Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_225170540.html

Well-known messenger and "superhero" Bluntman killed today.

:(

And here I've been bitching about getting another flat last night. RIP

thats right by my work

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/surveys/smiles/

16 out of 20

those are some ugly ass people

i only got 12/20

Well-known messenger and "superhero" Bluntman killed today.

:(

-- river wolf, Monday, August 13, 2007 10:51 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

mistaken identity....a different guy, Ryan, not Bluntman.

Still dead, tho

i got 17/20 looking pretty much only at their eyes. weird people, especially that last dude who looked like he was about to start giggling but had a fake smile.

I looked at cheeks.

ASS cheeks

i've been watching youtube clips of old bruins hockey fights from the late '70s. pie mckenzie, terry o'reilly, stan jonathan turning pierre bouchard's face into hamburger, johnny wensink pounding the shit out of some random minnesota northstar then challenging the entire north stars bench to a fight. no one on the bench stepped onto the ice.

the end of this clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-85qLSvztnQ

Wow. I got 9 out of 20. I mistook a lot of real smiles for fake. The real ones that I got wrong I misjudged because the end of the smile seemed very abrupt.

Is Carrie SJP's character? SJP is fucking HARD on the eyes. Fucking horseface.

http://www.dlisted.com/node/13467

I wonder if Ryan was one of my regulars? I'll ask another one of the guys today when they come in. :-( Do you know what company he worked for?

It was so perfect out this morning. I sat on the back porch listening to the rain and drinking coffee.

What is it with me posting on the wrong thread?!

That was to go to the gay thread, the posts about Sarah Jessica Horseface.

I got 15 out of 20 on the smiles thing. I thought that the return-to-normal-face moment was the key.

Exactly! The real ones seemed to switch back to neutral too quickly though.

I think maybe the fact that I only got 9 out of 20 has something to do with question at the beginning about how I rated my outlook on life.

I did that fake smile thing a year or two ago. I forget what I got.

Me too. I remember it was difficult and I was mostly uninterested in it. Which maybe doesn't say anything good about my interpersonal skills.

OK, e-petitions might be bullshit, but this one's for a very good cause:

https://www.environmentillinois.org/action/protect-lake-michigan/bp-epapetition

Funny: one of my friends was talking about how he sees this one girl all over town, and how half the time she never acknowledges him even though they see each other everywhere. Last night we realized that she has an IDENTICAL TWIN!

My friend Sarah said it happens to her all the time. Someone will run up to her smiling or even hug her and she'll have no clue who they are. Then it will turn out they knew her twin.

Twins are weird.

Yup.

I got a 14 out of 20 for smiles.

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JITTERBUG
http://snowbirdy.com/artman/uploads/1/jitterbug-phone_thumb.jpg

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http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/images/OB-AA931_wirele_20060403131927.jpg

You put the boom-boom into my heart?

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http://blog.worldvillage.com/science/jitterbug.gif

"There's a cushion, so it doesn't hurt my ear!"

"Would you like to add that number to your phone list, Mrs. Higgins?"

"Finally, a phone my mom will use!"

My parents seem to have been able to figure out normal cell phones. The fact that they actually want to use them is what blows my mind.

This product cracks me up.

I do think the jitterbug is a fantastic idea. I know it's marketed at the elderly and technophobes, but I kinda want one. Cheap, cheap monthly plans, does everything I use my phone for. Which is to say it stores numbers, makes calls, and rings.

LOL kenan is old.

http://www.cellphonedigest.net/images/jitterbug.PNG

Oh! And you can have them put the numbers in FOR YOU! And you can press a button if you need a tow!

I'm not deriding the product at all -- I just find it amusing. My mom is obsessed with her newfound senior citizenship and she is thinking of getting one. She certainly doesn't understand the phone she has. And it won't hurt her ear!

Kenan's cell phone:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/528186/2/istockphoto_528186_vintage_telephone_2.jpg

My mom insists on answering, "Hello?" even when she sees my number on the phone. When she types "phone" she puts a little ' in front, so you know she's abbreviating "telephone."

JITTERBUG.

I sometimes answer "hello" even with caller ID because I get a kick out of people saying "Dan?"

I was hanging out with friends who have a baby and a 4-year-old, and the kids were playing with a fake cell phone that rang and opened and everything, and then I remembered that I played with a fake rotary-dial phone when I was 4.

My grandma died a few years ago when she was 90, and I think cell phones and the internet were a whole other world to her. I could imagine a Jitterbug in her glove compartment.

I need a new phone at any rate. Something not so Motorola-y.

i answer hello if i don't know the number or whatever, but she KNOWS IT'S ME. that's "how you answer the 'phone."

I just think the whole concept of the Jitterbug is interesting because of how old people are getting these days and how much free time/mobility/spending power these old people have. I picture people bustin' out their Jitterbugs on the 11th hole to talk to their grandkids or whatever. That's amusing.

There needs to be the Manhattan/Chicago edition of the Jitterbug, with "Takeout" in the place of "Tow".

I would actually love to have seen the design meetings for those phones, where winnow those things down to the simplest functions.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/images/OB-AA931_wirele_20060403131927.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Lifecall-1.jpg

Weird! I just looked at my online cellphone bill, and saw that somehow, someway, I got a $250 credit on my account. I have no idea what happened, but my balance for the month is negative $180. Should I call and demand to know why in heck they're giving me so much money? What if it's a mistake and it burns me later?

i still don't have caller id!

i will once comcast gets their fucking act together and fixes my phone though. oh i hate comcast.

people always just call and say hi and don't identify themselves because EVERYONE has caller id...it works out ok anyway because not many people call me.

I can just hear myself yelling at AT&T. "What the hell is going on here? You DON'T want to charge me for the next three months?! You bastards!"

I know a baby who has a fake iPod.