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Bbbbut all the wooden nickels I've ever been offered were redeemable for free drinks at the bar where they were offered to me.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 19 December 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Grrrr.

There's nothing like having a REAL, IMPORTANT GOAL or TASK to get you to do things like mop the floor, organize your closet, spackle and sand nail holes and re-hang the toilet paper holder, all of which I just did.

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 01:34 (seventeen years ago) link

And put up lights in 2 closets and changed the light bulb in my stairwell.

(BTW, Courtney is a lurker on this ILX.)

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 02:18 (seventeen years ago) link

ADVICE PLEASE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD.


I am just trying to move around some files on my computer, from my desktop to a new folder or from one folder to another, etc. The computer will not let me drag between locations and when I try to cut and paste is says, "Cannot move [filename]: Source and destination file names are the same," which is not at all fucking true. Help!

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Went away, ate a sandwich, read, and came back and the files moved around just fine. During this episode I also could not move any items around on the desktop, and I made sure it that the setting was not "align to grid" or anything like that.

You know what else?? At 6 this morning I was startled out of my sleep by the sound of my dustbuster running in the bathroom (where it hangs on the wall, unused since the week I returned from NO). It was hanging there, running, but with the switch set to "OFF." I left it on the base but flicked the switch to the "ON" position, and back to "OFF" and I haven't heard from it since. Kind of weird, huh?

crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.solocine.com/images/poltergeist.jpg

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Also: Windows does that shit from time to time. I'm using a beta of Vista right now, and it gets REAL squirrelly about once every two weeks. And then it stops whatever shenanigans suddenly and runs like a dream. No explaining it. I bet the people who wrote the damn thing couldn't explain it without a week of debugging time. At least with Vista, it sends automatic updates to Microsoft whenever it crashes, so I like to imagine that someone somewhere IS spending a week finding a solution to my problem. Leave me with my illusions, ok?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 05:53 (seventeen years ago) link

My good good good good friend 3rica is back in town this week only! (And one day next week when I bring her back from the U.P.) We just had drinks, hence my enthusiasm in posting. We decided about the only good thing about this Xmas is the reunions with friends from far away.

Also: Kenan, I don't know if you remember me talking about this (we were both pretty drunk) but we now have a file server running Ubuntu in our living room, and it's had its fair share of shenanigans too. Computers are stoopid.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't dick with ubuntu anywhere near as much as I has planned to. I use a Mac at work every day, so I don't miss having a "good" OS. I just use this computer as an internet terminal and constantly-running torrent server. And occasionally, I do work on it, but never heavy lifting.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:13 (seventeen years ago) link

GUESS WHO IS DONE WITH HER BIG PAPER? ME. ME IS DONE WITH HER BIG PAPER.

That's the end of this semester. ONE MORE SEMESTER AND THEN ME IS DONE WITH HER BIG LAW SCHOOL.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost to self: which is probably a good argument FOR using ubuntu more, now that I think of it.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:14 (seventeen years ago) link

JENNY! YOU ARE A MOVER AND A SHAKER!

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:15 (seventeen years ago) link

M@tt's Ubuntu machine = torrent server, "tivo", movie/music center, possible web server... The torrent program has a slick web interface, it's fucking great.

xxxpost: My congratulations, again!

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god I just uploaded it to the uploading place. I told Drunk Dan Martin on IM a minute ago that I feel like I'm giving a baby up for adoption. A 35 page baby with 150 footnotes that I totally hate.

Stupid fucking baby.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Kick the baby.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh god I just uploaded it to the uploading place.

Going to school in the 21st century must be crazy!

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"Kick the baby" just made me laugh uncontrollably. It's clearly bed time. But I don't have any more homework to do! I want to stay up all night and NOT DO HOMEWORK! I'll be fine at work tomorrow; Jeff's parents gave me a Starbucks gift card for Christmas.

xpost - It totally is!!! When I was an undergrad back in the day I had a motherfucking typewriter, the kind with the little screen where you'd type one line at a time and then press enter and it would type it on the page. We had computer labs but only one really rich kid in my dorm had a laptop. We all got email my senior year but I couldn't figure out how to work it because it was Pine or some shit. Now I am in classes that have affiliated discussion boards. For discussing.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

adoption is a loving option

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:24 (seventeen years ago) link

But abortion is so much more fun.

Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:27 (seventeen years ago) link

There you go again, making Ann Coulter all happy.

:)

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I fell asleep on the train today. That's a sign that I should be in bed. But I'm NOT! Because I have a half day tomorrow, and then office xmas party. And then Thursday, another half day, and then a special marketing department party. And then Friday will be blah, and probably a short day or a nothing day for everyone. My week is effectively over.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Greek food makes my pee smell funny. Like asparagus, but not. It's more like nutmeg.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe it's just CHRISTMAS PEE. My kidneys have the spirit.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched two episodes of House tonight -- the last two eps of last season, which I had not seen, because it's been a while since I've even owned a TV. (I do now. Pawn shops are good things.) How can they get away with showing that much gore on network TV? I mean really. It's bad enough that they show surgery, but a dude's eye popping out of his head? In graphic detail? Fucking EWW. And the scene where House intentionally kills a dude (it's a hallucination) by driving a robotic bone saw deep into him all the way up his torso from his belly button to his neck? Causing puffy guts to puff out of his hugely open body cavity? Holy hell. Don't show me that. It feels like fetishistic violence to me, way worse than someone being shot (though the episode had a lot of that, too), and way more potentially scarring to our precious children than, say, graphic fucking. So how is this on network television? I don't want to sound like an old crank, it's a real question. Does NO violence get censored anymore?

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link

and way more potentially scarring to our precious children than, say, graphic fucking

You know, I take this back. I think either way, children will learn early on that the human body is a strange, fragile, temporal, animal thing. But I wish they'd balance it. Hey, kids! It's not all blood and guts! Some of it's semen and mucus, too! Yin and yang.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I have to edit myself again. Both of those things are filled with yang, and not a lot of yin.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 07:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Raw yang.

How's everybody doin'?

I'm eating a packet of cream of wheat at my desk. For some reason, these little packets always end up more like a small ball of cream of wheat than a bowl of the stuff. It's still good and warm though.

Way to go, Jenny!!!

Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Cute!

Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

aw.

but yay jenny for finishing your paper!

i dreamt i was in some sort of very dry post-apocalyptic world, hanging out in a bar. and they wouldn't serve me anything, which made me mad.

JuliaA (JuliaA), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I dreamt that I fell asleep on a school cafeteria table and it was the most comfortable sleep of my life.

Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Where can I download a free, easy music download program for my work computer? I want something similar to poisoned, but for windows. FIND IT! TELL ME!

I'm listening to Take On Me from the ILM 80s top hits.

Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I just highlited my entire To Do list. I'm sure I'll get everything done that much faster now. ha ha

Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Sarah, what is Poisoned?

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

WOO BOY not in a good mood this morning.

Packaged up presents for the inlaws (most of them) and faced with the possibility of going to the post office, gave up and went to UPS store. In and out in 10 min, no lines. The post office made me wait 40 min to pick up a package that they refused to try to redeliver to my house.

Now I am going to listen to Alice Cooper and Tom Petty and clean the house and eat cookies. F this mess.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Tom and Alice: Together At Last for Christmas

Bob and Carole and Tom and Alice: Fogies for the Holidays

Tom and Alice: Homely Dudes of Rock Sing The Hell out of Holiday Classix

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.rekylvinyl.no/shop/products/size3/1118768807_DSCF0002_5.jpg

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link

There you go.

Also, I have an idea for the next Chicago thread;

Chicago: The few. The proud. The egg donors.

Re: egg donorship
Have you noticed that the price went up? It used to be five grand, now it's seven. Have you also noticed that the numeral 7 is in bold type on those ads on the train? Have you noticed the smug look on the face of the blond girl on the left who's clearly thinking, "Yeah. I waited to be an egg donor and got two gees more than you did, hasty bitches."

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Amanda, You are awesome. Also, WHAT KIND OF COOKIES??

John, Poisoned is a music/file sharing program for the mac. You were probably joking though. This is one of those things you know about and I don't.

Calico (calico), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

No, I've never heard of it.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm also the guy who is still more or less in the dark about torrents, bit or otherwise, and who has to rely on your boyfriend to help me transfer cassettes to mp3, so this shouldn't be too surprising.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Cherry-almond butter cookies with a chocolate chip on top. They're alright, but I think went a little overboard on the almond paste.

I've never heard of Poisoned either.

In other news, I had to fail three students this term! Three! One of them was caught by surprise and tried to challenge me but I confronted him with his work and he (miraculously) realized that someone who completes less than 60% of the work for the class should probably not receive a passing grade. Oh well. Sorry, kid.

Armando Grouse (Armando ), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Today I get to:

a) fact-check biographies on Shakira, Albert Pujols, and maybe Tony Shalhoub,

b) hobnob with work-friends at a potluck that will include my co-worker Laura's delicious southwestern tempeh, and then

c) get drunk on Glogg.

BEST DAY OF WORK EVER

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

In about an hour: bowling and beer.

whoop de doodle (kenan), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i forgot i need to buy a gift for my 6 month old nephew/godson. anyone have any suggestions? please let me know as i need to go to a meeting in 15 minutes and will need to purchase said gift from amazon IMMEDIATELY after getting out of the meeting.

thanks kids.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:46 (seventeen years ago) link

You can't go wrong with a well-placed Dr. Seuss book, always my fall-back kid gift.

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think the kid can read.

otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

In about an hour: bowling and beer.

BOWLING?? OK you win.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

But someone can read to the kid, right?

danno martinez (danno martinez), Wednesday, 20 December 2006 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link


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