seriously ✄☟☞ cut it out

(props to heave ho for teh unicode)

cio, second two unicodes don't work on my machine

cio downloading bullshit dummy mp3s instead of true leaked albums, fuck you guys

cio certain loved one driving drunk all the fucking time

cio downloading bullshit dummy mp3s instead of true leaked albums, fuck you guys

DJ CLUE clue clue clue clue clue clue clue clue clue clue clue

cio, no 154 on office computer!!!

cio certain loved one driving drunk all the fucking time

-- remy bean

otm -- this has always been highly endemic to rhode island. sucks. :(

haha, i loaded the old cio thred an hour ago and it took 4 minutes to fully load. great timing.

RIP DAVE COULIER

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/bob-1.jpg

Hello.

saget is a freeakkkk! so not wholesome like danny tanner!

cio fucking awful horrible scatterbrained boss from hell forgetting to do anything regarding our upcoming business trip and expecting me to CRASH WITH FRIENDS.

wow what an asshat. he can't make a hotel reservation??

oh fuck that, ally, your employer should not tell you to sleep on a couch

really, you should go over yr boss' head on that one and complain to yr boss' boss

^true, book hotel and they pick up the bill.

are you coming to nyc?!?!?

no see the problem is there are no hotels! lol!

haha no boston. i did find a (kind of not the most convenient but whatever) hotel myself. but he genuinely expected me to crash with people for a night. like, a WEEKNIGHT too?? yeah let me just inconvenience my friends (several of which "live in boston" as in they live 45 minutes to an hour out of boston) for your scatterbrained ass, yes.

i need to quit this job.

some bush league bullshit right there

the reason i didn't go and book one myself JUST IN CASE before now was because last time i did so i got in trouble because he hadn't "finalized" the "schedule" and i left "early" and missed an "important" dinner (with, uh, coworkers so not really sure why this was such a faux pas anyway).

i can't wait to get the update on wednesday about how much tequila he drank on tuesday tho!!!

uggggh.

^^^^ this trip that i got in hot water for leaving "early" over was on a weekend btw

elmo is otm, you really ought to complain to your boss' boss. even if this gets straightened out, he sounds seriously irresponsible.

there are a lot of smaller, reasonably priced boarding house type deals in Boston, if the hotel you found is really out of the way.

KIU SOUTH AFRICAN DUDE SUDDENLY APPEARING AT MY DESK AND TELLING ME HE CAN'T GO TO CONFERENCE, DO I WANT HIS DELUXE KING ROOM AT THE SE4P0RT HOTEL :D :D :D

YAY!!

oh man the seaport hotel is good stuff. I got drunk in their hotel bar once.

is he a coworker or a helpful sprite who popped out of midair?

http://clampettstudio.com/images/archives/hannabarbera/TW1084-The-Great-Gazoo.jpg

http://media.outnow.ch/Movies/Images/2006/BloodDiamond/movie.fs/02.jpg

Is the seaport the curved one near the Aquarium?

no I'm pretty sure it's the one out by the ICA/World Trade Center

I think it's kind of new? everything over there looks new.

hotel party @ teh seaport hollaaaaaaaa

http://www.schenstock.com/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_0021-728613.jpg

does a jessiebmonster met an adam schefter

maybe this is why williamsburg is near pratt? http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/mis/387205407.html

D-d-d-damn!

wait what

if it's near the world trade center then it's about a block away from the harpoon brewery! jealous.

I had a VS angel bag
^^^ fuck you lady
what the hell is with this trend btw? hi the free bag a cheap horrible underpants store gives you with x amt of purchase is not actually a purse. FURTHERMORE ma, why the hell you want to walk around with a picture of a much hotter than you lady out for the whole world to see.

CIO GET A REAL PURSE

sorry that shit is my new pet peeve, i think 45% of women in dc are sporting that particular "look" currently

that is kind of strange, they do not even make good purses functionally (don't close usually, no pocketses).

other bag peeves:

"i'm not a plastic bag" ---> i am a self-righteous white liberal guilt case

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ otm!

i don't even understand those bags

I AM NOT A MOLESKIN.

I AM NOT THE SMALL CAT

Not being a plastic bag does not eliminate the possibility of being the small cat.

it's like writing I AM NOT AN SUV in huge letters on your hybrid prius

no shit, dude! cio!

i wish i was the small cat.

meow.

http://www.comviz.com.ulaval.ca/module1/Images/MagrittePipe.jpg

i am going to write I AM NOT AN SUV on everyone i know's bikes.

how fast and far the plastic bag has fallen from favor

http://lukeanderson.net/projects/installation/americanbeauty/images/header.jpg

so pretty ;_;

I am not a hybrid Priapus.

i am not a venn diagram of the small cat and plastic bags

stay away from my bike, schef

http://img110.imageshack.us/img110/6035/mainyn7.jpg

^^^^ THAT is a hybrid Priapus.

waht

cio that picture

ghost rider i am cancelling your standing invite to my house with that kind of attitude.

do you have mario kart at your house?

i think tom has mario party

Hate HATE the store bag as tote, but I see it all the damn time. Granted for things you're going to, like, never see again that's fine (ie loaning something to a colleague or friend and taking it to meet them in a handy-dandy bag) is prob v good manners, HOWEVER I see tons of women putting, like, their lunches or their office shoes in little shopping bags and GAWD get ONE REAL PURSE that HOLDS THINGS.

more like sausage party amirite? xpost

i'll put stuff in a shopping bag if i need to, esp if it is something like lunch from home that i'm going to toss out the contents of the bag, but yeah the ladies that carry around their shopping bags with like their book and their ipod etc every day--that's kind of weird??? esp since huge purses are in fashion right now, what r u doin

i know, laurel. it's even worse when the person has been using the same one over and over and over again because it's a "status" bag, so it's all creased and manky looking. ok, big deal - you bought a keychain at tiffany a year ago. hey, high roller!

I don't make waves, I hide bags in graves
No cash is earned straight nowadays anyways
Please all you onlookers understand
So make gangway for Carrier Bag Man

I am Carrier Bag Man

[megaphone rant]

When in town I keep head down
Kneel on the croft when the mariah comes round
Fat-assed workmen, I scurry around
There's few good places to hide bags behind

haha lauren, i was thinking of the tiffany's bag too re: ladies with books and ipods in a bag instead of in their purse. it's almost always a tiffany's bag being used 100s of times over, isn't it.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/87/236641272_eebb707796_m.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croft_(land)

ha, yes. it's almost always tiffany, although you see the occasional marc jacobs, barney's, or prada.

cio Richard "Wood" Johnson hating on Mario Paint

cio Richard "Wood" Johnson hating on Mario Paint

-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:33 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

WHERE

I have the urge to start doing some YMO Mario Paint. Maybe "The End of Asia" "Simoon" or "Rydeen"?

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die you shit eating faggot

lolol

i don't see as many tiffany's as i do marc jacobs, prada, etc. but yeah, when did this become a fashion trend?!? i have a cloth brooklyn industries bag that they gave me as my shopping bag when i bought something once that i use for carrying things that won't fit in my purse (like shoes or a change of clothes or filez), occasionally. but it's meant to be reused! and not really a status symbol! it's just like one of those cloth grocery bags.

u 2 legit 4 triple 5 soul

This is the thread where we anticipate and then flip out over how great M.I.A.'s 'Arular' is

cio recently and regretfully ex-gf texting me 'happy birthday for the weekend' three days early, leaving me thinking 'why text three days early?' and other obsessive nonsense.

cio various bike manufacturers sending me stuff late, with parts broken or missing.

I mean for fuck's sake.

cio Richard "Wood" Johnson hating on Mario Paint

who is richard wood johnson and does he have a foundation?

cio ppl on a thread about high heels making claims about rape and attacking attackers and feminism and making me want to punch my computer screen clear across the room

cio PETA anti-Nike, anti Vick stickers all over my neighborhood with pictures of messed up faces of pitbulls.

ugh -- nice to know that mangled-fetus-picture-waving pro-lifers have some like-minded batshit fuckheads on the political left

p.s. -- cio all the hyphens in that sentence

i'm so glad i haven't had the energy to click on that high heels thread.

i stopped reading it last night

Me too, but got sucked back in this morning. In conclusion: other people are dumb/boring/different from me.

CIO me watching rachael ray make caeeeeeeeeeeeeesar saaaaaaaaalad with friiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeed raaaaviooooooooooooooli crouuuuuuutahhhhhhns

toasted ravioli has no place in a cio thread /stl

next she'll be making frozen custard

CIO the ubiquity of rachael ray

toasted ravioli has no place in a cio thread /stl

toasted ravioli has no place in a "salad"

Ravioli has a place in my stomach, now GET IN.

toasted ravioli??

yup.

http://www.fallensouffle.com/uploaded_images/IMG_1565-701421.JPG

http://www.theultimateravioli.com/DSC00016.JPG

http://www.theultimateravioli.com/DSC00017.JPG

http://www.theultimateravioli.com/DSC00019.JPG

http://www.theultimateravioli.com/DSC00021.JPG

if i wasn't about to get lunch in 10 minutes those pictures would drive me mad with hungerlust

but i am betrothed to chinese food

Oh fuck, NOW I'm hungry. Can I justify ordering rigatoni bolognese from Fragole on my budget?

oh... i was picturing small hard crouton-like ravioli
but how is that even 'toasting'? that is FRYING!

Rrrobyn is truth.

fried ravioli croutons sound delicious

My temporary filling fell out an hour ago and I just got it glued back in. I doubt I can eat those pictures :(

I like Rachel Ray's tits.

She'll destroy you, man.

if shakey doesn't get to her first

well somebody had to say it.

lol, st. louis cuisine in the house

CIU me befuddled by Dean Ge thing.

Can someone explain to me who the fuck Nude Spock was and why he is infamous?

jbr have you ever had "hot frats" in brooklyn?

it was a fast food offshoot of the fratelli ravioli empire. unfortunately went out of business. you got like 4 or 6 fried raviolis with marinara dipping sauce. so bad for you but so good.

lol @ fried. enjoy your ride up the arch, tourist.

the only thing I remember about nude spock was him posting all those "teh jews knew!!!!111" things after 9/11.

you can search for nude spock threads. i think he posted a bunch of racist threads and then said it was all for a book he was writing or something. but then he would keep coming back with different names and annoy people. uri friendimine or whatever it was. he's an idiot.

And Dean Ge is him. OK then. Dean Ge was annoying anyway.

OH THAT BAG ISSUE HAS BEEN MAKING ME NUTS FOR YRS! it makes me despise people. does this shit happen in other places?

I've been looking out for it on the subway since you guys brought it up but haven't really seen anything.

yeah dean ge as nude spock totally unexpected!

i thought dead ge was dean gulberry

his first thread I think

I love having my dog lick peanut butter off my balls

Before he called himself Nude Spock he used to post under the names Neuromancer and Hey Buddy

once he posted a jpg of his block and it was real near my old place in Astoria ...... chills of fear

Can someone explain to me who the fuck Nude Spock was and why he is infamous?

Long term weird obsessive nuisance poster dating back to 2001 or maybe even 2000. Steez is to act normal for a while, then suddenly freak the fuck out and start posting reams of demented abusive bullshit in a hyperactive manner, start loads of threads etc until banhammered again. He'll be back, he never gives up & probably never will.

Previous handles, as mentioned "neuromancer", "hey buddy", "nude spock", "uri frendimein", "I AM OTM", eh there's probably at least 10 others. 9/11 threads on ILE, or in fact any fucked up conspiracy threads used to attract him like a fly to shit.

"bobby ganush" is another one.

don't forget his "Scaredy Cat" persona and his vegan preaching

so how was his identity exposed?

this time

Scaredy Cat was actually kind of hilarious

"dick butkus"
"the adversary"

(x-post oh yeah "scaredy cat" as well)

xx-post 1/he admitted it 2/the guy's writing style is super-distinctive

This time he was exposed by making a series of posts that read "HA HA I AM NUDE SPOCK; NED RAGGETT IS GAY AND STEVIE D IS GAY AND JOHN JUSTEN IS GAY AND I AM GAY AND EVERYTHING IS A BIG FAGGOT"

(Sadly this is barely an exaggeration.)

Didn't he have some blog where he posted the email addresses of ilx people who he had beef with, with some commentary liek "haha! you will all get spammed to oblivion, fear me! I am nude spock!" except 1/2 of the email addresses were exticnt ones, some of them were misspelles, and no-one got any more spam than usual anyway.

"misspelles", "exticnt", "liek" yeesh....

Yeah, I remember that.

I suppose toying with him for lols last night makes me a big jerk, but it was fun.

"dick butkus"

actually wasn't it "butt dickass"

what a nut

"ipsissimus"

yeah dean ge as nude spock totally unexpected!

-- Curt1s Stephens, Friday, August 3, 2007 5:51 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

seriously, it's like a sci-fi or horror movie when someone turns out to be a robot or a vampire or werewolf or a robot vampire werewolf. from outer space.

or from hell. or from hellspace. you get the idea.

There was "dick butkus" AND "butt dickass". Also "scorpion tea". I'm trying to find one of those 9/11 loose change threads he drooled all over, and these are all the names google and ilx thread search are throwing up.

these days he is best known as "Surmounter"

EVERYTHING IS A BIG FAGGOT

Hard point to argue.

John J., what thread did you push him over the edge on?

"Didn't he have some blog where he posted the email addresses of ilx people who he had beef with"

ah, right. maria and i were BOTH on there. so flattered.

cio: girl i am training for my job calling me to ask HOW TO SAVE E-MAIL DRAFT!!!!!

"dean ge" did start some conspiracy related threads but they didn't really take off

North American Union & the "Amero" currency... why is nobody talking about this?

there were a couple of threads from last night. he actually did get bugged when we started posting his old posts on one of them.

yeah, the dean ge persona wasn't very successful! lots of dud threads that nobody posted on. that's probably why he got antsy.

tehresa that's just sad.

i couldn't tell right away that it was nude spock, but i knew it was one of those dudes. they always know too much about ilx for new people.

tehresa that's just sad.

srsly i don't know how she is still breathing, much less how she got hired.

Ha haha ha guess what:

More 9/11 conspiracy theory action ahoy -- with pictures!

nude spock spent a long time spamming my blog until I just put in a open proxy filter

These kinds of characters kind of fascinate me-- I don't want to have to read or deal with their trolling, but I do want to know what kind of room they live in, what do they eat, do they have friends, etc.

cio stress, hot weather and what wld seem to be unending mid-level heatstroke making me feel all like chronic fatigue moving too slowly bullshit edge of mental breakdown fuuuuccck

i think i just have to say fuck a deadline, for self preservation
i hate doing that

yeah i am having the 'do i work late to catch up on all the real things i have to do bc new girl is slowing me down and i just got rid of her for the day?' or 'do i say fuck this shit! and go home?' dilemma.

jbr have you ever had "hot frats" in brooklyn?

haha no! i didn't know such a thing existed.

cio stress, hot weather and what wld seem to be unending mid-level heatstroke making me feel all like chronic fatigue moving too slowly bullshit edge of mental breakdown fuuuuccck

otmotmotmotmotmotm, actually i can deal with heat, but humidity makes me want to kill everyone falling down style.

http://www.camargodesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2006_july/Falling_Down.jpg

http://images.ciao.com/ide/images/products/normal/382/product-21382.jpg

http://www.newint.org/issue245/Images/falling.jpg

yeah i'm pretty glad i don't have to deal with too many people lately
have been working on yoga calm exercises but it is difficult

Rrrobyn, just let go. Give yourself a little treat. What's one or two less human beings on this earth? YOU DESERVE TO RELAX.

the heat was seriously making me hate at work last night. made me so miserable on into today. bad mood heat work vibe. i've been trying to relax. went to the used bookstore.

buy anything good?

cio crohn's disease making me keel over clutching my abdomen every five seconds

ppl who don't believe global warming is real can eat all this fucs

:( Curt1s ouch.

totally
xpost

ah, i left the house, feel better: went to the farmers' market with a couple friends and did my part in recovering vast quantities of awesome fresh fruit and vegetables that would otherwise meet the garbage - fridge full of free food! including: corn! huge amounts of basil! nectarines! a freakin' pineapple! cucumbers, carrots, zucchini, beets, parsley, cilantro. last week we even got papaya. anyway, i know it is 'dumpster diving' but there aren't really dumpsters, just boxes - it is gleaning; it is euro, haha
all this bounty trumps mental overload

"buy anything good?"

john rockwell's all american music book with essays on cage, babbitt, shapey, rzewski, ashley, behrman, murch, eddie palmieri, neil young, sondheim, krenek, carter, um, and some others.

and peter shapiro's disco book. turn the beat around. kinda excited to finally read that. nice hardcover copy.

plus, i eyeballed a couple of harvey swados first editions, but i didn't take the plunge.

nice.

all from the island?

yeah, it's the only used bookstore on the island. two floors of an old barn. problem is, they are really really sleepy, so they aren't big on getting new stuff/new collections in. so i don't go there much. i have better luck at the thrift stores and at the dump actually.

CIO Ryan Leslie. Stop stealing Youtube video artists, esp. the ones I want on the forthcoming album!

Curt1s whoa! When were you diagnosed?

(I had v severe colitis from age 14-20)

cio me worrying that no one's gonna be at the bar tonight and that no one will call me to let me know they're not coming and i'll just feel like a chump for going out when i should be finishing packing/cleaning

http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/qnx_4.25_docs/photon114/prog_guide/images/cut.gif http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20924/20924-h/images/hand.png http://www.bloomcosm.ru/img/oats-icon.gif Michelle Duggar's uterus

(the OUT is oat cause i couldn't find an OUT icon)

cio the "medium spicy" thai food being too spicy for me? wtf how old am i anyway?

cio mosquitoes and ants taking over my hammock

xpost don't worry I had a pizza with freaking BANANA PEPPERS today that was crazy hot; I think it's just sunspots or something

the phrase "my hammock" has no place on a cio thread

I wz diagnosed two (2) years ago

Argh. I hope you're having more good days than bad days! Have you found some ways of managing it?

n00d spock emailing me

Maybe you should go out to Astoria and have some spanakopita with him, Jon.

whoops my thing stopped working

you're thing always works imho

cio the "medium spicy" thai food being too spicy for me?

i'm still living this down (no need to be more tmi than that). i should have learned my lesson after that prodigiously spicy bowl of tom kha gai i had six months ago.

CIO everything I eat making me feel really nauseous to the point I seem to be incapable of having anything approaching a regular meal, let alone 3 a day. I think my liver is completely shot :(

cio me having to wait around for packages all day, and it's only 2:28pm.

cio gmail giving me weirdass error messages about "corrupt pages" making me get all paranoid because now I cant work out if I've lost mails, or I'm just not being mailed :(

turn off your "personal firewall"

Thats what it tells me but I'm at work on a fricking LAN, my PC isnt running a damn firewall. And wtf, it is webmail, I do not get.

Maybe my IT guy is fucking with me :o

google dot com is all arabic for me! but google dot ca is not - i don't have time to figure that shit out tho

cio time

Rrrobyn, me too! I finally switched it back to English but how the fuck did it get that way in 1st place??

yeah i have no idea - but you just let me know how to fix it! and i did :)

that's weird, mine too!

cdut ckit out ,keyboafr4cd z
a.loxso cgoog.le arabcd
a
9

Okay, I assumed I had hit some key accidentally during a spazz-out but now I think google was being tricksy.

me too on google arabic. WTF?

Yeah, what the fuck is with Google. Is this the electronic terrorism? I haven't seen Die Hard 4.0 yet.

igood to know kEybrd problem isn^t globAl

ME TOO!!!

lol i think the google/arabic thing might be ilx-specific

http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/oklicense.JPG

arabic google for me, too

yeah that's great, we read reddit too etc, but seriously dude, GOOGLE MYSTERY

xpost

cut it out me getting on the L with no problem and then having insane delayed F train to work, but nevertheless getting to work when other people are like 'oh train no work i stay home!'. i want to stay home. :(

yeah this google thing is infuriating

apparently arabic google not a problem elsewhere in my office?

you guys are making this shit up

no wai

yeah my google is fine!

went to current cio thread
ctrl-k
rah rah sis boom bah
Results 1 - 10 of about 30,300 for rah rah sis boom bah. (0.06 seconds)
english

?? wierd problem!! sounds exciting.

my google is fine and i asked office mate to check and his is fine but he thinks i'm insane now

I'm mad at L train too. Want to be home w/doggies.

OMG there was a small tornado in Bay Ridge this morning!

I had arab.
where's boing boing now?

THIS ARABIC SHIT IS AN URBAN LEGEND GET OVER IT.

(I'm just cranky because the terrorists left me out)

clearing cookies worked i think

cio me taking form of ball of anxiety but without any superpowers just supreme lack of concentration and audible brain buzz no lasers or flying. gonna go breathe

i got the arabic google thing too, but it was only from google toolbar on my browser

cut it out me getting kinda bitchy/short with trainee girl. i feel bad now, but she is so dumb! and her dumbness is wasting valuable time!!!

CIO 2 week radio silence from $DATE, we are going to a wedding on SUNDAY and I want to make sure he's coming and we have a plan -- and now I'm just really anxious that he's gonna flake out on me :( :( :( PLZ RETURN MY CALLS

I know the joke's on me for not knowing how to prevent it (answer probably being "get a mac and don't use firefox"), but the google language hijacking thing is annoying. There's another one on some thread that's changing it to some other weird language instead of Arabic.

Also why did the thread about this get deleted?

re: google arabic.

I cleared the cookies and it's happening again.

And now my housemate thinks I'm insane.

cio crippling depression breaking me completely.

I think it happens again if you re-visit the thread with the hijacking link in it ("waht is awesome" thread and maybe one other one).

i got arabic firefox google too!

Does this only happen with google.com ? Cause I can't force it to go to the US site, it redirects to com.au for me :/

cio crippling depression breaking me completely.

-- Trayce, Friday, August 10, 2007 3:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

:-( *hugs*

Thanks LB :)

just visit google.com/en to restore english

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Coulier#Trivia

His famous tagline is "Come on now, cut-it-out!," complete with hand motions and voices. He introduced it while on the comedy show Out of Control but used it regularly on Full House. He has been asked to stop ever since.

is that wikivandalism?

cut it out louis trying to claim "waterfalls of pussy" as his own

cio: idiot dj downstairs playing rage against the machine followed by third eye blind after playing rap for 3 hours. Yea, I already guessed you were white chump

bombs over baghdad

song 2

milkshake

jon do you need my 1999 noise album

hey remember how my roommate broke my speakers? I'm playing excitetruck on a crate amp

cio watched pot never boiling

cio being treated like complete shit ;_;

cio lj masocho-exhibitionism

I mean, argh, you know?

I hope shit gets better, Trayce.

Pash OTM on both counts!

lj= livejournal or Jewy's Lagger?

The answer can be found on the wdyll thread on ile, HH.

CIO Bimble, apropos of absolutely nothing on Daft Punk Live thread:

I want to know if people frequenting this thread know that Tony Wilson has died and who he was. Thanx

That is remarkably adolescent!

CIO MY BOSS BEING INSANE

David:

I just wanted to let you know that I was looking over your file and noticed that you have missed 8 days this past year due to sickness. Please note that you do not have any vacation due and owing now until January of 2008. I wanted you to know this.

Seems he's just trying to pre-empt you trying to take time off. Hardly insane, just strict. I think.

i've been here a year and had one vacation day. our 'sick policy' does not exist; there is merely an 'absenteeism' policy that says that 'unsatisfactory attendence' will result in 'disciplinary action and/or discharge and will have an adverse impact on promotional considerations.'

the 8 sick days are over the course of an entire year, not since january

cio my roommate who is *one month* late paying deposit to former roommate (in a text message): "I've been at work all day. I'd appreciate it if you'd let me deal with it mysel. I thought I made that pretty clear."

Also, not claiming to have received email asking for bill money.

That seems batshit (xp).

Also, fwiw, the one redeeming of my old employer was that, for as skimpy they were with the vacation days, they had an "infinite sick days" policy. If you abused it, they'd cotton on pretty quickly, so better to let people stay home when they're ill than penalize them for it by eating up vacation time.

my job is making me take more time off

our work day is 830 to 6

wtf

my workday is like noon to 7... maybe

?!?!

OK, Deej, sounds like quittin' time.

polish off the resume!

deej those were my hours, too, and that was on a regular day. i'd often have to stick around until 7 or 8. doing nothing, mind, but since everyone else had to stick around, i had too, too.

...i figured out that i was making something like $12/hr. WAHT

xp yeah, FINISH HIM IT!

resumetality

this is the plan.

cio feeling of trapped-ness in job :(

Okay Deej, with the context that is batshit!

ugh jobs
i kinda wish i had one sometimes tho. but not really. we'll see when the infinite stress of self-employment takes me down. at least thesis stress has end in v close sight. which brings me to:

cut it out my freaky back & forth btwn being chill and being all neurosis and perfectionism

I NEED A JOB

i need either a weekend job or somehow to only spend $10 on food a day.

it's hard, i'm already at $6.50!

cio 3 hour class x 3 days a week on top of work

omg I know that feeling, xpost. I recommend ramen.

Please god let a master's degree actually result in more $$$.

it will if you know how to 'sell it', for sure
my advice: don't get caught up in working/jobs/other opportunities/people/etc and end up spending over three years on it. focus, do, complete, go!

$10/day for food seems like luxury livin to me - but i pretty much just buy groceries and never eat out :/

i bought a pretty nice whole (uncooked) chicken today for like $3.50! b/c it has to be cooked today. which i will do.

what are you getting your master's in jessie? most likely it will...

i'm going to just end up eating lots of noodles, rice, beans, kale, sausage, stir-fries, curries. no more eating out. it can be done!

the luxury of living alone is way more important than the luxury of spending $2.50 on a cinnamon bun

TRUTH
you will be healthier in all ways!

isn't it going to be funny when canada money is worth more than ours?

I just spent $15 on lunch

:(

My lunch limit is $5. It's pretty written in stone.

haha canada money!

one way to not eat out very often is to become gastro-sensitive to everything!
(though damn, cinnamon buns... i won't even tell you how i approximate a non-grain non-dairy non-sugar version.)
(i feel like 75% of my life is all abt guts lately. cio life being all abt guts.)

you guys make me want to never graduate college

gah, i really need to learn to stop eating out/drinking

My life has been all about guts since age 14.

I am going to Toronto this weekend! But poor exchange rates mean I will not be able to plunder CD stores freely:(

im going out to eat a lot and buying a ton of clothes this year before i have to start paying rent

Do you write freelance, rrrobyn? Just the science? Is is this bad? http://www.rbcinvest.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/PEstory/LAC/20070809/RUSSELL09/Columnists/columnists/columnistsThearts/1/1/1/

CIO: governments funding three times more PhDs in physics than there are jobs in physics.
CIO: baby boom academics living so long.
KIU: taking PhD and working in finance seeming not just tolerable but actually kinda fun.

the exchange rate was almost 1:1 when i visited canada at some point over the last year!

haha finance is kinda fun at an academic level, anyways.

top 5 ways to save assloads of money IMO--

Drink at home/at friend's houses
Don't smoke cigarettes
Don't own car
Cook food at home
Use public library constantly

caek my friend just got his MS in physics, fully intending to go into finance because they like brainiacs.

cio me considering ditching the whole med school thing and trying to be a mountain guide/writer instead (it'll never work!)

WHAT IS DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MOUNTAIN GUIDE/ARTIST/MUSICICICIAN AND LARGE DOMINO'S PIZZA?

yeah bars are out too.
i don't smoke but i need to cut out my iced coffee habit.
i'm going to see if i can get away with the car. i have it registered out of state so my insurance and stuff are really low.

i am seriously considering quitting drinking altogether in order to save some money.

I don't know RW, what is the difference between etc etc?

state of canadian magazine industry is and never has been all that great for making $$ that's for sure

b/c i'm still thesising, i don't consider myself full-on freelance b/c i'm other pretty busy and not devoting a lot of time to the hustle. i do know, however, that doing coms writing/editing/etc for businesses and schools and other institutions pays way better than mags (though is often more stab-self-in-eye-y). i into doing coms stuff for science & medicine, yeah, but i've written music, arts, culture stuff too. i am all renaissance like that haha.
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you could totally be a mountain guide, rw! depends on if you love medicine more though too y'know

pizza feeds a family of four

what are you getting your master's in jessie? most likely it will...

International Relations, which means I can actually work in IR (as opposed to HR/admin) but salaries, uh, vary. I'm thinking three more years of poverty + hilarious loan payments will make me the most frugal person alive.

CIO: baby boom academics living so long.
but yeah, THIS
not just academics

oh i don't have nearly the experience necessary for mountain guiding. ski guiding, sure, but i'd have to really get after it for the other disciplines. plus, it only really pays if you can figure out how to make money on the side as a writer/photog/"personality." (as my friend Freddy seems to be doing)

I really do love medicine and public health, but having a stretch of free-time in the mountains has made me realize that i really am happiest when i'm just sort of fucking around in the hills. not so much because of the LOL NATURE, but because it's one of the few times that it's pretty much OK to actively ignore every thing else in yr life. same goes for playing music shows or, like, making a painting. and doing medical work, really!

it's cliche, but being on lead sort of makes yr credit card bill seem stupid and irrelevant.

i wish i had the drive/desire to go to grad school. i don't mind the work i'm doing but i'm getting presure to get an MBA in order to advance (or go back to for-profit world) at all and that is just the last thing i would ever want to do.

just CIO anyone thinking that and MBA is somehow worthwhile

i blame the baby boomers
please all retire and die

hey!

(late boomer here)

in 20 years we will all be required to get our PhDs to please our geriatric boomer overlords, many of whom do not have a college education.

I don't know anything about business school (ANYTHING) but I always thought of an MBA as kind of weird. I don't really get what people take from those programs that they can't learn with real-world experience.

I always thought MBA was ostensibly what most frat/jock types were going to school for, ie the equivalent of "Industrial Arts" class is high school.

I think you read a bunch of those Machiavelli vs. Sun Tzu BUSINESS IS LIKE WAR books.

I am confused by the concept of MLS or MLIS degrees. What do you learn about librarian-ing? Isn't the Dewey Decimal System pretty much set in stone?

world always needs librarians! nedraggett.jpg

a lot of mba programs then bring in a lot of those non-academic/phd early-retirement boomers to teach classes!
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the world needs a fucking overhaul

Library job market (for decent positions)is v competitive, right? Hence the pressure for higher degree plumage...

MLIS coursework is lots of programming/database stuff. it seems pretty light, like there is no reason it should be a two-year course and not one-year.

xxpost good thing the AGE OF AQUARIUS is upon--

oh... never mind...

i am an aquarius :/

I am confused by the concept of MLS or MLIS degrees. What do you learn about librarian-ing? Isn't the Dewey Decimal System pretty much set in stone?

You learn about different databases, how to solve various types of requests, how to help patrons, how to evaluate what books are going to be good for your library and what to pitch, cataloging, etc. the list goes on and on. And most academic libraries use Library of Congress, not Dewey Decimal.

Library job market is very very tight. The key is to specialize!

almost did MLS years ago but i'm now pretty discouraged.

Thanks, Mr. Que, that makes the idea much more understandable.

though i agree that it should be a year degree, but maybe if it is two, you take the first year and learn general stuff, and then take second year for specialization (science, legal, academic, music) and apprentice somewhere.

Rrrobyn nothing personal, just lame boomer humor.

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har i know - now is the REAL age of aquarius amirite
i am going to a) work hard and 'make a difference' and/or b) move to the north and live underground and make weird electronic coms shit

ok b) sounds really pretty good right now. i wld do an internet radio show.

I am maybe doing MLS next year - both Chicago-area programs can be done in a year if you do them full-time.

I did my MLS in 3 semesters, after I quit my job and went full time. I do not advise taking 5 classes during one semester, though, esp. if you have a part-time job. The work wasn't hard, but there was A LOT of it.

b) sounds awesome, rrrobyn.

let's start noize dude summer camp and electrocomplex in Alberta

CIO: baby boom academics living so long.

for serious

lols 8080

i'm hoping when the baby boomers leave the convention of working 9-5 will go away. 11-7 or 10-6 would be such an enormous jump in my quality of life. i keep expecting as i get older to stop hating getting up early but it's just not happening.

^^^^^^yesssssss

Absolutely OTMFM.

It's not the 8 hours that destroys me, it's the time they start.

i'm talking NORTHWEST-TERRITORIES north electronoisecomplex
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aaw yeah screw 9-5 utter nonsense

I'm fine with 9-5, kiddies

ok that works too

xp you shut up

computer died (w/ all resumes), ipod died, car dying, bank acc't @ -$700, no rent, no job, no loans, pawned my camera for $33 of gas money, feeling pretty hopeless :(

typing this and reading craigslist on wii

cio the world sending remy bummerz all the time

that is a shitty situation, duder. you have anyone you can call for help?

Oh remy no :(

Yaoooow, that sure sucks the big balls.

yeah srsly what the hell that all has to cut it out for you remy - sending you light (though cash wld obv be better - i am also half living off light so y'know, it kinda works and can bring teh cash)

that's pretty sweet you have a wii tho

cio having no idea what is going on and letting the confused impatience turn me into a dickhead. sigh.

that's pretty sweet you have a wii tho

yah no shit sheesh.

positive thinking?

cio awful "running up that hill" cover on commercials for new ken burns documentary "the war"

i dont know who it is by but it is soo bad. i think it might be by bright eyes or something

Its not the Placebo version is it?

Pls dont laugh at me for knowing that.

cio mosquito bites being so itchy and swelling up, esp the ones on my knuckle

cio Futurama still being able to make me sniffly dammit wtf!

is that the one with his dog? i saw that just after breaking with someone and it made me want to kill myself...

cut it out stupid crepe former roomate not paying me money for last 4 months of electric bill and sending me really insulting email about how he needs to see the hardcopies and thinks i am trying to swindle him?!!

I didn't think I was going to cry.

-- Bimble, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 02:23 (Tuesday, 14 August 2007 02:23)

Looool (sorry, very mean but after his little moment on the daft punk thread...)

cio double act of fuckery on another forum:

dude one - any time a discussion that he is not involved in gets interesting, he starts metaphorically cock-waving, i liek big tits etc. He is a moderator.

dude two - continually moans about the same shit, will do nothing about said shit, also repeatedly crapfloods threads w/lolcat images.

I feel that justice has been served on Bimble now that Shasta has called him a "mote". That rocked.

cio london kicking my ass:

1. had bag with macbook pro, phone, ipod, $300 headphones, notebook, oystercard, books and jacket stolen from pub on friday (wasn't even drunk)

2. LOST MY BANK CARD yesterday -> do you know how hard it is to get a replacement bank card in england? you basically have to win a customer service decathalon

I feel that justice has been served on Bimble now that Shasta has called him a "mote". That rocked.

-- Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:50 (Tuesday, 14 August 2007 15:50)

Where was that?

Also ^@^ that really sucks!

It was on the same Daft Punk thread. I doubt Bimble is still reading the thread, so it may not have found its mark.

But I want to know if people frequenting this thread know that Tony Wilson has died and who he was. Thanx should really become a meme to be inappropriately deployed all over the place.

cut it out stupid crepe former roomate not paying me money for last 4 months of electric bill and sending me really insulting email about how he needs to see the hardcopies and thinks i am trying to swindle him?!!

-- bell_labs, Tuesday, 14 August 2007 13:52 (1 hour ago) Link

can't you login to coned.com and see billing history

Yeah you can see everything on Con Ed's website. Former roomie is probably trying to delay until his next paycheck or something.

i closed out my con ed account two days ago. i don't know if i can still log in, as i don't have my old account number with me. this is just obnoxious thing #945834543 he has done and i'm just frustrated because i've asked him for money for the past 4 billing cycles and he just keeps not paying me. i asked him to his face and he just completely blanked me!

i mean, he was leaving his AC on 24 hours a day, did he not think the electric bill would be higher!??!

yea, i am going to take the last electric bill out of roommates deposit.

^@^: London will kick your ass if you are not careful. My racist Chinese office-mate went there and lost her bag. "I think a black man stole my bag in KFC", is how she tells it. It was probably the same guy who got yours.

cio no hot water in the morning AGAIN

]1. had bag with macbook pro, phone, ipod, $300 headphones, notebook, oystercard, books and jacket stolen from pub on friday (wasn't even drunk)

oh shit, that is pain.

More Bimble from the other day, on the Seattle thread:

I'm drunk and I'm playing Joy Division and I'm in Seattle. Where do I fit into this thread? Finally we got some sun last night. Today is not bad either. Tony Wilson is dead did you know that? Tony Wilson is dead. Get used to it. Get your head around it. Try.

FACTORY RECORDS WILL NEVER DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Bimble, Saturday, August 11, 2007 1:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

bumble

-- jergïns, Saturday, August 11, 2007 4:08 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

is that the one with his dog?

Nah, it was the one where Fry goes to find his 7 leaf clover and discovers his brothers grave is actually his nephews, etc with the "dont you forget about me" bit at the end. I'm a sap. The Fry's dog one KILLS me every time though.

Poor bimble. I dont think he's um, doing too well, maybe lay off him a bit guys (though its hard not to lol at his stuff I have to admit)

Listen to me, cap'n save-a-drunk.

whats going on with him?

uh... he's an ilxor?

I just think his behaviour indicates he's probably not well maybe perhaps, I dont know.

m4t0s alluded to something similar. i'll cio

ok the women toilet flushing thread is bringing out the crazy

can't you login to coned.com and see billing history

heh took me a sec

http://m1.freeshare.us/167fs432914.jpg

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/mmpo/503448~Coneheads-Posters.jpg

humansuit

me getting riled at flaunto the finn

otoh i'd probbly hit it :\

no, mark, no

I thought he was hilarious on that thread!

cio ILM having zero troll radar.

What is a 'g' in hip-hop?

that thread is GOLD

(mei is old-skool ilm tho, not a troll)

tuomas is very helpful

cio me getting all aggro over this idiot new girl. i should just realize that even though the next week will SUCK i will be gone soon and it will not be my problem! it would help if she wasn't so haughty about the fact she's an idiot, though.

She's probably scared shitless. The hauteur is armor. (Guessing)

i dunno, some dumb people are inexplicably proud of their dumbness

ok how about she gives me all this attitude and then i get called into supervisor's office where it appears she may have been crying (holding crumbled up tissue...) and told that i need to mentor her more and have her watch me do things which is absolute bs because i asked her to do that and she told me she didn't need to! then she goes crying to the boss?! wtf!!!

3 words:

borderline personality disorder

cio migraines. i need meds for this shit. i def need lots of DRUGS so i can make it through the day without wimpering or crawling in bed wishing there was no light at all. :-(

wtf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1iJRDffNMc

cut it out AAMC blueballing me on my MCAT scores. I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO PLANNED FUTURE

srsly, that shit was supposed to have been released 15 minutes ago!

NOW YOU SAY ANY TIME BETWEEN NOW AND FRIDAY????

OH U BITCH

cio the new york times being so behind the curve they recently did a writeup on the goddamn kabab cafe in astoria, which is almost like publishing a review saying "hey there's this great painting called the mona lisa, go check it out!"

LOL "Ohio" underneath My Child's Pack ad.

Protect em from the national guard too!

cio -$800

ooh i love kebab cafe!

but yeah nyt hilariously behind the curve pretty consistently on everything

OMG PEOPLE NERDS ARE RAPPING

kabab cafe is brilliant. his brother's restaurant is great too.

which is his brother's restaurant? when i lived in astoria i used to go there in the middle of the afternoon when i was the only customer and read national geographics from 1988.

ANY TIME BETWEEN NOW AND FRIDAY????

translation: lol computer r broek.

THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY

stfu

FU

awwwww river wolf, it's okay bro

It is etymologically linked to the word "gangster", but like the word "douchebag", it has come to mean something quite different from its lexicological progenitor.

-- Richard Wood Johnson, Wednesday, 15 August 2007 13:11 (Yesterday) Link

which is his brother's restaurant?

it's called mombar.

cio people operating as if the "new" junior senior album is "new."

those fucking bastards.

cio new version of itunes moving bands that don't start with a letter below Z.

MCAT score yet??

BAN JORDAN SARGENT

The release of the July 13, 2007 exam scores will take place between the evenings of August 15 and August 17, 2007.

fingers crossed, rw

which is his brother's restaurant? when i lived in astoria i used to go there in the middle of the afternoon when i was the only customer and read national geographics from 1988.

-- bell_labs, Wednesday, August 15, 2007 5:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Every city has a place like this! :D

well it's about time

kiu me looking like i might actually get in

weeeee!!!!

!!!!!!!!

i got a 34R, which isn't stellar, but it's well above the nat'l median, so that's nice. tho, my score was buoyed almost entirely by my verbal score (14)---hope that isn't a problem.

Anyway. Done and dusted.

</WHY DON'T YOU BLOG ABOUT IT>

you can perform surgery with your words

HI 5 BROTHA!!!

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Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

ROXOR (uh, insert rockeaglemoticon here. When someone invents it.)

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not sure if this was posted before

cio: http://dubdobdee.livejournal.com/52093.html?thread=229757#t229757

yes it has! i think i did cut it out too! i am easily cowed!

Mr. Mark Sinker, for showing such poor form of speaking ill of the deceased in such a manner, I hereby banish you to the blogosphere for the next 2 decades.

Steve Shasta

hi steve! the "of" after form is incorrect!

ps sorry i didn't come onto aim last night when chaki asked it was actin weird

cio people operating as if the "new" junior senior album is "new."

-- Jordan Sargent, Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:40 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Link

The album came out two days ago in America

CIO MY JOB x 1,000,000,000,000

cio LJ's poetry.

I'll save my 6-page progressive epic about clubbing until later.

Much later thanks.

cio also being fucking sick on a friday as well, making me look like a work skiver yet again. I look after my sick ex and get thanked by catching tonsillitis! Bastard universe.

who exactly buys junior senior albums? xxxxxpost

cio learning over dinner that my brother is going to iraq

awesome doctoring future news, rw!!

my power was out for the last few hours due to crazy storm so i could not say cio power being out - it was kinda nice though (but only b/c power came back on)

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ohman iraq deployment :(

oh latebloomer, so sorry :(

Oh no LB :(

cio me getting food poisoning every 2-3 weeks

(rw, pls get dr. creds so you can fix me b4 old age)

cio family of roaches that somehow moved in over the last two days (i think i may have accidentally smuggled them in from somewhere... they're all over los angeles, especially in this humidity). i put some baits around this morning, so maybe that'll do the trick.

i hate bugs, i truly do

Ugh yeah I've had a roach problem :/ Also the basement at home is covered in dead millipedes.

Urgh, roaches. Gross little fuckers.

cio registering on ilx, & less than 1hr later yr first post is spamming yr own band on ILM. BANHAMMER3D.

Doesn't that happen a lot?

Also the basement at home is covered in dead millipedes.

i spent a good part of last night picking up dead millipedes in my room

whatever floats your boat!

cio work being the only place i meet smart, available girlz

cio locking myself out of my apartment and landlord not having a spare set (im usually so good about checking for my keys every time and haven't lost my keys for many years, but of course as soon as i move into my own place i do this. stupid!)

cio everything

i don't know how it's possible that he doesn't have a key. he is trying to see if the downstairs neighbor is home so i can go in through their window and climb the fire escape. otherwise i need to find a locksmith. how much does that cost?

i think $200?

FUCK

You didn't give 1@n a spare set for just this reason?

no, which is particularly annoying because i was at the hardware store saturday and though about doing that but didn't :(

just dont wait till night to call

the night locksmith, he takes your cash away

cio mslaura and her wart

if you get one maybe your maid can take care of it

oh god i just read that. oh god.

"cut it out" was my exact wart advice, actually

dammit, wot will my GI tract lemme eat?

if you get one maybe your maid can take care of it

haha if you saw the tom waits song i live in you too would recognize the ridiculousness of me "having a maid"

(that would be the young, tropicana motel era tom waits, not the wealthy black rider one)

cio me being all super lateish for last day of work. whatever, i am going to blame it on the rain (yeah yeah)

cio fuckheads taking my unbrella.

seriously, how do you accuse people you live with of taking your fucking umbrella

In much the same way as you accuse them of ruining your speakers/computer/day/peace and quiet, I imagine.

anonymous passive-aggressive williamsb0ard thread?

I was hoping "unbrella" wasn't a typo.

Jon Mieville

Wait wait can I edit that post? China Williams is way better, AND also a perfectly good porn name.

the fact that someone late on rent and deposit can summon up self righteous indignation at me for anything is pretty mind blowing

I am perfectly up to date on both, tanQ very much.

Someone stole China Mieville's umbrella?

unbrella

why are you being such a twit today, laurel?

Mostly the weather, I think.

Cold weather and rain just mean we can accessorize more.

Yeah but I have to do another $80 worth of dry cleaning to have any clothes for this shit plus it wasn't hot enough to go to the beach ONCE this year.

uh

how hot does it have to be for u to go to the beach L??

yah i seem to recall some high 90s earlier this summer

seriously, how do you accuse people you live with of taking your fucking umbrella

-- Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

take it out of their deposit, lol

haha living alone is the best.

BAN LAUREL

Yeah I feel like I totally missed this summer -- I guess I was away for two weeks in total -- but in my current apt it just never got very hot, and it has to be v bad in the city to make it hot enough down the shore with the wind & lake effect.

my apartment was so hot i slept on the concrete a lot

i went to the rockaways a few times - lovely

i was at the beach almost every weekend this summer. laurel, you're nuts!

CIO: gabbneb rushing in to whine about people picking on the upper-middle class

hahahahaha I immediately went to see what he put in the Leona Helmsley thread that prompted this, oops.

cio: last day and i am STILL here. i still have 2 things left to finish up workwise and then move all my shit to my new desk (also cio them making me give up my office just because i'm only gonna be here 1 day a week when TEMPS get fucking offices these days but they're like 'oh you have to sit in a secretary desk because there are no offices'). this shit would all be done by now if i hadn't spent the last 3 hours babysitting/handholding new girl through very simple tasks.

CIO: get my box copy of BioShock....turn on 360....red ringz of DETH! : (

cio loading dishwasher full of two days' worth of cooking stuff and turning it on only to find the kitchen floor flooded and something I can't find blocking the drain. All the filter screens are clear, so it's something down the pipe and I have no idea what's in there so I'm afraid to use the drain snake in case there's like a delicate mesh or little plastic fins or something I could break.

brutal, m@tt.

cio anyone who has a dishwasher complaining

i was gonna say....

I <3 my dishwasher. It is worth the f'nridiculous rent I pay on my apartment.:D

I am sort of stoked about the dishwasher in the place I'm moving into in October.

cio laurel's bs complaints

cio people who don't have all mod cons using that to justify belittling another person's problems with a FLOODED APARTMENT

brooklyn rental rockists

dishwashers are a waste of space and money

hire a mexican instead

better for the environment than washing by hand

yeah but i hate the environment

wait, waht?

running the faucet the whole time, maybe, but filling a sink and washing that way?

I am POSITIVE my dishwasher isn't better for the environ than doing by hand, it takes like AN HOUR to wash two sinks' worth of dishes. But we only run it like 3x per month so whatev.