Chicago MMXII

The collection of work I was really proud of from college - as well as personal stuff and high school fiction - was all lost in a terrible external hard drive crash. Since then I've been beyond diligent in managing my documents. Work habits helped, too.

Yeah this is partially driven by weirdness with my older mac laptop and the imminent shift of the group's web site from a CMS clusterfuck to a sleeker Wordpress. There are over 600 articles on the old site and any I don't save are gonna get deleted.

How you save them depends on what you want to showcase. If it's web design and writing together, save them as HTML and take some screen shots so you can have those for reference if any images break. If you just want to show the writing, I'd just save them as text files. I would definitely not just do screenshots because then you lose edibility/flexibility.

If you want to save all of them, beg whoever is running the website to export them because 600 articles is a lot.

there's a scent on the breeze
of crotch-smelling trees
video gaaaaames

Jesse, I know about the jizz trees.

I didn't write all 600! But thanks, that's a good way to think about it.

There are 4 jizz trees on our morning dogwalk route.

it's freezing here

It's not over 80 degrees here, so I am happier right now than I was all yesterday afternoon.

In other things that are making me happy: a lawyer just came into this office and his cell phone rang and his ring tone is "Smooth Criminal." LOL.

I was starting to feel in the minority with the nice weather, I really love the 70s, but no thanks to 80+ in March. There'll be plenty of time for that this summer.

Yeah, I said last night that I was looking forward to it getting cooler this weekend.

Y'all if you ever feel lonely because you don't like warm weather, you can come hang out at the Overheated, Sweaty Kids table with Jesse and Dan and me. There's room for everyone. Just don't touch us; we're hot.

I have been watching the extended forecast like a hawk waiting to see when this misery will end. Sunny and highs in the 50s is pretty much my favorite weather, and that should be happening right now!

you can save a webpage as a PDF (in os x) by going to print and selecting "print to PDF" as the destination. with windows you have to install something like this freeware to get that functionality. PDFs are imo the best way to archive a webpage if you just want the appearance and not the source code

i've been enjoying the heat, but i grew up in texas

i just had to go downstairs and stand outside for a few minutes because it's so cold in here. think i'll make some tea.

Overheated, Sweaty Kid Stable

I lived in NC for 11 years in high school and beyond, but I dislike the heat more every summer.

I actually liked the heat for a while when I lived in NC, but not after a while.

carl, were we so anti-heat when we lived there? I don't remember this really starting until we moved to Chicago.

This is my time to shine.

And I remember YOU absolutely hating the heat and there is a post of yours somewhere from December, 2004 where you say that you wish it were colder!

jesserememberswhatyousaid.xls

that wasn't an accusation, sorry, I just was so confused when you jumped the heat-hating ship and went to the hot side

It was a subtle change. I don't like oppressively hot, but the last 2 days have been glorious. I don't like it hot at night.

This is not hot weather, folks.

This is warm and comfortable weather.

YMMV

This is my time to shine.

Light reflecting off the sweat, amirite?

And I actually don't think this is too bad at all, it just gives me the willies that it's happening in March.

Jesse, I definitely did not like the heat of NC (I remember one notable birthday of mine when it was in the 80s and I was just super depressed about it) but everything was airconditioned thoroughly and we all drove cars so it didn't seem as bad.

I'd whine less of we had the window unit running in the bedroom, but it's locked in a shed and it's supposed to cool off this weekend so, hot sweaty sleep it is.

thank god that xp allowed me to not make a joke about willies

Ha - I thought "beware the willies of march," but it's not that great a joke.

but everything was airconditioned thoroughly and we all drove cars so it didn't seem as bad.

That is important. That's why I say that living in New Orleans from May-November was easier for me than spending a summer here. Mostly because we walk so much here.

willies of March combined with jizz trees... I'm stopping right there

BTW guys -- this is a dogwood (I don't think this is the same tree you guys claim smells like crotch)
http://cache2.artprintimages.com/lrg/27/2705/6PGND00Z.jpg

Are the crotch trees also the jizz trees? I always wanted to smell the jizz trees but now I never will. :(

I have never identified the smell of a plant as either of those things, so I have no idea.

God, know what is the best smell?! BASIL.

There are many dogwood trees from the train station to my house. I don't know if these smell like crotch, but I strongly dislike the way they smell.

One of my favorite commutes ever was a 15 min walk past tons and tons of jasmine and gardenia plants. It was dreamy.

That sounds nice. One of the places we lived when I was growing up had a yard full of lily of the valley. And honey suckle is always going to smell like my elementary school's playground in summer (we would walk there to hang out when school was out).

I would just like to say that the dogwood trees down south are so freaking beautiful right now. In a week they'll be invisible again.

I took a side street home from the bus stop yesterday and the entire street and a lot of the cross streets were lined with dogwoods, forsythia bushes, and some beautiful tree w/ flowers that look like magnolia but aren't, I think. What an amazing time of year.

Spring is the best.

I'm glad I don't have any problems with spring pollen (knock dogwood).

if you don't smell the jizz on the breeze....

Cummer breeze/Makes me feel fine

I demand a tree that smells like a pretty girl after you've been having sex for an hour and then ordered pizza and are sitting naked on the bed together eating it.

THAT'S spring, yo.

What if the girl is kinda homely but super nice?

What if you are eating bowls of dry Crispix?

xp Define "nice".

Check out these trees

http://www.baobab.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/baobab-fruit-antioxidant-baomix-pulp-leaves-coffee-7.jpg

If "nice" = "a total freak in bed," she's guaranteed by Marxist science to smell even better.

I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by
I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
I hope, and I pray, for a Hester to win just one more "A"
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me.