Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Also: I'm totally on your team wrt Dara. She's awesome.

I just read her recent review of Dave & Busters. I mean, here is this James Beard award-winning food writer, really knows her way around cooking and wine, and she goes to this place and has a great time. I really can't think of a music writer equivalent of her. She's the best.

I want to have DM's babies.

I've really appreciated her approach to food & her writing is really fun to read.

I tried to do that Simpsonizer thing, but it didn't like the photos I submitted. Oh well.

I'll be your wing man, Jordan.

Also, in the non-productivity department, I keep trying to write this blog entry about baby names, but I just spent like an hour just inputting data into Excel, after which point I can't really justify ignoring my actual work anymore.

Did you guys do an automatic Simpsonizer thing? The one I did was piece-by-piece manual (hence the green lips).

yeah, i did it all manual, too.

http://simpsonizeme.com/

I don't have a photo with high enough resolution on this machine.

Mine was automatic, but they had options to revise stuff piece-by-piece aftewards. I didn't change anything though.

yeah, that's the one

I tried putting this one into it, but no dice.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/521904112_5c0365d2ca.jpg

Eazy - i'm interested, altho i don't have much grant writing experience ... but how hard can it be? i'll take some info

I did mine by scanning a photo. I tried customizing one first, but I think the camera don't lie.

Deej - send me an e-mail, or get my address from Jaymc.

I want a Dave and Busters FAP. Getting drunk and playing video games and skeet ball, I can't think of anything more enjoyable.

mattttt had a birthday party there a while back. It was fun, but there were too many little kids around getting the games all greasy.

I'd go back, because I still have one of their cards with some game credits on it.

LOVE skeet ball

Do they have good girlie drinks?? If so, maybe I should have my birthday party there. Oh, xpost.

Yes, they do. Answered my own question.

skeet ball

Ew.

I like the basketball shoot too. Much more enjoyable drunk.

and the race games that vibrate.

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/895/yourimageyy6.png

looooooooooooool

skeet skeet

"My name is Otto, and I like to get blotto!"

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1241/998809230_94ca5be73d_o.png

Heh, both of you!

That Simpson might have been accurate in 2003. I think in the photo I submitted, my hair blended into some tree branches.

aw. The simpsonizer keeps telling me to come back later. :(

It's because I'm jamming the place up trying to simpsonize my family.

See?

hm. I figured it out. It won't work on Firefox for Mac.

Commission based grantwriting?! For shame on that non-profit!
xpost

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/your_image.png

huh.

*shrug*

not Proops-y enough

Heh, your earlier one is much closer, Kenan.

Sisut, I don't know if they'd say "commission", but that's what it sounded like to me.

I like Sarah's photo of Jeff and Courtney at the c-hole tourney -- very athletic-looking!

I was admiring that photo as well.

Yeah, it was just my knee jerk reaction. Development professionals generally look askance at commission based grant work. Some argue that it's a clear cut ethical issue. But, at the very least, the grant writer runs the risk of getting paid absolutely nothing for their labor if the proposal isn't funded. Given that the reasons for not funding could be exclusively tied to the organization's performance and 100% out of the writer's control, it just doesn't seem very fair.

It's a mad house over here!! I think Laura Bush is dropping soon b/c the place is swarming with ginormous helicopters.

Is she going to do a free-fall from a helicopter?

It's doubtful John. Very doubtful.

I did another simpson of me based on a wedding photo:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1218/999695092_ef640692d2_o.png

Pretty!

I want to do another one where from the day I did the triathlon but it's super busy.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1025/866795741_74aae6302e.jpg?v=0

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1431/867646464_75b38fd44a.jpg?v=0

ha! I love that one!

You know what's weird? When you're driving west down Division, and you cross over into Oak Park, and the street numbers change (starting over at 0 I think), but then you cross over into River Forest, and the numbers change back to correspond to Chicago street numbering (eg Dominican U is at 7900 W. Division). It's like Oak Park thinks they are too good for the Chicago numbering system.

Now I'm going to go get an iced coffee and a cookie and read the Reader at Letizia's. Bye.