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it just doesn't stop snowing, does it?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I wouldn't mind seeing cartoon caricatures of alderpeople. I'm sure it's been done before.

dorothy_tillman.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

The Thomson Center is especially easy in the mornings, pre-lunch hour. And the test you take mostly involves either a) looking at shapes of signs (octagon, diamond) and matching them with the appropriate sign (stop, no passing) or b) answering questions that are meant to educate you (i.e., is there a penalty for drunk driving? yes, no).

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I stayed home today. I an lounging. I am watching it snow in my boxers.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I went to get something out of the car for my friend Moses, and the key FELL OFF the key chain just as I pressed lock and shut the door.

Luckily I had a spare at home and got a co-worker to drive me, crisis over.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Congratulations!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Snow in your boxers, Kenan?

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel like something is stuck between my molars, but ordinary floss ain't doing it. This is going to ruin my day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I am watching it snow in my boxers.
TMI.

oh, xposty

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I was at work late last night, and thought about taking the disused and neglected PowerMac G3. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just needs to be turned into a Linux box. Should I do this? Check one.

__yes __no

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, granted, it's stealing. But it's stealing something that no one will notice is missing until the next time we move, if then.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Only if you want to start looking like the Tron guy.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, is this a work computer? Then no, you ding dong. WTF?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The g3 is already Tron guy colors. I'll have a head start.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, is this a work computer? Then no, you ding dong. WTF?

It's a stored-under-a-cabinet-and-forgotten-computer. Because it's useless for what we do.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Stop rationalizing it, and NO. Bad Kenan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It's a "wow, i forgot this was here" computer.

yeah, i'm rationalizing. what of it?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe ask if you could have it? If they say "What computer??" it's yours.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Tell it to the judge.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

that would be a totally douchey thing to do kenan.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

If it's useless, why don't you ask if you can take it? XPOST

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link

let's put aside for a moment our sense of propriety and remember that this thing is a dinosaur that no one wants. I lean towards yes.

What is this silly voice in my head the keeps telling me no?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

And then you turn it into a linux box, and put this software on it:

http://www.torrentflux.com/

And then you're happy forever.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY I COULD ASK. That's actually not a bad idea. There might be a little hemming and hawing, though, because no one knows how computers work around there, and if I can use it for anything, why can't I use it at work?

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

a dinosaur that still doesn't belong to you kenan.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link

The hemming and hawing will then be the price you pay for a new box.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link

a dinosaur that still doesn't belong to you kenan.

you people and your principles.

yeah, you're right, of course.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

What is this silly voice in my head the keeps telling me no?

It's the small part of you that doesn't really want to get fired.

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i think that's it, yeah.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the small part of you that doesn't really want to get fired.

or arrested.

― chicago kevin is back in a new york groove (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

arrested for stealing a g3 would indeed be a sad affair

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, fine, i'll just ask.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Good Kenan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

So I worked on this huge, painful project collecting emails so we could mass email all the bigshot realtors in Chicago about this open house... I collected about 4500 of them and it was a PAIN IN THE ASS. I got headaches every day. Anywho, I just found out I'm not allowed to go to it (it's today) because they need me here to answer the door even though there are only three or so other people in. Awesome.

Also, I was given a huge new list of more companies whose emails they want me to collect. Also awesome.

The good news is that I'll just be here alone basically and could read I guess (or just spend all that extra time on here).

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot to mention almost everyone else in the office is going. It's a full-floor condo, the fanciest one in the building, which will be well stocked with free food and wine and what-not.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, we've already established that we hate every single person you work with, I think? All of them. Can burn. In selfish, over-entitled, small-minded, stupid, ugly co-worker hell.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Laurel.

I'm mostly in a great mood today. I guess I can't help but bitch anyway though.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you realize that Bob Seger's sax player is named Alto Reed? I shit you not.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:41 (seventeen years ago) link

:D to Sarah

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, steal a computer so that you can get fired and get a new job.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link

And have a new computer. WIN/WIN!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I will not be held responsible for this.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Our laptop at home pretty much rules. We have some extra computers upstairs here but they are huge jurassic creatures.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

http://altoreed.com/index.html

hello 1997

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link

like the g3!

really, I am plenty rich in computers. I have three, at present. But I want more.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost... oooh, the page plays "Turn the Page." My favorite Seger song.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:48 (seventeen years ago) link

hello 1997

like the g3!

I like how that xpost turned out.

― Bodhisattva, let me take you by the hand (kenan), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The page says it was created in '99, so, close.

― Calico (calico), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Oops, missed that. I was basing my era determination solely on the java applet wave effect.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

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