Ok, yeah, just did all that. Now I’m cookin’ on the front burner.

One is the lonliest number that you ever...&audio;

Damn, my html notes don’t even work.

OK this is just sad now.

That’s what I was thinking.

RIP Kevin.

Kevin is fine, he just texted. He’s just not at work today.

For sexxy reasons that involve alcohol.

And hangovers.

And missing items of clothing.

RIP Kevin’s underwear

Some things I learned today:

1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

2) Students enjoy hiring STRIPPERS for their parties, or so I was told in the paragraph I edited for one student named N0rma.

3) My students do not respect me, or so I was told after I was (basically) bullied into letting class out early by a tiny little gangbanger-lookin’ dude.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANYO. Your birthday is my half birthday which means you are [x] years and 6 months younger than I am.

4) One more thing: TJ’s frozen soba noodles are totally vile when prepared according to directions, but super yum when you add chili-sesame oil and some soy sauce.

Am I the onliest one here?

Nope. For some reason I am still unable to log into the new site, despite the fact I could earlier. I’m not especially inclined to try and figure out why right now.

I’m still checking here, Amanda! But I think the action has mostly gone to nude-ILX.

Armanda, you’ve got to stand up to that kid. Take away his nacho cheetos and strippers.

1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

Yeah, I’ve seen that a couple times. I think I saw it once at an el-stop convenience store, where they had a big squirtable container of nacho cheese, and all the kids who bought red-hot Cheetos could step up and squirt it on.

I’m positive I’ve heard Kevin talk about that before, too. It was one of those moments so disgustingly awesome I was unsure if it was real or not. It’s right up there with the time I saw that woman eating ranch dressing out of the bottle down at the Jackson Blue Line stop.

Okay, now I think maybe Kevin reported it and somehow it turned into a memory of my own.

john, we went to http://www.tizimelloul.com/

The menu is not quite right on the website. It says the skate is “crabcake” but it’s not. It’s skate.

I had skate for the first time recently, it was pretty damn good. Surprisingly rich (maybe they just used a ton of butter though).

Jesse, no one is here anymore.

oh?

grr. i cannot access nu-ilx at all from home, router or no, pc or mac. i have asked comcast about this, and they’re looking into it. meanwhile, stet says it’s an issue with the firewall on the host itself, and his hosting company is also looking into it. So luck is wished all around.

there does seems to be a special problem with Vista’s over-security, though.

worst 24 hrs OF MY LIFE.

You can go sleep at home tonight if you can get up and walk away.

true. plus the drought is over, let the next drought begin.

did that thing this where where I woke up and went “OMG IT’S AFTER NINE I AM SO LATE OH SHIT OH oh it’s Saturday.”

I HATE that.

i wasn’t sure if it wasn’t monday today. glad it wasn’t.

Suddenly I can’t log into nude-ILX. That merits several unhappy faces.

i couldn’t now i can, and at work tomorrow i probably won’t be able to.

worst weekend in a long time:

1) D sick

2) only 1/3 of my class showed up for the library field trip

3) computer crashed, we had to restore settings and wipe hard drive, lost a bunch of shit including vacation photos from UK ;_; Don’t tell me anything about backing up my files because I AM AWARE TAHT WE SHOULD HVE DONE THAT.

4) gas leak this morning, People’s Gas are on their way.

;_;x100

although, considering, things could always be worse. i’m very thankful that we didn’t blow up. yet.

[knocking frantically on wood]

i also don’t want to sylvia plath my dogs while i go to work today.

Ok, gas dude came. He was nice. He smelled gas but said that the little detector thingie wasn’t detecting any leak from any particular spot, so someone probably left a burner on (maybe apt below us) and it wafted up. He also told me that leaving a burner on accidentally isn’t enough to make a building explode, which I found comforting.

yay armando!

Hey. Nu-ILX is busted for the moment.

so everyone’s gonna come do some slumming at thehold?

no

[i]I’m still fuzzy on the line between visual effects and art direction. I guess visual effects is a purely technical award, and art direction is more big picture?[/i]

As I understand it, visual effects is special effects, like CGI, scale models, explosions, etc., whereas art direction is like the cinematic equivalent of “set design.” [i]Pan’s Labyrinth[/i] was a deserving winner here because it created a unified look from the old house and the woods and the labyrinth: old and dark and mysterious. I think the category has to have some overlap with costumes, too.

hahaha BBCode

Still can’t log in at work, Kevin?

i don’t think anyone can get on now. It’s all busted.

I just C+P’d that from Nu-ILX because I didn’t want to lose the post.

I figured as much.

I am listening to Giant Brain.

oh it’s back now

if any of you come back, please post this to your chilx thread at the new place if anyone wants to do this.

from chicagoist:

You can’t throw a stone amongst a bunch of hipsters in the Wicker Park / Humboldt area without a decent chance of accidentally hitting Plastic Crimewave’s carefully managed — and now more tightly clipped — ‘fro. Long a staple of the local psych rock scene, at least as a prodigious historian and record-keeper with a killer collection (some of which saw airtime on a recent Market Frenzy podcast), Crimewave is assembling what he calls his Vision Celestial Guitarkestra at The Empty Bottle. The idea is to get dozens of guitarists together to play a single chord — admission is free if you bring your own axe and a short lesson on how to play the single chords will be given — in an attempt to either a) summon our alien overlords or b) shatter every fucking window at The Bottle. Either way, we’re curious to see how the whole thing pans out.
Empty Bottle, Tuesday, 9:30 p.m., $8 (free if you bring a guitar and play), 21+

and i think i recall seeing elsewhere that the chord in question is E.

It would be!

You still can’t get in from work? I think I type for all of us when I type: W.T.F.?

i couldn’t get on from home last night either. c’est la vie.

Dear friends, somehow I ended up on a VIP list for s0undbar for this Friday night. All you have to do is say my name at the door, and you will get free admission and free open bar from 9 to 10:30 p.m. Thirsty fridays, anyone? Dancing? “Clubbing”?

Remember when this was fun?

Kevin is fine, he just texted. He’s just not at work today.
— Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:37 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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For sexxy reasons that involve alcohol.
— Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:43 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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And hangovers.
— Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:43 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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And missing items of clothing.
— Laurel (sininspac...) (webmail), February 23rd, 2007 8:43 PM. (Laurel) (link)

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seems like a LIFETIME ago already.

Heh.

bump?

I wish people wouldn’t change their handles so drastically when in the Sandbox.

Or whatever. But if you’re going to, I’m going to eye you with suspicion and indignance.

hahaha my name was Armando

i forgot

i made a hasty decision, as all of my decisions are, and now i am stuck worrying about being sued by a perfectly decent organization. hooray!

Okay “CrunkleJ”.

ay dios mio, pobrecito Jesse!

I keep reading that name as “cacahuate blanco”.

You mean “cacahuete”?

“CrunkleJ” was my name during a different period of my life. The last time I used the sandbox, I was in a stinky office in a once-great American city scraped flat by the roller of the deluge and man’s apathy toward man.

xp—No, I mean “cacahuate”

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cacahuate

jajajajajaja

Oh LL, the LWV will not sue you because your user name falls under fair use and then also, the first legal step in a copyright action is a c&d letter, and once you comply, they can’t pursue it. And even if they do, the remedy is an injunction, not damages.

thank you! i appreciate your expert opinion.

Are you a lawyer giving legal advice?

no way, she is a mongoose giving financial advice

Huh, apparently “cacahuate” is used in Mexico and “cacahuete” in Spain. I guess the latter was what was used in my Spanish II textbook.

Let’s call the whole thing off.

I have had to track my work hours for a couple months now and you know, if you put it off, it turns into a huge nightmare. I’m trying to piece together what I did last Tuesday, and I’m just not sure. Eek.

Yeah, that’s me basically every week.

I do keep a to-do list, though, so I know what my assignments were during the week, and I can also consult my e-mail to see what I notified people about.

Yeh, I’m going through my emails, but there is some stuff I do that doesn’t leave much of a trail. The two hardest parts for me are:

1. It’s hard to track how much time I spend playing IT Guy.

2. I worry about accuracy and ethics when the time is billable to a client.

It’s concerning when at the end of the a busy 8 hour day, I wind up with a total of 6 hours on my time sheet.

can you develop a template or something?

a list of things you normally do and then check off stuff at the end of the day?

that way you can just ask yourself “did i do this y/n” rather than “what did i do all day”

back when I had to do billable hours (which is the worst work task on the face of the earth btw) I always added 15 minutes to everything I did and, if all else failed, padded the remaining time in my day w/ like “misc. — time management”

then one day the vp told me they just want it to add up to 40 every week so I stopped caring

Meh, it’s not usually a problem b/c I keep an Excel doc open all day and keep a note pad nearby. But last week I was just like, fuck this, I know it’s going to suck on Monday, but I truly do not feel like doing my time sheet.

I have certain recurring tasks, but for the most part they’re all unique events.

Fortunately I don’t actually have to account for all my time every day, only work I do for the firm that does not directly employ me and any billable time.

It’s concerning when at the end of the a busy 8 hour day, I wind up with a total of 6 hours on my time sheet.

Oh man YES.

For me, there aren’t a whole lot of unique events, but the proportion of time I devote to each event changes from week to week: one week it may be a lot of fact-checking, another week more editing, etc.

I hate having to come up with appropriate wording for billable stuff. Verbs are important.

We had a case that was being paid for by our client’s (a corporation) liability insurance coverage and there were certain trigger words that caused them to reject an entry. One was “draft.” Our agreement was apparently that they would not pay for “drafts” of written documents b/c they only paid for “work product” and a “draft” was not “work product,” b/c it didn’t get used. Or something??? It was really stupid! All writing is a draft, FFS.

Anyway, we changed “draft” to “prepare,” and that solved the problem.

It’s concerning when at the end of the a busy 8 hour day, I wind up with a total of 6 hours on my time sheet.

At the printing company job I had from ’98 to ’01, my boss had me track my time. At the end of my first week there, my daily totals averaged approx 6:00/day. He looked it over, said “good, good — that’s good productivity” and never bothered me again about my output. That was a good company to work for, until the owner ran it into bankruptcy and then went to jail.

is there such a thing as a customizable personal timesheet with sliders so you can label a task “composing and sending reminder emails” and then set the slider and it will create a weekly timesheet with the task and amt of time you spent on it?

my supe would love that but it would be a huge nightmare

I don’t know what you mean by sliders, but we use timesheet software that has a list of pre-approved tasks that you just select and then type in the number of hours.

i don’t know what i mean either — we don’t have any fancy software for anything where i work, so i am kind of living in medieval times

we don’t even have a complete set of walls in my office

Hello! I finally re-registered. I opted for neither clever nor my old name (had to use a new email anyway). So I went with my dog’s nickname which is much longer than his actual name.

wait, who else has a dog?

Kelsey!

It is a relief to have ilx back, in whatever form.

But bookmarks don’t work in the sandbox afaict? Quelle horreur!

Dog’s actual name is Mosley.

i’m on here. this blows. i’m saving up my good posts until real ilx comes back.

And now I’m ready to hear your DC rant.

DC rant.

DC Talk cover band iirc.

I reject any mass migration, but esp to the place where you are taxed without being allowed to choose your own representation in our “representative government”

but i do support fugazi

also bookmarks are working ok for me?

Yeah, my image of DC is basically diplomats and policy wonks rocking out to Fugazi at Ethiopian restaurants.