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Being referred to as a "meat-eater" makes me feel like I'm a velociraptor or something. A carnivore. A predator.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

when i was last in momphis it was 42 and raining a hard, steady, cold rain. it was still about 35 degrees warmer than it was in chicago however.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

There's a blues song somewhere there.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i prefer the term "omnivore" becuase i'm not just a meat eater nor am i strictly a vegetarian. ideally i'd like to have a little of both but rarely do.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Being referred to as a "meat-eater" makes me feel like I'm a velociraptor or something. A carnivore. A predator.

Cool, isn't it?

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, age 265 million:

http://www.dinosaursrock.com/velociraptor-skeleton-lg_small.jpg

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

How do you guys feel about the Olympics possibly coming to Chicago in 2016? It seems like a bad idea to me.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i think it would be a huge headache at best.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

The architect and urban planning enthusiast in me will be interested in following the designs and integration of the facilities and village, but other than that I think its going to be a huge mess. I think it might be best to just be out of the city for those couple of weeks if it happens.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

think it might be best to just be out of the city for those couple of weeks if it happens.

OTM

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

It would be awesome if we got the Olympics! Big BIG boost to the economy, not to mention all the improvements they would have to invest in to accommodate a Olympic-sized crowd, everything from new hotels to (*holds breath*) expanded train lines.

But we won't know this for several years. If we win the US sweepstakes, we still have to compete with world cities.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Back to vegan shoes for a sec... I think that, for the most part, people who do things like buy expensive chemical-ridden vegan shoes, do so because they truly believe they are doing a good (or at least not-quite-as-bad) thing. I doubt most of those purchases are strictly done of the basis of being holier(or cooler)-than-thou. That said, I know little personally as to whether they are indeed any better for the environment.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

fyi- montreal just finished paying for the 1976 olympics this past fall. they made their last payment on the bonds that paid for the olympics in october. whatever gains they saw in their economy were probably offset by the intervening years of payments.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.veganline.com/blackspot-unswoosher.jpg

*shudder*

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That shoe is "unisex," which means it can be worn by both men and lesbians.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

If we win the US sweepstakes, we still have to compete with world cities.

yes but it is almost certainly coming to the US because the summer games have not been generating the kind of tv money & ratings they used to. the games will be back in the states and structured around whatever tv entity pays the most for the rights to broadcast. that will mean things like the 100m dash being run at 8p.m. central time and the basketball finals tipping off during prime time on a saturday.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm guessing when you're a full-blown vegan, your concerns for animal suffering often override your concerns for the environment. But then I don't know anyone who's going out of their way to buy vegan shoes who isn't a vegetarian/vegan. (I hadn't heard about it being trendy.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I've heard lots of scary stuff about the economic effects of the Olympics on the cities where they take place.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll take the Olympics.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i think a place like LA where they already have the infrastructure to handle it would fare better. i was watching wttw last week and LA would only have to build 16% of the structures for the games whereas chicago would have to build over 70%.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Do crocs count? Because they're just ugly.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i was watching wttw last week and they reported that LA would only have to build 16% of the structures for the games whereas chicago would have to build over 70%.

fixed.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, but Los Angeles has already hosted it twice, and as recently as 1984. I'm a fan of the Olympics moving around a lot. I wish it wasn't such an economic/infrastructural burden for most cities, because I'd love to see an Olympics in somewhere like South Africa or India. As much as a Chicago Olympics would be interesting (if overwhelming), I'm kind of rooting for Rio de Janeiro to win.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

I think it could be Chicago's time. Coming soon to the area surrounding Washington Park: massive rent hikes!

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

If it was in Chicago it might be fun to come down and see something.

Speaking of which, if Justin Timberlake wasn't playing in Chicag on weeknights, I would be there.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I was thinking about this the other day... "Wow, getting to work is going to suck!" Then I realized that if I'm still working here in 2016 I've got bigger problems than the Olympics wrecking my commute.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I'll tell you one thing: the 55th street Red and Green Line stops (and the general surrounding area) need all the help they can get, Olympics or no.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Random:
What was that shortcut to make everything on your screen appear larger?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

In Firefox? control +

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, text at least.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there a way to do that for everything on your screen, using Control Panel perhaps?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Erm, you could adjust your monitor's resolution.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

You could lower the monitor resolution.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Right click on the desktop, go to "Appearance", then... I think... "advanced"? Or monitor or something like that. Lower your screen resolution. (But not past 1024x768, really. Lower than that, and you're going to miss something.)

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

One of my coworkers suddenly had all her icons, text, etc showing up EXTRA SUPER LARGE STYLEE. She wanted to know how to make it go away. I told her to go to the Appearance Settings under Display and change the text size to normal, but apparently that isn't the solution. Her text size category is set up as a default that she can't change.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, well. Thanks. She can just have large icons for all I care anyway. HA!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"getting cranky need a spanky" just made me lol at my desk. Thanks, kev.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

BLACK CANDY.

beat happening, kenan.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. What are you so excited about, Kenan? The weather?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

never heard it.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I love that message too, Kevin.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i love that song.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, I'm not actually excited. (To tell the truth, I'm kinda depressed.)

But there's this:
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/270.gif
http://www.wondermark.com/comics/270.gif

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.dangerouslogic.com/images/bride-bong-large.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

beer bong bride kills thread.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually it's her ruined, smeared eyeliner that kills.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i have images turned off so nothing is ruined for me. it was a nice change of pace to log on last night from home and see the images on the WDYLL thread that were from flickr. i even logged onto my flickr account to celebrate.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Office pizza party woohoo!

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

:(

Nobody buys me pizza.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't bring me flowers
you don't write me love songs
you don't buy me pizza
anymore.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

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