Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

i thought it was chilton but you're right
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I've never heard Chris Bell's "Speed of Sound," but I'm going to go ahead and assert that Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" is better.

Actually, I recently learned that Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" was musically inspired by Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill"!

baaaaaaaah
assert this, buster

Well hello. I stink at ilxing when I'm on work trips, but i am up for wherever you guys want to go. To the person upthread whose identity I am not quite clear on, I an staying downtown(?) near the gleacher center.

Oops I just reread I know who jesse is! It was another id I was confused about.

You're staying not far from where jaymc and I work (we work in different places, but close to each other).

Idk gleacher center. Huh.

Surprising bus bunching this morning: 4 Halsted buses together ~1 mile from the start of the line.

I've heard of the Gleacher Center, but I couldn't tell you where it is.

(I mean, I just looked it up, so now I know.)

the trains were all bunched up too, there was some problem in the loop again

Y'know first light dusting of snow of the year.

I know!

I heard on the radio that Brown, Purple, and Orange lines were rerouted through the State St. subway due to a problem at Clark & Lake.

Huh. I guess they fixed it by the time I got here.

apparently the holidays have already started because this place is a GHOST TOWN

my work is going to start adding QR codes that connect to our website on all of our business cards. this seems like a terrible idea and i hate it.

Huh, I never knew the name for those.

I'm convinced people only use those 1. in Japan 2. when they are going to get something for free

BECAUSE NO ONE USES THEM
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also they're going to make our business cards look really really ugly

and our website is short and easy to remember! i could just tell them the website and they would remember it!

How do they work, anyway? A smartphone scans them? Idgi.

yeah i think you need an app on your smartphone to scan them and they take you to a website.

in case all of your fingers are unable to type

it kind of makes sense if you're taking someone to a specific page on a site that might have a long URL but our url is basically www.nameoforganization.org

you can also tell that people got to your site via the QR code, hence the "getting something for free" promotional aspect

we used the things for some PR/communications tests for the soccer crew, it wasn't really worth the hassle in the end for us

Hey, PP is doing clinic escort training again if anybody wants to stand out in the cold and get yelled at by religious fundamentalists.

Can we yell back? :D (I kid)

xp actually, you can't! But you can take great comfort in other people yelling back.

Also, my favorite QR code misuse is when businesses send out emails w/ QR codes in them, because if you get the email on your phone, you can't scan the QR code with your phone, and if you get the email on your computer, just click the link to go to the website.

Also, I hate QR codes.

are you gonna do it jenny?
i might could do that

I did it for years until I took a "break" about a year and a half ago, that as it turns out, might be "the conclusion" of my stint as a patient escort. I half burned out and half couldn't take the abuse on my poor, wretched knee.

I still do other stuff like phone banking, showing up at protests, shit like that.

i would stand out in the cold with you but maybe not by myself
although i would relish getting yelled at by those cretins

well giving them the eye while they yelled at me

The Good Emily still does it. She's been doing this since before we started law school. I don't know how she manages, frankly.

every week? wow.

No! Once a month/every other month. I don't think there is a human alive who could do this every week.

I think I would be great at it.

so, just curious, but what kind of being yelled at are we talking about? "you're going to hell, die in a fire" kind of yelling?

didn't you say the florist down the street gives the protesters flowers and calls the patients sluts?

Pretty much, yes.

The less batshit crazy people just stand around and sing hymns or pray. There are a handful of totally crackers people who like, do this kind of harassment for a living, and they are the ones who really get into the "YOU ARE GOING TO HELL FOR KILLING BABIES" type stuff directed at the escorts, specifically. There's also a healthy dose of misinformation about various Constitutional rights, so like if you offer to walk someone into the clinic because she is getting harassed by one of the more aggressive protesters, you'll get some YOU ARE VIOLATING MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH type stuff.

Oh and one lady likes to fling holy water around. She's not supposed to fling it on the escorts, but if you aren't watching, she totally will.

xp yup. Please do not EVER buy flowers from that guy (LaSalle and Division). He is a hateful, hateful piece of shit.

do they attempt to provoke the escorts? (assuming so...)

Definitely. The crazy ones aren't trying to accomplish anything with it. It's more like they are just filled with hate and rage and if you are in the way, you will get an earful of it. Some of the more "normal" folks are crafty and evil and will try to provoke the escorts on purpose to make us leave or break the law. Like, I think some of them would love nothing more than to provoke an escort into punching them in the throat so they could use that to their advantage.

Have you all ever listened to Aziz Ansari's stand up album? It is really funny and I have one of the songs he sings as a punch line stuck in my head and it might make me lose my mind.

I watched his standup on netflix I think?

I would also like to note that 2011: The Year of Excuse Me is drawing to a close. Pay your respects.

i guess the enrique song was technically released in 2010, but anything that was in the academic year of 2010-2011 kind of blends together in a painful excuse-riddled haze for me
this wiki is cracking me up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_%28I%27m_Lovin%27_You%29

"Tonight (I'm Fuckin' You)," also known as "Tonight (I'm Lovin' You)" when played on radio during daytime, is a song by Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias. It features American rapper Ludacris and producer DJ Frank E. The song was released to the US radio on November 1, 2010,[1] and it was released digitally on November 22, 2010.[2] The song was included on the French Limited Edition of Euphoria[3] as well as the New Edition of "Euphoria" which was released in 2011. The official remix features American rapper Pitbull. The clean version of this song was also performed at Fuse's Z100 Jingle Ball 2010 on December 16, 2010.

Clinic escorting is something I give serious thought to. I should do it, and frankly, the only thing standing in my way is laziness.

I mean, I'm pretty much meant for the job, you know?

PLANNING UPDATE:
I have given TZA my digits and confirmed that we (some of us) will be at Fountainhead ~ 6 or so (roughly) and that there will be more people coming after that.

Lurkers pls rsvp via webmail, see the rest of you fools there.