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Laurel: I backtracked your headshot pic, and I must say that plate of penguin hors d'oeurve is adorable.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't care. He's still A-dorable.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Uh... (weird) xpost!

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Hah. One of my aunts made them for Christmas dinner. Unfortunately they didn't taste as good as they looked, but I think quality Kalamata olives and some different choices of cheese spread might fix that.

― Laurel, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

So this has been all over the internets, but in case you guys missed it, it's funny:

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Edeg28/homegirls2.jpg

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Is this where the expression "it's all that ... and a bag of chips" came from? Or is Homegirls merely referencing it? I think I first became aware of the catchphrase somewhere around 1995.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, was that too "informative"?

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

It's no Rap Snacks.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, is that REAL??

― Laurel, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

li'l johnnie thinskin.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm hungry for Homegirl chips now. :-(

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know how real it is. It made Reddit, I think. At least that's where the dude I got the link from said it was. If it's on there it'll be on 99% of blogs before long.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I was at Timothy O'Tooles the other night and what follows is a close approximation of what I found on their menu (under the section of Guiness-based drinks, including the Black-and-Tan and the Shandy)

[Name of drink]- Women have been putting blackberry in their drinks a lot these days, so we tried putting blackberry liquer in our favorite black beer, and we found that women are now ordering Guinness not only because it's the thing to be seen with, but because they think it tastes great this way!

WWWWWTTTTTFFFFF

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

A couple of waitrons at the place used to work were big on putting Chambourd into Guinness.

GUH ROSS

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

the place I used to work

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

That's weird.

What's a fair price to sell a 3 year old (20 gig) iPod for?

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i used to go to o'tooles all the time when i worked in streeterville. i think i turned 30 there.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm... with the necessary cords and such? $100? I dunno. What are they going for on Ebay?

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

$50?

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I admit that I'm thin-skinned, but I don't see why that gives you the right to be an asshole for no good reason.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I found one on craigslist just now for $75, but it included i-trip.

― KitCat, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

man i wish that killfile worked for ie ;_;

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure you do.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

cause those louis jagger posts, they're doing a number on me.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess $50 is the going rate, esp. since mine is way used.

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

My point was not at all about putting blackberry liqueur into Guinnes, but the fact that they thought it was good copy! I mean, the women I know like Guiness and DO NOT order anything because it's "the thing to be seen with."

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I would keep it, enable it for disk use, and have it as a backup hard disk.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

How do I shot disk use?

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I used to hang out at O'Toole's when I worked on the boat. But then my drinkenfriend got permanently kicked out because he gave a busser some coke (left a line on the toilet tank). A guy tried to sell me opium outside of there once, too.

― Jesse, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmmm... you have a PC, right? That might make it harder, unfortunately. I think the control for turning it on and off is in iTunes. It's pretty sweet if you can get a command-line going, then you can move files onto and off of it pretty easily. You can do that on a Mac really simply.

I wish I was nerdier than I actually am, then I'd know how/if to make this work.

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I've never really been interested in the killfile (not conducive to the spreadsheet LOL), but I am beginning to understand its potential now. I like using ILX to keep me happy and sane while I sit in this quiet cubicle doing work, but I don't like when it riles me up to the point that I find it difficult to do that work. The only reason I haven't dropped this is because people's unwillingness to confront me to directly on any of this is making it really hard to concentrate on anything else.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cat_proximity.png

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

lol I tell my kitty that she's a kitty. Sometimes I add an intensifier. "You're SUCH a kitty."

― kenan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

WHO WANTS A KITTY BURRITO?

― Laurel, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

WHO'S A LITTLE FUZZY HEAD? WHO IS!? YOU ARE! YOU ARE A LITTLE FUZZY HEAD!!

(note: I am not always this big a dork with the cat)

― dan m, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I forget to talk to my cats sometimes. I got out of the habit because my main cat (the kitten is the auxiliary cat) is half-deaf.

When I do I alternate between "Who's a good little Kitka? YOU'RE a good little Kitka!" and "You sneaky little motherfucker."

― Jordan, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I should probably stop reloading this thread, huh?

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

John! Just in case you read my "that apology doesn't seem very sincere" comment as conveying real disappointment in a perceived lack of sincerity on your part and that made you feel bad and a little more sensitive to off-handed message board comments then usual, I'm sorry. I was 100% joking, because I could totally tell that you WEREN'T sincerely apologizing for not having watched Office Space in seven years, nor did I think you needed to be. I read your comment as funny (in a "Well, excuuuuuuuse me!" kind of way), and responded in a way that I thought was funny (in a deadpan kind of way), so I'm sorry if I ruined anything.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Reload once more!

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny, I totally didn't read your comment in that way!

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, good.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

It was pretty obvious that my apology was insincere, but I wasn't sure if you knew why it was (i.e., Jesse's ongoing frustration with me).

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, our conference got some press time from WBEZ. They interviewed one of the organizers and ran it in the news on Saturday morning, and they taped the conference and are interviewing two of our speakers tomorrow. Neat-o!

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, yeah, I got the joke! I thought it was pretty funny, actually.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v352/morganzola/mkaparis.jpg

YIKES.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

It took me a second to realize that those weren't Halloween costumes.

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

OH ALSO! I watched The Aristocrats last night and I now love Bob Sagget even more than I did before. The fact that he was being a filthy dirty horrible person was great, but the fact that he seemed amazed by his capacity for utter filth was just adorable.

He remains my "Barf or Bone" choice.

HOWEVER - why did Drew Carey get so skinny? That was disappointing.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I would bet that seeing them in person dressed like that would be disorienting because aren't they like four feet tall or something?

I will say, however, that I appreciate their unwillingness to continue to play up the "We are hot twins who might accidentally start fucking any second!" role in which they were regularly cast as minors. You know, like with the joined-at-the-head gross underaged sultry slattern look.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Was he noticeably skinnier, or was it just that he wasn't wearing his thick glasses?

― jaymc, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I ATE A HALF A BAG OF JELLY BELLIES IN CLASS WITH LESLIE TODAY AND NOW I AM CHATTY ON SUGAR AND WHATEVER CHEMICALS ARE IN JELLY BELLIES.

― Jenny, Monday, 5 March 2007 22:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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