Chicago: Steppin Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YyUqUnZiU

I skipped the apostrophe in Steppin', since sometimes they turn into Steppin$R(*#$

O Amanda, I would've posted pt 2 instead if I'd seen it. This is for you. I suggest opening five separate windows and playing this slightly out of sync:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzc7iqR2-hA

From Belton v. Gebhart, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1952 (one of the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education):

Claymont has many more extra curricular activities than does Howard. Thus, Claymont has a school newspaper, an Art Club, Drivers Club, Mathematics Club, Square Dance Club, Leaders Corps and an organization to tickle the imagination called "Tumbling Girls."

Claymont girls remain, to this day, well known for their tumbling tendencies.

WHOA that guy is scattin up a storm

I am just fascinated that there is "court of chancery" in Delaware. It sounds like some sort of mystical hermetic group that meets in a secret dungeon to perform black magic.

We have chancery here too.

since sometimes they turn into Steppin$R(*#$

Only if you paste it out of MS Word.

DE is not unlike Bleak House, environment-wise. Chancery courts, fog, urchins galore.

I have some very negative things to say about the people who handled the filing related to this big, dumb, ugly case and exactly how well they know their alphabet. It's like somebody vomited legal documents into a filing box.

Hey I just made a huge post on my library blog about the controversial public hold system at CPL that we talked about on CHILX a few months ago

I saw that, Nick. I like it.

Only if you paste it out of MS Word.

Seems to happen when I use Explorer as well, or at least it did when I started the Public Enemies thread.

Nick, where's your blog?

http://infinitemonkeys.tumblr.com

I swear I'm not going to post here every time I update it, I just thought people might be interested since we talked about it on an old Chicago thread.

Whatever, keep reminding us. As for me, I never check my Google Reader, so it's nice to see when there are updates to sites I like. Though I guess I get that from you on FB. So nevermind.

Just use your google reader.

Not that I mind Nick posting about his updates here, I just want Jesse to use technology better.

I don't really like it, though I don't know why not, exactly. It's just sort of meh.

You'd be proud of me for my extensive use of Google Docs and Gmail. I'm obsessed with them.

I love Google Reader now. I used to not love it when I had only subscribed to really boring library blogs but I gradually added fun stuff and now I have it open all day and read new entries as they come in.

I recommend that anyone interested in music and how it is created subscribe to David Byrne's blog btw.

I'm on it now. It just seems sort of overwhelming, I guess. The problem is with me, I'd say.

Oops - xp. I'm on Google Reader, not Byrne's blog.

Nick, I'm way ahead of you.

biked to work for the first time in 2010! didn't wear a coat!

OMG ok that rocks. Not that I could have done that even if I'd thought of it, but I wish I'd thought of it.

There were people out wearing shorts and sandals this morning.

I am going to bike to start biking to work, but I think I'm going to only go as far as Jackson, then park the bike and take the bus.

jesse why on earth would you do that? just bike all the way. how much further could it be? i'll tell you what, biking is vastly easier for me this year than it was last year.

Because I already had an admittedly semi-irrational fear of biking in traffic, and now that I've used up one of my nine lives on my head injury, I'm even more frightened.

I would take the lakeshore path all the way down, with only a few side streets between my house and there.

ah yes, that makes sense. i'm sorry :( you do have a good helmet yes? maybe you should look at heading south on a more westerly (less trafficky) route, and then cut east instead of heading down the lakefront?

i am thinking of getting a new helmet. any suggestions?

Why would I ride on a street when I have the lakefront path?

i will go on record as preferring the street. i know that in the past i have expressed a preference for the path, but i have changed my mind.

the path is full of commuters/olds/babies/strollers/dogs/joggers/people standing in the middle of the path and the bike lane is usually not nearly as crazy. in fact, it's usually not crazy at all.

also lakefront is windy/not shady in the summer.

lakefront is ok if i'm riding all the way downtown, but i rarely do that so i guess it's just not for me.

I've given up on my girlish dreams of being a bike commuter. Two people getting creamed by buses in my neighborhood kind of put a damper on my biking enthusiasm. I'm comfortable with this.

i live 12 miles from work but i'm looking forward to restarting my once-a-week bike commute

btw that david byrne blog is great

Fun facts about ME: I did not learn to ride a bike until I was seven or eight. I lasted about six months until I decided I hated it and stopped riding a bike until I was 17, at which point a bike became my main mode of transportation until I got my second car when I was 26.

On second thought, those facts aren't very fun.

Ditto (xp to being comfortable with not being a bike commuter, at least on the streets). It was a goal to become comfortable with street biking, but I am very OK without it now.

The lakeshore path may be full of people on bikes and with strollers, but they're not two tons, made of steel, and going 40 mph.

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/05/11/stroller%20bike.jpg

Haha - no need for a helmet for that lady - she's got the kids there to soften her impact.

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Fun facts about ME: I did not learn to ride a bike until I was seven or eight.
Fun facts about ME: I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 12, and I taught myself by riding up and down the driveway until I could do it three times without falling or wobbling. This was the year after the summer of stilts, so I knew I could do it. Once I learned to ride a bike, I didn't ever ride it anywhere because all of my friends lived 30 min away by car.

i was jealous of people whose parents taught them how to ride their bikes
maybe i still am

My dad, who felt that training wheels were a crutch that made children soft, taught me by running along with the bike while he hung on to the little handle on the banana seat and I shrieked at him not to let go. He let go, I fell, and now I have trust issues and don't ride a bike anymore.

Fun fact: there exists film (actual super 8, converted to DVD) of my first non-training-wheels bike ride when I was oh, maybe 5-6 years old? I rolled down a little hill in front of our house, rode around a tree, then ran out of momentum, stopped, fell on my balls on the top tube of the bike, then tipped over. Then I got up and ran around in circles holding my crotch. The camera captured all of this.

THERE IS A THING FOR THIS IT IS CALLED YOUTUBE

That was actually an xpost, but a very contextually appropriate one.

This is also an xpost.

Dan, I would give good money to see that movie. Make it happen.

I hope you enjoyed my mediocre salad.

I actually thought your salad was pretty great.

I thought it was a much better than mediocre salad. I do not know how it came to be so maligned.

Yeh, people liked your salad.

Jenny, what you missed was Nick eating a salt and vinegar chip that was soaked in vodka.

I'm glad you enjoyed it. I felt it needed something and kept adding things until I ran out of things to add.

Cous cous covers a multitude of embellishments.

It was bulgur wheat!

Did anyone eat the grilled sardines?

xp I have learned something new. I did not know that bulgur was different (and apparently more nutritious!). I also did not know to spell it "bulgur," because I keep wanting to spell it like "vulgar."

No value judgment implied, just a knee-jerk spelling thing. :)

I saw a box of sardines but no sardines. I would've tried them, at least.

I love sardines.

Those were some monster sardines.

no offense to you guys but my next birthday party is going to be just babies

That was a monster baby.

BTW, my bird bite has spread out evenly into a lovely bruise covering much of the back of my hand. Your parrot knows how to hurt a man.

Keep it away from babies, is my advice.

The sardines themselves were on a little plate near the sink. They were kinda big -- they weren't skinless boneless filets, just whole (headless) sardines in chili oil. They were for the salad if anyone wanted to put them in there, but I guess no one did.

Babbies should probably not eat them.

Sorry, Keener. He is very defensive of his cage. It's his nest, after all.

I thought he knew me. Maybe he did, but that don't mean squat, apparently.

Sigh. We had some good times together, too... We laughed, we farted...

He will let me stick my hand (and head!) into his cage except when I am holding my phone, in which event he tries to maim me.

I'm hardly maimed, but the little cocksucker sure let me know he was there. Bless his little reptile heart.

I had the salad, but I did not know about the sardines. Jesse was too busy being the center of attention to inform me.

i do think that brand is pretty tasty though. i like the spicy ones mushed up with avocado and lime. you can either put this on a sandwich, a cracker, or if you're feeling crazy, hollow out a cucumber and put it in there. looks kinda '50s but tastes good.

xp RAWR

I kept telling him to take the half a pill of adderall I gave him and sober up, but he wouldn't do it. I think he thought it would be like snorting a big line of coke or something. It's not that much fun at all. It's just... way the hell awake.

I have taken Adderall and Ritalin and I know what they're like. I did not want to be wide awake at 9 p.m. on a Sunday night!

Hey, I'm not being catty, we were joking about it for a while.

Hi Dan. I'm sorry if I was a dingball to you. You my friend, bro.

Oh yeah. You kept saying, "It's 8pm," and I was like, "Perfect!" It didn't click with me until now that you meant that you needed to go to sleep later and to work in the morning. See, these things often escape me. I do some of my finest work at 4am Monday morning.

Sorry.

I don't think I was a dingball, but I'm just putting that out there just in case.

Jenny, what you missed was Nick eating a salt and vinegar chip that was soaked in vodka.

I'm honestly sorry to have missed this because I am about 99.8% sure it would have resulted in me laughing so hard I a) had to leave the room or b) almost choked to death or c) all of the above.

xp We have all had far worse moments, I think. It was mellow all around. Everything's alright forever.

Nick also ate a tiny piece of sardine! I was proud of him for being a sport and just trying it even though it looked...unappetizing.

You may be a born salesman, if you got Nick to eat a sardine. That's the thing I would have liked to have seen.

Yeah, you know, come to think of it, I did see the sardines by the sink, but I didn't know if they belonged to someone, and if so, whether they were left there because they weren't very good. I also didn't know they were sardines, because the ones I've bought are much smaller.

It's OK Jesse. If I had been pissed I would have left T-Brokes at your place.

I swear I laughed for 20 minutes after I got home, having learned that T0m4s Br0k4w is actually his name. I was so sure he was taking the piss, but it's so much funnier/awesomer that he's not.

Is it possible to make a Venn diagram of people who eat sardines + people who eat Kalamata olives by the dozen + people who eat a whole jar of kosher dill pickes in one sitting? I suspect these people are not "supertasters."

I loooooove all of those things! I can't eat more than a little of each though.

If I ever was a supertaster, I have long since smoked it away. Which leaves me with an enhanced appreciation for really pungent, acidic, some would say "foul" flavors.

Don't even get me started on sauerkraut.

(Not that you would have.)

I love(d) nasty, stiny, foul foods, including sauerkraut, cauliflower, mangina, kim chee, etc.

Sauerkraut is the best. Well, not the best, but certainly up there.

despite all my weird food issues, I tend to like powerful foods (like olives, sauerkraut, etc.). Actually almost all of unusual food dislikes are pretty bland - yogurt, bananas, cucumbers, tomatoes, milk. Milk is definitely bland.

and I am definitely not a "supertaster" and tend to think the idea of "supertasters" is some bullshit

Cucumbers? Really? I mean... REALLY?

I'm sorry, you have blown my mind all over again. I'd rather eat a raw, sliced cucumber than most anything. Certainly more than mangina.

tend to think the idea of "supertasters" is some bullshit

Oh, so do I.

Me, I'm a superbreather. I breathe in a way that other people just can't get their minds around.

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hey is anything fun going on this week??? i need d8 ideas