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it's more than marginally faster...it's really noticeable to me.

― JuliaA, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, it burns.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm, yeah, it's weird, whenever my computer at home is being slow, ILX is always the one site that works perfectly fine.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

OOOk now.

― KitCat, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that Sarah?

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup. C'est moi.

― KitCat, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Why does it keep going back to the New Answers page?

― KitCat, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't they realize I only want to post on this one thread? ha ha

― KitCat, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

That's being sorted out.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

the navigation is one of the biggest gripes i have right now. it was obviously designed by programmers. :)

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

You were obviously designed by programmers.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Your mom was obviously designed by programmers.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

meet the new jaymc, 30% more needlessly hostile. Welcome, brother!

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I knew this woman in college who was kind of a borderline-personality disorder type mean person to begin with by anyway, when she was in high school her mom died and that was really sad. She was in her late 20s when I knew her. Anyway, we all went through a phase of reflexive "your mom" type responses (ie see above) that went hand in hand with "If it were up your ass you'd know where it was" when people would ask where something was. And everytime somebody would reflexively say "Your mom" to or around this person she would say, "My mom is dead." and get up and leave the conversation.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

And it was a real drag the way she let her grief over the tragic and untimely death of her mother, to whom she was very very close, totally ruin our juvenille jokes. Dragsville, population her.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a weird dream last night that my mom wanted to sleep with me, and she thought she was being secretive about her desire, except it was really obvious, and I was like, "Mom, just admit it!" Then I threw up a huge reddish log of poop.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

At some point later, there was a monkey that had wrapped its tail around my little finger and was crushing it. And I looked back at the monkey and made a face like "c'mon dude!" and the monkey made a face back like "haha u dumb," and then later someone had managed to wrangle the monkey by putting it in a large Ziploc bag inside an even bigger department-store bag, and I was supposedly in charge of releasing the monkey back into the wild -- which was really just the backyard of someone's beach house -- but I couldn't do it because I was afraid it would attack me again after I unZipped the bag.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

The Freudians would have a field day with that first one, though.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm having a field day with it and I think Freud was a nitwit.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I know, but oral, anal, and Oedipal all at once!

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I tell you guys about my annoying coworker and the forks?

WELL we all share desks/computers and different people sit in different places on different days, just depending on who comes in and when so there's no set workspaces. So one day I'm at a desk and I'm looking for a paperclip or something and I come across a box of plastic flatware and I think, "Oh, hey, cool, plastic flatware, it must be for the office since we don't have set work stations and there is a bunch of other random crap in this drawer that is general use like pens and post its" because I am always forgetting to bring a fork or something and having to go downstairs and steal one from a food court restaurant. So the other day I make my horrible frozen dinner and open up the drawer to get a fork and the annoying coworker says, "You know, those are mine." And I had no idea! And I said so, and then said, "I guess I owe you a few forks because I've take a couple out of there already." And she said no biggie and I ate and that was the end.

Well, Wednesday I forgot a fork again and since I find her annoying, I decided to steal another fork from her. WELL DID U KNOW that she had put a piece of tape over the box lid! I don't know if that was a test or a warning or what, but I opened the damn box and took a fork. So today, I bought lunch and grabbed like five forks with the intention of putting them in her box of forks to replace the ones I have taken and not only was the box taped, but it was wrapped up in a plastic bag with a rubber band around it. CRAZY. So I put the forks on top of the box and went about my day.

And all the pens and post its are "hers" to, in that she got them out of the supply closet and made a little hoard in a desk where she sits about half a day out of the week.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:18 (seventeen years ago) link

WAIT. I don't know if the box was taped because I didn't remove the rubber band/plastic bag. So she might not have taped the box back up again.

If Kevin were here, he would retell that story from the POV of the annoying coworker who doesn't understand why her bitchy coworker keeps taking her forks and it would be hilarious.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

That is nutso.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

If Kevin were here

RIP

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"My Kevin is dead."

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm glad you think it's nutso because I do and I wonder if it's just me being kind of nonchalant about owning things. I mean, if I bought I box of forks, I would say, "Hey I bought some forks so grab one if you need it" and put it on a shelf or something.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I am full of stories today.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, I just opened up an old Chicago thread, clicked on View All Messages

Where is the view all messages link? How many does it hide?

[i hate brackets]

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Once this puppy gets past 50 posts, it will show the first 50 and the last 50 and then in the middle there will be a link to show all.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

ohhhh

weird

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

we do not need to see the first 50 posts any more than we need a "clear" button.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, first 50 is dumb. What is a "clear" button?

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

underneath the response field. "submit response" = yes. "clear" = wtf use could this possibly be

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

"delete my post please, i do not like it and i don't know how to use a delete key!"

alternately: "submit response OH D'OH POST GONE FUCK YOU STUPID CLEAR BUTTON"

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

maybe... mayyyyybe... it would be useful if it displayed xposts.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

GREAT SCOTT.

So anyway, I posted to the other thread too but I'll put it here: Kevin is fine. He's on his way home right now, didn't go to work today because he was too busy prepping for his WALK OF SHAME AT 2.30 PM. Yes. Sans underwear. And he's letting me post this whole explanation/debacle for your amusement so I hope you appreciate it.

― Laurel, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

we do not need to see the first 50 posts any more than we need a "clear" button.

The thinking behind that is because we can't set it per-user, we need something that works both for logged in users, people coming to thread for the first time and googlers and that. So they see the first 50 posts and most recent 50, and if they're interested can see them all. The other choice was just last 50, which would mean much more clicking through for all posts as new comers tried to see the start of a thread.

That's the theory anyway.

God, I feel like a total intruder here. Hi Chicagoans! (is that the term?)

― .stet., Friday, 23 February 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

hi stet.

Yeah, it slipped my mind that we don't have per-user settings. No offense, mind you. Thanks for popping in! You're never an intruder.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicagonians

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

And yes, we are Chicagoans.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I had a weird dream last night that my mom wanted to sleep with me, and she thought she was being secretive about her desire, except it was really obvious, and I was like, "Mom, just admit it!" Then I threw up a huge reddish log of poop.

I can't decide whether to excelsior this or be incredibly ooked out by it.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I never ever want to read it or think about it again, so can you maybe not quote it anywhere else? Thanks.

― Laurel, Friday, 23 February 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

that's one vote for "ooked".

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, don't excelsior it. I don't want a reputation.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The correct term is "ooged."

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

As in, "That dream made me feel really oogy."

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

seconded.

― JuliaA, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Some things I learned today:
1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

2) Students enjoy hiring STRIPPERS for their parties, or so I was told in the paragraph I edited for one student named N0rma.

3) My students do not respect me, or so I was told after I was (basically) bullied into letting class out early by a tiny little gangbanger-lookin' dude.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANYO. Your birthday is my half birthday which means you are [x] years and 6 months younger than I am.

-- Armando Grouse (showdown@wormtown.net), February 23rd, 2007. (later)

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4) One more thing: TJ's frozen soba noodles are totally vile when prepared according to directions, but super yum when you add chili-sesame oil and some soy sauce.
-- Armando Grouse (showdown@wormtown.net), February 23rd, 2007. (later)

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Am I the onliest one here?
-- Armando Grouse (showdown@wormtown.net), February 23rd, 2007. (later)

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

TJ's frozen soba noodles

Frozen, huh. I was looking for soba noodles at TJs the other day, and they said they had been discontinued from the store. I was looking in the pasta/ethnic aisle, though.

LOTS OF PEOPLE

And by "people" you mean "black people," right?

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 3046 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

I know right what you mean. I have comps from you, actually, that I have retagged exactly like what what you're talking about.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

BUT in iTunes, if you have a comp, like, say, Kompakt Total 4, you just tag it as a comp, and it's automatically refiled into your compilations folder under the album title instead of by artrist.

― kenan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

How does it display on your ipod? I know you use playlists, but if you are just going through to the artist.

That's the one thing I hate about my zen micro, I want to be able to go through album artist instead of just artists.

― Jeff, Saturday, 10 March 2007 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I finished taking the MPRE. Now (assuming I pass) all I have to do is graduate and take and pass the bar and then I can be an attorney.

― Jenny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

What? No running the gauntlet? No "unblinking eye"?

― dan m, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Prince doing Just My Imagination: http://www.sendspace.com/file/qqx0f9

― Jordan, Saturday, 10 March 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Good job Jenny!!!

I've been hanging around the Damen/Milwaukee/North clusterfuck, and I can tell you that the hipsters are officially out of hibernation.

― n/a, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I allllmost went to Filter after my test but then decided I couldn't cope with the hipsters so I went home and ate ice cream instead.

― Jenny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Thanks, Nick!

― Jenny, Saturday, 10 March 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I was at Filter drinking a frozen mocha thing, reading and people-watching. We could have hung out.

― n/a, Saturday, 10 March 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

:'-(

― Jenny, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:08 (seventeen years ago) link

(=T.T=)

― Jenny, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I was there for a few hours today too! I walked to my gym from the Western stop because the trains were backed up and waiting ~25 minutes to go one stop down the line. Afterwards I went to Sultan's which was packed as hell and then rode the Milwaukee bus back home.

― dan m, Sunday, 11 March 2007 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

And if your computer truly makes files disappear, you prolly need a new computer.

I've been thinking this for a while: that argument doesn't make much sense, unless you're coming from the standpoint of iTunes' infallibility.

What I think happened is that because these files were in .wma format, iTunes took it upon itself to make convert them to AAC (as is its wont), and during the conversion something went awry and then they went away.

And then tonight my iPod froze. Would do absolutely nothing until the battery wore down. It seems OK now. Prolly because I don't have a Mac.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe a trip to the Genius Bar is in order??

― dan m, Sunday, 11 March 2007 07:45 (seventeen years ago) link

The correct time is 9:34 A.M.

It's taken me a while to establish this.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought an alarm clock that automatically updates for DST, but I thought maybe that since DST was early this year, it might not know. Then that cast doubt on all other clocks, except for the analog clock on the wall that tells me that it is 8:35.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"Some douche is throwing eggs on the train."

-Text message from Courtney this morning as she is headed to the South Side Parade.

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 14:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Apparently there was a guy throwing hard-boiled eggs at the ceiling on the train.

Also
RIP Jesse's iPod
Fall 2004-March 2007

:( Can't afford new player. Maybe I'll take it to the Genius Bar. If that doesn't work, I will start saving my pennies and thinking about next steps.

Maybe this guy.
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/sc/31632697-2-300-overview-1.gif

― Jesse, Sunday, 11 March 2007 15:13 (seventeen years ago) link

did you try this?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61705

Take it to the apple store and tell them it sucks.

― Jeff, Sunday, 11 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000AOMAT0/ref=nosim/?tag=jc0c-20

― Jeff, Sunday, 11 March 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

So I have to go to a birthday party late afternoon, so I think I'll show up instrument-less today and try to do something with what's there. I'm guessing if we're tracking and not just playing a song together live I could use whatever's there.

― Eazy, Sunday, 11 March 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to bring a mini keyboard, kazoo, slide whistle, recorder, clarinet, melodica, etc. -- so there will be stuff for you to play with.

― jaymc, Sunday, 11 March 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I love living close to the lake. Our walk today.

― Jeff, Monday, 12 March 2007 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000AOMAT0/ref=nosim/?tag=jc0c-20

Thanks. This did the trick.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny-- I love you. Thank you. Youtube how we know God loves us.

There is a link on this page to a guy doing a comparative tasting of Thunderbird, Boone's Strawberry Hill, Riunite Lambrusco, and Franzia box wine.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Boone's rated highest (least lowest). Then T-bird, Franzia, and a distant 4th least-worst: Riunite Lambrusco.

He made a mistake though--it's Riunite ON ICE that is so nice.

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I listened to the results of CHILX All-Star Jam #1 last night and they sounded a lot better than they thought they would. The recording sounds kind of fucked up but in a cool way - the drums and the keyboard are distorted but nice and fuzzy and analog. The take of the actual song is good, but I'm also pretty happy with the two "jams" I recorded. I'll put them online this afternoon/evening so people can hear what we've got going so far.

― n/a, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Can we have a new thread?

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Chicago: Will There Be Food on the Southside?

― Jesse, Monday, 12 March 2007 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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