I hope not!
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Ticketmaster says no.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Google Black. http://black-google.blogspot.com/
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
You can do that with a stylish script as well.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
jordan, my answer would be no. i hope you weren't waiting with baited breath for an answer to that one.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh good.
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link
Office job hangover is very different from waitering hangover.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey Chicagoans! Where can I buy a used and/or remanufactured (or otherwise *cheap*) typewriter? The one we got is broke as hell.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
i tend to not like adding coffee to my lattes b/c the coffee interferes with the espresso flavor but at this hour, who is left to care about that?
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link
jesse: i wonder if universities have them in their recycle rooms. by "recycle room" i really mean the giant warehouse where they collect various things to reuse campus wide & often sell to the public as well. otherwise, i would look for a mom & pop office supply store or maybe even office max has some processors? quite a few offices still use that shit.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
otherwise: craigslist.
Jesse: http://chicagotypewriters.tripod.com/
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
That dude was profiled on Wild Chicago a few years ago.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link
lol tripod
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Which is worse???
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i just deleted someone's name preference in our database b/c i realized he hasn't graduated from law school yet.
why is that pertinent?
because he had his name preference as SIR blah blah blah ESQ.
i mean, c'mon, right?
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I deleted the "esq"
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm gonna vote for OFFICE. Waitering with a hangover involves a lot of chances to distract yourself--walking around, being a goofball (thereby masking your still-drunk-from-last-night status, if you reeeeally did some damage), and generally hiding your sweating and looking ill are easier to pull off in dimly-lit environments.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link
That was my suspicion. Although sometimes with really bad hangovers I just have to sit still, which you can do in an office and hope that it will be mistaken for concentration.
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:05 (seventeen years ago) link
In the United States the term can be used in the same way as in the UK. In the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, for example, a character named Bill defines an esquire as "a very important person"; Bill often introduces himself in the movie as Bill S. Preston, Esquire. In practice, however, "esquire" in the US is most commonly used by lawyers in a professional capacity; it has come to be associated by many Americans solely with the legal profession.
I did not know this about "esq".
Thanks for the typewriter link John! He keeps short hours, but that might work out well and I might get to be out of the office for a while!
I like that my job gives me the opportunity to do some walking and driving.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
am i a dick for deleting it? i mean, he's a law student. i think he's getting ahead of himself.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link
In high school, I signed up for my Rolling Stone subscription under the name "[My Name], Esq." because I wanted to be able to track the junk mail I subsequently received to that subscription.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
I mean, I was just curious where my junk mail came from.
he's a dick for wanting to be called "esquire"
― kenan, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
All esquires are dicks, but all dicks are not esquires.
― Jordan, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link
My esquires are pretty nice people.
― Jesse, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Jesse, you might want to call ahead to make sure the store is still there. I don't imagine he does much business these days.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago) link
yay, the people at the aldermans office were really nice and helpful. i not only got a parking permit, but registered to vote and got a free cycle map AND got to register my request that we get the blue recycling bins sarah was talking about a while ago. then went to get a mysterious certified letter, which turned out to be a gift card to best buy for buying our crappy phones. i'm enjoying my bike!
i agree that a law student asking to be called esquire is jumping the gun, and is a dick. could you change it to something like 'equine' and pretend you couldn't read his handwriting when he signed up?
― colette, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
ha! that's a hilarious idea, colette. the database tracks who makes what changes though. i'd probably only do something like that anonymously b/c i'm a wimp that way.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
UNLESS someone did something to really piss me off. then i might change it un-anonymously & blame it on crappy spelling.
oh jordan, i didn't really know about the esq thing until i started working here. i just thought it was a suffix for rich people or assholes or rich assholes.
― sweet tater, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Amanda, what time will you be at OT's?
-- Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 17:56 (2 hours ago) Link This may get to you too late, but we're probably gonna get there around 6-6:30 or so. Jenny has my number so call first if you want to make sure we're there. It's more likely that we'll be early than late, though.
― La Lechera, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link
I used to think that "Esq." meant that you owned horses.
― La Lechera, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Not too late. I'll be there around the same time.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 August 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think I can make it to the Official Musician Premiere Before-Party, but I'm going to try to make it to the screening itself.
― Eazy, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Mark and I are going to Sura Thai Bistro after the show, nom nom nom.
― jaymc, Friday, 24 August 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Some of you know this, but some don't, and others won't care-- We got the general manager of the restaurant FIRED! WOOOOO! We wrote letters which led to a meeting of 19 members of the staff with the chef, director of operations, and 2 investors. I was at my other job so I didn't know about the meeting, but I totally would have gone had I known. Anyway, she's out and the chef keeps saying "there's going to be a big transition in 2 weeks." I'm thinking (hoping) that the shit-head director of ops will be fired too.
Solidarity forever!
― Jesse, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Drops of water turn a mill.
― Jesse, Saturday, 25 August 2007 04:36 (seventeen years ago) link
It takes one to know one.
congrats, jesse! you're more successful than my stint as a union shop steward, where we lost half our staff to a new evil dictator :(
― colette, Saturday, 25 August 2007 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Thanks! I am not taking any personal credit, by the way. We all worked together on this.
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― Jesse, Saturday, 25 August 2007 05:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Oops. That was not really supposed to go there.
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― Jesse, Saturday, 25 August 2007 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link
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Awesomest.
― Jesse, Saturday, 25 August 2007 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Musician = 4 stars
― Eazy, Saturday, 25 August 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
Sorry we couldn't make it. We are at the library again. This blows.
― n/a, Saturday, 25 August 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
Hey, don't worry about it! Thanksyouverymuch to those who did attend!! Everyone was pleased with the turnout and I think the screening went well. I was spazzy with pride.
― La Lechera, Saturday, 25 August 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I am @ work :(
― deej, Saturday, 25 August 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
We ate breakfast at Uncommon Ground. It was tasty, but holy shit that place is expensive. Everything is at least 11 or 12 dollars. Add drinks and that is like buying a moderately expensive dinner.
― Jeff, Saturday, 25 August 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link