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What is zune?

Microsoft's (wrong) answer to the iPod.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

for lazy people like me, in-class is always better.

OTM

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

In-class can still be essay. It's just that you don't have to spend your home-time writing it.

I did notice that you made pumpkin bread. I'm glad you have discovered that cooking isn't that hard (it's not) -- you just need to have the ingredients and desire to put them together. Yay! I use the J of C basic cookie recipe for cookies and then adapt as I please. Usually I am too lazy to type it out and post though. :(

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

horseshoe, it's at the empty bottle.
sarah, i'll be there unless i fall asleep on my couch when i get home from work like i have the last 3 mondays.

are mondays still $1.25 pbr nights at the bottle?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I just felt more confident, like I had more time to digest the questions and make sure I had my ducks in a row with take-homes. Plus I'm starting to think I'm dyslexic or something, so the extra time was handy.

This was mainly for my Social Sciences/Humanities classes... hard science take-homes are always NASTY.

xpost: I'm gonna try to make it too if this weekend doesn't kill me.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh oh I could maybe make the FF show! Matt's playing with BR1GHT0N MA at Sub-T, so our usual Monday night practice has been moved to Sunday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I can totally make it on Monday. yay!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan, I know what you mean about having more time to digest, but if I'm given a lot of time, I'll TAKE a lot of time, and then my whole day is gone before I know it. One reason why I hate writing sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

John, are you me?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm going to check out Joy of Cooking soon.

I use the same basic muffin recipe from a betty crocker cookbook all the time and I love how versatile it can be.

I don't know about the pbrs...

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm glad you guys might be able to make it! Woo hoo! Apparently there is a little blurb in the reader about it. It's all about MMen, but it's still awesome they wrote something about the show. :-D

― Calico (calico), Thursday, 30 November 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, horseshoe, we've established this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of my exams are essay, in class or out. In-class exams take three hours (I have never NOT needed at least 2:45 for an exam) and are usually one to three questions long and are sometimes closed book. Plus I have to hand write my exams and the longest one I've ever written took up THREE blue books. BRUTAL.

Take home exams are like fucking cake, comparatively. I prefer a take home exam or full on paper over an in-class exam any day.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

With inclass exams I like the idea that everyone is writing the exam in their own handwriting, which these days seems a little quaint. (And eliminates the possibility of cheating.)
I also love looking at other people's handwriting as mine veers increasingly toward old-lady chicken scratch.

Sarah if you don't get the JoC I will buy it for you for your wedding. How's that?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't like reading students' handwriting though, so there's that too, I guess.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

my college required that we handwrite our application essay.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, we can either write our exams or use this cagey software called "SofTest" that does not work on a Mac platform, which of course is the kind of laptop I have. It's also notoriously unreliable and every student I know has had to ditch the computer and use a blue book for at least one exam in his or her law school career.

xpost - good grief! I wonder why?

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate writing by hand, my hand always gets really tense and painful.

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

xp - it's so they can take it to a handwriting analyst and see into your soul.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I think out of some misguided notion that it would give the admissions staff a more personal sense of us, or something. it just seems very impractical and like a lot of deserving students with unreadable handwriting might not get full consideration. i have very good handwriting, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot to tell you guys that this morning I spied a young hipster listening to Richard Marx on his ipod.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

IRONICALLY i'm sure.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Richard Marx is a
REPEAT OFFENDER
http://www.still-life-vinyl.com/images/3714.jpg

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

His hair accounts for about 8% of his total height there.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Sez the tall guy in the back.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I laughed at the hipster. You can't sit there and listen to "Hold on to the Night" without me laughing a little bit. Sorry, kiddo.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLD ON TO THE MAAAAAAAAAAMMARIES

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

if only that were an option.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

1. we waited that long because we showed up at 6:50 for the signing and there were 1 million people there. And she did a reading for those who arrived early, so that ate up a long time.

2. Devon does not smell like seafood. Good seafood restaurants never do. Courtney and I discussed how it would make a great TT place, but we were concerned that we might have a poor turnout because some people might think it was too pricey. Drinks are about normal. No $6 buckets of PBR, but not over the top either. The apps make it all worthwhile.

3. Snow. That's ok with me I guess. I don't care.

4. Amy S. signed my Strangers w/ Candy DVD.

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She wrote on her ass "I'm thinkin bout pussy" (because she's lusting after the girls in the background, you know) and scratched out "thumbs" from "two thumbs up" and wrote "dicks."

The hispanic guy in front of us in line said "I wanted you to sign my ass," to which she replied, "No, I need a flat surface and everybody knows you Mexicans have those big asses. Sorry, it's late and I'm punchy. And racist."

― this is not jenny, but it is jesse (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Richard Marx was one of the 80's most tortured troubadours, though this is not always apparent from the highly produced pop sound that send him to the top of the charts. Just beneath this facade is a man prone to despair and existential angst, expressed blankly in his guileless poetry. Consider the 1987 hit, "Don't Mean Nothin'":
Cause it dont mean nothin
The words that they say
Dont mean nothin
These games that people play
No, it dont mean nothin
No victim, no crime
It dont mean nothin
Till you sign it on the dotted line

Here in a single chorus he expresses not only a feeling of personal emptiness, but spits bile in the face of the very record companies that sustained him. The song also suggests a national emptiness brought on by the heartless greed of the Reagan years.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

oops

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― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Truly, Richard Marx deserves to be our National Poet Laureate.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't want to go back to work because i hate my job so much

― jesse here (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

and work makes me want to be dead

― jesse (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

there was some beef between him and chicagoist or gapersblock a month or so back. i guess the guy still lives in the area and makes tons of $$$ as a song doctor.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

WELCOME TO MY WORLD JESSE.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

or jenny, whichever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess the guy still lives in the area and makes tons of $$$ as a song doctor.

Yup, he's written a bunch of pop-country songs, actually.

Some theatre professor at my college who retired before I had the pleasure of taking a class from him was apparently good friends with Richard Marx -- as in RM was the guy he called when he was visiting Chicago and looking for a place to stay.

"Hazard" is pretty good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

His wiki entry lists an assload of people he's worked with. He's been busier than you'd guess.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Would I like Richard Marx?

― Jeff... (Jeff...), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm going to do some serious booze restocking after work. I'm talking beer, prosecco, irish cream, that starbucks liquor business, vodka...

― JordanC (JordanC), Thursday, 30 November 2006 22:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Would I like Richard Marx?

LOLZ

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:18 (seventeen years ago) link

prosecco

Isn't that just a fancy word for ham?

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

All those Jesse posts were Jesse.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Friday, 1 December 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I just shoplifted again. I didn't even set out to. They made it too easy. I went to one register, and they said, "Closed. Go to the register over there." Well, over there was a long-ass way away, and in between was an exit. So I just left. Like they watch for that shit. Please. Saved myself a good $20.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I got a horrifying phone call this afternoon from ComEd (the electric company). They said they're going to turn my electricity off on the 6th unless I pay them $180 right now. I know for a stone-cold fact that I do not owe ComEd $180. So this afternoon I called them. Seems that my electric account is all paid up and totally on time, which was almost as much a surprise to me as anything else. It's Jessa's account that's horribly overdue, and subject to be turned off, and somehow that's still in my name. I explained that this is my ex, and acted extra surprised, and begged them to please not turn her electricity off, that I would talk to her. They gave her an extra month and took the account out of my name. Nice.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Friday, 1 December 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't know why I LOLed at "so I just left." But it is making me laugh still.

"prosecco"

Isn't that just a fancy word for ham?

Are you joking? (In case you're not--Italian sparkling wine = prosecco; prosciutto = ham.)

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://mail.google.com/mail/?attid=0.1&disp=emb&view=att&th=10f3b3c18564a17a

Courtney sent me this and asked me to diseminate it. I don't quite get it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 1 December 2006 05:24 (seventeen years ago) link

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