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And by "they" I mean "the world."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link

BABBAGE'S

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

That was my free-videogame-demos-at-the-mall joint as a kid.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG I totally forgot about that place. Yeah, it seemed like it was only in malls.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Egghead Software was founded in 1984 as a computer software retail company. It grew into a chain with over 200 stores in the United States, primarily located in shopping malls. Faced with declining revenues, in 1998, the company shifted its focus to online business, closing its retail locations and selling entirely through its egghead.com website.
Egghead was hurt by a December of 2000 revelation that hackers had accessed its systems and potentially compromised customer credit card data. The company filed for bankruptcy in August of 2001. After a deal to sell the company to Fry's Electronics for $10 million fell through, its assets were acquired by Amazon.com for $6.1 million instead.

Among other things, Egghead's customers could voluntarily and freely sign up for a Que Card, a card that would guarantee a slightly reduced price on certain items.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Guys, I am listening to a WALKMAN right now. Old school!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I love Walkmen. I wish I still had one.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi, I'm back at work. For one fucking day! I'm kind of pissed about this. But on the bright side, this is the first time I've come back after a few days off and haven't had to put out a half dozen fires, so that's good.

I echo Nick's sentiment that we should get together and hang out sometime soon. I don't have NYE plans either but I may be heading over to Detroit. If not, though, I'm up for anything.

Also, please accept my kudos, FFs, for a great article. I feel proud to say I know you!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm drinking a rice shake that includes "spirulina, blue green algae, and nutrutious grasses" in the ingredients. it's quite delish.

in other news, i think i will finally sleep well tonight as leaf is due home this evening. i sure have missed that guy.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Where did he go? China again?

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Wow, I have this awesome solo piano improvisation from like 1998, like Keith Jarrett meets Thurston Moore or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Now that I've read the article, I have to agree - it was really good! I totally laughed at the quote from Sarah about how badly it messed her up for her mom to get into Def Leppard and Nick's Boyracer obsession. The article made me want to buy your album and be your friend all over again, seriously.

Yes to getting together. I understand EZ and Cuntstanza are playing an early show at the Beat Kitchen on Saturday. I'd really like to go to that - a 5 pm show is totally my old lady speed! Maybe we could all do that?

We don't have NYE plans either. If I could have all my dearest wishes come true, I would want to find an uncrowded low key bar where we could all hang out and drink beer and listen to a juke box (isn't that what I always want to do though?). Chillin' with pals at home would be cool, too. I'm into that nowadays. Old lady thing again, I guess.

Three cheers for getting married on even days in June! Although I am like Kelsey - I wished we could have gotten married in October or November. Did you know: January is the least popular month for weddings?

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I probably mentioned this before, but I am going to the Driftwood Bar for NYE. In a lot of ways, I wish I could hang out with you guys, but it's sort of a tradition, and I'm excited about playing DJ.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

hey, i could do that considering i'll be at the beat kitchen for the criminal iq holiday party later that night. i wouldn't mind getting my drunk on early.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be down for that too.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

also lol @ "Cuntstanza"

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I am working NYE and the brilliancy that is the investing partners decided that we would be open until midnight and have a Champagne toast. The thing is, C35 is the kind of place people go early before they hit their destination. Fucking waste of my time. Except getting to drink free Champagne (or maybe just cheap bubbly--probably).

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I totally laughed at the quote from Sarah about how badly it messed her up for her mom to get into Def Leppard and Nick's Boyracer obsession.

me too! great article.

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm depressed/angry as fuck, I don't think I'll be on ILX the rest of the day. Have a good weekend/New Year all.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link

That's just horrible.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

He's not even the first person FROM THAT BAND to get shot. New Orleans is so fucked.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Damn. It was 5:30 in the afternoon. Was he robbed or anything, or was this just random?

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I have no idea. I know exactly where that block is too. Doesn't sound like he was robbed but I want to know if it was random or if someone had it in for him specifically.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I wondered that too. I used to drive there (Dumaine and Broad) daily and at all hours.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry to kill thread. I'm at home drinking a beer and trying to get my mind right before going back to work.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you know him personally?

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't his best friend or anything but I went to see him play a bunch of times, sent some stuff down after the hurricane, listened to his recordings about eight million times. Some other guys in my band know him from way farther back, played in the same band, etc.

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Please start talking about minutiae again people

― JordanC (JordanC), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

How about this: my housemate got norovirus over Xmastime (actually Christmas morning) and so did his entire family. They all had to go to the ER to be rehydrated after spending literally hours on end puking. He says he lost close to 12 pounds over the course of a couple days due to not being able to keep anything down (and he's a skinny guy already). Also, he passed out (while puking), fell down in the bathroom, and got a concussion!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WORST XMAS EVER

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

To top it all off, he's still contagious apparently! I'm nervous as hell!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, that's a little disgusting I know... but man oh man oh man I hope I'm safe.

Tho I could stand to lose a few lbs.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

That's what I was thinking. That I could stand to lose a few pounds, not you.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

So if you get it and you're contagious, I'll come over.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Dan: norovirus is spread via fecal-oral contact
I'm just saying
me: oh dear
yet you say you're worried about contracting it from your roommate
Dan: apparently it can be spread via other means (sneezing or whatever) but that is the primary vector
me: is there something you'd like to tell me, dan?
Dan: CORPROPHAGIA
me: you naugthy boy

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I knew you were going to do that

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm predictable.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

And you used me as a means of letting the world know your secret.

― crunkleJ (crunkleJ), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S TRUE I HAVE WANTED TO TELL YOU ALL FOR SO LONG

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Guess I killed the thread pretty dead too

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, I'm so sorry. Somebody doesn't have to be your best friend to have an impact on your life, you know? Grief is grief. What a fucking shame, too.

Sorry to re-seriousify the thread.

Back to our regularly scheduled programming: Um, Dan... gross.

So, then shall we plan to meet up at the Beat Kitchen? Jesse has already promised me he would go. Doors open at 4:30.

We're about to go see a movie, either Children of Men or Pan's Labyrinth. Yay movies!

― Handgun O. Mendocino (pullapartgirl), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, Dan... gross.

if we can't joek about shit eating on the internets, the terrorists have already won

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I really want to see Children of Men.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Another time when I like my job: trying to figure out whether "Ninja Turtles" needs to be written out as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(Editor says it does.)

GR--N Z-BR-A in 2.5 hours. Currently salivating.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

And listening to a recording I made in 1997. I plugged my keyboard into a guitar amp for the first time and tried to do some sort of distorted organ slather, no doubt influenced by Yo La Tengo. For some reason, though, the jam also features me horribly "scratching" my vinyl copy of Saturday Night Fever, so that occasionally you hear "stayin' a... stay- ... stayin' ali- ..."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

i've been out of work for a few hours, went to lunch w/my friend n0rah and had a $25 steak, now i'm at the bar. what's going on tonight?

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:51 (seventeen years ago) link

What are you posting on -- phone or laptop?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

lapdance.

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

what's going on tonight?

For me, for now, video games and beerz. I feel like I haven't really sat still for a week. But I'm up for doing something in a while after I've sufficently numbed my brain.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

towga got me guitar hero II but it won't load on ps2, defective disc... :(

― otto midnight, that 'tofu makes you gay' ding dong (otto midnight), Friday, 29 December 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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