Chicago MMXII

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.

I wasn't trying to encourage you.

I always liked those biggest-sweet-potato-in-the-world trees.

I wasn't trying to encourage you.

That's what she said. And I said, "But it's spring!"

hi guys.

oh thank g0dd, it's t0dd

hi t0dd please talk about anything other than weather and jizz trees PLEASE

hahahaha PLEAAAAAASE

sup Todd!

hey t0dd, where did you and jeff meet?

hey todd i heard you went to that keith fullerton whitman performance
tell me about it

We met at a chicago beer tweet-up. Sounds so lame, but there was a lot of free beer. It was at Half Acre!

The KFW show was good. It was basically in two parts... the recording of the 80 channel thing he did in Paris (played in 4-channel of course) and then he played around with his electronic box thing he has at most of the shows I have been to.

I personally prefer more of his drone-y stuff, so the first part was quite good. The second part was more IDM-y if you will. But I can not complain, it was free!

While I was eating lunch this fairly attractive college-aged guy was making jokes about "fingering chicks" and drinking beer and he was surrounded by a bevy of girls laughing really, really hard and telling him how "hilarious" he is, but it was kinda obvious it was because they all found him hot. I wanted to walk by and shout, "DON'T TELL HIM HE'S FUNNY, THAT ONLY ENCOURAGES HIM AND THATS HOW WE GET DANE COOK".

i listened to the radiolab on patient zero ... pretty good! not crazy about the narration and editing/production but most of the stories were interesting (the cowboy hat thing was dumb but the rest were good). i don't really get why it's a distinct thing from This American Life, it seems exactly the same.

Radiolab is supposed to be science-oriented, and their topics aren't necessarily in keeping with news and current events. Also sometimes TAL does fiction segments and Radiolab doesn't do that.

"DON'T TELL HIM HE'S FUNNY, THAT ONLY ENCOURAGES HIM AND THATS HOW WE GET DANE COOK".

Audible LOL at this, btw.

Haha

Man, Radiolab's editing makes me want to throw the radio against the wall.

I listened to the Patient Zero ep. and I was very surprised that their account of how he got to be called that was not just wrong (per the common knowledge debunking of the notion that he was called that b/c he was the equivalent of "Ground Zero") but also one I'd never heard before. They said that patients were randomly assigned numbers and he just happened to be assigned 0. It totally called into question everything else they said.

they didn't say they were randomly assigned numbers, my impression was that they called him patient zero because when they tracked everything back he appeared to be the starting place. but they didn't really say that either.

Are you sure they didn't say they were randomly assigned numbers? It's pretty fresh in my mind grapes....

but i also don't really know what the "right reason" is you're implying. i don't know much about it at all.

I've never listened to Radiolab before, but that one sounds like a decent place to start.

they were unclear about the number assignments - they might have suggested the numbers were random (at least for the non-patient zeros) but i don't think they said it straight-out - anyway it would be a pretty big coincidence for the first guy to just happen to be patient zero so i think that choice in particular was non-random

The last radiolab I listened to was something on why people do endurance events.

i haven't heard the radiolab episode, but afaik the whole "patient zero" thing, at least as regards gaetan dugas, has been widely critiqued/debunked as inaccurate and somewhat homophobic. maybe the radiolab episode deals with this

wikipedia says 'He was called "Patient Zero" because at least 40 of the 248 people known to be infected by AIDS in 1983 had had sexual intercourse with him, or with someone who had sexual intercourse with him.'

There has often been an allusion to a "patient zero" who introduced AIDS to the gay community of California. In fact, the patient was not called zero at all but was designated by the letter O (for Out of California) but the name patient zero persisted.

In 1984 Dr. William Darrow and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published the results of a study they had conducted in The American Journal of Medicine. This epidemiological study from San Francisco showed how 'Patient O' ("oh," the letter, for "Out of California") had given HIV to multiple partners.... The press mistakenly interpreted the designation as Patient 0 (i.e. zero) rather than O.

Randy Shilts wrote about this in And The Band Played On and it's pretty widely known.

yeah they go into the debunking

Those were just two of a ton of references to this error.

Argh. I'm going to have to re-listen b/c I recall hearing it and I started paying close attention for any correction but didn't hear one!

Ah I think I found the problem. I listened to a different Radiolab about AIDS!

http://www.radiolab.org/2011/nov/14/aids/ = Patient Zero

http://www.radiolab.org/2011/nov/14/ = The Cell That Started a Pandemic, which is the one I heard.

they don't go into any of the stuff you just mentioned, which was interesting

those are both from the same day though?

(xpost)

nevermind, i might be confused

Yeh, they appear to be from the same day.

I am playing it and they just said that the CDC created a diagram of who had sex w/ whom and numbered everyone "NY 7, LA 12" and Gaetan's number just *happened* to be numbered 0 "and as far as we know, that's the first time you get the term 'Patient Zero.'"

I'm really not trying to prove that I'm right, I was just very confused about how we could have such totally opposite memories.

You're probably right, I have a shit memory even for stuff I heard this morning.

I have no problem with you being right.

We're BOTH right, is what I'm saying.

B/c we were talking about two different episodes.

Those last three posts would make a good Paul Smon song.

Paul Smon would be a hilarious pseudonym.

"No, not Simon...it's Smon."

lol

lol

Alan Salami
Paul Smon
D1ck Cr01ss@nt

new CPS proposes getting rid of Pulaski Day! (that is, no longer getting a day off for Pulaski Day)