I'm better off keeping my dumb thoughts to myself even if it means I'm a little lonely for jibjab.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
I like your dumb thoughts.
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
I think 85% of my twitter followers are spam bots, but then I also rarely have anything worthwhile to say. I'm so bad at tweeting though, I always see so many clever people on there that I feel intimidated into trying to be clever and I try too hard and suck at it. Super jealous of clever tweeters.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
I don't like spending a half hour figuring out a precise wording that conveys the right tone, is comprehensible, and is also within 140 characters.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
I bought some dryer ballz today.
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 September 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
see deez dryer ballz
I made a deez nuts joke to my cat this morning.
I also like Twitter for keeping up with people that I used to be FB friends with but don't know well enough to communicate regularly via email
See, it doesn't meet my expectations for this purpose. It's tiny-information overload, it's too fleeting, and it's too one-way.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 14 September 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
exactly
i'm not jealous of clever tweets at all, and i don't even aspire to produce them, i just don't really like the medium because it's not how i interact with people
i'm just going to start calling you all on the phone. i'm all about phone calls now.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
How retro!
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 September 2012 22:07 (eleven years ago) link
my experience of twitter was basically "i feel so god damn alone"
― Džeijn Osten (clouds), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I think it helps that I am doing it alongside colleagues.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 14 September 2012 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
Which I realize is also kind of weird and brings its own set of challenges.
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Friday, 14 September 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
i guess i am not looking for more opportunities to put on the La Lechera show and that's what twitter feels like to me
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 14 September 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Yeh that makes sense. It feels like announcements instead of socializing in a way that FB, MySpace, etc don't or didn't, so it feels isolating.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 14 September 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Just pretend you're mingling. That's the way I do it.
― Jeff, Saturday, 15 September 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
Hey if anyone is interested in going to the Hideout block party today/tonight R and I have two tickets we're not going to use.
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Saturday, 15 September 2012 12:39 (eleven years ago) link
So this strike is about to get really real, isn't it? Rahm went nuclear tonight.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
I was out of state, but I gather on Friday they were close enough that they thought there was a chance students would be back in school today. And now I hear at least three more days of striking (?), which makes me think someone moved the football. If Rahm went nuts, I imagine it was the teachers.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 September 2012 01:39 (eleven years ago) link
....makes sense considering his chill, amenable way.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
He thought he'd have it wrapped up by Rosh Hashanah.
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
Apparently the CTU wasn't happy with the deal Rahm was trying to force through over the weekend, unsurprising when I heard the details and it sounded like wins for him on almost every count, but something happened and Rahm decided to call the strike "illegal" today and is going after a court injunction to have it stopped. This is gonna get messy.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks. I was wondering if I had missed anything. The news is full of Rahm wringing his hands with concern for the children missing school tomorrow, which agony led him to seek an injunction.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 September 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
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Ha, yeah really.
― carl agatha, Monday, 17 September 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
I need to remember to keep my headphones on in the elevator up to work tomorrow so I don't need to listen to the personal injury hack lawyer on my floor whine about the teachers' $70K salaries. I swear instead of going to work last week he just rode the elevator and said "Seventy-thousand dollars!" all day.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 September 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
!
http://www.suntimes.com/news/15193205-418/chicago-terror-bomber-targeted-my-bar-co-owner-of-cals-says.html
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link
Was wondering which bar that was!
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 17 September 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
Me too, holy shit!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 13:40 (eleven years ago) link
I'm supposed to go meet some friends there this evening.
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 17 September 2012 14:56 (eleven years ago) link
is this one of those terrorist bombings where the FBI basically goaded the guy into doing it, bought him supplies, then arrested him?
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
answer: probably
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-teenager-charged-with-trying-to-bomb-chicago-bar-2012-9
Friday night's arrest of Adel Daoud, an American aged 18, marked the end of an undercover sting operation during which agents provided him with a fake bomb that he attempted to set off shortly before he was detained
...
According to an affidavit in the case, two undercover FBI agents contacted Mr Daoud around May in response to material he posted online and began exchanging messages with him.
From late May to mid-June, Daoud sought guidance on whether to carry out a terrorist attack in the United States, the affidavit said, and "confirmed his belief in the propriety of killing Americans in a terrorist attack." He then began looking for online resources on how to carry out an attack.
On July 17, Mr Daoud met with an undercover FBI agent introduced to him as a purported cousin of one of the other agents and an "operational terrorist."
At a subsequent meeting in early August, the pair discussed "plans to carry out an attack in the Chicago area with a vehicle containing explosives," the document added.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
don't get how this isn't entrapment
Yeah, I can't find a quick link to it because the Trib's website sucks, but the article in yesterday's paper said the feds even gave him the vehicle and the explosives.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
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― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
idgi either
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
I think a local house cleaning service may be running a scam b/c I bought a Swoop for cleaners and it's been impossible to get a response to my scheduling request, and then I read on Yelp that they've screwed over a bunch of other people. http://www.yelp.com/biz/clean-green-chicago-chicago. :( Beware.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
thank fuck we clean our own house
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
i briefly considered buying the "hour in a floatation chamber" coupon but thought twice about it
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 17 September 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
it's not the sensory deprivation experience i thought it was :(
See things like that are why Yelp can actually be a good thing.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
i might be ready to try DDPP again if anyone's interested in joining mei've shaken off the taylor dayne incident, but this time i'm not afraid to just walk out if i can't handle it
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
lol what was the Taylor Dayne incident?
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
it was a particularly difficult to stomach night at DDPP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Dyouvtb98
na na na na na na na
not once, but twiceit was awful and so so so very hot in there and i wanted to die and then i felt shame for being snobby and then i wanted to leave, but i didn'tbut i should have
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
lesson learned:always give your $5 at the beginning so you can sneak out if the music makes you want to die
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 17 September 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
Rahm totally days away from framing Karen Lewis for plotting to blow something up.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 September 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
I canceled my Chicago Card 30 day unlimited rides pass after paying for it on July 20, so it should have stopped working on August 20 give or take, yet it is still working almost 1 month later. It just won't stop. I've checked the CTA's website several times and it is definitely not funded. I am riding for free.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:07 (eleven years ago) link
So let that be a fuck you to you, Rahm. What are you gonna sue me too?
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
Cal's and most of the surrounding area was closed today. :(
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
So last night a friend posted on Facebook at 11:30 that the Chbs game had been rain-delayed and was in its second inning, so I went and watched the game with a few hundred fans in the stands. Got to walk all around the place.
Didn't see this til now (must see video for full effect):
http://deadspin.com/5944189/some-jackass-made-blowjob-pantomimes-behind-home-plate-at-wrigley-for-nearly-an-inning-before-getting-ejected
― canonical casual cordouroy (Eazy), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
What time did the game finally end?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link