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Thanks, Dan. It seems like that page only does a word at a time. I have a huge f'n email to translate. I got the gist of the message via babbelfish, but wanted to find something better.

I don't have much hope for my youngest sis's marriage. :-(

― Calico (calico), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

"family-friendly" lol

(I should say that "little" = 25... so no need to keep it PG for her.)

xpost: Oh, sorry! I had just heard about that through the grapevine here at the U.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Did your sister send you a whole e-mail in French?

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't suppose anyone wants to get dinner or something on Friday? I have the day off so I might drive in early-ish.

Do you want to come to dinner with me at Glenn's Diner, for breakfast cereal and seafood specials?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

(It would be at 7 PM -- don't know what time you have to be at the Green Mill. I think I'm coming to the Saturday show, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

She forwarded an email from her husband to my other sis who forwarded it to me asking for a translation.

― Calico (calico), Monday, 18 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

John, that might work out pretty well, actually (I should be at the GM at 8:15ish).

― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey word nerds, check out this book I'm getting for my dad for Xmas.

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/169948.ctl

I am 100% sure that I saw the name "Bloody Dick Point" on a map of Montana when I was in my teens. It was in the SW part of the state. I can't find it now.

I wonder if it is one of those intentional "mistakes" that cartographers use to protect their maps from plagiarism?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW, I love maps and I love words, so this book looks like fun.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin: I love this Christmas mix.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

cool, you were able to unzip it ok?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Works great.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

BTW, I love maps and I love words, so this book looks like fun.

2x.

(Am I using that correctly?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

cool, thought there might have been a problem for macs.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i would seriously marry darlene love's voice.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I AM AT OLD TIMERS

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

JESSE YOU SUCK I WANT TO BE AT THE BAR

(Am I using that correctly?)

Yes -- "Two times".

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

I am not drinking. I just ate a Reuben and a Diet Coke. I'm in the dining room.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

cool, thought there might have been a problem for macs.

We can do zip files. It's not the stone age, man!

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I couldn't open it. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I am downloading the mix as I type this. Our internet seems really slow today.

Even if you're not drinking at the bar Jesse, you're still closer to it than I am. This has already been a long day and I'm probably going to be here late :(

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes -- "Two times".

I saw one of you say "4x" once. Is that like "me four"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, or "^^^^^^^^cosign" or whatever. Basically: "I agree with the above and want to repeat it to signify my agreeance."

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

John, did you read Prep ? It is really good. It's full of very reassuring, outcast-affirming Truths without trying to be lofty. I really like that Lee seems to be growing and learning without having big giant moments when everything changes. Her losing her virginity was great b/c while it was pushed on her, it was what she wanted the whole time.

That sounds really terrible.... But that's what's great about the book is that it really captures how something can be really positive and kind of wrong at the same time.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

DUDES DID YOU KNOW THAT WILL OLDHAM IS DOING STANDUP AT THE EMPTY BOTTLE??!?!? WTF. SOMEONE GO, AND REPORT BACK, PLZ. ALSO: TAPE IT>

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Why is he doing that at 3:30 in the afternoon on a Monday?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Standup comedy?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

w-w-what? has that guy lost his noodles?

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Sayjal sent me pics of herself as a Macy's elf. I forwarded them to some of you. If you were left out and want to see her, lemme know.

They're funny and cute because she looks like a disgruntled elf.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh. 2 guys just came into Old Timers wearing T-shirts and flip-flops.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

send me disgruntled elf pics plz.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

What? No "Fuck Christmas" on yr comp, Kev? ;)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:32 (seventeen years ago) link

On second glance, they're more worn out elves than disgruntled, but whatever.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

"putains de ongles!"? "mushroom whores?"

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I thought Will Oldham's stand-up gig was at Weed's?

And no Jesse, I haven't read Prep, but your enthusiastic recommendation makes me want to borrow it from Kr now.

I liked The Rules of Attraction. The best part was a fleeting reference to The Secret History, which didn't even come out until five years later. (Bret Easton Ellis and Donna Tartt were friends at Bennington.) But I have a high tolerance for narratives about people being young and foolish.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

that's an unhappy elf.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked the fact that while this girl, a Midwesterner at an E. Coast prep school, felt like a big fat misfit, the preppies were rounded characters and not victimizers or spoiled rich kids. Of course you identify with the "poor" girl from South Bend, but you recognize that it is not the individual preppies who are making her feel alienated, but rather mostly her own consciousness of the class divide.

Someone read this so I won't just sit here talking to myself about it.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

courtney and I were talking about how we feel equal parts love and hate for the author (Curtis Sittenfeld is a female, by the way) for writing exactly how our minds work.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Loan me the book dude.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh, again. Some shit be going down in the bar part of OT's.... There's a lot of "We don't give a FUCK. We don't give a FUCK in America about blah blah blah" and some guy just stormed out cursing and another guy just stormed in and smacked himself on the face and now people are saying "Hey, buddy, you all right?" and the whole "don't give a FUCK" is still going on.

xpost--the CPL will loan it to you, just as they did for me.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I am mad b/c I had planned on finishing it during my break (now) but I left it at home.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost That'll never happen.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't go to the library?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Nah. I tend to use My0pic as a library of sorts. Plus I'm not registered.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

one of my best friends is a librarianat the logan square branch of cpl dan. of course she's a children's librarian but whatevs. oh, and her band is playing at the bottle for free on jan 8. of course they're playing w/vee dee who were so bad last time i will likely bail early on the evening.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

you don't get U of C library privileges, Dan?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, srsly, dude.

hey: anyone read house of leaves? It's genuinely scary!

― baby wizard sex (gbx), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Bad Citizen Dan.

I'm so bored and tired. Going back to work feels like going to sit inside doing math homework while all the other kids get to go sledding. :(

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

xposts Oops! Forgot about that. Yeah, I do. I haven't been by there in a while, because generally when I get out of work I want to get away from here as fast as possible. :)

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never read House of Leaves. Is it as unaccessible as it sounds?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Monday, 18 December 2006 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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