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you're ahead of the game. You are one click up on me.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I almost always report friend requests from people I don't know as spam. Fuck that shit. Myspace is annoying enough on its own.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Hum's "Why I Like the Robins" just came up on shuffle. YESSSsssssss...

Hi peeps

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

sometimes I get friend requests from strangers that are record labels or something like that. Those I don't mind.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa. Hum. I haven't thought about that band in forevs.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i just fucked up my netflix queue and now i'm getting easy money instead of we jam econo in time for the weekend. though i suppose if i blow through a dvd tonight (unlikely with it being lost night and all) i could get the first disc of the two in time for saturday viewing. assuming my mail carrier decides on delivering mail this weekend.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

For a while we had a myspace friend named "Luna" who would post animated gifs of her slapping her thong-clad ass as comments. I just assumed that this was ILX's Luna, which is why I felt bad about blocking her comments. Then we figured out it was just some random myspacer, so now I just ignore her comments.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm used to requests from people I don't know through the band myspace, but the hot girl ones are almost always spam.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't have the "block requests from bands" thing turned on (though i'm tempted sometimes) but i would say about 95% of band requests are denied. and 95% is probably conservative. there are a whole lot of really bad, popular bands in chicago. apparently.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha there is a setting for that?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

So is there something going on at Ice Factory on Sat. night? Eric hinted at something but then didn't reply to my email, and the IF website is even more fucked up than usual right now.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Eric Z and Canasta are playing with one other band.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Walk In/Rock Out: Canasta, Teddy Edwards(of The Music Lovers)& Eric Ziegenhagen
Saturday March 10th
We welcome back local orchestral pop group Canasta along with touring act Teddy Edwards. Eric Ziegenhagen opens up the night with his intimate lap guitar storytelling from the NW side of Chicago.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

intimate lap guitar storytelling

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It's another acoustic dude, I believe. It's sort of last minute, but you should all come, it should be fun. It's also a benefit for the Chicago Underground Library

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

intimate lap ~~guitar~~ storytelling

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

(fixed)

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The last two Netflix movies I've gotten in the mail have had the packages ripped open, in a fairly obvious way that makes me think our mail carrier (or someone else) was hoping to steal the good ones. Apparently Brick and Half Nelson weren't up to his/her standards. Does make me nervous to know that someone might steal one of these at some point. This is exactly why I never have stuff shipped to my home address.

Our mail carrier is atrociously bad, among other things s/he has done:

Routinely shoves all of our building's mail into whichever box is most convenient that day (usually ours), so I spend a couple minutes every day sorting all the mail for our building.

At least one or two pieces of mail everyday is for our same street number on either of the two streets surrounding ours.

Pretty much a constant stream of mail meant for the neighboring buildings.

Any packages too large for the mailboxes gets thrown on the ground, had to dig a box of books out the snow last week.

It's seriously the worst "service" ever. Complaining to the postmaster has only made it worse, so I guess its time to just deal. Is this fairly common though?

[/rant]

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

The mail in Chicago in general is AWFUL. I have had endless trouble with them. And complaining does make it worse -- you're lucky you're still getting mail at all.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

HAY GUISE yesterday in class Prof. Hummingbird talked a lot about breast feeding and pumping breast milk except she would stammer badly whenever she tried to say "breast" and she kept flitting around at the front of the room and we talked about breast feeding for a good fifteen minutes and given that I have never heard anybody speak openly about the challenges that working women face if they want to breast feed children, it was possibly the greatest lawschool moment I have witnessed. It would been less great if it wasn't Prof Hummingbird flitting and stammering her way through it, though.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:35 (seventeen years ago) link

When my friends Karen and Andrew got married, they put their home address as the mailing address and the return address on their RSVP envelopes. They got about ten of those back stamped return to sender, no such address. It was the same address!!!

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

What's the class???

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Prof. Hummingbird also invited me out for a beer again. Wheee!

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It wouldn't be such a big deal if I didn't have to make a weekly trip to the post office to return all the mail meant for other buildings, but the mail carrier flat out refuses to take anything back with them.

Anyway, enough bitching for today. Really I'm in a good mood.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I will most likely come to the IF show on Saturday night.
I would like to encourage people to come see the FFs NEXT Friday (the 16th) at Beat Kitchen if they feel like it. It's for purely selfish reasons, I hate playing at Beat Kitchen when it's empty. So I want it to be PACKED.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

My initial reasons for turning vegetarian are similar to Sarah's in that my sophomore year of college I had a bunch of vegetarian friends. My roommate was vegan, and on the other side of the dorm basement we lived in was the Veggie Co-op, which was two suites of girls who were all vegetarian and thus were given access to a kitchen. My roommate's girlfriend lived there, as did my several other female friends, including Kelsey.

So I was used to hearing the usual arguments about why it was a good idea to not eat meat (from animal rights to environmental concerns), and over the following summer, I began to flirt with the idea myself. I was never the kind of dude who relished a huge steak or pork chop, I was just accustomed to the conveniences of having meat as part of my diet. So I thought maybe it won't be that hard. I was studying in the UK that fall, and I made a spontaneous decision on the plane that I was going to try it out. (The last piece of meat I knowingly ate was a Philly cheesesteak at the Philadelphia airport). The fact that I was making all sorts of other adjustments in my life by living in another country and cooking for myself for the first time meant that it was a little bit easier to make that kind of change.

Anyway, it was totally fine. The idea of cooking with raw meat always grossed me out, anyway, so I was happy not to have to deal with that. And because the UK had just gone through the mad-cow scare, it had become a very vegetarian-friendly place to live -- lots of green V's on frozen-food packages and on restaurant menus.

But I did initially struggle with the philosophical justification for what I had done. Eventually, I happened upon this: that while there was no single reason (like animal rights) that I felt passionate about, there seemed to be, from an objective perspective, more good reasons for humans to not eat meat than to eat meat.

A year or two later, as I learned more and had discussions with vegetarian friends, I became more specifically invested in animal rights and environmental arguments, although I was never preachy about it, and as I've often mentioned, these days my vegetarianism is mostly just out of habit and preference.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

can we not talk about vegetarianism? Ever again?

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure that it was the meat-eaters that started the whole conversation. Plus, Jenny SPECIFICALLY asked people about why they became vegetarian.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

So go chew on some shoe leather.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://typolis.net/static/shortsville/images/werner.gif

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

tom skilling you better not be dicking me around with this 7 day forcast....

Tom Skilling's 7-day forecast
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Wednesday
31
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16 Some early morning cloudiness, perhaps a few flurries. Becoming partly sunny but chilly with daytime highs remaining below freezing. North 8-15 m.p.h. winds pull wind chill into the mid teens. Clear and cold at night: lows from 10º coldest outlying areas to 20º in the city.

Thursday
37
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26 Generous sunshine, modestly warmer temperatures. Light morning winds shift to the east keeping shoreline readings in the low/mid 30s; low 40s south.

Friday
45
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35 Increasing cloudiness and warmer as southeast winds shift to the south. Light rain arrives by evening and continues at times overnight.

Saturday
48
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32 A few lingering morning showers, especially northwest Indiana. Becoming partly cloudy in the afternoon.

Sunday
48
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36 Intervals of clouds and sun, though more clouds prevail southern sections. Near 50° well inland and south. Lake breezes restrict highs to the upper 30s downtown.

Monday
56
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42 Partly sunny, breezy and substantially milder with 2007’s highest readings to date possible.

Tuesday
60
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44 Milder still, with the first 60-degree reading of the season possible. Sunshine along with patchy high and mid-level cloudiness.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I asked, and I like reading people's responses. Thank you everyone.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

hellooooo open windows.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

my windows are painted shut.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, ok, sorry guys. Vegetarianism it is.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

but i could always open them with a brick i suppose.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.apnm.org/programs/gx/vegetarianism.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Carrots make me that happy, too. Srsly.

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, ok, sorry guys. Vegetarianism it is.
SO EASY!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

That weather report makes me slap-happy, so watch out. This means that my transition from Momphis weather to Chicago won't be quite as much like running smack dab into a brick wall.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey if anybody is going to be in the loop at noon tomorrow, come to the Daley Center for the 24th annual International Women's Day demonstration. It is usually a pitifully small group of women holding signs and listening to fiery speakers and we could use all the help we can get.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://zo.la/me/img/vegetarianism.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(Reasoning I can get with, yo.)

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 17:09 (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.

― 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

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