rushdie.
4. Depends. For the most part I really enjoyed my grad school years, and the degree itself has been helpful career-wise. On the other hand, I was fortunate not to have to go into much debt for 4+ years of grad schoolin'; if debt were an issue I'd tread carefully.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

1. Eggenberg Pils, I think.
2. san francisco
3. hey he said "start," starting a faulkner book is okay. if you finish it though you're crazy.
4. for what? generally no, rest of life to be in grad school, better off being in a band before you start to feel old and crusty and out-of-it and poseurish and lose all your energy. At 28.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Amen to numbers 3 and 4, Tom. Live your life prior to going to graduate school. It will provide you with MUCH needed perspective on things both internal and external.

And the final few chapters of any Faulkner book I read were always the most difficult to get through. His prose is DENSE as fuck.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

1. rogue dead guy
2. LA
3. i think midnights children
4. i really LIKE studying math, but it can be a little draining after a while, and then what? do i want to be a mathematician? not really. maybe the answer to three should be "some awesome set theory book," and the answer to four should be "nope."

PS OH ILL BE IN A BAND FOREVER

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

old and crusty and out-of-it and poseurish and lose all your energy. At 28.

WATCH IT, WHIPPERSNAPPER

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

remember when DC ILX all moved to the west coast one day?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

1) honestly PBR tastes better than about 70% of beers costing three times as much, so probably that. but my brksklr snob choice is baltika #6.
2) i like seattle and san francisco, so maybe one of those two. but i dunno, it sorta depends on what A's plans are. i sorta love the mid-atlantic.
3) dude i like faulkner! sorta. sometimes. but midnight's children is way way way excellent and faulkner is for college students, so i'd go with that one right now.
4) hi welcome to my last six months. right now i say NO, but i dunno.

ys ps, A BAND OF BROS

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

As I Lay Dying is not particularly difficult, even from the perspective of a non-liberal-arts-haven't-read-chaucer person. Fuck Rushdie.

So set theory is your mathy field, PS? Care to explain it to someone who greatfully finished her math career after a couple of semesters of calc and some linear algebra?

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

hey guys look at this
http://www.menalto.com/albums/trip-SanDiego-July2002/aae.sized.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god I want one for my office!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

hm, seems s. azzara wants to go first now, so looks like we're on second. sorry if this messes up anyone's plans. we're likely going to be up around 10:15ish now.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

it's the cutest!

xpost oh that sucks

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I will plan my nap accordingly (see: old and crusty and out-of-it and poseurish and lose all your energy).

OK now that I'm on to fuzzy animals I'm gonna go check out the PandaCam.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

i think what y'all should do is just drink more at dukem before heading on over to dc9

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah q-k lets talk set theory tonight (i also did topology and algebra a lot in college)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

dukem is at 9th and U too right?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tombot please do a song called I'M GONNA EAT THE HELL OUT OF SOME TIBS

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

dudes the fda science forum was hella boring

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

WAT?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

guys I dunno if I can last that long tonight.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

pshaw

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Any breaking FDA news I should be in on, Z.?

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

yes altho we often think of the e. coli genome in terms of island of infectivity, perhaps we should consider those islands archipelagos instead.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

also worst exhibition floor i've ever seen ever. however i did get a comp. charming tote.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS THERE HAS BEEN GIANT FALUNG GONG PARADES UP AND DOWN H STREET YESTERDAY AND TODAY THOUGH YESTERDAY THEY HAD A BRASS BAND AND TODAY TRADITIONAL CHINA INSTRUMENTS. YESTERDAY >>>>>>>>>>>> TODAY IN ALL WAYS POSSIBLE.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

1. Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout
2. DC or LA
3. I don't read, but I gather Rushdie, while interesting, is the choice if you want to start but not finish, and Faulkner is a good writer.
4. What Ape said

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Koalas! I can be your koala picture crackpipe thanks to an Australia trip five years ago:

http://static.flickr.com/51/131411985_d0f0d7aa75_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/52/131411984_6c85bb1c15_m.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/51/131411977_700754e99b_m.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

dude wtf is up w/that last koala?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

sam smith oatmeal was on my shortlist, gabbneb!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

That one was at the zoo in Sydney. The rest are free-range koalas.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

zoo koalas be gettin fattey

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Double my tortilla order.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

koala tortilla

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

It was one of those koalas that's, like, double koalas:

http://static.flickr.com/45/131411979_cdc49ca037.jpg?v=0

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

1. ~~iron city~~ anchor steam
2. new york, then san francisco
3. no and no
4. only if you are independently wealthy

kisses, you big enablers!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mookie is was great to meet the missus--she is a gem. Have a FANTASTIC time in Spain! FAP when you're back!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was about to say that pandas have nothing on koalas, but then I checked the PandaCam again and they're actually eating and doing cute stuff. Quick go look before they pass out again!

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah mookie yr wife is great! have an awesome time on le honeymoon.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

somebody tell me what to eat for lunch.
options:

http://www.qdoba.com/
http://www.subway.com/
http://www.getcosi.com/
http://www.aubonpain.com/
http://www.halfsmoke+mustard&kraut.com/

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

That qdoba place looks terrifying!

I've never had a half smoke. I think you should have one of those and post about your experience.

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

somebody tell me what to eat for lunch.

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Stephen your obsession with tex-mex treatments of cute fuzzy animals is a bit disconcerting!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

dukem is at 9th and U too right?

It's at 12th & U

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh man I have a half smoke like every 4 days
they're great but not particularly satisfying for very long
but 2 of them is only $3 plus a coke in a CAN, BABY, ICE COLD, for $.50, and probably I'll get comped a bag of chips, so that seems like a plan.

why is soda in a can or glass bottle always so much better than in a plastic bottle?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I am too sad to answer those questions. The outsource Mac shop replaced my logic board and hard drive without ever thinking to ask me if I wanted any of my old files. Ron from Pentagon is contacting Memphis to see if my old drive is around anywhere.

See everyone at 8. *sob*

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also they took out 256 of memory?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well obviously when a computer is running super slow and crashing constantly, the problem is obviously too much RAM, that makes perfect sense, duh, don't question geniuses Mary.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mary that is awful! I hope all works out OK--hang in there!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, Mary; those geniuses sound a little like morons.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure all those geniuses were weened on the pre-OSX era of magic PRAM zapping, desktop rebuilding voodoo.

― JW, REAL GENIUS (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think stealing Mary's memory is definitely qualified as desktop rebuilding voodoo.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.badastronomy.com/pix/mib_neuralyzer.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Tell Ron from Pentagon that this is a poor excuse for flirtation.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

1. what is the best beer?
hoegaarden white w/slice of lemon
2. when you next move cities, what city will you move to?
DAKAR ok not really.. Montreal?.. too cold.. Baltimore? I can afford it there.. Seattle? maybe! or whatever the largest city in Montana is.
3. should i start a faulkner book? which? should i instead read rushdie's midnight's children?
the sound and the fury. there is a sorta character guide to this in.. prob one of those portable Faulkner books, he wrote it himself b/c when it came out near everyone was like WTF is going on. I haven't read any Rushdie
4. should i go to grad school?
FUCK NO

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.moviepropking.com/wesley2.jpg

HI DERE

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

uncontrollable lol @ ^^^^^

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

awesome

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

or whatever the largest city in Montana is.

I really don't think you want to live in Billings. But you might like Missoula, or even Bozeman. Or consider Jackson/Pocatello/Boise/Spokane.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

things I want right now, a list:

1) an avatar
2) the ability to embed the seaponies song into this thread

xpost gabbneb you are a travelog disguised as a man, a man who supposedly looks like bill pullman (tho honestly i don't really see it)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want an avatar but I could really use a mobile suit

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

whatever, i'm totally over both of those things now.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

re Montana.. It's just a whim, I've never been there.. Hey, maybe I should plan a vacation there. Which one of those though? I don't have a lot of money. but I just realized I have vacation time, so at some point, maybe it'd be a good idea to take a vacation.

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

ok but every time i do that on ILE (not on the other boards tho??) it seems to eat my code.

if i do it, it will make this thread horrible.

should i do it, circle one:
yes no

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

you don't really go to Montana for cities, amirite?

my first Montana vacation will probably involve going to Seattle and taking the train to Glacier unless I somehow start driving more in the next 2-4 years

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

dude wtf @ montana, ppl let's focus on wyoming now.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

i am sooooooooooooooooo boooooooooooooooooored and sooooooooooooooo hungry right now.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/9219/yes0tt.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

CROSS FINGERS

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

DIDN'T WORK GUYS :(

http://www.ponypuzzle.com/Music/MLP-Count_Upon_The_Seaponies.mp3

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

(oh, and i 'get' the bill pullman thing, but i don't 'see' it. has it spread?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

why does a google maps search for chicken and waffles in the DC area net me a hit on the American Psychological Society?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

and also Brian, what do you think of Common Share, The? Is it worth a visit at some point?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

let's focus on wyoming now.

http://www.foggydoggy.com/CLOSE.JPG.gif

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

wait, you guys have never been to the common share?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

this thread has taken a turn for the AWESOME...

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Fox News: Sea Ponies Avert 9/11 Tragedy

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, they can't do anything about my data loss because i signed some form which on the back small print released Apple for any responsibillity regarding data, but they have offered to replace the 256 RAM--that they took out--free of charge. Yay.

AZ, I'm afraid you might find San Diego to be the West Coast version of Arlington.

Dudes, if they were gonna basically replace all the insides of my computer, couldn't they have gone the whole hog and got me some new cheapo nonsmudged white plastic casing?

I'm gonna need to eat lots of injera tonight to make myself feel better.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post) haha the Common Share exists in a different realm from any notion of "worth". If you like cheap drinks & bike messenger puke, then it's a real destination spot. But I wouldn't try the chicken & waffles there, despite the banner. Supposed to be good at both Mocha Hut and Creme, at least as far as U Street versions go.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

anyway, if the question wasn't "is it ok to go back now"...

common share is cheap beer and those who seek it. back in the day, a mix of moderately interesting random people, proto-hipsters (but not really terrible ones), bike messengers, fratboys, and vague scumminess. upstairs, if you could get a seat, was much cooler than often-overcrowded/tight-downstairs, but not always open, or sometimes they kicked you downstairs later in the night. it varied, and i think was going downhill/continued after i left, but often made for a more interesting night than many other places in dc. slightly meatmarketish, perhaps, but not overtly so.

(xpost - o i c, this is about waffles. then i have no idea. but the place across the street had decent food, i recall)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am surprised frankly that the asylum did not feature more of this "bike messenger puke"

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Your search - seaponies 9/11 conspiracy - did not match any documents.

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― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

jesus god look what girls did to my internet
http://daisychurch.com/firefly/goodies.html

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

also san diego has things arlington does not:
- seals
- beaches
- hot and sunny year round
- no "rosslyn"
- tijuana trolley (and great memories of ass vomit experience)
- proximity to a major city

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is my first set of ponies, which includes the first major pegasi/unicorn/earthling set after the collectors set.

"Pegasi."

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://daisychurch.com/firefly/goodies/seaponies.gif

I had wavedancer, seabreeze, high tide, and sea mist, and possibly sand dollar but that might've been an actual my little pony with the same coloring. I wonder what happened to them, well the one I melted on purpose, I know what happened to that one. It was a bad pony.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

TS: hippityhop vs. majesty

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

i like skippitydoo. she's in patriotic colors.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Awwww. Even bad ponies love old pizza.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

SEAPONIES DON'T EVEN EAT PIZZA THEY CAN'T GO ON LAND AND BE BROUGHTEN TO THE STUDENT LOUNGE HELLO? DUH.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

NEW ICONS WOOOO

― JW (ex machina), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Seapizza.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

whatever, this is AMERICA not JAPAN

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you guys went to SD? I wasn't sure.

My aunt lives there and from what I know of it, it's pretty conservative, all-American, car-culture, suburban, etc.

There is a little downtown, city section but most people live outisde of that in subdivisions.

True, there's the beach. And lots of pools in backyards.

xpost: there are sea ponies in the book, Moominsummer Madness

And proximity to L.A.? It's not *that* close. I can't remember is it 1 and a half hours? And the traffic can be really bad.

Just some things to consider.

I would definitely choose/recommend L.A. over S.D.

L.A. is awesome! I sort of would like to move there but I'm not sure if I would get sick of it and feel like I'd had enough after a year.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I thought of a good thing about S.D.: the nights are really beautiful and chilly.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I've been to SD before. It's not v. exciting, you're right, but beaches is BIG ++++++++++++++++++++ to me. I would choose LA but LA doesn't have as many seals, which is kind of a no dice. Though it has 100% more Spencer Chow.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm headed home but will see everyone at Dukem at 8!

― quincie, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Those ponies would look good on a pizza.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I forgot when we went to Coney, you stayed in the water practically the whole time--you are practically a mermaid. Do the seals exist outside of the SD zoo? My SD experience is fairly cloistered as we never really leave Chula Vista, or wherever my aunt lives now.

L.A. has Spencer Chow and Morrissey, but the latter may have decamped for Italia.

Yes, Pete, you should go to grad school. Actually, you should just start teaching high school math--they need smart math teachers. And if you move to NYC they will give you a housing subsidy.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

bye q/k!
http://www.massimocaruso.it/images/unicorni/unicorno_02.gif

xpost my mom saw seals on the beach at SD but her accounts of things are not necessarily reliable. I actually am a mermaid, btw.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Is it okay if I post the most disturbing animated GIF I've seen today?

― Dan (GAH) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

yes, do so immediately.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f140/doodoo2/Mr.gif

― Dan (You Asked) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

― Dan (I Killed Everyone) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

agh I already saw that.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

get that motherfucking snake off my motherfucking thread!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

dammit dan ally does not speak for dc

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen porpoises at Virginia Beach, if that's at all equivalent?

I love mermaids. Shame about the mermen though.

(Thank you hidden images.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Mary, you have no idea.

― Dan (Nightmares For Weeks) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

sorry guys, I'm really bored and haven't eaten anything today and only ate that half a pizza yesterday, my head is kind of like whoot.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

*head in the sand*

What's a good response to an asshole who beeps at you for no good reason other than that they are an asshole and maybe you cut them off the wee tiniest bit but you didn't really have a choice and they could see you coming a mile away?

This morning I bept back, but I'm not sure that was effective.

I have basically used my horn once--when someone was backing into me in a parking lot--anything else as long as I can see what is happening I basically suck it up and swear to myself. Really, you could stop right in front of me on the freeway and as long as I could avoid hitting you I wouldn't beep at you. Why is everyone so horn-happy?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand using the horn unless someone is acting like they are going to hit you. Otherwise you aren't accomplishing very much.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

What's a good response to an asshole who beeps at you for no good reason

I usually throw up both hands in an exaggerated manner as in "WTF dude, it's not my fault & I can't do anything about it!" however if we're stopped at a light I'll turn around & say "EXCUSE ME IS THERE A PROBLEM" which they can't hear obv but can clearly see I am annoyed

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

c'mon mary, you live in virginia, you should know the answer to this one - you go for yr concealed weapon and pop a bitch!

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

you go for yr concealed weapon

[Mr.gif]

― Dan (Ha) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

dan, you should totally just permanently set yr parenthetical text to ZING

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am seriously getting road rage. At first I was mainly concetrating on like not getting in accidents and maybe felt like I was at fault when people beep at me, but now that I am getting more used to driving, I am getting really annoyed. DC is the worst. People are always beeping at me. And sometimes they leave their hand on the horn beeeeeeeeeeep.

I don't really react publicly in DC bc the drives are more aggressive, but twice now on Duke street I've been ready to throw down. One time, typical thing, like a bus stops in front of me, so I stop, the other lane is full, so nothing I can do, and this girl in an SUV behind me is like beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. I totally threw my hands up turned around and looked at her said like WHAT IS THE PROBLEM and she pulled up besides me and laughed embarassingly. These people driving these high up vehicles can see the whole traffic patterns and I think they beep at the sight of any congestion.

Then this morning, I'm stopped behind this car who is turning left, and of course none of the cars in the other lanes were going to let me get over to pass, so I let them all go buy, and then move out before another car in the distance and beeeeeeeeeeeeep. Like he couldn't have anticicipated I was going to do that! And then I just went into a monologue in my car, accompanied by hand gestures, when I hit on my brilliant plan of beeping back.

road rage

I want to move somewhere there are no SUVs assholes.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

duke street is where we should hold our marching band parade.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Man, fuck the over-aggro VA drivers. I feel like you should only get mad at what is going on if you have a truly better idea of what to do. In VA, no one uses their fucking turn signals, cut each other off constantly, and speed up for pedestrians.

Ally - I love me some Rosslyn, but South Pasadena is SO much cooler. Hence, my move in - 41 days. I am still scared shitless, however.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Rosslyn is the absolute nadir of the universe. I'd rather live in Darfur or Siberia.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

But that's the thing, they make it so you don't even want to use your turn signal, beacuse everyone will speed up the second you light it.

Also, why can't peeps wait when merging onto the freeway, for the _ _ _ _ _ _ (broken) lines? I try to wait for the broken lines, but then the asshole behind me totally merges behind me and before I get a chance to by crossing the straight line, so then I get all paranoid and think that I have to merge before the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ lines and then maybe I annoy the people in front of me. Am I wrong about this? Is it cool to just merge at earliest opportunity?

(Are you coming tonight, AZ?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

You and me both, Mary, you and me both. My wife was home sick today so I had to drive to work from Fairfax to Arlington myself which means NO HOV FOR ME and oh god people here are just bad, bad drivers. Plus, on the way home, I stopped at Wegman's to pick up sushi and saw some dickhead driving BY HIMSELF in a Hummer and I justed wanted to drive into him over and over until the steering column penetrated his torso then laugh and say WHO'S DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT NOW, SMART GUY?

x-post But that's the thing, they make it so you don't even want to use your turn signal, beacuse everyone will speed up the second you light it.

YES. This drives me insane, because I've always been good about using signals, but down here, it's like, "Screw it, it's just the universal PLZ TO CUT ME OFF signal."

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

OK, this is my last disgsruntled driver tale for the tale. I was driving by my local high school on an afternoon at like 35 pretty slow because I'm sort of conditioned to slow down because half the time it's school speed time. It's a really wide lane so someone can easily pass if they want to, but they are not really supposed to. Anyway, this kid in a Porsche passes me at like 80. I'm like, okay, idiot student, I hope you die, whatever. Then, this middle aged women passes me driving like a Ford Fiesta?! Maybe she thought that was another lane? Then she gets to the end of the road which turns on to Route 1 and pulls over to the side of the road, let's me go past, then does an illegal U-turn and heads back in the other direction. Why?

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, anyone who wants to hear some well-performed folk-tinged pop music, my band will be at Austin Grill (yeah, I know) in Silver Spring this Saturday night. You may not know me, and it's Austin Grill, but on the other hand RED WHITE AND BLUE MARGARITAS.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

What's a good response to an asshole who beeps at you for no good reason


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― nervous.gif (eman), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.herbgreenefoto.com/gallery/jefferson_airplane/grace-2.jpg

― nervous.gif (eman), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

ops

http://www.herbgreenefoto.com/gallery/jefferson_airplane/grace-2.jpg

― nervous.gif (eman), Thursday, 20 April 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

sorry guys we could not make it. I have the lady curse tonight and lack of products to deal with the lady curse so I didn't really wanna go out. TMI?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.walgreens.com/dbimagecache/93713.gif

― nervous.gif (eman), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

i bear gifts tho despite the lady curse.

http://photo-origin.tickle.com/image/93/2/6/O/93260453O228484237.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 03:26 (nineteen years ago)

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:43 (nineteen years ago)

SEE WHAT COMES OF IMG SRC
USE THE i* IT IS SAFETY CODE

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

BTW really I want to mention that the half-smoke experience (with kraut, mustard + hot sauce) is really never complete until the 11th hour, and you should never suspect otherwise, because you'll end up posting on the when was the last time you shit yourself thread. TMI?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man I had such a lovely time last night and there is much to note but I can't at the moment because I am an asshole and have pushed a deadline or two to the "oh I am so fucked" point so I'm going to go away and do some actual work for a couple of hours. But I will take a moment to point out that I really am not going to be happy with my wardrobe until it includes a shiny red bodysuit (someone find one for me a post a pic pleeeeeeeese). And the FAs rock. And I love Ethiopian food. And Brian and Mary are the bestest. Thanks to all. What are we doing next week?

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

eating healthier food and avoiding $6 pints?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

have pushed a deadline or two to the "oh I am so fucked" point

me too. sorry I couldn't make it. I realized, shit, I am overtired already (I hardly ever drink & should not have had that third beer) have been massively late to work every day this week & have some deadlines late & this is very very bad even though most everything's late around here.

what's this about the shiny red bodysuit though

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 20 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

eating healthier food and avoiding $6 pints?

WRONG ANSWER

what's this about the shiny red bodysuit though

The Bjork-channeling singer/guitarist of Kiss Me Deadly started off in just like jeans and a hoodie, but all of a sudden started stripping it all off to reveal a skin-tight, nothing-to-the-imagination shiny red bodysuit! I tried to catch Pete's eye to be like "dude, crazy Canadian is taking off all her clothes!" but SURPRISE his attention was elsewhere. ZR and I discussed whether there were any undergarments involved and I think we agreed that there was evidence of thong. Anyhow, it was totally hot and now I want my own shiny red bodysuit to wear around house while playing air guitar.

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think today I am going to have to Qdoba it just to go along with the vast majority of my officemates. also hopefully their 3-cheese steak burrito is more filling and less disturbing than the double half-smoke adventure.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-SMOKE BUTT EXPLOSION

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

anyone else stuck on the concept of a "double half-smoke"?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

it is 4/20, after all

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

HALF-SMOKE BUTT EXPLOSION

http://www.roadfood.com/photos/mini_3218.JPG

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS A DOUBLE HALF-SMOKE IS A SMOKE.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

So a half-smoke squared is a quarter-smoke? .5S * .5S = .25S

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

so my boss, who is a soda fanatic, just came in and made me try this new dr. pepper flavored with "berries and cream," which sounds like about the grossest thing ever. while it was not the grossest thing ever, it did taste EXACTLY like mr. pibb. he also told me that he used to keep a bottle of mtn. dew on his nightstand so he could take a drink of it first thing in the morning after he woke up.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Pete I think you should go to grad school to further explore the half-smoke mathematical implications!

xpost Ugh, warm mtn. dew. Ugh COLD mtn. dew, too!

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Subway down by 18th & G has Coca-Cola BLAK. I tried it Monday afternoon, it tasted like a coffee flavored jellybean.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

gross

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

tmi?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

no that is osteoperosis.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

tmj?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

OsteopOrosis

WINZDAY

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

ysi?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

stfu

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

this thread...is not up to its usual today.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

TOO MUCH ROCKING.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

So a half-smoke squared is a quarter-smoke? .5S * .5S = .25S

-- Stephen X (figmentfragmen...), April 20th, 2006.

DUDE

.5S * .5S = .25S^2

WHAT IS A SQUARE SMOKE?

http://incense.chekila.net/image/img_square/_smoke.gif

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT IS A SQUARE SMOKE?

Enter topology.

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT IS A SQUARE SMOKE?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b8/Macmurray.jpg/180px-Macmurray.jpg

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

this thread...is not up to its usual today.

yeah i don't know about all the rest of you but i feel like i got hit with a bag of bricks. witty repartee does not follow (if it ever did in the first place).

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't sleep last night, I should've just come out anyway :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

yeah im tired too

luckily, i may be able to get my parents to co-sign for my apt after all, and my car is "ready to go."

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

That's good news! Now if Mary just gets her files back from Memphis. . .

I just googled my former boyfriend. He has a kid. Its name is "Greene."

I can now be totally sincere in thanking dude for breaking up with me lo these many years ago.

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am so sick of my job.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Quit!

That was fun. I'm really glad I came out. I was kind of tired and depressed before hand, but I think the company, the Ethiopian food and beer, the Fake Accents, and the Red Jumpsuit Girl did me a world of good.

I also dug the Ally Sheedy Emily.

Why do the residential streets around the U Street area always look like a film set at night?

For a small stretch walking out the club and down Ninth Street I was propositioned by many men. Is that street Little Ethiopia?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 April 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

the stretch between shaw and adams morgan is one of the highest concentrations/populations (i forget which) of ethiopian people outside ethiopia!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

apocryphal (ie someone told me a while back) knowledge indicates that it is the highest pop. of ethiopians outside ethiopia.

also an annoyingly shrill public interest group wants to give me drinks and food tonight and then a scumsucking industry law firm wants to give me drinks and food tomorrow nite. ah the life of an intrepid cub reporter.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I keep waiting for one of these urban concentrations of immigrants to become larger than the home country. Then you could have, like, Big Liechtenstein.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, but that particular pocket of 9th Street seemed extra dense. Maybe some party had just gotten out or something.

Ally and Tom, we passed this restaurant Brown Sugar that I thought might have your chicken & waffles, but I checked on-line and I can't vouch for them but it seems this other nearby restaurant Creme has it.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

man you guys bitching about deadlines. I wish I had deadlines. Then I wouldn't have to play fucking Mr. Helpdesk To The World Point-Of-Contact-For-Everything all goddamn day. I would just have my deadlines and that would be that.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Fake Accents, The Queen is Dead was released 1986--does that count?

My moms just brought home Popeyes--see y'all.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit, pope yes!

well, i like QiD, but youre gonna have a tough time selling this one to ZR.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

"oh shit pope yes"???????

FYI I have no interest in eating this "chicken and waffles," those are not things that should be together in my mind. It's like those weird Chino-Cubano restaurants that popped up all over the place like 6 or 7 years ago.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Slippery When Wet was 1986!

ILX does dinner & a show last night was excellent! As a lead singer Zack really commits to the audience. And he broke a glass, but no equipment. Pete is quite vigorous. I liked the other singer, too, but you need to confiscate his Dylan box set.

I feel like a sucker for leaving before bodysuit party time. Oh well, I had the alcohol in me.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha i forgot that i renewed my status as drink dropper, stealing the mantle of klutziness back from q. glad that's back where it belongs.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

"oh shit pope yes"???????

ZR's gf once asked him what that place "pope yes" was all about.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

dude you know she's gonna kill you now

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

those small fists contain a lot of rage

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

altho now that the cat's out of the bag it was totally hilarious. i think we were around 15 or 16 (well i guess she was at least 16 cuz she was driving) and we were driving up rt. 1 and saw a popeye's out the window and she turns to me and says "pope yes? what the hell is pope yes?" and i start laughing and she hits me. ah memories.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I wish she was at the show last night :(

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Pete and ZR in cool&hot girlfriends SHOCKAH.

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

POPE YES

I WILL NEVER GET OVER THIS AS LONG AS I LIVE

OH MY GOD

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's bad enough that I missed the Fake A's last night; now I'm going to be wondering about Red Bodysuit Lady for the rest of my life.

But I guess if the band's girlfriends couldn't even be bothered to show, maybe I shouldn't feel so bad....

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

well, pete's was there, so you can still feel bad about that.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

oh man if she ever finds this thread i'm in serious trouble

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh simmer down - you tell that story to everyone

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

yeah nevermind, too much coffee and work = spaz

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

remember when @m@nd@ googled ""pope yes" "nervous goat""?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Did you mean: popeyes nervous goat

Your search - pope yes nervous goat - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.
* Try fewer keywords.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

of course by doing that I have just guaranteed that the day she finally does google such a thing, this will be the one and only result.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

the house specialty at pope yes is, of course, popearoni

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5567/iseewhat3ag0dx.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

OWLYZAY ROFFLESBOT U R A TRAET

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

*hides under desk*

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/martin.crosthwaite/images/B3ta/PopeTarts.jpg

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

OK my first attempt at finding shiny red bodysuit not so good:

http://www.retrieverworld.com/lycra_full_bodysuit.htm

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

oh man, awesome

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

holy lord god

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.retrieverworld.com/suit_specs.gif http://www.retrieverworld.com/suit_specs.gif
http://www.retrieverworld.com/suit_specs.gif http://www.retrieverworld.com/suit_specs.gif
http://www.retrieverworld.com/suit_specs.gif http://www.retrieverworld.com/suit_specs.gif

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

finally i have a garment fine enough to be married in

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ally do we need to have a gifie intervention for you???

Ha ha I found this on some random dude's web site:

"At first, Kiss Me Deadly looked like an ordinary “indie” band, wearing jeans and comfy t-shirts, but then lead singer Emily Elizabeth stripped out of her jeans and top, exposing a tight red vinyl-like body suit. The audience was in awe and became aroused."

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

and one that will protect your abdominal hair!!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes i am a gifie!!!

i should combine the unicorn, the german lycra shepherd, and alizee for something truly unstoppable.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dear god what the hell is THIS?

http://www.civies-suitsforjoe.com/Jane1.html

And what is it doing on my search for shiny red bodysuit?

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

why don't you go to Frederick's of Hollywood's website? They used to have crazy ass things like that. Or go to Amazon's clothing section, it is FULL of insane stripper shit.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I need to get Dan P. on the case. He was so helpful finding bridal shoes!

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

ummmmmmmmmmmm

http://pics7.erosboutique.com/catsuits-womens-titzip2.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.erosboutique.org/store/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=erosbout&Category_Code=WomensCatsuits

fuck red, buy the ridiculous Kill Bill one

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

whoa

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

"of course it has feet for total enclosure"

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit there is a transparent one!!!! OMG

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

yeah dude!!!!!!!!! too bad these are all like 10 trillion dollars.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

that is SO expensive

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

latex freaks be spendin a hell of a lot of money on their fetish!

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

yah esp for completely transparent clothing, you know. I mean I can be naked for free.

I wonder if you go outside in completely see-thru clothing, if you can still be arrested for indecency? Because, technically, you DO have clothing on. Hmmm.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

whoa, GREAT question, ally.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I think someone needs to try it. Take it to the Supreme Court if they arrest you. I am going to e-mail some friends this question and see what they think.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oops--IT dude just walked into my office and got a damn good look at the site I was scoping!

I'm actually kind of partial to the purple one. But I'm 5'11''--what are the chances one of those things would actually fit? I think for this project I'll have to go couture.

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

quincie, you are 6' or i am a dinosaur

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

a PETERODACTYL? GEDDIT? GEDDIT?

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

man i'm just firin blanks today. screw it, i'm going home. well no, i'm going business drinkin, and then i'm going home. later dudes.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

§ 22-1312. Lewd, indecent, or obscene acts.
(a) It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to make any obscene or indecent exposure of his or her person, or to make any lewd, obscene, or indecent sexual proposal, or to commit any other lewd, obscene, or indecent act in the District of Columbia, under penalty of not more than $300 fine, or imprisonment of not more than 90 days, or both, for each and every such offense.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am 6+' in heels, true! But I'm pretty sure I don't break the mark in my bare footsies.

ZR you crack me up! Have an awesome weekend.

― quincie, Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

but if yr wearing clothes it's not obscene! am i rite?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think it would still be considered exposure - if you can see it, it's indecent. I wouldn't think there's a difference between wearing clear clothing and flashing someone from behind a window.

Clear latex suit would have major sweat/condensation unsightliness, no?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

well yeah I mean it doesn't seem like a great idea mind you.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

It's amazing how hard it is to GIS an actual Saran Wrap box vs. inappropriate uses of the product.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even google "ponies" without finding several inappropriate pics, never mind saran wrap. I hate internets :\

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I took the day off to drive all the way to Baltimore to see the Indians play the O's -- a trip that has resulted in SEVERAL BAD EXPERIENCES in the past, mind you -- and the motherfuckers LOST. (The Indians, that is. Fuck an Oriole.)

Baseball fans, plz to explain the following scenario to me: You are the visiting team. You are down 9-4 in the top of the 8th inning. You have a man at first and one out. Batter hits the ball into shallow left, right down the line over the third baseman's head. Instead of holding the lead runner so you have men at the corners with one out -- and, oh, by the way, a guy with a 16-game hit streak and a home run in this game coming up -- you SEND HIM HOME, where he is thrown out by about a foot, so you end up with 2 outs and a man at second.

WHY U BREAK HEART INDIANS?

― phil d. (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

there isn't an explanation for that. It's just pure and simple stupidity, nothing more nor less :(

I suck at hanging out this week btw guys. I left my phone at home today and missed msgs telling me to hang out :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 20 April 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

-- Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyza...), April 20th, 2006.

Not wanting chicken N waffles is further proof that you're not good at the southern thing.

― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

hey can someone bring me up to speed on chicken & waffles? where? worthwhile?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

ROLL CALL! IT'S FRIDAY!

anyone watch ER last night? man, that show still sorta rules. parminder nagra + linda cardellini = HOTTESTE!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

TOMBOT 64, PRESENT AND ACCOUNTED FOR

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

My phone is dying, the low battery noise started going off in my backpack in MY OFFICE WHERE I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE A PHONE TURNED ON.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

U WORK IN AIRPLANE?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DID I SHOT STUPID GOVERNMENT POSITION

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I clicked on this thread by mistake but hi guys!

w faulkner:

the sound & the fury gets easier, as it goes on, and is really good, in parts!!

light in august isn't v difficult and v good, I think

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

BTW dudes I need to get into the supersaturated primary color T-shirt business, those fuckers must make a killing on all these school groups

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

HERRO GIRRANDERS

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

DO YOU THINK THE BUILDING I WORK IN IS HIDEOUSLY UGLY OR A GOOD CASE OF EARLY BRUTALISM

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

is it a famous building?

I don't know which one!!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://home.gwu.edu/~tombot/FBIHQ.jpg

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

YOUR BUILDING IS MAYBE THE MOST AWESOME BRUTALIST BUILDING IN AN URBAN SETTING IN THE COUNTRY. BOSTON CITY HALL ALSO IS THE JAM.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

of course our operations center would be located in the windowless shadowy area between the 7th and 10th floors such that our only knowledge of the world outside has to be fed in from the rooftop cameras on the corners of Pennsylvania Avenue & 9th & 10th

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

Hoover = best brutalist building
L'Enfant Plaza = best brutalist wonderland

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

what is up with girl phont and smiley faces??

Also wtf is up with this town in general, your tourists and your postal services are the worst I have ever seen. EVER. Keep in mind I used to live in NYC, in case any of you forgot about the whole thing I keep bitching about.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha I guess there's two ways to look at everything, Brian
the "urban setting" part is what kills me, on this street it sticks out like an open wound

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

haha, dc tourists on the metro are teh funny. this morning i watched a high school teens on tour type group get separated by merciless closing doors in silver spring.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

if I have learned anything about USPS locations it is that each one is its own entity, the Ben Franklin office downtown and the one near us on 20th are both staffed full of friendly and remarkably efficient (for shipping-business point-of-sale staff) women who play their own CDs in the background all day (presumably lending to the friendly and efficient atmosphere) while that 14th street station is a hellhole of the lowest order staffed by a slow, chatty old man and a horrible harpy bitch.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

L'enfant plaza should be renamed Little Brasilia

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

When I say 'best' brutalist building/area I really mean most emblematic of a failed set of utopian planning ideals.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

two more cups of coffee and I think I would be ready to write a nice essay on how the socialist underpinnings of HUD, FAA, DOE & DOT relate to the style their HQs were built in

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

The 14th St station is I guess the main sorting station for 20009? Whatever, they can't tell the difference between "Q" and "O" EVER.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

and JEH is illustrative of the soul-crushing totalitarian corollary which was part and parcel of socialism during that time frame

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

ah, right

the overhang thing makes it look a wee bit like the radio free europe building but less good

concrete, though, and looks like in-situ but almost may as well have been precast, w/ the repetition and shadow gappish, between floor, bits

guess it expresses a lot of things you'd expect it to want to. removed from the street, removed from proportion a bit. portcullisy

it is a bit ugly but not that bad and not by mistake. grey might have made it a lot worse

must look a lot better, in the summer

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

And I still think L'Enfant Plaza would have been considered a huge success if the developer had put in all the ground floor retail before they went broke and the Kennedy Center had been located where Benjamin Banneker Park is (both in the original plans).

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have had 16+12= 28 ounces of coffee today so far.
because the domainnameserver died and we had nothing else to do until about 30 minutes ago.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

RJG I don't know how they did the concrete cladding but I do know they've had to put up yellow caution tape 10 feet out around parts of the building and the courtyard inside because bits of it are breaking off and falling to the ground

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1577/parking7hg.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

haha, concrete is wonderful!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

less so when it has fallen onto your head

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hoover is a combination of precast and cast in place concrete - either could be falling apart without proper maintenance.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

The 14th St PO mean lady is one of the nastiest public-service workers I've ever seen. She once reduced this woman to tears because she couldn't add her return address to her package, repeating "What's the matter, can't you READ?" when it was clear that no, the woman couldn't read, wtf.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I took another day off today. ENJOY SOULLESS OFFICES, SUCKAZ!!

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

whatever dude my soulless office means listening to pavement all day and having an ice cream sandwich social this afternoon

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/4601/hud7na.jpg

DC is for concrete lovers

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

the HUD really looks like it was designed to make humans feel puny and meaningless

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

it looks like it was designed to be a set for 70's "sneakin' movies"

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Everytime I walk by it I imagine all HUD staffers to look like this
http://freespace.virgin.net/noel.w/images/Greys.jpg

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

waht

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lib.umassd.edu/ARCHIVES/images/GroupISECorner1969.jpg
http://k43.pbase.com/u6/hhandy/upload/6329445.Uni1.jpg
http://mk29.image.pbase.com/u20/hhandy/large/9270558.IMG_1352.jpg

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, DARTMOUTH

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES DUDES DUDES
DUDES CHECK IT OUT
THEY TOOK THE PIXELLATIONS OFF THE GOOGLE SATELLITE PIX OF THE CAPITOL AND STUFF

(I actually excalimed "oh wow!" out loud when I noticed this just now)

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

WE USED TO SKATE HERE WHEN I WAS 15; RAD?

I wish I had better photos of some of the multi level outdoor spaces

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

that 2nd photo is wow JW

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you 403 forbiddebn1!@@!

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

the 3rd makes me think of an army of at-ats???????

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think that's the idea

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

well I'm sure it was built before then, RJG.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

these actually look like they rescanned all of their source material
You can still see the dodgy shadows from where they rubberstamped out the sat dishes on the roof, though

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, ally, I was being silly : D

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

when I type in my work address, it literally places the little red arrow on a car driving on 12th and New York. I AM NOT A CABBY, DICKWADS.

xpost I know I was too ;_______;

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

whooops 8 )

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lori.ri.gov/lori/images/rock.gif

brown u library

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sciencemasters.org/images/umassd_photo3.jpg
http://www.umassd.edu/umdhistory/images/sketches/sketch4-contruct.jpg
http://www.umassd.edu/about/rudolph/images/library1.jpg
http://www.umassd.edu/rhc/gallery/umdaerials/03quadsmall.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

how often is google earth refreshed?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

whoa that aerial shot is fucking awesome jw

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

we had this stupid thing at Columbia, it really made no sense with anything else on campus:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/orientation/images/media/lerner.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

is the campus any good, to study at/walk/skate through, JW?

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

that's the bernard tschumi bit!

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

he was head of architecture there=it makes sense, hehe

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha I like how all the 18-wheelers in these satellite photographs look like they're being driven by swervaceous drunks

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

is the campus any good, to study at/walk/skate through, JW?

The classrooms are awful, drafty, cold. The road surface on paths is like concrete with large pebbles :( It is nice in summer though. Also climbing the huge tower is amazing since thousands of pigeons roost in it and go insane and poop all over you.

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

seriously guys don't make me whip out the Q*Bert Library from UT Knox

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=umass+dartmouth+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&ll=41.629097,-71.006039&spn=0.001957,0.003803&t=k&om=1

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

ACK LERNER HALL MEMORIES

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha, the car parks, in the aeriel photograph

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rochester.edu/maps/wilson/1Wilson.jpg

WORST IM PEI BUILDING EVER. Dude is a fucking scammer. Perhaps the most awful interior of any building ever. The lowest level gets almost no natural light and the interior bricks are waaay too dark and show dirt really well. During the height of the day, the "common areas" at ground level are too bright to use computers or sit around a table in. Also, HOT IN SUMMMER and NOT VERY ENERGY FRIENDLY IN WINTER (rochester ny!!!)

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yea, zoom that google maps out to learn what a "commuter school" is!

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Also the res halls east of the quad (across the big loop) are cool

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

whatever UT sux!!!!!!!!! northeast 4 life!

http://216.68.156.42/regions/Tennessee/content/images/peyton.gif

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm putting a stop to this monster I created

http://www.utk.edu/new_images/UT_Ecard13.jpg

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

is that hebrew?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I spent yrs 15-17 of college here, you wanna talk about commuter school :(

http://www.asu.edu/map/asu-lg-2005.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

If that was at MIT, there would be MAD HACKS xpost

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

huge commuter campus love

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK U LOT 4

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit pope yes, I had no idea UMD was that big.

oh don't get me started on parking lots. And 20 minute bus rides from the parking lot. And I scammed my mom's handicapped sticker too!!! WTF would an actual handicapped person do.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

whatever - i lived in commons and parked in the fucking comcast center lot - dont even come at me with that boohoo lot 4 bullshit.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Proposed LDS Institute Additions" are on that ASU map, btw.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

ally whered you live at CU? i know carman and (str/sn/r)uggles

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

At CU? I lived at 168th St. At the med school. I have no idea why since I am no doctor.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

dude, suck it. living off campus and having to park in lot 4 was a sentence that should have been reserved for degree-seeking child molesters.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

here's the campus I studied at!!!!!

http://www.strath.ac.uk/maps/architecturebuilding/map_19892_en.gif

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

OIC NOT UNDERGRAD?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

(XPOST TO ALLY)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

yeah when I was at ASU I lived with my mom and dad, like in a totall different town than Tempe. Try commuting in a car with broken A/C in ARIZONA and then parking in Lot 59, dudes!! Just try it!

xpost I was undergrad! I have no idea why I was sent up there!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

exclamation points motherfuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

FRIDAY RULES, GUYS. CAN WE AT LEAST AGREE ON THAT?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

sorta. i think my week of living on jellybeans, coffee and truffles is finally starting to catch up with me.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.infonexus.com/respek-knuckles.gif

xpost

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I agree - Friday rules. It will rule even harder when I get the FUCK OUT OF WORK!

At least you HAD a car at school, Pietro. I had me my feets, NJTransit, and Greyhound. Quit yer Comcast Center Lot bitchin'.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I EARNED THAT CAR

(did you check gmail dude?)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Inspired by Ally and bcz I got lotsa free time today.

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/4016/92705580md.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

that's the best!! :D

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

REF. LAURAH'S MYSPACE:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/laurae55/atat.jpg

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT is THAT!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH I SAW THAT - TOTALLY DIF BUILDINGS RIGHT?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

OK OK OBV DIF BUILDINGS

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wizard is Biting Me

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Whether or not you earned the car doesn't matter. You still had a car, so stop bitching about the "difficulties" that UMCP put you through in order that you might have access to said car.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

dudes is it ok to wear a suit w/out a tie? i don't have a tie. do i need to buy a fucking tie on my lunch break? that will be a bummer of the highest order.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

A suit without a tie is totally cool. Just don't unbutton more than one button on the shirt unless you are a movie star with perfectly groomed chest hair.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

WVS "BIG BROTHER KNOWS BEST"!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

And yes, big brother in bitterness towards younger brother taking advantage of an opportunity I was never offered SHOCKA.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

uh xpost! i agree with the most recent advice.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

before Tschumiville, there was the shabby-but-possibly-more-architecturally-distinguished Ferris Booth Hall

http://www.cardcow.com/images/set10/card14689_fr.jpg
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/img/assets/3756/cu019.gif
http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/sep99/Images/QFerris%20Booth35.GIF

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

freshman year, we threw a sofa off of Carman onto its roof

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I once brought a pony into a student lounge can you beat THAT

http://x.myspace.com/images/blog/moods/iBrads/bored.gif

didn't think so!!!!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

guys I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo bored :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

was it wavedancer or sea mist?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno but he seemed to like old pizza

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, I just got CRUSHED by some Hunan Buffett. Jesus. Too many carbloads.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

my lunch is a sugar free red bull, I am JEALOUS

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I hadn't had scallion pancakes in like 8 years - I was the fat American for lunch.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

arright i gotta go renew my press pass and get drunk with sleazos. have a nice weekend, folx.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh dude ZR fuck you mang I got a two hour meeting in 20 minutes

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

a 2 hour meeting for BULLSHIT
though I guess that's the only kind we ever have here

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, Zack. I hope you drink so much that you piss yourself. Before 5pm.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

so anyway, this was a slow ass day.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. Terribly so. And, as much as I wish I could go out, I have to go home. Fugh.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

jesus where did everybody go

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

so does everyone unfortunately. Except ZR who is already dranking :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

That stinks. We'll have to do it once my finals are over.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

works for me, are your finals over now? ;)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 21 April 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ally, why were you at college at age 15? Damn overachievers.

That new, not Ferris Booth Hall building still looks weird to me.

Two moderne buildings at Barnard, that can now be seen in the Bedford Diaries, the one on the left is the library, the one on the right is where I had to take astronomy 101 to fulfill a math credit

http://www.barnard.edu/library/images/lib6.jpg

And NYU's Bobst library--resisting urge to me tactless comment--

http://www.law.nyu.edu/experience/virtualtour/bobst.jpg

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 April 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

¡hola!

spaniards be parallel parking.

― mookieprf, Saturday, 22 April 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

chicha lounge omgwtf it's so true

― dar1a g (daria g), Sunday, 23 April 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha that is amazing. oh also dudes, in case yr interested a group of louisiana shrimpers will be giving away free la shrimp in dupont this afternoon between 12:30 and 2.

as the press release they sent me puts it: "A free public event in Dupont Circle with fishermen and women from the Louisiana Shrimp Association, who are traveling to Washington, D.C., with 40,000 pounds of wild-caught shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico. Calling the journey 'The Voyage of Food Independence,' the shrimpers want to bring attention to their economic devastation from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from cheap imported farm-raised shrimp that floods the U.S. market from countries such as Vietnam, China, and Brazil.

The fishermen will distribute bags of shrimp for free, along with local recipes and educational materials, urging consumers to buy local wild-caught shrimp in the U.S., rather than imported farm-raised shrimp that is driving them out of business."

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

as for me, the voyage of food independence is one i don't think i can afford to miss boarding

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

40,000 pounds of shrimp & assholes

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

the promo campaign that writes itself, really

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

my only problem is that I'm all for farming some fish and abandoning the wasteful & frankly murderous practice of wild-caught seafood. If I was a savvy entrepreneur I'd be tracking down the mad genius who is trying to develop a reliable crab-farming system and gathering up whatever investment capital we need to make his vision a reality.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

this is the kind of pathetic bleeding heart yuppie I've become, that when claiming a bag of free shrimp, I would feel obligated to ask whether the shrimp were caught with a trawl net or a trap. wtf turtles never did anything for me.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

then you, my friend, need to get hip to S 1195

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/ncaa_logos/maryland_2004.gif http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/ncaa_logos/maryland_2004.gif
http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/ncaa_logos/maryland_2004.gif http://www.nationalchamps.net/NCAA/ncaa_logos/maryland_2004.gif

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah but fuck a Ted Stevens (AK), dude

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

The crabfarmer and the shrimp-roper should be friends.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

farm raised imported shrimp is worse for the environment than American trapped/trawled shrimp, though.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

why? run-off?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

oh - imported - i get it. ha

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

actually it is both of those things, the practices are harmful for their local wildlife too (keep in mind the countries imported shrimp come from, they aren't exactly world-reknowned for great industrial practices and ethical behavior in the workplace, unfortunately).

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

farm-raised tends to be more problematic health-wise, too. and yeah fuck stevens, that bill is kind of a classic "not a bad idea, but being proposed/drafted by assholes who are specifically ignoring the reasonable (as well as unreasonable) qualms of opposing forces, mainly just because they can" sorta thing

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

yes and frankly all the LA shrimpers have to use http://www.sea-ex.com/ted/assets/images/autogen/Turtle_Exclusion_Devices_NBanner1.gif
anyway.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

it does seem like farming is perfectible, though.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

BTW dudes we saw a egg factory operation at work on the Discovery Channel yesterday, and no matter what your job is, it is not the one where you have to stare at thousands of eggs as they come down off the ramps to begin their journey through the machinery and grab the ones with visible shit stains on them.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

fishing would be perfectible too if all fishermen were ruled by the same governing body and marine biologists were given full veto power

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

farming is something that could be perfected but never is. It's not worth the time and effort for the majority of people who get into the field (same as fishing, I guess).

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

the solution probably lies in robots. perhaps even robuts.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

The crabfarmer and the shrimp-roper should be friends

*applause*

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 24 April 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

lets be a community

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

a community of WHAT

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

marines

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

a basic google search would indicate that the correct response is "microbots"

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

of whatever - i just wanna talk to people

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

anybody want lunch soon?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://jheer.org/vizster/images/community.png

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I stayed home sick today otherwise I'd go to lunch

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

whoa awesome idea az

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

except I really am jacked up :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

monday blowz

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Lunch yes please. Just spent 2 hours in a meeting going over kitchen equipment and working up an appetite.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 24 April 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

ack - i just got back! sorry brian!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

well that was fairly and enjoyably ridiculous - and raised an important question: what the hell am i going to do with 2 lbs. of fresh louisiana shrimp at 1:15 in the afternoon?

brian, you work right by far. sq., right? lunchability must commence.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

17th & M - Farragut Crew represent!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 24 April 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL TAKE YR SHRIMP AS SHRIMP DUDES RAN OUT AT 1:30

maybe they next time will not fill entire garbage bags full of shrimp???? worth it for the indignancy of certain line patrons who didn't get their free shrimp.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

you too sicky for a post-work beery ally?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately yeah, today not a good day for that :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

ally you can have my shrimp as long as i get to eat some of it once prepared - i sure as hell ain't gonna be doin anything with it otherwise. it's currently in our office freezer.

― A nervous goat is a force to be reckoned with (teenagequiet), Monday, 24 April 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

dude i'm a great cook, i swear

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

i am so bored.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everyones I am back from Duck, aka 'Bethesda on the Beach.' I gots me a tan, meaning I am now the equivalent of most people's dead-of-winter white. Note: the bestest restaurants in OBX are something short of third-tier DC eats. Cook at home or stick with BBQ.

I have urgent shopping needs in g'town this week (urgent shopping needs = unnecessary products from Kiehl's and the quest for a perfect pink lipstick from MAC), so if anyone wants to hit 1/2 price beers @ Beeradiso I plan to indulge tomorrow or Wednesday.

― quincie, Monday, 24 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh I also need unnecessary products from kiehl's, I might be down depending on how I feel.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Does Kiehl's still do that thing where they carefully enter into their database which SAMPLES they've given you, even if you don't actually buy anything? Just so they can make sure they give you the most complete emollient advice next time you come in. It's kind of off-putting but also charming in some strange way.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am off to the NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM to go see superstar architect REM KOOLHAAS. I hope I do not faint!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

kiehl's. fun! I have a programming workshop tomorrow though (asp.net - uh, it's not up to me what we use @ work..)

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

fuck finding some even remotely accurate RDT&E cost data for a nuclear aircraft carrier, guys

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

it is becoming apparent that the Dept of teh NAVEE would rather not talk about how much it really spends on its ships prior to actual procurement since the GAO ripped their guts out back in 1998, pointing out that it was cheaper and just as effective to run a diesel carrier as it was a nuclear one, thanks to the fact that DOD were basically forcing the DOE to fund some vast majority of their reactor projects

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Is Tom being a good nurse? I'm entering the home stretch of finishing my LS core requirements, so have to stay close to home for the next week or so. When is the Old Town, Alexandria FAP? We can shop for Kiehl's products at Bellecara (extra points for snotty, entitled service) and then get coffee next door at Misha's. I know you want to! If you're feeling healthy, we can go upstairs and do yoga at Pure Prana.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 24 April 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh that sounds like fun. I haven't done yoga in a long time though. I was actually getting online to go on amazon and get some DVDs for yoga or something, my back is in baaaaad shape :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 24 April 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

I will totally FAK in Alexandria! I've never been to Misha's, and in fact am only passingly familiar with anything in Old Town.

Oh god I have not done yoga in so long. I should really get back into it because maybe some 'centering' would help me with my downward spiral into being an asshole driver. Today Mr. Q drove for a bit and I was even an asshole passenger-seat driver!

Mookiemookiemookie check out what my former BF (the one with the killer Dean Dome tickets) has done! I am going to get you signed copies for your offspring.

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/374758.html

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

hey quincie, i think i could be up for drinks tomorrow, provided i dont go to bmore to get my car (THATS RIGHT, IT BROKE DOWN IN BMORE THIS WEEKEND).

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

I love Old town.. I went to Bellecara last time I was there (didn't buy anything though, just checked out fragrances - uh, some kind of sake one, one that was a fresh laundry scent, I don't know what the hell I was doing.)

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

how was the film fest, d?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

i forgot about the guest chefs at the market, like May 14 - Tom Douglas! June 11 - Todd Gray!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

then some dude from Viridian on June 18. have i been programming this in my sleep or something?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

So does anybody have any idea what they're going to do with the 1100 block of F street? Radio Shack was the first to go, then this morning I notice it is also now impossible to buy nunchaku, lil' jeezy, marc ecko footwear, a cheap cocktail OR Popeye's fried chicken on that block. I realy hope they aren't going to demolish it and build anything new there, because that would make about THREE blocks in a row on F which have absolutely zero retail (or business period) on the north side of the street.

WTF, DOWNTOWN? THE LINCOLN THEATRE ALL U GOT?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah - that block fell off slowly but surely. The property is just too valuable to support those businesses, I guess. Another high rise for a law firm, perhaps? Luxe condos?

I used to do that Popeye's like twice a month when I worked accross the street.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK WORK
FUCK WORK
FUCK WORK
I HAVEN'T EVEN HAD MY COFFEE YET QUIT FUCKING ASKING ME STUPID SHIT
FUCK

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly the problem with vacation is that it's not as though someone is covering my shift at the factory--the work just piles up and waits for my return. So vacation really is just fancy procrastination.

This is when I most miss waitressing/bartending. Although I didn't get any paid time off with those jobs, so I guess I'd be kind of fucked for vacation either way.

provided i dont go to bmore to get my car (THATS RIGHT, IT BROKE DOWN IN BMORE THIS WEEKEND)

This is AWFUL! Surely it is time to FIRE your car (or at least SET IT ON FIRE)?

OK--how about Beeradiso tomorrow (Wednesday)? I'm screwed today catching up with the stuff piled on and even UNDER my desk--I'm becoming one those fucked up people with piles of papers everywhere, unable to find anything without half-hour notice.

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

PILE, DON'T FILE

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

lets stay in touch about tomorrow, q - i might have band practice. otherwise, thursday night is good, so is friday.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Unless some of you want to get beers tonight, I am out. I am busy wrapping up stuff tomorrow prior to my Thursday trip to the BAHAMAS! Island wedding, here I come!

Anejo and lime on the rocks all weekend long, bitches.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes, I have to clean my desk, it's a disaster

film fest? the two I saw were very good (Three Times and October 17, 1961), I may go to more if I can find the time. v annoying to me is the overzealous promotions people for the film fest in orange t-shirts - you walk in the cinema, someone in orange shirt is like "ARE U HERE FOR FILM FEST" then go to ticket area & another orange shirt "WILL CALL HERE OVER DERE BUY TICKETS" & then two more orange shirts take forever getting your ticket & comment on how they didn't understand your name & then you go toward theater & another orange shirt asks where you're going & then you get closer to theater & another orange shirt takes your ticket & then you think you're safe! and try to go in theather and ANOTHER orange shirt either tries to hand you a ballot or starts talking about how they're out & it's like I DONT CARE CAN I SEE A MOVIE W/O BEING BOTHERED ABOUT IT BY 10 PEOPLE PLZ.

Then you try and leave after the movie and someone bothers you again to get your ballot. I have never filled one out because I just want some peace and quiet.. for crying out loud.. I mean goddamn, the E St cinema is small and there are signs everywhere, it's not like this is significantly different than any other movie screening & we are suddenly going to get lost.

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Its the fact that you have to use escalators. And those hallways!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the shorts program; a couple were good, but the rest were mostly short. I'm starting to think no movie should last more than twenty minutes.

The best thing about the overanxious orange-shirt festival hypebots is that they're usually standing right next to the real E St. staff, who don't bother concealing their bored contempt. They're like doppelgangers of scorn.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

DAER BEAUTIFUL DAY: WHY YOU MAKE ME HATE DESK JOB?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dopplegangers of Scorn

I have found my band's name

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

My fucking lunch:

Salad with lettuce from my garden = GOOD!
Chocolate Chip Granola Bar from Nature's Promise = Failed to live up to (albeit tacit) promise of edibility!
Homemade yougurt that came out more like cottage cheese = Am I going to die for having eaten this?

What was Your Fucking Lunch? If Tom had another double half-smoke I am going to be so sad.

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I ate an egg sandwich. I have no idea why.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

new burrito source already has lines almost out the door. I am not waiting half an hour for the privilege of paying $7.25 for a motherfucking burrito, so I went back to ABP and got some broccoli cheddar soup, a chipotle chicken baked sandwich, and a jalapeno cheese croissant for later. Then I bought a fiddy cent coke in a can from the hotdog lady. My patience for leaving the building to get lunch is really wearing thin since we only have about 3 working elevators on our side at any given time, meaning it takes about twenty minutes just to get to and from the sidewalk.

God DAMMIT, Downtown.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Who knew there was such latent Old Town love abounding? We'll have to work something out--after next week maybe--so I can fully appreciate the ALX.

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

my lunch was some honey-curried chicken from firehook (below my office)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh man that is a good sandwich.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I had panag gai from Thaitanic.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

i always get the chicken in a tupperware - ive never had the sandwich - i almost did today, but i was nervous about the bread or something. DID I FUCK UP?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

did you walk up to thaitanic, or do they deliver to you?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Brian! Beer @ Beeradiso tomorrow! You better be there because you are the force behind delicious beer at half the price!

Beer, everyone! It's a GOOD THING.

xpost WTF w/ firehook tupperware???

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

they have these little (READ: WAY OVERPRICED) tupps of delicious for sale

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

mmm beer

for lunch, I had some chicken cooked in tagine cooker this weekend w/chinese eggplant and onions in some thai basil curry sauce, and one organic apple. I'm hungry now though, I might go to whole foods and get some yogurt or something

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

fuckin' yeah dude beer whassup

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post) Actually, you were probably better off with the tupperware. Bread mingling with curried chicken for a few hours under plastic wrap never really lives up to expectations.

I went up to Thaitanic because I had to drop some drawings off on 14th st, but they deliver too. But maybe not during lunch.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

you people and your bizarre ethnic lunches unavailable in the Penn Quarter

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

but in a couple of months you'll have a CHEESE STORE very close to your building!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I had a bag of weird green vegetable-y chips from the hippie mart on Penn and two mini tootsie rolls from an absent colleague's please-talk-to-me candy bowl.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

chicken cooked in tagine cooker this weekend w/chinese eggplant and onions in some thai basil curry sauce

Good god that sounds spectacularly good! You made this yourself? I have always wanted to do the tagine thing, but it hasn't happened yet. I will be sure to plant some thai basil this year because I wuv it.

I have to get in the car to get good food on workdays, but Bob's and Joe's noodle houses somewhat make up for this fact.

― quincie, Tuesday, 25 April 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

The CUA students are in their summer clothing :(

― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I did make it myself, uh, the tagine is easy to use - I didn't make the curry though, it came out of a jar. I just kind of threw in stuff I had around & then said, ok, curry paste would go with this. (there were supposed to be some green beans but they weren't good any more)

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

So who got a lot of work done today?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

argh still not me b/c I have the attention span of a fly and CSS is killing me.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's kind of embarrassing to be one of the first people to discover that the board is back.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

You could pretend it's just a coincidence, like I'm doing.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it was kind of a coincidence, in that I just happened to be clicking on a link to an ILM thread when it came back online. At first I thought I must have accessed a cached copy somewhere.

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Even more of a coincidence is that the thread I was clicking on was about "what would you do if ILX ever went offline for good?".

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I took a CSS class not long ago.. it still kills me though. internet exploder in not using web standards shockah. have you tried A List Apart? they have articles on lots of stuff. also http://www.artypapers.com/csshelppile/

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I've read all through ala and some other sites.

I'm trying to fix my predecssor's work. He built this site with completely unneccesary php includes and I'm trying to take them all out and make the pages static. But his design was also based on fixed-width bg images. argh. so everything's breaking and I hate tweaking things back and forth.

I'll check out that other link.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh no. that reminds me, re: includes. how do I shot really simple includes (page header, footer navigation)? right now I have a batch of SHTML files but is this the best way?

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. . .I'm the ancient old-schooler web person trying to catch up over here. I know with php you're grabbing stuff from a database. What is SHTML? We build our sites with Dreamweaver b/c we use their content mgmt software so the includes are just simple code savers when making templates.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Wednesday, 26 April 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yay board is back. Note: it is 6:26 and instead of drinking beers at happy hour I am just now arriving home after 5 hour science geek symposium (which was only supposed to be a 4 hour science geek symposium) and FUCK ALL if the cat hasn't puked on the new fucking couch. And now she's meowing because she's extra hungry because SHE PUKED UP HER LUNCH. Yeah miss kitty how about SO NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

So yeah Stephen would you like another cat?

― quincie, Wednesday, 26 April 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

CSS took hours of staring at it in frustration until it suddenly clicked how it works. Dreamweaver can drop that shit in pretty easily if you don't want to write it by hand.

how do I shot really simple includes (page header, footer navigation)?

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol4/javascript_no9.htm

― /me aaaaaaaaaa (eman), Thursday, 27 April 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

overheard on iberia airlines again and again and again...

been around the world and i i i i
i can´t find my baby
...
been
a
round
the
world

― mookieprf, Thursday, 27 April 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes,

So, I walk into my office, and NO ONE is here. Its 9am. On a Thursday. How long do I stay here before leaving?

Also to consider: I was supposed to get paid today. I, like an idiot, have not done direct deposit.

But how long do I stay?

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

correction

Almost nobody is here. But I still might not get paid - the partner who signs the checks may not be in today. Crappity crap crap.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Dreamweaver can drop that shit in pretty easily if you don't want to write it by hand.

I constantly forget about the design view in Dreamweaver b/c I only know how to do things by hand.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

hey andy - holler when you want your keys back bro

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

I only reluctantly use dreamweaver & only the code view, myself.. but it's actually been pretty handy editing the style sheet I'm using b/c I always forget the correct syntax for certain things, ie background image no repeat left align, etc.

thanks for the article, that's handy. I had been adding little includes & using shtml extension which seemed like bad practice, but.. eh.. the project's now on hold anyway, so whatever. (I don't even want to get started on that.. arrgh)

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome back, Sr. Mookie--how was your trip? Make with the anecdotes.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Thursday, 27 April 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Is web site design fun? I made my first powerpoint presentation this week. It was kind of okay. Maybe next I will tackle simple html.

Do you guys use SGML? All of my classes keep saying how great an improvement SGML is over HTML but no one seems to be able to coherently explain why.

Also: PURL is supposed to be quite useful to the library community. Not PLUR.

BLMA: Is law school rife with professionals conflicted about their profession? Who are lawyers? What do we do? Why are we useful? Or do you just get on with it? Library school seems to be in a perpetual tizzy about just what a librarian does. I don't know why they can't just accept that we are geeks and be done with it.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Mary, architecture school was the same way. We spent so much time trying to figure out what our profession was that I never learned how I shot handrail.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes web design is fun. depends on my mood.

At the moment it's a little less than fun b/c although I've dabbled with "modern" web development here and there in the past few years it's now my full-time occupation. Despite 7+ years of successful and increasingly effortless design I now feel I'm starting over in many ways. *whine/moan*

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

1003.3.3.11.4 Handrail Graspability
Handrails with a circular cross section shall have an outside diameter of at least 1.25 inches and not greater than two inches or shall provide equivalent graspability.

now I know!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh good, Brian, I'm glad it's not just us. The trend in librarianship seems to be toward "leadership" and "innovation." Wouldn't the leaders and innovators be in business school though? I wonder if business school wrings hands about it's mission--or if they're just like, Okay, we're here, here's how we make a lot of money.

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 27 April 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Inspired by yesterday's reliable source:

POO: Jenna or Barbara?

I think I'm going to have to go with blondie; the other one just comes off totally bitchy.

― quincie, Thursday, 27 April 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

WTF PEOPLE?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

www.nationstates.net

play with me!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

UGH NO WAY

the only games i play involve anagrams

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

or as i like to call them, "agranams"

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

how do you know this does NOT involve agranams.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I CZECHED THE SITE IT LOOKS LIKE RISK WHICH IS BORING

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

OOH LOOK AT ME IM MAKING "DECISIONS" ABOUT "COUNTRIES"! IM GAY FOR POWER!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

ALLYGAY FORPOWER

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

risk is awesome.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

ehhh

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

it's really more about making up dumb shit and lol @ yr country's profile. wtf dude.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was wondering where everyone was? For I knew a bomb had vaporized all you downtowners.

I don't think anyone would ever bother bombing Rockville :(

― quincie, Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

For I knew a bomb had vaporized all you downtowners

Um, that should be for ALL I knew. I R not a terrorist. For all you know.

― quincie, Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ picturing you saying your uncorrected post

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I mean yeah, I've fantasized about bombing downtown DC, but only after evacuating everyone except the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania. And maybe congress.

― quincie, Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

dude you are so red-flagged

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

we'll miss you when they put you in jail, quincie.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

CONJUGAL FAP

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 27 April 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/5418/image0027ok.jpg

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 27 April 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Do you guys use SGML? All of my classes keep saying how great an improvement SGML is over HTML but no one seems to be able to coherently explain why.

Never used that, but as far as I know XML/XHTML is the way to go, if only because it's where the current standards are headed. The whole IE vs. standards thing is ridiculous.

I use the split view in Dreamweaver but it's really becoming pointless to use graphic view as it usually renders horribly there and yet looks fine when previewed in the browser. Maybe its cuz my version is k'd :o?

A List Apart is def. a good site

― /me aaaaaaaaaa (eman), Thursday, 27 April 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

CONJUGAL FAP

I would almost go to prison just for this experience.

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

1. They finally changed the SND FX on the Red line. I am really, really, REALLY going to miss the ol' TWO. TONE. I think the new beeps are what bother me more than haughty bitch yellin' at me what to do.

2. I saw a Cadillac parked downtown this morning with a Jesus fish, a handicapped parking tag, and a vanity plate that read "BATTLAX." I was frightened.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am always referring to http://www.w3schools.com/ for my css & html reference needs. CSS makes more sense to me than HTML did, for some reason, and the fact that Firefox has so many plugins to let you edit sheets on the fly in a sidebar fucking rules. I redid my whole blogger template that way. Then I posted to it like 6 times and stopped cold.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh noes, are they changing that sound on all lines? I think Trans Am sampled that shit on one of their albums.

― /me aaaaaaaaaa (eman), Friday, 28 April 2006 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

btw anybody doing web or even IT work who hasn't installed the Web Developer toolbar for FireFox is MISSING OUT YO.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

yes it is a great toolbar.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 28 April 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's Friday! Time to talk about Friday stuff such as WHAT ARE YOU DOING THIS WEEKEND, HUH?

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Meeting at 2:00pm on Saturday in the Gelman Library to assemble the binder for our Sys Eng I project.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Surely you can do better?

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Not at the moment. I'm sure the farmer's market is in there somewhere on the itinerary. Personally though I'd like to get a little spring cleaning done, there's a lot of shit in my closet I didn't even TRY to wear this winter that needs to be put to rest.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and I gotta ship about a half-dozen more Amazon orders tomorrow too.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I AM GONNA DRINK BEER THIS WEEKEND!

(note: that's more of an assumption than a plan)

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Mary and I are going to the movies tomorrow at 2 so if anyone else wants to join they're welcome.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen a movie in ages but I'm afraid that's not really near me.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.filmforum.org/films/naruse/scatteredclouds.jpg
somehow this still seems more interesting than sys eng I

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a friend visiting, tomorrow we're gonna go to the Dada exhibit around 3 and see if there's a line for the Ute Lemper show at 4:30.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

for some reason 'Wife, Be Like a Rose!' is cracking me up.

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ya'lls is having cultured weekends. I'm a gonna pull some weeds out of my rasberry patch. And ride my bike. TO SOME BEER.

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that film series is still going on and I've missed them all! I can't make it tomorrow either. Am going to a house party tomorrow night, which should be interesting, I resolve to drink much, much less than I did last time when visiting these people.

I watched "Buffalo '66" on the independent film channel last night. I'd seen it before & hated it but this time it was sort of great, I guess it depends on whether you find Mr Gallo funny or not.

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

"for some reason" xpost

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I liked Buffalo '66, but I saw it pre-Bunny Brown. Who has seen Bunny? Worthwhile or waste of time?

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

And ride my bike. TO SOME BEER

I have not seen Brown Bunny.. not really on my must-see list, honestly

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I did not like it.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Is it really as graphic as ppl say? Because I couldn't imagine keeping my dinner down if I had to watch Chloe Sevigny give Vince Gallo a blowjob in full detail :\

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! When I was getting a new bike and bitching about seat comfort the bike dude pointed me to some bike-shorts-under-skirt design, which I flatly rejected. I mean seriously, how many women want MORE ass padding under a skirt?

xpost to Dar1a

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

At first I read that as "how many women want MORE ass paddling". Back to work.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

It is really that graphic. (although I don't remember CS going down on Gallo).

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 28 April 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

we need crackers to eat fancy cheese.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, that Brown Bunny looks gruesome. No wonder Sevigny's playing a Mormon housewife now.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

hi guys I am never going to the Woodley Park "We Let Chimps Roam Free" Zoo again!

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/03/06/ferocity_of_chimpanzee_attack_stuns_medics_leaves_questions/

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

UGH I FUCKIN HATE CHIMPS

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

more chimps

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 28 April 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

frightening. I have told this story before, but my mom once had her drink stolen in a bar by a chimp. I always said, why you not fight back, respect yourself and get yr drink back from the ape already, but now I am glad she didn't cos she'd be handless or something!! I had no idea they were so awful.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/monkeywire/2000-November/000017.html

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3611666.stm

― JW (ex machina), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I AM ALREADY SCARED ENOUGH ALREADY I DON'T NEED TO KNOW MONKEYS TARGET SMOKERS TOO!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

''Chimpanzees have a real sense of right and wrong and fairness and unfairness," said Fouts, a veteran of four decades of work with chimps. ''It sounds like people were showering a lot of attention on Moe, birthday cake and the like. . . . Perhaps the other chimps were jealous of Moe."

Oh, okay then!

― Dan (Fickle Chimps) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 April 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

knowing what we already know about ourselves, why would people assume that an uglier, more robust and primitive version wouldn't be completely brutal and nasty and bite all your fingers off and rip your eyes out with little to no obvious provocation?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Because they look so cute in suspenders!

― Dan (KAWAII! ^_^ O_O Wait Stop AAAAAARGH ;_) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously I kinda think Grizzly Man made more sense. At least we don't know of a species which repeatedly murders millions of their own kind for no goddamn reason at all that's descended from BEARS. Never trust a primate, people. Ask fucking Saddam.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

there's always a REASON for killing!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

and a SEASON for grilling

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

eh i give up i need a weekend

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/owlive/img/nov03/bizmarkie1121_big.jpg

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 28 April 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hi bitches--who wants to go to the Preakness?

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 28 April 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I would totally go to the Preakness! Never been, but I'm am down with horse racing to the extent that I plan my annual summer pilgrimage to Saratoga around the race meet.

Two bucks across the board #7, bitches!

― quincie, Friday, 28 April 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS

I just had to give Dr. Ben...A BATH

he did NOT like this at all. Tom and I are bloodied and wounded.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Saturday, 29 April 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

I had to give my first cat a bath every other week for his first year or so. He never did get used to it, and as he got bigger (this started when he was six weeks old) it just got more brutal.

Ladies of ILEDC, for all of your bra shopping needs I can now heartily recommend Sylene in Friendship Heights. While I would consider bra shopping vs. root canal a toss up, Elsa made it almost a pleasure (and not just because she handled my cleavage A LOT). The prices are surprisingly competitive with VS, as long as you stay away from the $150+ fancy-ass models. I got three new bras (with two more on special order for different colors) and five new pairs of panties, which is truly an acheivement for me. Elsa, you can feel me up any time!

― quincie, Saturday, 29 April 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

HAYZEUS K. PIGFUCKER

NEVER TAKE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING. Esp. not from M. Duff3y @ GWyoooo.
My group meeting to finish ironing out our project just took 4 hours.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Saturday, 29 April 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

DO drink lemon-infused vodka mixed with Nantucket Nectar's pomegranate & pear juice followed by an Absolut Peppar martini!

― Dan (Mmm) Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 30 April 2006 02:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Tom, you missed a fun movie and nice shopping.

Ally, did you try your clothes on yet? My Smiths t-shirt is Japanese girl sized...I am now trawling the internet to see if I can find it in a large. Strangely, it is not on the UA website--perhaps fearing the ineveitable strong arm of Moz Industries?

My chinoisserie shirt is a bit too big, but perhpas not clownishly so. My red "reconstructued" blouse is sort of tight in the arms and losse in the body, and a bit dorky looking, but maybe it is okay. Perhaps ir would also help if I tried these things on with something other than sweatpants and glasses.

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 30 April 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't really tried on most of my h&m purchases :( All my UA purchases fit but I knew they would to begin with since they were just different colors of things I already own. I'm so boring.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

Spanish Honeymoon Fucking Ten:

1. bald white retiree in a tour group in Seville wearing mid-calf length FUBU shorts
2. Señor Don Gato
3. Driving between Spanish cities = lovely; driving inside Spanish cities = utter fucking nightmare
4. Our hotel room in Seville
5. "Hi, my name's Al. Al Hambra."
6. Consummation
7. The souvenir shop in Córdoba that was playing the Faith No More version of "Easy"
8. Iberia's aforementioned fixation on Lisa Stansfield's "All Around the World"
9. Tapas
10. Discovering upon return that my job has evaporated

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Elsa, you can feel me up any time!

jealous!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I wish my job would evaporate

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

welcome back, mookie! what do you mean, "evaporated"?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Welcome back, mookie! Evaporated job = more time to imbibe, yes?

Hey apparently it is DC yoga week, featuring free and $5 classes at a bunch of studios in the area. I'm going to consult the schedule and make sure I hit a class at either Circle Yoga, G'town Yoga, Spiral Flight (although the name is enough to make me gag), or SomaFit. So let me know if anyone is interested in some down-doggin'.

Oh here's the site: http://www.dcyogaweek.com/

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

INTERESTED!

Also this weekend I expressed interest in BELLY DANCING with a friend of mine so when she sends me the info, I will pass along to all interested parties who would like to BELLY DANCE with us.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

can i just eat lebanese food, while you all belly dance?

ooh - speaking of, can we go to layalina sometime soon?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.somafit.com/pilatesday.html

sounds best for me--a lot of the other places classes don't jive with my schedule :( Gah the Bikrahm studio in Dupont only has free classes at 6am. WTF madness is that?

xpost yeah!! We should do that.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

i like this "eat lebanese, watch belly dancing" plan. mookie, yr honeymoon sounds awesome!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

Dude guys I am having DREAMS about hating my job. Not dreams about being at work and hating, dreams about being in fantastical dream-environments and telling the imaginary denizens there about how much I hate my job.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Though at least the system engineering group project is confirmed complete. presentation + take-home final are all that remains. I thought this day would never come.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is that why you threw water on me last night at 4am? xpost

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

jeez, way to appreciate someone trying to keep the marriage fresh dude.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

3:45

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

OK Ally I'm up for Pilates on Saturday--which class were you thinking? All I know is "Heike" is a perfect name for a pilates instructor!

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Also: I have never ever done pilates and am kind of scared of this "Reformer" contraption.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking either the Pilates Mat one or the Yoga/Pilates Fusion, but I'm worried about how terrible I am at getting up in the morning making me late. But they seem like easy classes, and I haven't done Pilates in quite a few moons so I want easy... haha xpost ok we can be newbie spazzes together.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

young gabbneb had a traumatic experience involving belly dancing here. our last visit there was probably mid-late 80's, when my dad declared it 'koyaanisqatsi' and we never went back.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

i hear that place is intense (belly dancing, 5-course meals)

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

conga-line-of-patrons-into-the-kitchen-that's-shorter-when-it-comes-out

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

the old "cook the patrons" trick, eh?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I did that once at a dinner party at my house, kind of made it easier to get ppl to leave at the end of the night, you know.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

evaporated = "well, since you're leaving town anyway, we decided to keep the person who filled in for you during your honeymoon, cheers, ta"

that's what i get for being honest about leaving town.

hmmm, "Reformer"

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think cooking up people who end up at our house is what we've been forgetting the past few months. Distracted by 100% more cats running around than previously.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.astor-theatre.com/images/in-line/posters/postersT/the-cook-thief-wife-lover.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes I ate at Mandalay Friday night and I'm still thinking about it now. Mmm, fritters.

Mookie, congrats on the job--it's always best to leave town with no regrets about leaving your boss in the lurch.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE NEVER EATEN AT MANDALAY AND NOW I HAVE THE ENVY.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

udon seafood soup at Teaism is GOOOOD.
I take back what I said about lunch in downtown. though yeah $16 a head for the two of us to eat not a tremendous amount of food and no boozes even is a bit high. though we did get to sit next to fish in a pond.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

yeah mookie did they just fire you assuming you don't have enough time or energy to take them to court for wrongful termination, or are you still on payroll albeit with no responsibilities of note?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

OK it was like $10 a head, Tom, wtf.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

i was at a place through a temp agency (for four months) and the temp agency just gave the assignment to someone else. so it's not illegal or anything, just disappointing and unexpected. altho maybe my eyesight will be saved now that i don't have to look at that place's shitty-ass faulty monitor.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

udon seafood soup at Teaism is GOOOOD.

the one with the mussels? that's the best thing they make, and you can't get it in Dupont.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

but you can just go to Raku and get their tom yum instead, in Dupont.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Not The Same (I'm a bit of a Raku dissenter, anyway, though maybe they're just less my style)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

At Teaism you pay extra for the Zen serenity.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah the one with the mussels! I felt rewarded for my caution in ordering the least fuck-uppable item on the menu.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

As I told Ally though they're not really directly comparable. Raku's Tom Yum is a nice consistent taste experience and a terrific pick-me-up if you're feeling under the weather particularly as relates to sinuses. I would not eat Teaism's udon for that. But the udon is pretty awesome in that every bite was a different flavor, and while I was at first wary of having chopped red bell peppers in my asian noodle soup they worked really really well.

BTW Friday night I made buffalo burgers with meat from the farmer's market and marinated in spicy ponzu sauce, on dark wheat bread with bacon + i think provolone and it was awesome. next time, I let ponzu and buffalo hang together for longer before heatblast.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

i really like the farmhouse wheat sandwich bread from marvelous market (assuming they make it any more - it seemed like the place had gone downhill a bit when i stopped in last year)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

man, we're boring today.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

still recuperating from weekend

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

law students gone wild at the ZR household, i tells ya

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm suuuuuuuuuuuuuper foggy right now, my head is killing me. Allergies I think.

I'm gonna joint the shit out of a duck tonight but prolly not actually eat it til tomorrow.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

i don't even want to know what that means

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

actually yes i do

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

ALLY U R A TREAT

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still angry at the other people in the Williams-Sonoma in Clarendon for being so stupid that they were in there purposefully paying 30% markup on kitchen shit you can basically get anywhere.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

I mean wtf kids it is a two-slot toaster. $249.99.
Or a machine that you pour whole beans and water into it, press one button and out comes espresso. For only $1499.99. Motorcycle? New laptop? or ESPRESSO MACHINE?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

wait what 1499.99?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

surely the machine these people were purchasing for such a price possesses all of the functions you've listed above, does it not?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

that's pretty close to the Pentagon, right?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cherryvalley.co.uk/docs/abc_guide/jointing_raw.htm

I think I'll confit half of it and make DUCK RAVIOLI.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

is confit really a verb? awesome

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Man if someone sold a motorcycle that spit out coffee and also connected to ILX and MySpace, I'd...well I'd become the Road Warrior or something, there's no need for a house or a job or a family if you've got that on your plate.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Using the sharp knife remove the parson’s nose. Then slice straight down through one side of the breast.

ALLY ARE YOU KILLING PRIESTS AGAIN?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I HAD AN ALREADY DEAD PRIEST DELIVERED BY THE GROCERY DUDE, DON'T WORRY

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

i said it then and i'll say it again: you lucky motherfuckers

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

you know I'm pretty sure they deliver in Silver Spring, dude. www.peapod.com

When we lived in Arlington the peapod man would come and not just bring food and cat litter but he'd also bring BOOZE with him. In DC, not so ;_;

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Farmers Market people: Do the Farmers Market market farmers ever sell FAVA BEANS? Especially like, pre-shelled ones?

I had some fettucine with favas this weekend and it was like springtime had detonated in my mouth. It was so good it even made me consider cooking, which is bad news for everyone.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

PEAPOD MAN HERE WITH THE GROCERIES!

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have not noticed any beans of any kind there but I am a farmer's market n00b.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

yeah i mean, there's no point in having groceries delivered to your house when you sort of never cook anything ever. however, the idea being visited by the peapod man on a regular basis is kind of awesome enough to make me want to do it anyway.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

fava beans and chianti were basically ruined for me by hannibal lecter

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

PEAPOD MAN! HELLO?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Many liquor stores in DC are happy to deliver to you. This is especially convenient when you're home and drunk. In many cases it ends up being faster than trying to get a beer at the Brickskeller.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Anthony Hopkins: It was like springtime had detonated in my mouth.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

How do you feel about OT on this Sunday, ladies?

Otherwise, next weekend is NG (work + Mom's day), so the weekend after that...? Or is a Monday day off coming up soon?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

FAVA BEANS = YES
SHELLED FAVA BEANS = NO

They are only in season for maybe two or three weeks--I'll let you know when I spot them (maybe next month???)

A friend made the most awesomely awesome fava bean puree from those things and damn the shelling/blanching/individual bean peeling stories he told. . .

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

If the Peapod Man would just recommence bringing me cases of wine every week, I'd be in love with him. As it is, I'm slightly resentful.

xpost eh yeah but I'd have to go to the liquor store and tell them what I want anyway, instead of just buying on the computer while I'm at work...plus there's two of us so really it's unjustifiable, my laziness on this issue...

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Brian I can't imagine hardly anything being much slower than trying to get a beer at the damn brickskeller. I think it getting a beer at RFK is faster than the brickskeller.

also HEY
who wants to try the BIG HUNT WEDENSDAY DCILX HAPPY HOUR this week?
that is a tough question I know.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think fava beans would show up until later in the season

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Many liquor stores in DC are happy to deliver to you.

Brian I kiss you! Why the fuck did I not know this??? This info saves me about a hundred yard walk to Burka's.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

nearest coming Monday day off is I think Memorial Day? I would have to think about this weekend and see how I'm feeling later in the week (the one after is no good for me either, and the 20th and 21st we are in LAS VEGAS), but I could definitely do it at any point over Memorial Day weekend?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I can't do Wednesday as I am having dinner in FREDERICK (don't ask) but any other day = YAY.

Fuck Brickskeller, Mr. Q and I hit Beeradiso again on Friday and it was heavenly. Georgetown students have apparently not yet figured out that this place exists. I had an Anderson Valley beer and it was so god damn good I thought I would just die right there.

OT either Sunday or Mem. Day weekend work for me!

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

FREDERICK?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

are you going to see the frederick keys battle the winston-salem warthogs?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Also can I just say that this new bra has improved my life like 153.2%?

xpost yea, frederick. I'm meeting a friend who will be teaching evolution (the real kind, not the ID kind) in Dover, PA that day, and Fred ended up being pretty much halfway in between. I made reservations at the Tasting Room but am happy to entertain other suggestions. I've set the dining bar pretty low for this one.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

The line out the Brickskeller recently is amazing, I mean you'd think they were giving the beer away or something. Why would you wait on that long of a line just to drink beer? You can get beer right down the street, and don't tell me it's because you want to drink your specific Eggenberg because GUESS WHAT THEY RAN OUT OF IT ON THURS AND HAVEN'T BOTHERED TO GET A NEW SHIPMENT YET, WHOOPS.

The last time I went there I think every single one of us had to run down at least 3 beers (each) before we hit one they actually had. Plus they were out of the FOOD I wanted too. WTF? Why do people continue to go to this place?

xpost so wait how has this bra improved your life and where is this place again?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

the bra is a combination espresso maker/laptop/motorcycle

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK keep me posted. We could also try OT by night if the days get too busy.

I would come to free yoga but am still mired in LS doldrums.

Neither the Tysons or G'town UA offer the Joey Dallasandro T in a size fit for anyone other than a toddler. I could save the shirt for future spawn?

x-post: Where is that bar? I tried to find it once on 22nd street I think and I couldn't.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

none of them have it? You could go exchange it for the Meat is Murder t, I guess?

The Brickskeller is on P and...21st? 22nd? It's kind of down the street from an Exxon, I think. And across from a really stupid statue standing around doing nothing.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

P & 22nd. haha I totally told those dorks on Saturday night to go one block further to the west than necessary! ha! dorks!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Brickskeller is a great place to go if you pretend it's just the 20 seats at the upstairs bar and you only order stuff on tap. Otherwise it's gone far downhill in the past few years.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hm, Meat is Murder and Queen is Dead are just not as good as "Debut."

Maybe I should collect all three? Did you think QID was really hideous?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

on 22nd, 1/2 blk North of P, semi-up a flight of stairs in a townhouse (hotel?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Can anyone FAP on not-Wednesday? I hear Thursday is the new Wednesday. Tuesday, too.

Ally this bra is just so soft and smooth it's like a bra made of injera. And it just fits really really well and hasn't ridden up the back as most bras tend to do on my. Just the right amount of 'lift,' too. The awesomely awesome bra place is Sylene about two blocks north of the Friendship Heights metro, around the corner from where Tiffany used to be. Tiffany is now across the street with like a new LV, Barney's Co-op, Cartier, and all sorts of other ultra high-end shit. Oh yeah, new Jimmy Choo (sp?) store, too. I didn't even bother window-shopping there.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

good things about the brickskellar: nifty iron city beer cans (steelers/pirates/etc) on display, this one beer in the purple bottle that i can never remember the name of, the po boy, hot waitresses of whom one is your friend

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like that color of green, on the QID t-shirt :(

xpost oh god it is in that bizarro poshy strip? OK I know exactly where it is. That little strip of Friendship Heights scares me a little.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Thursday can conceivably be my new wedensday bcz this is "reading week" so there's not scheduled class that night. next week is the final though!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone have opinions on...
Hokusai at Freer/Sackler
Bechtle at Corcoran
T-L, Degas, Sickert at Phillips
Japanesedude at Hirshhorn
DC Jews at Building Museum
?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen Hokusai at F/S and Hiroshi Sugimoto at H and they are both weill worth seeing, in their separate ways.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

I agree w/Mary's assessment of the situation

― ZR (teenagequiet), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

also Woodner Collection and Venetian Light at NGA?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hokusai is a must, as is Sugimoto at the Hirshhorn. I saw the Bechtle show last year at SF MoMA and it was good but didn't have a lot of depth. Haven't been to nu-Phillips yet, or to any of the current exhibits at the NBM.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Woodner drawings are worth your while, but only on a weekday away from the crowds killing time before they get into the Cezanne show. Current sleeper hit of the NGA is Frans van Mieris - just a couple rooms but some amazing work from one of Vermeer's precursors.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

still recuperating from weekend
I hear you.. house party (not at my house).. very little sleep sat night..

anyone here know where my friend can DJ? he used to spin in bmore but doesn't have a lot of contacts in DC. nor have I.

Fredneck MD oh noes! there is the famous CANDYSTICK restaurant. not good, exactly, but it's something.

fava beans @ grand mart international market, annandale, maybe? I was
there and I think I saw some, but not 100% sure

I agree re: Hirschhorn, don't know about the others.

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of music(s) does your friend play?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

downtempo mostly

― dar1a g (daria g), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

They've come to the right city. Try Bossa, Gazuza, Science Club, Local 16, Jin, etc. Look at the City Paper ads for places which advertise downtempo DJ's, they tend to cycle through talent pretty quickly.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

How awesome are the National Building Museum's current and upcoming shows?

Julius Shulman, Modernity and the Metropolis
Newer Orleans—A Shared Space
The Green House: New Directions in Sustainable Architecture and Design
Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Price Tower
David Macaulay: The Art of Drawing Architecture
Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture (HOLY CRAP FALL 2007 CANNOT COME SOON ENOUGH)
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Designing the World of Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Price Tower exhibit's pretty nice; it's got a good selection of FLW's unbuilt projects, plus some Star-Trek-looking furniture.

It was kind of small, but then, I saw it in a small room, so maybe it'll be expanded at the NBM.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Brian will you accompany me to one/more of those exhibits? My architecture appreciation skillz are limited to enjoying those articles by the New Yorker dude--Paul something? Gold-something? See, I don't even know dude's name offhand. But yeah I always read them and think "gotta investigate this building-things thing more thoroughly."

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Goldberger. I was close! What do you think of him?

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh i want to see that Shulman too

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

The nice thing about being interested in looking at buildings is that they're everywhere! For serious! I think I'm heading back to the National Building Museum this Saturday or Sunday, though - all are welcome.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Goldberger's decent, I tend to like Muschamp a little better. Michael Sorkin was the best when he was writing for The Voice. The Washington Post's Ben Forgey is retiring this June - perhaps we will get a critic who's not 80% horrible and wrong?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Wait is Forgey the one who was all psyched about the new stadium? The one who made me think "OK I probably need to get one taste because it looks pretty 'yawn' to me"?

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Forgey praises 80% of all new development around DC. I do not need to tell you that 80% of all new development around DC is worth praise.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

i thought everyone hated the new stadium? brian you and fact checking cuz need to fite for who knows the most things. can you confit a duck?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am exceptionally good at eating duck confit. I wouldn't know the first thing about how to make it, I like to think it's magic.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Whoops no indeed; BF was not psyched at all:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/14/AR2006031401887.html

I must say the Pittsburgh ballpark is fabulous in the opinion of someone who is ignorant of both architecture and baseball. But I've only been in the large-steel-corporation luxury box, which may have colored my opinion.

MOOKIE DO YOU LOVE THE PIRATES OR WHAT?

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

IN THEORY, YES! BUT THERE'S NOT MUCH TO LOVE!

the pnc park is indeed a fabulous park, just edging out ~~pac bell~~ the giants' field for best in the mlbs, in my opinion. too bad the pirates are headed to their 14th straight losing season.

i've been considering becoming a M-E-T-S METS fan, which isn't going over well with mrs mookie...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to suggest that the power of mrs. mookie and mr. Q could overcome you, but they are both such slender things that I fear you could take them.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

So, Mr. Q and I have some half-baked plan that involves renting an RV and driving around the country to see minor league baseball games (for him) and abandoned nuclear missile silos (for me). What is the likelihood of us finishing such a journey without divorce proceedings being initiated?

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

maybe ILXDC should go to a ballgame? i dunno--i like baseball and i like drinking, but it's expensive to mix the two. what is mr. Q's team, and why are you online at this hour?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Forgey loved the proposed Gehry addition to the Corcoran and recently praised the new building at 1700 K St. Crimes against humanity, both.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

xxp pretty good, i think

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Q's team is--for no good reason that I can think of--the YANKEES. The Cardinals are his secondary team; that one I can kinda get, as he went to Mizzou, where he first got serious about baseball.

I am online because I am stuck in the house preparing ropa vee-yea-ha (I can't remember the non-phonetic spelling) for dinner. However, I will depart around seven to work in the garden and attempt to get fired from my membership chair position. Not to worry, Ally--you are working your way up the waiting list whether I'm dismissed or not.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE?

I'm gonna go see what this K street thingie is all about.

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Haha 1700 K is the building Mr. Q's employer was supposed to move in to but backed out at the 11th hour!

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

yanquis? that's kind of bullshit, unless you are either from NY or pure evil. (and frankly, ally should really be a mets fan, no?)

i like the cardinals, though. willie mcgee was my favorite player of the last 25 years, not least because he looked like ET.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think a good ILXDC baseball strategy would be to score (good) tix via Mr. Q's work (either free or cheap--I forget); drink beforehand so as to minimize gametime expenditures; and sneak in alcohol past the disinterested "security team." And FAP afterward, of course!

― quincie, Monday, 1 May 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a bit of a Cardinals thing, too, having lived in the suburbs of St. Louis from '81-'84.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

unfortunately Our Nats are so awful (unless patterson is pitching, maybe) that the games go on forever, maximizing gametime expenditures. we should probably cut straight to the bar.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

but then i might be a drunky

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

We're going to a B'more/Yankees game in August.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been to the National Building Museum and would be interested in checking it out--so let me know if which day you might go--Brian--and Q. As of 12 noon this Saturday I can officially forget everything I never wanted to learn about Integrated Library Systems.

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

Integrated Library Systems sounds almost as bad as Systems Engineering! Note to self: no more grad school.

So yeah Brian make a plan and Mary and I will try to fall in line!

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

actually, Integrated Library Systems sounds kind of hott. but then i might be a drunky.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8246/shulman4bx.jpg

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

has anyone been to Vegetate? is there a best choice among that and the other Forman-formed restaurants (Perry's, Viridian)?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

1700 K street according to Konrad Perlman

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yo Mary I have found a new little car that is fun for everyone. Also, available in red.

http://www.toyota.com/images/vehicles/2007/yaris/gallery/exterior/large/photo_8.jpg
whee!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 12:16 (nineteen years ago)

click on the top photo in that 1700 K article. see the building with the flagpole, just to the left of the most prominent building? THATS MY BUILDING! THE BARR BUILDING IS ONE OF DC'S OLDEST, AND IS OWNED BY S3LF-H3LP S3RV!C3S C0RP, FRIENDS TO ALL.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

and we at FCN are right across the street, allowing 1700 K to gaze upon us daily with its dead eyes

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey ZR I need a new job, so will you let me know if ya'll needs a biomed editor? There, I have done my "job networking" task for the day.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Zart Robotron of the Food Cock News.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Slow day at my great example of brutalism in an urban setting.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Zart Robotron is a pretty good name, but not as good as my favorite once-possible name, Ezekiel Gazoo. Which wasn't really ever possible at all, but yeah.

Q, I'll investigate the possibilities - right now we have a gal flying in from Mentor, Ohio to maybe take the empty slot left by my former officemate, editor of the esteemed Pest1cide & Toxic Chem. News. I'll sorta miss having the office to myself, but we could really use someone to decrease the overall percentage of pathetic dudes here.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Mentor, Ohio!

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

quincie can you do this?

Office of Public Programs

Position: Writer-Communications
Grade: 8
Department: Office of Public Programs
Supervisor: Ed Lemp1n3n
Date Opened: 3/11/2006

Successful candidate will provide writing and placement support for the 4AAS Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology; write opinion articles, "News & Notes" articles, and other documents to convey 4AAS viewpoints or to persuade audiences on 4AAS positions; research and write articles about 4AAS programs and policies, interviewing internal and external sources, as necessary; provide essential technology and/or editorial support, such as the creation of media lists, development of press kits, or distribution of advisories in support of 0PP News & Information managers, as needed; performs other writing assignments as needed. Based on skills and experience, position may be filled at a higher level.

Qualifications: Position requires extensive university or college level training leading to a Bachelor's degree; three to five years related experience writing about scientific issues and research; a strong foundation for understanding the media and how it works is essential; excellent written communication skills required in order to convey complex material and concepts to a diverse audience while supporting 4AAS communications needs, with media placements being a primary goal; demonstrated knowledge of science related issues and research required; computer skills (Microsoft Office); travel is required several times per year.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to cut back on caffeine and have had NO coffee yet today and.. it's making me kind of angry

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Or this?

Position: Writer II
Grade: 10
Department: Office of Public Programs
Supervisor: G1nger P1nholster
Date Opened: 4/12/2006

Successful candidate will collaboratively write half of the SCI3NCE Press Package content each week; attend weekly story-tracking meetings; help update tracking lists; write press summaries; translate technical SCI3NCE content into compelling, accurate, understandable, lay-language press summaries each week; supervise communications staff by providing broad oversight and guidance with story-placement efforts, press briefings, notifications and key policies regarding embargoes; troubleshoot potential issues such as embargo breaks, controversial papers, retractions or author management requests; perform other work related duties as assigned.

Qualifications: Position requires extensive university or college level training leading to a Bachelor's degree; three to five years experience in media relations, particularly with writing duties and reporter contacts; excellent writing and editing skills in order to convey complex scientific material and concepts for a lay audience; demonstrated knowledge of science related issues and research required; computer skills (Microsoft Office) required; Dreamweaver and basic HTML preferred.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Will someone explain me the following:

"Salary at non-profit levels commensurate with experience"

I have no idea what "non-profit" levels are. Do non-profit people make, like, a ridiculously small amt. compared to comparable jobs at for-profit organizations?

Also: should I try to find work at Public Citizen or no?

xpost to Ally--sounds more PR/policy-ish writing than biomed writing per se? I still want to be a science dork. For Nader, maybe.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah it's kind of like translating science nonsense for the non-science person and doing a lot of media stuff. The first job is probably more what you would be interested in but would pay a lot less (despite requiring "extensive travel"). Non-profits pay absolutely bonkers terrible unless you're high level though, yes.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like PC, they're good dudes. They just spun their food division off into another group, Food & Water Watch; at the open house I went to a few weeks back I know they had a ton of openings - there might still be more than a few of those kicking around.

But yes, generally a "non-profit" disclaimer means "moral fulfillment should fill up your belly more than the food you won't be able to afford." Not always tho.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea what "non-profit" levels are. Do non-profit people make, like, a ridiculously small amt. compared to comparable jobs at for-profit organizations?

Uh, yeah, pretty much.. Don't even get me started on the ads I see at liberal nonprofits for "web assistants" who are supposed to know HTML/CSS/DHTML/Javascript/database/PHP/Linux/server stuff/content management/web strategy/broadcast email and work the front desk when the receptionist is on break, for $15/hour with no benefits

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I have an announcement.
Today is another day for eating a burrito in the afternoon.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'd take a pay cut for a way cool job but not so much as to put mortgage-paying at risk. Not to mention booze expenditures. Speaking of which, are we gonna FAP or what?

xpost where is the love for the double half smoke?

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

today is a day for the vegetable platter whose leftovers will be good for tomorrow's lunch too

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

ZR has your publication ever investigated the composition and the instestinal side-effects of eating two half-smokes?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Q, I thought I saw a job that might be good for you in last week's Post Sunday help wanted. I think it payed from 60-80K. I didn't mention it though because I didn't want to tear you away from your Morrissey-obsessed office mate.

Integrated Library Systems is not too hot--it does not involve wearing any of Penguin's "Librarians in Love" collection.

Tom is that car the new Fit, or...? I saw two adds recently for cute new bit sized mangalike cars from both Honda and Toyota--oh life, so unfair--after I've already bought a car. And they are pretty cheap-o too. Maybe I can trade in? Trading in a car while upside down on my payments would really ingrain the suburban ethos in me.

― worker, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

that is the YARIS. the FIT is not as cute. also I've now zipcar'd both hatchback toyota SCION models (box and not-box) and they were great. The toyotas seem a bit cheaper than the hondas, too.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, non-profits sometimes expect you to be paid in LOVE. When a friend of mine worked at the h34rt 4ssoci4tion, they asked their staff to make a monthly paycheck-deducted donation of a set percentage of take-home. Madness.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

a friend of mine works at a nonprofit & her boss fought for all she was worth.. to ensure the staff weren't paid for the vacation hours they accumulated the previous fiscal year. luckily the legal dept said no way

seriously, it's to the point that every time I see a job listing for a web related job at a nonprofit I read the description, wonder if they are insane, and compose a nasty email (which I don't send) saying this is why the right wing keeps kicking your ass - they pay people what they're worth and don't treat them like crap, and you want people to do the job of an entire IT department and work 10 hour days for like $30K/year in DC

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha that sounds like the military. every paycheck you had a certain amount donated to the Old Air Force Motherfuckers With No Family Left House or whatever.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'm confusing "real" non-profits with ginormous moneybags such as the am med assc, assc for clin oncology, etc. I don't imagine anyone with those orgs is hurting too badly, unless you factor in the working-for-the-devil thing (although who am I to talk? This is why I need a new job!). Those "non-profits" are indistinguishable from major for-profit corporations minus the shareholders, as best I can tell.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost.

our friend JR + his fiancee were both working at NPs when they moved here (to Arlington) and it was strugglin' time for a while. Then he finally got a job at some private web/media shop and since then they decided to get married in Vegas and shell out for every early-adopter gadget you could think of.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Major non-profits still fuck over ppl who are below a certain higher up level too, though. I should know, I'm stuck at one. The major non-profs pay their higher level employees like pay is going out of style and stick every other person there with $30k a year or less.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mary I'm all ears on job openings! My Morrissey-obsessed office mate leaves Friday for three consecutive days of concerts in Manchester (one is at the opera house--I don't remember about the other two).

Also: I love the cute little cars, but would phear the SUVs even more than I already do were I driving one!

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I want to live in a country with some sort of genius economic structure that results in me getting paid for just being me. Like, that would be my job. Being me.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Zipcar just thanked me for telling them it might be a good idea to put the colors of the cars on the website to make them easier to find!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am basically getting paid for being a boring, ornery, and particularly unproductive version of me, and quite a sum at that. However, I hate being this flavor of me and want desperately to finish this degree program and get out of here.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm being paid to be a more polite version of me, and some days they can't pay me enough.

The big professional-association NPs like to pay their execs the going private-sector rate but pretend everyone under 40 is a youthful intern just enjoying their adventure in the city. See also NYC publishing, women's-fashion division, where it's assumed your parents cover living expenses and your paycheck is just for frocks.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. It's completely batshit insane.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh so I'm "parents" now good one.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I could well afford my living expenses in NYC. Maybe you shouldn't have forced me to quit my job and move to hell!! Think about it sometime!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I BOUGHT YOU A KITTY.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

why are mommy and daddy fighting? i bet it's 'cause they don't love us.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

CLEARLY WE COULD ALL USE A DRINK

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

OR A SHOTGUN

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

PROBABLY BOTH

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ce/Hemmingway.jpg/180px-Hemmingway.jpg

Whatwhat?

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

please dont regret moving here, dudes; we love you.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, there is much love here!

Hmmm. Maybe I should become a Fed? Stephen are you ILXDC's token Fed or am I missing someone?

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

dude the hemingway house in key west kicks total ass, not least for its population of six-toed cats! HOW COULD YOU SHOOT YRSELF WHEN THERE ARE SIX-TOED KITTENS TO HANG TOUGH WITH?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ep.tc/aa-comics/aa58.gif

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man if I was a dr. I would totally wear one of those old-school disk thingies on my head!

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Joe's such an asshole. Own up, motherfuck.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Oh for cuteness sake! http://www.hemingwayhome.com/HTML/our_cats.htm

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

ok is it just me or is Rooster the ugliest cat you've ever seen?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Charlie Chaplin is a crack-up!

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Archibald MacLeisch is an awesome cat name.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

If it was a dog, it could be Archibald MacLeash! Ava Gardner isn't nearly hot enough.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://66.227.33.201/images/cats/simone.jpg

oh, faettypaws

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

If I may make a humble suggestion -

Do not attempt to pull a 24 hour turnaround from waking up in the Bahamas (yesterday) to studying for finals in DC (today). It is not going well

In between, I rode a cab, a plane, a train, another train that was delayed (some dude tried to electrocute himself on the A,C & E tracks b/t Chambers and Canal, necessitating electrical shutdown of the line for five stations!), therefore another train ( I switched to the 2 Uptown), a bus much later than the first bus I planned on riding, and then another train.

At present, I am creating a flow chart of the section 707 means test under BAPCPA. I have a final on Saturday.

And I miss the Bahamas.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

The major non-profs pay their higher level employees like pay is going out of style and stick every other person there with $30k a year or less.

I know this isn't quite true at the R3d cr055. Associates in the PR dept. start at $40k+.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

WELL FAKE ACCENTS PRACTICE HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR TOMORROW. WHO WANTSTA GET LOADED SOMEWHERE?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

what like right now?
I have to skip out of work and get a burrito. I been waiting all day for this moment.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

BTW is it a little odd that we know you guys who are in the Fake Accents, and N1ck + S@r@h who are in the Fake Fictions? What the hell is that?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah totally! that was one of the first connections i ever had to a poster i didnt know personally...

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

one of these days we'll play a fake show together

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

BUT NO - DRINKS TOMORROW! ANYONE?

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

bring it on (again)

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I want a Yaris.

Non-profit jobs aren't all bad. Sometimes you get to do something that you like. I guess government work is like the halfway house between the non profit and the private sector? Pay is low but security/benefits high.

Once I worked at a non profit that made a profit. It was a publishing co. that made a lot of money. Does non profit mean, we actually make a profit, but please don't tax us?

Why do you all insist upon working during the prime daylight hours? I want someone to come to this neat graveyard with me.

Oh, and our "IT" guy SUCKS. Every time you ask him anything he is a dick and treats you like he doesn't have time for so that you are afraid to talk to him and would rather rewire the whole system independently than have to call him and be placed on his "speaker phone" that he can never bother to actually pick up and talk to you like a real person. Is that your technique, T.? Maybe he's just bitter bc he doesn't get industry standard and is stuck working for government but he probably makes more money than everyone at the library except for maybe the director.

Don't people realize that IT requires PEOPLE SKILLS?

And PATIENCE?

I know it sucks to have to deal with people but if you hate it that much can't you like code software or something?

― library, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I must pass for drinks tomorrow. The confluence of a) my exam in bankruptcy on Saturday and b) my bank account approaching levels of bankruptcy preclude my taking part.

Have a good time, though.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

If any of you want to come for drinks late tomorrow night I will be spinning at Saint-Ex starting at 10pm. Unfortunately our logo pint glasses haven't yet arrived but I will be happy to give rain checks for anyone who shows up.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

stex at 10 sounds like a plan dude

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I will try mightily to make it but lord only knows when I will get out of FREDERICK. What's parking like around mikey's place?

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Not too bad--on a weeknight you should be able to find a spot within a block or two. Don't be afraid to jump the curb and scatter the sidewalk diners.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

OK just someone please remind me I'm driving somewhere around drink #3. I forget sometimes.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Which is not to say I am a drunkie driver, just that I've been known to abandon the car in favor of some other mode of transportation after drink #4, and I feel I've gotten bit too old to be waking up all "dude, where's my car" on Thursday a.m.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 May 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Don't people realize that IT requires PEOPLE SKILLS?

"I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

Mostly if IT people had people skills they wouldn't sit in front of computers all the time.. Uh, it helps if you try some of the obvious stuff to see if you can fix it yourself before calling IT. but some of them are just the comic book guy. the web guy at my former grad department (humanities) managed to convince everyone that every single task he was given was the most onerous, difficult thing in the world, and would take weeks to accomplish if even possible. I'm talking stuff like updating a text based web page in HTML with Dreamweaver. He liked me though, because I knew what kind of scam he had going and still made a point of apologizing for how much work I was asking him for..

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Well just for confirmation I made the right decision in waiting until I got back to my own neighborhood to indulge in mass-market burrito eating. Because A, Chipotle is head and shoulders above Qdoba tastewise right down to the rice and the tortilla themselves, and B, Chipotle will give you guacomole and steak and STILL come out costing less than chicken with no guacomole at fucking Qdoba.

Just as a clarifier of where everybody stands:

Chipotle = McDonalds
Qdoba = Jack In The Box
Baja Fresh = Wendy's.

I wish there was a California Tortilla close by, that looks gooood.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

dudes, we are playing the awesomest show ever this summer: www.rocknromp.com

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Q, you could always take the drunkie train--U St Metro's about a 5-minute walk away. If you cab home, catch one on the north side of U and I think you save a zone.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Zack, that looks amazing. You're one step closer to Pancake Mountain now.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://fp.enter.net/~jkool/images/MK/MK%20Gifs/SUB%20FAT.gif

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I MEAN SRSLY FOLKS:

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to need dcilx's help in coming up with a suitably stupid outfit for this thing

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

wow ZR. wow.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

How did you guys land this?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

they myspaced us, oddly enough

― ZR (teenagequiet), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

huh. Can I still come even if I don't have children?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/6361/nomi14fe.jpg

the kids will love it

maybe

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a93/cjrokstar/stRocker.gif

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

YES that is so key

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.peternachtrieb.com/images/dance.gif http://www1.cts.ne.jp/~check/gif/DANCING.gif http://www.matazone.co.uk/sillyimages/hypnotic-dancing.gif

I see this as a goal for next time we all meet?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://monpa.golfcross.com/dwc/images/sabine.gif http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/m/t/mtt130/shat234.gif http://www.virtualurth.com/pages/cez/lebowski2.gif http://www.fz-juelich.de/bsg/pics/Tai-bo/tai-bo3.gif http://img19.photobucket.com/albums/v57/darkknight/Batusi_anim.gif

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

what is the text flashing past on the really fast moving ally gif?

"love more of my stuff?"

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dancing Properly
Advanced Dancing

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, back to architecture + urban planning. The MLK Library: Should it stay or should it go?

Plus the WaPo has soundly trumped dcist.com in the map department, as of this morning:
http://www.readexpress.com/metrolinks.php?start_metrostop=1

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, that's pretty nice. Daer the Express: Next please make a working zone map, please.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

MLK should stay! (predictable from me, I know)

If every ugly building in DC got torn down, well...

The unfortunate thing is that the new DC library, despite having a bigger budget than the new Seattle library, isn't going to come out nearly as stunning.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I think the exterior might as well stay. Honestly though I wouldn't mind if they gutted it and turned it into a biergarten.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

No, you wouldn't.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any building you wouldn't mind seeing gutted and turned into a biergarten?

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Amoeba records?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

If you skipped the gutting part I see nothing wrong with adding beer.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

that's what DC needs, an Amoeba Records. 911 F St?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Amoeba Records and Biergarten, obv.

― quincie, Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Amoeba is the most overrated place in the world, it didn't have either of the artists I was looking for at the Haight St location, after y'all built it up like it was some magical pony candyland or something. Also: filing system is Tom Cruise insane. You people are all crazy!

I do not think I would like the Air and Space Museum gutted and turned into a biergarten.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah wtf no Takkyu Ishino in that bitch at all. Who else did we not find?
I found myself in there once, promo copy of the compilation I was on back in like 1999.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Kagami.

Plenty of Puffy Ami Yumi and Dir en Grey tho. THX TO BE TOWER RECORDS, ASSHOLES.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

well duh guys, of course they didn't have everything you wanted. that's why you go to the berkeley one too.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kagami only exists on discogs.com

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

you dudes just didn't want it bad enough's all i'm sayin

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

They didn't have anything I wanted, you're missing the point I'm making. That was one of the biggest wastes of time in my entire life. Seriously I am not really sure that their collection of imports is really any better than the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. At least it wasn't from what I could tell. Though maybe if they could figure out one (1) filing system that would help. I mean having "electronica," "techno," "ambient," and "dance" sections seems kind of retarded, not to mention putting Ryuichi Sakamoto in Rock while YMO is scattered amongst "J-Pop" and "Electronica" is fucking bizarre to say the least.

I DON'T HAVE MY ENTIRE REST OF MY LIFE TO FIGURE OUT YOUR MISTAKES, AMOEBA. WE HAVE TEH INTERNETS NOW.

end of rant!!! But I say gut the fucker and turn it into a dive bar.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying it was the worst experience of my life, but it was up there, between "grandpa death" and "bartender stalker" I think.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but Denki Groove albums for $11.00, that doesn't just happen anywhere else on earth.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

bad Amoeba dance filing: electronica, techno, ambient, dance, hip hop, etc.

good Amoeba dance filing: used FREESTYLE and HI-NRG sections!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

and then we come back to DC, where there isn't anything even approaching 50% of the selection of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

yeah only on EBAY

xpost yeah the Freestyle section had my heartstrings for a second or two, I will admit that.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh no, i'm getting the point you're making, just being obstinate. i can never knock em because they really helped me fulfill my post-hs, pre-collegiate ambition of owning every incredibly terrible late 80's SST release ever pressed, but if you're not into the "former punk hits bong way too hard, makes terrible music" thing, i can understand your frustration.

hey bros are we drinking 2nite or what?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just imagining saying that around the table, like everybody already has a beer and somebody says "hey bros, are we drinking tonight, or WHAT!!" cue hearty haw haws and whoops.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah we are totally drinking tonight bros!

SALT at Saint-Ex starts at 10, Ayinger Brau Weisse is new on tap. SALT commemorative glasses will be available.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.amstein.ch/images/mascotte1.gif http://www.amstein.ch/images/accueil.gif http://www.amstein.ch/images/mascotte2.gif

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

i wish that dude in the middle were my eccentric uncle or something

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Zack, it's not as fun as you'd think.
http://www.twainquotes.com/girls.jpg

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I would do anything to avoid calling out IT guy. The only time I actually do it is when something goes wrong and my boss makes me call him--otherwise I'd rather go without the use of a computer.

I might be able to come out tonight--after my weekly Pentagon City visit.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

xp - i dunno, those are probably nudie playing cards

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

MLK should totally stay. It is just about the coolest building in DC. It should be completey gutted though--but still kept a library, because it's nice to see the shelves of books lit up through the windows at night. The interior needs some serious work though, or it could be preserved as a museum of federal interiors. The DC Library system is in such a shambles. Arlington seems to be doing quite nicely though. I want to take a tour of the Masonic Library but I will be taking a final instead.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the original DC public library (Carnegie version) should be returned to the library system, since that whole city museum thing didn't work out. That building is beautiful too, in a more Beaux Arts way.

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYONE IN TEH DC AREA BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR MY ROOMMMATE'S COVER FOR CITY PAPER THIS WEEK (THOUGH IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN LAST WEEK); UNDER THE NAME MA++ H0LLISTER. HE ALSO HAS WORK INSIDE K THX BYE. IT'S FOR TEH AARTICLE ON WAITING FOR THE COPSES TO SHOW UP.

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

There should be some kind of laser show in there at night--it'd look great from the street.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - It's the one out now, I was just reading the article yesterday. nice work!

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

PLSE TELL CITIPAPER IS IT BEST COVER ALL TIME AND TAHT YOU WANT TO C MA++ H0LLISTERS WORK IN ALL FUTURE ISSUES. WE HAVE A CAT TO FEED.

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, please, let's all rip on the dysfunctional IT people who make our lives miserable. I'd join in, but I am an IT guy and in my world, users are equally (if not *more*) guilty of assholish behavior. FYI, I bathe regularly, do not watch Babylon 5 and mask my contempt for the customers I serve with a broad smile and friendly demeanor. Then I go home and seethe in resentment. Or in other words: nothing much has changed since I worked retail.

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Right when do we meetup, if we meetup? Can we come at nearly 10pm andstill have space, or is it going to be typical Saint-Ex 400 tons of $Brau and Yupholes (in which case perhaps a little earlier would be better)?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

ng-unit don't be boring and defensive please. we know already.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Did I get on the soapbox about this before?

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

A'ight, fuck it. Where is my mind? The illos for the CP cover story are also currently online. They are the bee's knees.

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

you and every other IT person on this board about seven bobafettillion times

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

(x-post) Don't worry, TOMBOT, crowds are generally loathe to sick around when I'm spinning. Since it's supposed to be nice tonight almost everyone will be out on the patio, anyway.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Don't worry, TOMBOT, crowds are generally loathe to sick around when I'm spinning.

O RLY?

― Dan (Projectile Vomit Mix) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

WTF DC yuppies not enjoying Tresor records non-shocker all the way down to my little toesies! Good.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

YEAH RLY I AM NO DJ STYLUS

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's more that Saint-Ex tends to be an entirely different place on Sunday-Wednesday than it is from Thursday-Saturday.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just remember a fap there once on a midweek evening when I had to go downstairs and use the ATM, and the DJ was playing Sir Mix-A-Lot and I kept getting repeatedly slimed from behind by this glistening white hippo.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah sorry about that I have lost some weight since then.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

(I was making a joke about the missing 't' in the word "stick" but the Stylus ref made me ROFFLE.)

(xpost: ROFFLE*2)

― Dan (ROFFLE) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

bobafettillion?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it's roughly equivalent to one megaflop

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think from now on whenever discussing typical shit that IT workers do, I'm just going to use that as the generic number of times that they do it.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

See if it catches on.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

know yr audience

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Good grief.

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hentai > Star Wars in the minds of most of my coworkers

― ng-unit (ng-unit), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I mean if you haven't noticed I work in IT and basically half my friends do too so it's permitted, I'm not like making fun of jews over here

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

WOW > Fantasy Baseball > Hentai >>> Star Wars

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hentai is possibly the worst thing in the world except for furry porn.

― Dan (Sex = Ruined) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Well we're talking about four things that all have more than enough potential to ruin the lives of their most avid fans

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

xp - jeez dude, what'd a few tentacles ever do to you?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

actually don't answer that plz

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

hentai + furry = always a winner of, uh, something.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

awesome, we are officially playing rocknromp sept. 23, thus ensuring that my birthday is going to reach previously unimaginable levels of awesomeness

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

then of course you must wear your birthday suit for the show!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

#1 GIS:

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I can see that.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have any educational songs? The bar has been set high?

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have had the same woman email me repeatedly today, insisting her log in account on our website doesn't work. EACH TIME she emails me, "I logged in using (incorrect username) and (incorrect password) and it tells me it doesn't recognize my username, what do I do?" I email her back, each time, "You need to log in using (correct username) and (correct password) and this should work!" THREE TIMES NOW TODAY THIS HAS BEEN BACK AND FORTH.

Am I allowed to say "YOU'RE A FUCKING IDIOT, PLEASE FUCK OFF UNTIL YOU LEARN TO READ" with the next email?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Your next email should read:

"You are currently making me do this: [tubgirl.gif]"

― Dan (Then Update Your Resume) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how long I can keep up my veneer of faux cheerfulness about this situation, I mean seriously, I don't even know where she got the idea that her version of the username and password is correct. I was worried I sent her wrong info when I sold her the account access but no. She's just making shit up and pretending that's her log in information. The weird thing is that the made up username is her e-mail account MINUS the ".com" part of it. Why would you assume that at all???

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

just send her O RLY pictures in response to any further attempts at further correspondence

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

OK Steven that is now locked in a deathgrip with "In My Eyes" as the best thing MacKaye's ever been responsible for.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Stephen, rather. Sorry.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

OK I was doing GIS for O RLY and this was too good to not post:
http://www.infantjesusparish.org/ijs/Enrichment/Drama/dramaclub.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS SERIOUSLY

http://www.orlyowl.com/upload/files/orlypumpkin.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

i found myself imagining TOMBOT in the ian mackaye role in that evens video

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

xp - holy crapola halloween cannot get here fast enough

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus Christ people we're already at like 900 posts in 2 weeks. We're gonna burn through all the films set in DC!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Mackaye should have to put on that fishing hat anytime he starts to lecture the audience on political participation/punk rock. Or maybe he should just wear one of the toddler-vowel costumes.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Personally I'd be more interested in seeing Guy call out a kid for being an ice cream eating motherfucker

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

There should be a statue at Fort Reno commemorating that moment.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

it should vend fair trade chipwiches

― ZR (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

ATTN DAN PERRY: YR PRESENCE IS NEEDED ON THE "A NAIRN APPRECIATION THREAD" ON NOIZE BORED

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Why did no one mention that Target is now pimping a Tara Jarmon collection? There is a way cute dress in Teen Vogue (RIP Elle Girl) but on the website they only have this pattern available in a headband and a tie necklace.

I can see both sides of the IT equation really. I'm sure it really sucks to be the person to be called every time some idiot worker doesn't realize that they need to actually plug their computer in to make it work . . .

but: it depends on the parameters of your job. If you are the defacto help desk person, that job does involve working with people and you should be able to interact with people just the same way our administrator does whenever the librarians freak out and realize that we are out of copier paper or whatever. In sooth, working with people sucks, people are demanding and annoying, but IF that is part of the job, some day quite soon even "tech" people might have to suck up and be pleasant, because, maybe by the next generation once everyone learns how to progam in infancy, the skill set won't be so rarefied and personal qualities will take the forefront.

(I'm not maligning Tom or anyone else here, of course, just commenting from my personal side. Our dude took like a month to get some very general program running, and kept telling us, yes it is fine, and no it was never fine, and he never had an excuse and meanwhile our patrons were going batshit and we were the ones taking the stick.)

― Mary (Mary), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

generally the people you work with, whether they're IT or users, are going to suck. that's what co-workers do. but they don't necessarily have to be assholes about their suckiness. be sucky and pleasant, plz.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

From: Underling
To: Other Underling
CC: Boss, Other Bosses
Subject: Printer hasn't worked in a month!!!

Gee whiz, I suck, don't I! :P

- Tom

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

i am now picturing you with a little propeller hat

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

you know how sometimes Butters is just Butters and other times he tries to be Professor Chaos? Right.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Butters_South_Park.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I HAD THIS AWESOME NAME ALL PICKED OUT FOR THE NEXT DC THREAD AND NOW I FORGET IT. TOM? ALLY? ZACK? IF YOU REMEMBER, SIMPLE START THE NEW THREAD "WHEN IT'S TIME."

ADDITIONALLY, MARY AND "QUINCIE," YOU ARE HANG-OUT-PRICK-TEASES. I KNOW I ALSO AM SOMETIMES, SO I AINT MAD ATCHA.

ADDITIONALLY STILL, ZACK YOUR "CAR" FIT INTO MY "GARAGE" JUST "FINE."

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 04:31 (nineteen years ago)

"SIMPLE" "=" "SIMPLY"

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is that Pete drunkyellposting?

How was St. Ex?

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

PETE DOES IT SEEM LIKE IT IS A GREAT DAY TO WORK FROM HOME

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you all for coming to Saint-Ex last night. Except for the people who didn't. Got a hundred more glasses to give away next month.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you for the glasses! They are sweet. We made out well last night, the Gross Man was there and told us about some totally ghetto house club in NE and his new job bartending on the waterfront in Gtown. And Pete bought us stripper shots! Big ups to DJ Lonely for dropping Underworld, BTW, Fozzie Bear and Karl Hyde are the now the same person in my head.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:18 (nineteen years ago)

uh, shit, what was that name? something about...hm...uh...somebody doing something? something WACKY? i don't remember. fucking alcohol. i definitely woke up at 4:45 in the morning - to the sounds of some dateline special report on child molestors - after having passed out on my couch. it was weird. NOTE TO SELF: SUBSTANCE COMBINATION OFTEN LEADS TO POTENTIATION.

also dan perry, pete and i think your brother might work with the other dude who plays guitar in our band. can you confirm/deny that he works as a gog? if so, small world.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i feel pretty great this morning!

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dan Perry - Brother of a GOG? That would be a small world indeed.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

andy, are you tan?

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

FABIO STOLE MY BATHROOM

FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE REMEMBER SOMETHING!!!

ALSO TOM FOR ONCE IN YOUR "LIFE" STOP STEALING MY JOKES ESP WHEN THEY'RE AS GOOD AS FOZZIE AND UNDERWORLD.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

oh why are we yelling btw?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:11 (nineteen years ago)

BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO THINK, OK?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was sort of tan - I religiously put on SPF 30, seeing as how I am of the white to burn side of the family.

But then I began studying inside for 13 hours a day since Monday and the tan has been leached out of me.

Just wait until you see me over Thanksgiving - I'ma be SoCal tan, brah.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

SoCal tan sounds so perfect right now

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I agree. Brah.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lorijoysmith.com/images/funstuff/wallpapers/wp-bra-01.gif

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

most of those don't look very supportive

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

HOTT

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

the next image in the series:

http://www.lorijoysmith.com/images/funstuff/wallpapers/wp-robot-01.gif

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

much better than those boring X's and O's

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

robots love racks too!

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://dot.astro.uu.nl/dotshots/dsp-one-rack.jpg

ROBOT RACK?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

HOTT

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

also dan perry, pete and i think your brother might work with the other dude who plays guitar in our band. can you confirm/deny that he works as a gog? if so, small world.

Define "gog" and I will confirm/deny (delete as applicable).

― Dan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gog_and_Magog) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

actually doing a little research, it seems like yr brother is in the poem-cees w/our friend's coworker (gog = going out guru)

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I confirmed but I am having second thoughts about my rightness on the issue.

ATTN NOT TAN BRO: ON THE INCEST THREAD ETHAN IS FUCKING WITH YOU, HE'S JUST REPOSTING QUOTES FROM SOME TOM CRUISE INSANE FUNDIE WEBSITE TO TAUNT NAIRN, PRETEND THOSE POSTS AREN'T THERE AND DON'T ARGUE WITH HIM.

xpost Research? I told you that last night.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Are you talking about Stylus or Picasso? Stylus used to be the webmaster for the Boondocks website!

― Dan (Useless Trivia Boy) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Good looking out, Ally. I just caught that. I still love posturing like I'd actually fight over this crap.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

My apologies ZR - I was confused. GOG Rhome is a member of the poem-cees w/ Other Perry.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha ok fair enough

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

And the UMD Diamondback newspaper is the source of all connections in this tiny world.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

but ally "research" includes "half-remembered conversations from last night," doesn't it?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

yes true.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

guys, i feel so relaxed today!

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, I wish I had come out last night. Saint Ex. sounds so much cooler than the bankruptcy code.

I HATES finals.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

(insert lame joke about the bankruptcy code's first 7" being really good, actually)

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

Its actually a whole lot smaller than that. The tax code is the big fucker.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

(lame joke about 7" being a big fucker)

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.agaclar.net/files/1/3049/public/images/Fozi.jpg http://www.agaclar.net/files/1/3049/public/images/Fozi.jpg http://www.agaclar.net/files/1/3049/public/images/Fozi.jpg http://www.agaclar.net/files/1/3049/public/images/Fozi.jpg http://www.agaclar.net/files/1/3049/public/images/Fozi.jpg
LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER LAGER

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I feel really irritated because someone stole my coffee ;_;

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

and my joeks ;_;

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

And then I stole your joke!
Do you want me to bring you coffee, snookums?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

yes.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

OK.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

you can wait til lunchtime if you want

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

It is just about the coolest building in DC.

quite possibly, but you haven't been to the National Building Museum yet! though i suppose cool isn't the right adjective.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

It is lunchtime. What do you want?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

And just in case those of you in the audience were wondering, yes, this is not possible for us to accomplish via e-mail.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

whatever nothing too gay or anything though.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you know that gay coffee totally recruits

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

today's special RAINBOW RECRUITMENT BLEND

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

listen you know what I can handle without getting sick. I don't want any of that fruity eggnog tiramisu mocha choco latte nonsense. Something good and solid and manly, like a cappucino with 4 packets of splenda, ok?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

fair trade coffee =/ rough trade coffee

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

o reheated vegetable platter, where you been all my life?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

what do ppl think of the Air and Space as architecture?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

classic 1970's HOK megalith

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Formally it's still very good, but from the inside the glass & spaceframe is quite outdated. I don't think there's any other museum on the Mall that establishes such a direct connection between the visitors and the collection. The scale of the aircraft helps that, but really once you're inside you hardly notice the architecture.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

fruity eggnog tiramisu mocha choco latte nonsense

CREOLE LADY COFFEEMAID

― Dan (Voolie Voo Cooshay Avec Mwah, Suhswa?) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

(no I don't know French, that's for frenchies)

― Dan (Freedom Languages ROCK) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I somehow didn't even notice that? I was trying to quote zoolander and fucked it up, and somehow quoted something else. I'm off today, dudes.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I've been corrected

FABIO USES MY BATHROOM

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

guys I have a proxy msg from someone who can't post anymore!!! for some reason the server won't send quincie her password :(

WTF ILX WHY THE FUCK WON'T YOU LET ME REGISTER? FUCK YOU, TOO!

Also: I PASSED MY EXAM WHO WANTS TO DRINK IN CELEBRATION?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Please tell Ms. Q that I would love to do so, but I've got two more exams coming at me.

Fuck exams.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

when yr done with yr damn exams we are going to go beyond celebratory drinking, I tell ya what.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed. I needs to get my drank on. In a seriousness.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I need to have about seventeen martinis to get back to normal after this corporate compliance training bullshit. I'm fuckin' murderous.

also for more injoke roffles from last night,
http://muppet.wikia.com/images/0/02/Sam02.jpg
You are all weirdos.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

If I pass SysEng you guys are going to be remembering the Stripper Shot fondly

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaa - he called it a "schnozzberry"

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes plz do not make us drink the dr. bombay if you pass SysEng :\

GUYS IT'S ANOTHER HALF HOURS TIL COOKIES AND MILK AT MY WORK!!!!!!!!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

IT'S ANOTHER HALF HOURS TIL MY CRUSHING DEADLINE! actually i'm being remarkably productive, thus completely validating my week of generally irresponsible behavior.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I need some irresponsibility. I've been entirely too responsible lately.

Who's got some chores they need shirked? A crystal egg they need cracked? A country they need driven into the ground? I'm up for some abhorrent irresponsibility.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

You can attempt to have a conversation with Morbius, that is about as pointless as irresponsibility as driving a country into the ground, except perhaps less satisfying ultimately.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

nah, man. I 'm talking about some senior year of high school, spring break, unprotected sex in third world countries irresponsibility.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

let's go to a closed section of yr campus and take gigantor bonghits next to a video camera that belongs to the police!!!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

now that's what I'm motherfucking talking about

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

You should set a shed on fire, too.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

ponies love old PEOPLE

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

since when

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Nah - I was never into destruction of property, per se, but I did have a fun night knocking off mailboxes in my neighborhood WAY back in high school. That was cool.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

plus throwing glass bottles out of the car at signs [BEST GAME EVER]

― SQUARECOATS (plsmith), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

we drove around the campus at UT knoxville once pitching whole limes at people. We wrote imperatives on them with a sharpie. Drive-by limings.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder how that would go down on the shouting out of cars thread.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah dude - the Snapple out the sunroof was trademark Smith boys. I had that timing down.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Had to be a Snapple, too. Never could nail the Yoohoo, Arizona or beer bottles. The Snapple bottles just pitched perfectly out the roof and then...BANG!

Awesome.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Man I'm gonna go buy myself a Yoohoo on the way home now. Fuck yeah Yoohoo.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Are you going to throw it at someone?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh no... not Yoohoo... *sob*"

― Dan (STILL TEH FUNNY) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 4 May 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

DUDES for once just add me as your netflix friend! I wanna build up my queue to 17000 movies.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yoohoo, Brutus.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

also DUDES who else's gmail is ERORD?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I missed last night--I was flagging around 10 and couldn't comtemplate crossing the river.

You can't post on ILX anymore without being a registered user, it would seem.

Brian, are you shepherding Q and I through the National Building Musuem, this weekend, and if so, what day?

― Mary (Mary), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh wait being a sheep sounds fun!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Thursday, 4 May 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.animationfactory.com/imagedir/animations/religious/biblical_characters/shepherd_leading_sheep/shepherd_leading_sheep_lg_wm.gif

Sunday at noon!

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 5 May 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

maybe I won't make it down this weekend - is Cezanne missable?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. There were GOGs at SALT, but y'all too blind to see. Or somethin'.

― The Cricklewood Massive (The Cricklewood Massive), Friday, 5 May 2006 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

Given the number of people at the Cezanne show, you can actually miss most of the pieces even if you're there. But yes, it's a decent show but not even close to his best work and is missable.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 5 May 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Brian/Mary/Mrs. Q what if we wanted to come along? Would you hate us?

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

ALL ARE WELCOME

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

ALL MAY PARK; ALL MUST PAY

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I suggest we all dress extra eurotrashy and adopt atrociously fake accents

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

excuse me good sir, but pete and i will take care of ensuring the fake accents are atrocious

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 May 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

We saw the GOGs at SALT. In fact, Zack and Pete kept pointing them out to me, despite the fact that I'm very vague on what, exactly, a GOG is.

Sunday @ noon building museum sounds fine to me.

gabbneb what weekend will you make it down?

Also I always dress eurotrashy and talk in a fake accent, wtf, you guys don't?

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/goingoutgurus/2005/02/who_are_the_gurus.html

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care!! I mean if I cared so much about it I'd have looked that up by now!! Stop trying to help me with your "going out" and your "internet links"!!

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.i18ngurus.com/index.html

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sims.berkeley.edu:8000/courses/is213/s99/Projects/P9/web_site/gurus.htm

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

this world is full of gurus

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

OK weird because my boss was just at our morning party insisting that the movie Matilda was about a kangaroo.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK, Sunday at noon, poseurs!

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 5 May 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Guys I'm bored.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Me too, altho I just drank a fuckload of coffee so maybe I can use that to my advantage somehow. Hey did Q ever get her registration jazz sorted out?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of quincie, answer is no but here is a gift:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/05/05/world/05cheney600.jpg

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

no, it is a TRAET

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

OK sad but IRONY

it is really really hot outside today. They also gave us our once in a while "jeans day" today at work.

I am regretting partaking in jeans day due to humid disgustingness outside :(

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

they give you "jeans day"? that's kinda sad, dude.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yes I know. Oh and like everyone I work with is quitting, it's so great.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I'll try to make it down next Sat, tho Hokusai/Sugimoto/van Mieris/Degas/etc seem less exciting without Cezanne on top

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a big Cezanne person so I don't have anything to add to that. The combination with or without Cezanne is awesome.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I really want to see the Sugimoto stuff.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

the Sugimoto stuff is great, I'd see it again. sorry I can't make it to this weekend's gallery visit, I really want to go but.. work obligation. damn.

― dar1a g (daria g), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

pssst - sugimoto stuff!

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sugimoto "Stuff"

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

we need a new thread. alzo, why is everyone batshit insane today?

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

hi jaymc!!!

I will start a new thread.

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Fabio Uses My Bathroom: DC Metro Area Thread 7

― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Friday, 5 May 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

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