Overheard in the hallway outside my office just now: "...tiny Asian couple..."
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought the thread title was SUBVERTING the CORPORATE PARADIGM. Which I think is also a commercial....
― Laurel, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
And we do meet up in bars a lot.
― dan m, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I didn't catch the celly reference either. It just makes me think of drinkin'.
I was just given this accounting project which sounded huge and made me grit my teeth as I accepted it a la chloe: http://www.eparsa.fr/webredactions/images/muzik%20mars/Mary%20Lynn%20Rajskub.jpg
Then I got to work on it and, as per the usual, it turns out it's supereasy and almost kind of even... fun.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't understand the FAFSA.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I sure wish the Cubs game tonight wasn't: a) starting at 9 p.m. central time. b) only being broadcast on TBS.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
yah srsly, exclusive rights to playoff games, so they can't schedule them against each other: teh suck
― kenan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
That's lame.
Nick, I just sent you a rather long, informative email about the FAFSA.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I would even consider going to watch the game in a bar if I didn't have to wake up so f'in' early.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:06 (sixteen years ago) link
For your pleasure: Ralph Maccio and Steve Vai in a guitar duel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2FE4GE1QQ8
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:10 (sixteen years ago) link
IIRC Steve Vai is playing an emissary of the devil in that scene?
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Brown finally returns to the crossroads with Eugene in hope of breaking off the deal when he also bartered his soul. There, speaking out of turn, Eugene offers to try to win Brown's soul back in a head-cutting duel with any guitar player of the Devil's choice. Scratch chooses Jack Butler (played by Steve Vai), a modern blues-metal man who has also sold his soul for musical abilities. After a blistering guitar duel, Eugene eventually manages to incorporate the classical training he received at Juilliard and wins the challenge.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Good news! I have a new computer at work and it's ridiculously fast. And the monitor is like 17" across. Crazy.
Bad news! My DSL won't be set up at home until Oct. 12.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost related: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ox5hKGTvlcE
― dan m, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
^^haha, I was just going to post that
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Tremendo Duelo de Guitarras!!
Also didn't know what the thread title was all about, either. I'm not all het up about coopting a corporate slogan, but maybe that's because I haven't seen the commercial. Chicago: I'm Lovin' It would be kind of gross, I guess. Although we did use that anti-herpes ad.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Steve Vai is awesome. In the spirit of the above clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erE8WTngaAY
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy crap, listen to his right foot at the beginning of his solo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFnDXBUaCQg
Also, the Bruce Lee stuff in the interview is in surprisingly bad taste!
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
uh WHOA (xpost to Animal/Buddy Rich clip)
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
ha I like the expression on Animal's face at the end.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Jordan, why would he be playing with his snare angled away from him (as seen in this clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgeX9iYOFSQ&mode=related&search=)? Is there an advantage to that?
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
This one is pretty great too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJAAlXomVk&mode=related&search=
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
It makes sense when you're playing traditional grip, the snare lines up with the angle of your left hand. Actually, from playing brass band snare I've gotten used to it being angled away like that.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't understand the rock guys who have the snare at a steep angle towards them, it makes it really hard for me to hit rimshots (unless the snare is raised up super-high).
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
john . . . did my email go through? i had a large attachment...
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
nnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeeee
― dan m, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I am listening to this band Burning Star Core and they are pretty noise, I think.
― dan m, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
It was not a herpes ad. It was Hep. C.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy fuck is this Between the Buried and Me album awesome.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:06 (sixteen years ago) link
does anyone know why my itunes gift card balance went from $26 to $14 without a purchase? Granted, I haven't used it in ages but $12 is ridiculous.
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you buy anything from the iTunes store in the interim? The store can "remember" your gift card in the system, so if you bought something else, it might have taken it from the gift card even if you didn't re-enter the gift cart code.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
nope.
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes! I just listened to it... It was poignant.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:15 (sixteen years ago) link
They expire 2 years from date of issue. Maybe in the interum the total gradually decreases??
― KitCat, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
That doesn't seem right.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:18 (sixteen years ago) link
A gift card is supposed to be basically be money, since someone paid for it. They can't just take away your money for no reason. Something must have gotten charged to it somehow.
John, isn't it hilarious? I think we did a good job!!
They do expire?! I thought that was illegal or something . . . it's honestly probably been two years since I had it. Fuck.
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:19 (sixteen years ago) link
In less depressing news, I've picked up the Kingsolver book "animal, vegetable, miracle" & now i'm feeling super inspired to only eat local foods, to make my own cheese, make my own pasta . . . etc. What does Minnesota do to a girl? She homesteads.
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
There was a big deal about a year ago about gift cards, a lot of them do lose value over time. My parents bought me a House of Blues one for my birthday two years ago, I went to use it and half the value had disappeared since I hadn't used until 18 months after the issue date. In the fine print on the back it said something like "after 6 months from the issue date this card will lose $2 per calendar month for each additional month without use".
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
That SUCKS, that's the companies getting free money, I agree with Nick!! Totally shitty and unscrupulous, if you ask me.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know how illegal it is, but I told my mom never to buy another gift card for people from there.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
When I get together and play with some of my drummer friends, I feel like Gene Krupa to their Buddy Rich. :(
― Jordan, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:26 (sixteen years ago) link
I feel like I heard something in the news about gift certificates that took deductions from the money & how it was illegal. I'll have to ask my in-house lawyer-to-be.
― sweet tater, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I think its about as illegal as those minimum debit/credit card charges at stores, i.e. technically illegal but good luck telling a store owner that.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Hmm. Well, all I know is that a friend of mine was able to redeem gift certificates from Sak's that were like THIRTY YEARS OLD -- his mother found them in a closet from corporate days gone by, and the store honored EVERY DOLLAR of them. That's classy.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah altho they were maybe lucky b/c $50 thirty years ago would have gone a lot further!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember something about diminishing balances on gift cards....I don't know if it is still legal, but it was at some point. The businesses' justification was that it costs them money to maintain the account and if you're not using the money within a reasonable period of time (1 year or whatever) then they need to start charging.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
The thing is, that argument is total bullshit.
― n/a, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Dear everyone,
Advise me on something. I have a file with the extension .docx
It was created on Word a few years ago and it will not open.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link