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― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning. I can't feel my toes.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I like this thread.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

i never thought i'd be cheering high temps in the low 20s.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Though the temps are too warm. xpost.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

So TT ... Small Bar? Logan Square or Wicker Park? or somewhere else?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Small Bar Logan Square

I can really get behind this because of its proximity to my house, but I totally understand if folks prefer a different spot.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I won't! (understand, that is)

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

I think you westsiderz are due for a TT in your neighberhoo, and I am saying right now that I would like to go, but I will have to reserve any SOLID PLANS making until later this afternoon, just in case. I don't want to be a flatleaver.

Which Small Bar is closer to some public transpo?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

That post was loaded with stupid made-up slang and I am now a little embarrassed.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ah shoot, we missed the boat on Grizzly Bear. It's sold out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, is hypothermia setting in? Using made-up slang is an early sign, I hear.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

small bar on division is accessible from the damen/north/milwaukee blue line by either taking the #50 damen bus south to division then walking two blocks west on division (or just walking four blocks south from the el to division, then two blocks west) or by taking the #70 division bus from the division/ashland/milwuakee stop and going west for approximately 6 blocks. or walking six blocks.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

That post was loaded with stupid made-up slang and I am now a little embarrassed.

I think you're turning into Amanda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Like that guy who was on a satellite phone with his wife the whole time he was freezing to death on Everest. He kept saying things like, "My blippity just went flooo!" and "It's all gone monkey side!"

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

xp No biggie.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I dink ya' westsiderz are due fo' some TT in yo' neighberhoo, and ah' am sayin' right now dat ah' would likes t'go, but ah' gots'ta t'reserve any SOLID PLANS makin' until lata' dis afternoon, plum in case. What it is, Mama! ah' duzn't wanna be some flatleaver. Ah be baaad... Which Small Bar be closa' to some public transpo?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

"It's all gone monkey side!"

this may be the single greatest thing i've ever read.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah NO.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Embarassing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

i just set up my computer to record the nbc comedies tonight. i will have something to watch tomorrow.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Wedding's off.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

i just set up my computer to record the nbc comedies tonight.

Yeah, I need to run my cable into my puter. Can advise me on how to set that up?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/hist100.96/elc/grungehoax.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

do you have a tv tuner card? plug the coax into that and open whatever program came with said card.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

also, i just realized i have it set up to record e.r., i need to fix that stat.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, recording TV shows on the computer -- what decade am I living in?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

lol jaymc, I forgot about that. We should revive "big bag of bloatation".

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

i just happy to have remembered to do this. every thursday i go to tt i wind up missing the office and 30 rock which are two of the 3 or 4 shows i actually watch on tv.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

do you have a tv tuner card? plug the coax into that and open whatever program came with said card.

Ah. Easy. Maybe I'll ask around at Radio Shack for one of those.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think I dreamt I was on Studio 60 last night, which is weird cause I've only seen that show like once.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

kenan, i don't think they're that expensive.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

I dreamed that an old friend of mine that I used to work at coffee shops with got jobs together in this really, *really* bad neighborhood, but when we showed up to our first day of work, the street was closed off in front of the place and there was a dead body in the street. And so we were like, "Let's not work here."

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

actually, it looks like they go from about $50 to $150 so they're not cheap.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

oh.
Well, I can get an 80-hour Tivo for about $70 on sale. So maybe I'll do that instead. Because TT and The Office are a constant conflict.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Although I don't have too bad a system: download it the next day, convert the file and put it on my iPod, watch it on the way to work.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I forgot to mention: the job we got was at a liquor store. And the dead body in front was because of a shooting.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

Let's talk about TT some more.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

My roomie built a server that includes a TV tuner card and Linux TiVo-esque software but for some reason I don't fully understand it can only record certain channels, most likely because Comcast encodes some of that shit.

Also Small Bar Logan Square is about a 5 block walk from the Blue Line stop. Kedzie north to Wellington, then east to Albany, right on the corner.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't realize that TT was happening.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2007/2/8ward.html

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

lol

tattoo is itchyyyyyy

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

I am not wandering onto the Lost thread, but I just have to say this to somebody: I watched the last 30 minutes last night, and was once again reminded of the nonsensical wasteland that this show has become. I'm past not caring, and have moved into actively disliking. I'm beginning to imagine the writers descending deeper and deeper, week after week, into amphetamine psychosis. Or maybe just garden-variety alcoholism. They're at that dreaded Nick Cage stage now, where they can no longer hold down a meal, let alone write a cohesive TV show.

Ok. Rant over. Carry on.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sorry you feel that way kenan, just as i feel sorry for people who don't enjoy coffee or beer.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

Of course it doesn't make sense if you only watch half the show!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's just SO STUPID. It's a stupid show! It can't be dramatic or mysterious or anything else before it tells you WHAT IT'S EVEN ABOUT.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think BSG has supplanted my interest in Lost. I only have room in my life for one serial tv show at a time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Of course it doesn't make sense if you only watch half the show!

Not fair. You know what I'm talking about. The show itself doesn't make sense. But do tell me -- what big bugaboo "questions" did I miss in the first half of the show that will be left for dead and never answered this season?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

I semi-agree with Kenan. I don't hate it, but it's gone downhill. I read somewhere that the show's producers were trying to agree on a definite ending point for the show (5 seasons total I think?) which is promising because it means they would have to tie it up at some point. But they need less relationships, more plot.

The other problem is I think the quality of TV in general has gone up in the past decade or so. If this were 1995, Lost would be the best thing on TV (it kicks X-Files' ass, that's for sure), but with basically everything on HBO being genius, plus Arrested Development, Battlestar Galactica, The Office, etc., there's just too much good shit on TV these days to start slacking off.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I only have room in my life for one serial tv show at a time.

Totally. That's why I got mad at Kenan that one time when he said pretty much the same thing about Lost being unsalvageable nonsense. There may be things that aren't dealt with as I'd like them to be, but this is the show I watch, and I certainly don't have time to watch the "dozen shows that are better."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 729 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Boy, I'm just shitting on everybody tonight.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to veto karaoke, since I think it should be more of a planned event, so that Amanda and Horseshoe can join us.
That's very considerate. Thankee.

Marigold was really really really really delicious and also very expensive. We ordered 1/2 of what they told us to order and shared it. (One starter, one mid-course and one main.) Two of those were vegetarian. All three were delicious. We ordered zero drinks. Our bill was $43 and we tipped $9. That's a lot of dough for barely enough food, but it was SO tasty that I didn't mind all that much. And we came home around 1 and ate some breakfast food for pizza.

And I got a haircut yesterday. Thank you, Leanne! Please don't ever leave.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 11 February 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Pictures of hair, please!

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 11 February 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Fun last night. Thanks everybody, especially John. Though I still think couples had an unfair advantage in that game. "You had this for breakfast this morning" should not be a legal clue.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

John, I left my iPod there! That sucks for me! This situation must be rectified!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, tell us specifics about Marigold. What did you eat? The prices seem high to me because it's Indian which is always pretty cheap, and the Uptown location.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Does pneumonia always make you feel sick? I think I have it. Actually, probably just bronchitis, but every breath sounds like the death rattle.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

trio of chutneys: $5 delish (mint, onion date and roasted fruit)with naan. really tasty, but not enough naan. only two small pieces. zero pappadums.

starter: lamb kabob (2 with two pieces of meat each) with a crunchy salad of onions, something that looked like either cucumber or zucchini (can you eat zucchini raw?) and tomatoes.

mid-course: cheese thingie (sort of a soft yogurt cheese) with an olive oil sauce and a little green salad with dates. very small

main course: trio of vegetarian dishes with small mound of rice. really really really tasty and just the right amount of spice. still though, not much food for 2 grown people.

ultimately, it was TOO EXPENSIVE for a normal meal. we had to skimp and still walked out of there spending more than $50 without even ordering drinks. i tipped heavy because i felt bad that we didn't order much. our server was very nice. they also had a coat check.

verdict: because the portions were smaller than at your average indian restaurant, it was a little more appetizing (i'm put off by heaping mounds of the same food). it was also way too pricey. therefore, i would only go back if we were celebrating a special occasion or someone wealthier than we are were buying the meal.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

much wealthier.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 11 February 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Hello?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

hello! you guys, Kevin can't access this board. :(

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, that is srs problem.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

WAIT I CAN'T READ THIS ENGLISH

― dan m, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ah. Here we are.

― kenan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

i miss usernames.

― kenan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Hey. Test.

― n/a, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

hello.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Big hyperlinks look dum.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Also no submitted message dialogue?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

And no new answers link, bookmarking boards, etc.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, I see new answers.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

the (later) link will be missed as well.

― kenan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

whoa

― dan m, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

What did the later link do? Is that like show only (X) posts? Because that doesn't appear to be working.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

oh i loved the later function for long threads! it would mark where you left off if you didn't feel like reading all 35734 posts of a thread.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

This is weird.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

this is to try out some new code thingies
pay me no mind
~~i don't like using brackets, but whatever~~

hmm, i think the quote thing will be useful, though

http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/eclipse/williams/Williams_College_wl.jpg

mezzoblue

― kenan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh fuck, it's gone to BBCODE??

― jaymc, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm leaving until I have the ability disable pictures.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

more...
preferences
show images

― dan m, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

You can disable pictures actually, there's a checkbox in Preferences.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

I guess there's no xpost warning functionality. :(

― Jordan, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, and I am getting sick of getting booted out to New Answers after posting messages.

― dan m, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know about this....

― Jesse, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

FOR FUCKS SAKE YOU GUYS EVERYTHING WILL GET WORKED OUT. Except for Kevin not being around, that is actually a problem.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

hiya

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

The weird thing for me is that all of your posts sound different in my head than they did on the other board. Sort of like when you're reading and then allasudden realize that you're reading and it messes everything up.

I'll get used to it, though, as long as the rest of you whiners don't drive me crazy whining. Whiners.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 21 February 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am excited to hear about trivia. Please post details. Was Prof. Hummingbird there? Did Nora show her boobs? Did Sarah take a lot of flash photos?

I still didn't finish my outline for my panel contribution, but I finished the worker justice stuff I had to do so... whatever. I'm a better public speaker when I don't know what to say, usually.

― Jenny, Thursday, 22 February 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, oh Yeah!

― Jeff, Thursday, 22 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Trivia was fun. Present (in clockwise order around the table from me) were Jesse, John, Sarah, Nick, Michele, Katie, and myself.

Professor Hummingbird was there. I don't think there was any boob flashing, nor pictures. We were kind of stuck in the back because the place was actually quite full. Prof. and company sat up front.

It was sort of hard to hear the questions but they would repeat them multiple times. You could also kind of hear other teams discussing answers. We had 7 people so it made for a good base of knowledge but also a lot of second-guessing, which ultimately cost us points. Also: Jeff, we need a sports guy. The good news was we won the fourth and final round! The team next to us won two our of four so they were the champs, They seemed like nice people and N/S and John each were acquainted with some of them.

I'd do it again. Now I have to download Lost, though.

― dan m, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

Where are you downloading Lost from?

― Jesse, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

With her fingers she opened the two little lips of the vulva, and she began stroking it with catlike softness. Back and forth she stroked it as Martinez did with his more nervous dark fingers. She remembered his dark fingers on her skin, such a contrast to her skin, and the thickness of them seeming to promise to hurt the skin rather than arouse pleasure by their touch. How delicately he touched it, she thought, how he held the vulva between his fingers, as if he were touching velvet. She held it now as he did, in her forefinger and thumb. With the other free hand she continued the caresses. She felt the same dissolving feeling that she felt under Martinez's fingers. From somewhere a salty liquid was coming, covering the wings of her sex; between these it now shone.

― Jesse, Thursday, 22 February 2007 05:47 (eighteen years ago)

Who's Professor Hummingbird? I saw an older woman with silvery hair talking to Leslie at one point -- was that her?

― jaymc, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Was she very very skinny and sort of jittery with short hair and a style reminiscent of the 80s?

― Jenny, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I only saw her briefly. I was talking to Leslie, and then she flitted over and touched my shoulder and asked if I wanted a drink and then realized that I wasn't who she thought I was, and then she flitted away.

― jaymc, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

That's her. She probably touched your shoulder because she mistook you for one of these, and the drink question was just a cover.

http://i.walmart.com/i/p/00/07/89/78/22/0007897822000_215X215.jpg

Were you wearing red?

― Jenny, Thursday, 22 February 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

hey jaymc, did you get my email?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 22 February 2007 23:24 (eighteen years ago)

hello all

just in case any of you are going to see Optimo on March 2nd - apparently the gig has been moved from Ohm to a club called Sonoteque. also it's Twitch's birthday that night so say hello and buy him a drink :-)

― jed_, Friday, 23 February 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

Most of Chicago is still on the Sandbox because Kevin can't access this site and we are expressing solidarity!

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

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