Chicago: The Eponymous Thread

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It was the central idea of a 1954 Bugs Bunny cartoon called ''Baby Buggy Bunny,'' directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. Remember the burly, barrel-chested ex-con Finster, shaving and smoking a cigar while hiding out in Bugs' rabbit hole till Bugs got hip? Some online posters have cried plagiarism, but before you go yelling at Little Man director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his younger-brother cowriters Marlon and Shawn, remember, they freely cop to cribbing the idea. Plus, this concept was a golden oldie way before the Bugs Bunny version. It goes back at least to the 1925 Tod Browning silent movie The Unholy Three, wherein a children-hating little man poses as a baby to steal from the wealthy. (The film got remade in sound in 1930). The same conceit also shows up in a 1939 Little Rascals short called ''Tiny Troubles,'' in which a cowlicked, squeaky-voiced Alfalfa trades in his crying little brother for another infant who turns out to be a little man up to no good.

Didn't I mention the Little Rascals short the other night?

This is sort of weird, though, because each season is by definition three months. I expect it to be cold/snowy from the beginning of December to the end of February. Why should February be exempt?

What gets me, though, is when it's still cold in mid-to-late March. I think it snowed on my birthday once.

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snow in october this year: weird. 40's for most of january: weird. the weather right now: typical, i'd guess. and will still be typical at the end of march.

I would agree, but ammend it to read "People who are not from cold climates." It's already warming up in the US south, for example.

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We talk about weather too much sometimes.

Kenan, how many serious Linux nerds have you met? "Stylish" is not an adjective I'd use for them.

Around... zero. Roughly zero.

xpost: I can introduce you to some, they'll blow your MIIIIIIND maaan.

That phrase is too easily googleable.

Also, the Mac guy stars in some baaaaaaaad movies, while the PC guy is on the Daily Show.

and I, too, have a preference for Macs as my home computing platform of choice.

There is like 2 inches?!

Maaaaaaybe. If we'd not screwed up our move-out date last summer, we would have had to move on the hottest day of the year during which the temp was above 100. Moving in summer is not without its potential pitfalls. But then again, moving ANY time is pretty much an exercise in suck.

We moved to Chicago from Greensboro, NC in August, but it was a bizarrely cold August. I had moved with the assumption that I could augment my southern climate wardrobe in time for winter but when we got here, I was pretty sure I was going to freeze to death and die before Halloween.

You know, I had my acceptances in hand and was down to the wire, decision-making time, and was visiting my family in Delaware and there was a DP/Wake bball game on TV and I knew that my mind was pretty made up when I found myself really, really pulling for DP to win because I had this idea that the outcome of that game would be determinative in my choice. They won. Here I am.

Also I hate organized religion and love Satan.

The Lincoln Museum is great. The Library is not as exciting. I also recommend visiting his tomb and while you're at it, check out the Museum of Funeral Customs. Both capital buildings are neat, as is the Illinois State Museum.

Just MAKE SURE you are going on a couple of days when everything is open. Also, bring a car.