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R.I.P. D@n|el_M@rt|n's_iPod: 5/2004-2/2007

― dan m, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

What happened?

― Jeff, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Old age? I'm not sure. I can't get it to mount, when it does I can only work with it for a short while and then I get the beachball of doom. I managed to get it to "Restore" to the factory settings (wiped all my music and files) and still can't get it to work. My roomie has had 2 of them and says it's the same behavior that happened when his died. So, now I guess I have some decisions to make. If this really is the end, I'm kind of surprised it lasted as long as it did.

― dan m, Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

My 3 year old iPod just died too, and so did Justin's!!!!!

What I posted on my blog about this morning:

Holy shit, it's like Mad Max: Beyond Snowglobe out there. I stayed at a friend's house downtown last night and within a two block radius this morning I saw a woman cross-country skiing through the streets, people grilling out in the snow, and a dude in a Mexican wrestling mask driving some half-snowmobile/half-car contraption through the streets wielding a shovel. I seriously expected to see some half-Yet motherfuckers who've already adapted to our new environmental conditions.

― Jordan, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

The rattling and creaking trees are the most worrisome for me. Greensboro's big ice storm of a few years back resulted in several deaths and more injuries. A girl I knew got a half a tree inside of her bathroom via the roof.

The other thing is the fact that it snowed first, then it rained, so the rain had nowhere to drain, so now there are ponds everywhere, especially at curbs where you have to either plunge your foot in or make a dangerous leap into the slipperiness.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - My mom, dad, and brother lived in LA during the Watts riots. My dad was in the awning business and got out of work early when they started.

― Jesse, Sunday, 25 February 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't get it to mount, when it does I can only work with it for a short while

Sounds like my prom night.

― jaymc, Sunday, 25 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish you could all come to my house today and be cooked for, I am in super productive happy making-things mode after yesterday's cleaning & organizing spazz. What a great weekend.

― Laurel, Sunday, 25 February 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG JORDAN WE'RE LIKE SISTERS!

In other news (good thing it was my birthday Friday): 8GB Nano get!

It may have a smaller capacity but there's no moving parts, the battery *supposedly* lasts 24 hours, it's so, so much smaller... I'm filling it up right now. I hope this will help me keep from getting stagnated listening to the same things over and over again, because I'll be forced to swap stuff out more often by the small hard drive.

― dan m, Sunday, 25 February 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh oh I've had my ipod for 3 years and two months.

― n/a, Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, I finally finished reading "Against the Day," after spending about a month and a half with it. In celebration, I went to the library and checked out new stuff to read - pure nonfiction this time.

― n/a, Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Plz to recommend books?

― dan m, Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I figured out why I couldn't log in from work: because I am dumb. I had saved the server-generated password in Firefox and not my regular password.

― dan m, Sunday, 25 February 2007 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

am i logged in?

― chicago kevin, Sunday, 25 February 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess so.

― chicago kevin, Sunday, 25 February 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

YAY KEVIN!

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 01:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan - what do you feel like reading? The book I just started is called "The Colony" and it's the history of the leper colony in Hawaii. It's pretty f'ed up.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 01:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll read anything, I guess. Just been kind of out of the loop with newer books lately. The one you mentioned sounds pretty interesting.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

If you haven't already, read Lolita.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so date boy calls a LOT. He called me at midnight on Dan's B-day, then twice the next day, then a text message, all of which I missed b/c I was at work.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Read non-fiction.

― Jeff, Monday, 26 February 2007 05:14 (seventeen years ago) link

How is that helpful?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I've actually been on kind of a non-fiction kick for a little while, what with the Iraq Study Group Report and the Motorcycle Diaries.

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

YAY KEVIN!

― horseshoe, Monday, 26 February 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Test

http://contentor.net/index/help/BBCode

[url=http://contentor.net/index/help/BBCode]TEST BBCode[/url]

TEST bbcode

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:42 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Why won't it make the URL a link automatically?

Also, the 2nd line is the result of using Firefox's BBCode extension (hilighting text, right clicking, choosing Clipboard, then Make Selection URL).

The 3rd line is the result typing [ link Test BBCode] URL [ / link ].

Is there more than one standard of BBCode?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Even though it looks like BBCode, this isn't actually BBCode.

― jaymc, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I asked that same question, Jesse and yeah. It's not standard BBCode. So the extension will still work for bold, italics, and

Blockquotes

but not for images or links.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone else ever had a Chicago Card that just stopped working? Mine has, apparently. The station attendent told me "it's bent, you're not supposed to bend them" which is hilarious, cause as I'm sure you all know, my FAVORITE PASTIME is sitting around, bending my Chicago Card!

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

― dan m, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Mine stopped, but not because of any physical damage, but because the CTA has gone worthless.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Last night my work hosted a pre-Oscars dinner party and auction to benefit autism. They were auctioning off 5 mink stoles (not pelts, but knitted mink fur) and couple won one for $500 for their daughter who was no older than 9. HUH.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Mornin guys.

I'm actually pretty ok with the Oscar results. Marty seemed positively thrilled. And I think America should do what it has to do to keep Scorsese happy. That is my patriotic sentiment of the week.

Thumbs down to: Eddie Murphy getting robbed, Little Miss Sunshine winning Original Screenplay. The movie was pure artificial buzz. There was nothing award-worthy about it at all. THAT OSCAR WAS PURCHASED.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan: Yes! I've had one stop working and Jeff has had two just stop working. And it's not because you bend them; that attendant is a dimwit. None of the cards that have gone tits up on us were ever bent. Do you have your account set for the unlimited monthly rides? My theory is that when you've got an unlimited number of rides, CTA Central Chicago Card Services randomly deactivates the card so you have to pay for individual rides on top of your monthly fee. And then you have to pay the $5 replacement card fee. I say this because I change my Chicago Card to a per-ride charge during the school year because of my U-Pass and it's never just not worked in the same way as the unlimited cards have not worked. Also I think the CTA is run by crooks and extortionists. Aaaaand I'm paranoid. And cynical.

Eddie Murphy should have thought about his Oscar nomination before he made that abominable Norbert movie. Karmically, I think that worked out just right.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

And it was obvious that Scorsese was going to win when the cabal of old white men directors came out to present the award. They might as well have just started chanting "ONE OF US ONE OF US" instead of reading the card.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Good morning!

"O" alarm clock update:
He broke up with his girlfriend over the phone yesterday. Or rather, she broke up with him. He was very loud about it, shouting defensively, so that I could every word just sitting in the living room. Apparently, he did a very bad thing, which ...you just can't let go, Emily! I've done everything I can to make it up to you.. EVERYTHING. And yet you just keep bringing it up and keep bringing it up... And a while later he started half-crying You are not going to make me cry! Not this time! I won't cry. I won't. Because you think men who cry are weak. But I've only cried in front of you twice. And one time I was drunk! And that was a very emotional time in my life and I was barely scraping by. And I have my act together now and NO, you will not make me cry this time... At that point, it was getting too embarrasing so I had to go back to the bedroom where I couldn't hear the conversation as well.

Then this morning, he rang the alarm at 7am.

In conclusion, he had a girlfriend. Now he doesn't. But happy ending, huh? He can still get off. THE END

― KitCat, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. "he rang the alarm"?

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:03 (seventeen years ago) link

JERKED OFF LOUDLY.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link

And it was obvious that Scorsese was going to win when the cabal of old white men directors came out to present the award.

As I said on another thread, George Lucas was an odd choice for The Great Triumverate. They kinda made a joke about it -- "He's never won an Oscar" -- but they failed to mention that he's an awful director, and a pretty darn bad writer, too. And he has no chin. Grow a chin, then we'll talk.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. "he rang the alarm"?

I think this only supports the theory that the girlfriend was never present, since she is clearly not integral to this process.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

George Lucas's chin terrifies me even more than his last three Star Wars movies. What is going on there?

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:08 (seventeen years ago) link

It's like he had it removed.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link

And then replaced with raw bread dough.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link

What a boring Oscars. At least the part I watched. We turned it off like 2 hours in, which was still before almost all of the major awards. I like Ellen in general but they needed more EXCITEMENT and SPECTACLE. Whenever I see one of these shows I start daydreaming about being nominated for an Oscar or Grammy, winning, but refusing the award. You would instantly be the coolest person ever. Evidence: Marlon Brando and George C. Scott.

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, just maybe, maybe the academy had a different opinion than yours, Kenan, and they didn't actually MISS anything.

― Jenny, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, we talked about refusing awards before, didn't we?

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh! The other thing I did not like: Pan's Labyrinth winning over Children of Men in the cinematography category. Pan's Labyrinth was good-looking, no doubt, very slick and polished. But Children of Men was *amazing* looking, this giant feat of cinematography. How could they miss that?

Maybe, just maybe, maybe the academy had a different opinion than yours, Kenan, and they didn't actually MISS anything.

A classic exchange.

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:18 (seventeen years ago) link

1970: Calling the Oscars "a two-hour meat parade," GEORGE C. SCOTT announces that he will refuse the Best Actor award if he wins (for playing WWII general George Patton in Patton). On the big evening, presenter Goldie Hawn rips open the Best Actor envelope and squeals, "Oh my God! The winner is George C. Scott!" True to his word, Scott is home in New York watching a hockey game on TV. He's the first actor ever to refuse an Oscar.

1973: "Hello. My name is Sacheen Littlefeather. I'm Apache and... I'm representing MARLON BRANDO this evening." So says a young woman in Indian garb who takes the microphone after Marlon Brando wins the Best Actor award for The Godfather. Brando, not to be outdone by George C. Scott, has sent Littlefeather to protest the treatment of Native Americans in the movies. The audience reacts with confusion and scattered boos. Actor Clint Eastwood, announcing the Best Picture award moments later, says "I don't know if I should present this award on behalf of all the cowboys shot in John Ford westerns over the years."

― n/a, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could make a username on here, or a signature line because I'm feeling like saying to the world, "Arbiter of Toast"

― Jesse, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe, just maybe, maybe the academy had a different opinion than yours, Kenan, and they didn't actually MISS anything.

Oh, now you're just cutting me down for the sake of doing it. I suppose I have earned this in the past.

― kenan, Monday, 26 February 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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