It never fucking stops. Whatever the “it” is in your case, I am sure you will agree. It never stops.
/Ihatemonday
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It never fucking stops. Whatever the “it” is in your case, I am sure you will agree. It never stops.
/Ihatemonday
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Martin
The ‘it’ in my case is open threads. Get your dick out of the mashed potatoes and give us something to talk about, Cole.
UncertaintyVicePrincipal
How do you do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1BJfDvSITY
kerFuFFler
Reminds me of the old question of whether life is linear or cyclical , that is, is it one damned thing after another, or the same damned things over and over again?
cleek
in my case, it = this head cold.
FFrank
I am not sue, I’m not even shirley, but surely you can’t be serious…
Scott
“I am **sue** you will agree”? Please, sir, I expect better spelling on this free blog for which I pay nothing.
Gin & Tonic
Looks like Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be enjoying an extended stay as a guest of the City of New York. Sure sounds to me like the city has a strong case, if they can get remand for a dude like that.
Cat Lady
Gray rainy days is “it” here, forecast to last through next weekend. It’s only Monday, and it’s already worse than the Siege of Leningrad.
Felonious Wench
Stupidity.
Huckster
my left ear is full of wax
hilts
Matt Taibbi vs McMegan
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/matt-taibbi-and-megan-mcardle-square-over-off
trollhattan
From the never-thought-I’d-see-the-day files, even the liberal Wall Street Journal is concerned with sea level rise. They’ve not been lunching with the opinion side, evidently.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704004004576270870829717458.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
cleek
my hovercraft is full of eels
freelancer
I agree with Sue.
Amanda in the South Bay
I think I may have been doing too much too soon after surgery. So, for the rest of the week, I’m literally going to be lying down for most of the time, per docs orders.
mr. whipple
Fucking rain.
boss bitch
slow news day I see.
Sen. Scott of Mass says he will vote for Ryan’s budget. These guys are preparing to tell even bigger lies in the next year. The pee on your leg and tell you its raining type of lies. How else to explain their suicidal votes? The same 30-40% will believe them of course.
bago
If by “it” you mean Avis advertisement, then I concur. Obviously the adspace allocation algorithms acquired by google have made this determination, based upon my ip and those tossing cookies. Indeed, vehicular availability is a concern of mine. Good Job, algorithms!
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
“it” ‘s a runaround, sue.
scav
@cleek: Better your hovercraft than your ear.
maya
Mondays should be eliminated from the federal budget since we can’t afford them anymore. Never been a productive day anyway. I’m surprised the Teabs haven’t thought of that. Knewt, the Idea Man, could make that part of his prez platform. Then Tuesdays would become the new Monday. In a pinch, that could be sacrificed as well. Start immediately with hump day – perfect fit for republicans – and the rest of the week, like the country, will be a smooth downhill ride from there. We’ll actually look forward our Armageddon weekends.
MikeJ
I need to walk up the street to the barber shop for an overdue lopping of my hair. This is exactly what the Bataan death march was like.
Afterwards I will go to the grocery and bring home dinner, which will be like the Berlin airlift, but without airplanes.
JPL
@trollhattan: They’re protecting their readers beach front property.
TooManyPaulWs
The “it” in my case is the lack of people wanting to interview me for work.
I just got a letter today from a library I applied for, thanking me for applying but saying they are interviewing others.
It’s been two years now, unemployed, and I have been pissed, frustrated, depressed, desperate, and more. This is getting ridiculous. I’m competing with 65-100 people per job opening and no one wants to hire me. I’ve got college degrees, I’ve got work experience… I’m not stupid, I’m not worthless, but yet here I am, nobody’s taking a chance on me. DAMN IT ALL.
kdaug
Sue told me that all these moments will be lost, like tears in the rain.
opie jeanne
“It” is discovering yet one more friend I will soon have to drop from my online social network (email/FB/other forums) because having a nigger in the WH has made them lose their shit.
And I hate to use that word but I do so because it’s what they’re thinking. They hear the dog whistle but they don’t understand why.
gene108
I got new glasses Thursday. The lady at the optometrist’s said I shouldn’t use paper towels to wipe my lenses, because paper towels would scratch my lenses.
This is the first time I’ve heard of this and I’ve worn glasses for 29 years now.
Also, too the cloth that comes in the hard case you get with new glasses is to be used to wipe your lenses clean. I always thought it was to keep the lenses from being scratched in the hard case.
Has anybody else heard about not wiping lenses clean with paper towels before?
Roger Moore
@Cat Lady:
I know what you mean. We had some rain this weekend, and it was the Shackelton Expedition all over again.
BGinCHI
@cleek: I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@kdaug:
she wants to shoot, oooh ooh oooh, the whole day down.
jrg
“It” for me is Perl. God, that language is a ball ache.
Penon
How effective is it to sue an It?
Martin
@gene108: Yes. For probably 20+ years now. I try to use the cloth, but usually it’s my shirt because I’ve got better shit to do than carry that stupid cloth around.
JPL
blago trial
Roger Moore
@gene108:
Yes. Paper towels are too abrasive, especially if you have high index plastic lenses or fancy coatings. You’re supposed to use the special cloth. I’ve been told that an old cotton cloth that’s been washed a zillion times (e.g. a retired cloth diaper) is also acceptable.
R-Jud
Fine, I agree: you’re Sue. Can you stop being all up in my face about it now?
Martin
@jrg: Perl is the venereal disease of languages. Participating sounds fun at first, but after a few days you can’t do anything but curse the motherfucker that gave it to you.
4tehlulz
Fuck pronouns.
ChrisS
@Cat Lady:
Frankly, having to go home and walk the dog in this miserable fucking weather is worse than traveling through the Sierra Nevadas by wagon train in 1846.
Granted the lawn is growing like gangbusters and the first row of radishes have already declared themselves. The brussels and tomatoes are in. The winter cabbages haven’t erupted yet nor has the chard, spinach and peas. Hopefully, since I planted them before I got the fence up the mutt didn’t disturb the sleeping seedlings as he romped through the freshly turned soil. I just need a break in the weather to get the rest of the seeds planted.
I’ve been using John Seymour’s New Self-Sufficient Gardner as a guide … has anyone else had experience with this book?
Roger Moore
@BGinCHI:
Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?
RossInDetroit
BobDAMMIT!
I’m off today and all 3 phones are going off nonstop.
I feel like going Galt and saying screw ’em all.
There goes another phone…
JC
Jobs jobs jobs jobs.
What can be done for jobs?
Jobs jobs jobs jobs.
Obama can’t get anything from Boehner and company, so is there anything that an executive can do, to fund jobs? Still some Stimulus money around, that can go to employing million of conservation corps, via executive order?
Jobs jobs jobs jobs.
enough navel gazing, can we have a week on idea generation, and discussion, no matter how crazy, and what can be done with jobs?
What can one site come up with? At least 100 hare-brained ideas, and then maybe one or two ideas that are gold, that we push up the food chain to other, bigger, blogs?
Poopyman
@gene108: Yes. Absolutely. Especially if you got the anti-reflection coating.
bryanD
My “it” is finding bugs in the Matrix.
“Before she would do so, Fukino said, she wanted to inspect the files — and did so, taking with her the state official in charge of vital records. She found the original birth record, properly numbered, *half typed and half handwritten*, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files. She then put out a public statement asserting to the document’s validity.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42519951/ns/politics-more_politics/t/ex-hawaii-official-denounces-ludicrous-birther-claims/
WereBear
@Amanda in the South Bay: Rest up. It’s the best thing you can do after a tough run like that.
I am enjoying the third day of rain. Sorta.
Karen in GA
“It” is the low-grade background depression I’ve been dealing with since I quit smoking at the end of March, and which has gotten worse over the last few days.
I was all proud of myself for quitting cold turkey, with no patches or medication, but to hell with that. I’m seeing the doctor Thursday, where I plan on engaging in serious drug-seeking behavior. Let’s hope antidepressants are as over-prescribed as I keep hearing they are.
WereBear
@gene108: It’s the lightweight plastics and/or special coatings. Like I have for my computer glasses.
Shinobi
“It” = my boyfriend’s long term unemployment and our financial instability.
Also, why do I never like a job for very long? I’m SO BORED.
JC
Oh, and let’s get the banksters
Origuy
My name is Sue! How do you do!
Lyrics by Shel Silverstein, BTW.
WereBear
@Karen in GA: You could try chelated magnesium/Vitamin D supplementation instead.
Would start working about as quickly, and it’s cheaper.
BGinCHI
@Roger Moore: Drop your panties, Sir William. I cannot wait until lunchtime!
James K Polk, Esq.
Personally, having one of the best Mondays of my life.
Suck it, Trabek.
Roger Moore
@jrg:
Larry Wall said he developed Perl based on ideas about natural languages rather than just computer languages. You just have to remember that his native language is English and you’ll understand why Perl is a hodgepodge of features and vocabulary taken from every other language, frequently with many different overlapping features that do pretty much the same thing. The only place where it really departs from English is that its use of sigils is like other languages’ use of inflected endings to indicate case and gender.
BGinCHI
Walking by a wine shop in Lincoln Square earlier today. Sign out front:
Today’s Soup:
Whiskey.
Shinobi
@Roger Moore: I think this is actually crap. I go to a ridiculously expensive optometrist in the Chicago loop, and they would wash my glasses with regular soap and water and dry them with a paper towel pretty much every time I come in. (yes, my glasses are dirty, no, I don’t notice.)
But then I guess I wouldn’t notice if my lenses are scratched.
Solution to paying too much for glasses and worrying about scratching them? zennioptical.com
Church Lady
@gene108:
Yes. If you have non-glare lenses, paper towels will scratch the coating. Use soft fabric only. And never use soap on your lenses, as soap can cause the coating to deteriorate too.
Splitting Image
The U.S. hit its debt limit today. The G.O.P. is getting ready to prove that the global economy is not necessarily one of those things that never stops.
In other news, I watched Buster Keaton’s “Seven Chances” last night. It is a reminder that life cannot be so bad when there are such good things in it.
slag
What Martin said. There can (and should) be only one Eschaton.
Jewish Steel
@BGinCHI: My nipples explode with delight!
MikeJ
@Martin: Perl is like most languages. Beautiful when used by somebody who understands it on a deep level, ugly when used casually.
The good and bad thing about it is that it is so easy to use it right away. No matter how badly you understand it, you can get something practical accomplished right away. It will be the ugliest thing you’ve ever read, and tomorrow you won’t understand how it works, but if all you need is a program that runs once, and does it in the next 15 minutes, you *can* do that.
Roger Moore
@BGinCHI:
My nipples explode with delight!
jrg
@Roger Moore: Yes, that’s why it’s a ball ache. In my opinion, it tries to be everything to everyone… So it can be hard to read if you did not write it.
It used to be my language of choice, when I only had to read my own code. These days, I prefer Python.
Linda Featheringill
@TooManyPaulWs:
Hugs. [[ ]].
Karen in GA
@cleek: I was in Budapest a couple of months ago, and out of nowhere that sketch started playing in my head. I’m trying to hold normal conversations while hearing John Cleese in my head: “I am no longer infected.”
Budapest. ‘Tis a silly place.
jibeaux
I have a couple of “its”, but one of them is being the sole chef of a house with two kids and trying to come up with, week in and week out, dinners that I can make fairly quickly, that are healthy and balanced, that won’t bore the adults to tears but the kids will eat, and that incorporate CSA veggies and that won’t cost too much. Oh, and two nights a week dinner has to be basically crockpot, take out, or made in advance because there are early evening kids’ activities.
This week I think I’m going to try Jamie Oliver’s version of healthier fried chicken called Crispy Garlic Chicken, with sides of bok choi and sweet potatoes. Any and all other ideas are appreciated.
Legalize
Goddamn rain. Also, too, 2011 sucks for rock music.
gnomedad
@Jewish Steel: @Roger Moore:
Get a room.
ChrisS
@Karen in GA:
I quit smoking twice cold turkey. The second time has lasted damn near 10 years now. The first time I quit, I was in Saudi Arabia protecting America’s
business interests and oil flowfreedom. That was tricky, but I managed to do it by running a lot and working out like a sonofagun.Keep at it and distract yourself … one day at a time.
Maude
@TooManyPaulWs:
That stinks. You probably are over qualified and they can’t pay enough.
This is a rotten economy.
There are a lot of people who are suffering and the Repubs are playing chicken.
My local library had to cut staff hours.
BGinCHI
@Jewish Steel: We’re gonna need a bigger phrasebook.
Gin & Tonic
@Karen in GA: You’ll get over it eventually. I quit smoking 29 years ago, and I rarely have cravings any more.
BGinCHI
@Legalize: It does if you aren’t listening to dozens of amazing young bands on small labels.
If your favorite record is “Standing Hampton,” then yeah, maybe.
RossInDetroit
@Karen in GA: Well****in (Bupro***n) is prescribed both for smoking cessation and depression. In my limited experience, it works.
James E. Powell
This week (this life) IT is economic illiteracy. It wouldn’t bother me so much, but I am talking with friends who claim to base their politics on the economy, but who have no understanding of how it works beyond their own bank and credit balances. How many times does one have to explain that the federal government’s debt is not like a household debt?
Does anyone know of a basic, for everyone, primer? Or any other source that might help?
Bulworth
The mail.
Roger Moore
@MikeJ:
The biggest problem with Perl is that it seems that stuff in Perl tends to grow organically more than lots of other languages. You start out with a short program that’s intended to replace a shell script, and the next thing you know it’s grown into a major project without any rearchitecting. Naturally the result is going to be really nasty. But if you try, you can refactor even really nasty code into something readable.
That and the regular expressions. There’s very little that can be done to make regular expressions nice and neat.
Tom Levenson
F**k F**K F**K F**k F**K….F**k(n)
Did I mention I was having a bad day at work?
It’s too early to start drinking, but not too early to start making plans for same.
Anoniminous
Townhall now has Bolton on their “Presidential Picks List?”
HUH?
It does, indeed, never stop.
bago
@Roger Moore: chomp. Your argument is invalid.
Calouste
@Gin & Tonic:
Meh. DSK is a Frenchie with a Jewish name working for some dodgy international organization. Of course they have no problem holding him. It’s not like he is someone really important like a US Senator or a good friend of the Mayor.
/snark
licensed to kill time
“It” is my laptop dying on friday the 13th and having to use my kindle browser until replacement arrives hopefully this week. These keys are the size of microdots and make my thumbs and wrists hurt. Also, ARRGGGH! My EYES! I iz going blind!
artem1s
@gene108:
I’ve found that there is nothing like NOT dropping your glasses on concrete to keep them from getting all scratched up. Going on 40+ years wearing glasses and the lenses have always outlasted the frames they were sitting in. So scratching them was the least of my problems.
@MikeJ:
I’m going home to a meagerly stocked fridge which is just like being part of the Donner party.
Karen in GA
@RossInDetroit: Yep, that’s the drug. I also read that one of the possible side effects is appetite suppression. Of course, I find this out after 7 weeks of eating everything I can fit in my head.
But the chelated magnesium/Vitamin D supplement looks interesting. I hadn’t heard of that.
Huckster
@RossInDetroit: Will it do anything for ear wax?
RossInDetroit
It’s work. I’m paid for 40 hours but I’m tethered to email and 3 telephones(!) for 168 hours a week. Monday should be a day off. What that means in practice is that I work from home for 14 hours and squeeze in whatever I can of my own in between work emergencies. It blows & I hate it.
…
Here comes a text from work…
srv
Something that always cheers me up:
The Last Poets
MikeJ
@Roger Moore: True. RE’s suck in every language that has them, and every language that doesn’t have them sucks.
I will now change into my “perl is my bitch” t-shirt for my stroll to the grocery which, I swear to god, I’m going to do any minute now.
ChrisS
@jibeaux:
That sucks. I work about 60 hours a week right now with the commute (unpaid) to the job site thrown in. I have zero energy to cook at home, plus I’ve been going through a pretty deep depression/anxiety lately that kills my appetite. But thankfully, and I love her to death, the SO has been keeping up with meals.
Usually, we make an easy pasta sauce using canned tomatoes on Sundays for freezing and use it twice a week. Freeze in zip locks or individual plastic bowls (reuse!) and use as needed. Then there’s chicken curry (which also keep well). A favorite of ours is a chicken spinach and tortellini soup. A chicken spinach salad (with cous cous, kalamata olives, and feta) tends to round out any blaggh nights. And it’s grilling season despite the f-ing rain. Veggie kebobs (which, in my case, self-butchered pork or venison). And despite the associations with fish farming, frozen tilapia is cheap-ish protein and tastes pretty good. Beef is expensive and we try to limit our intake to a steak once or twice a month.
RossInDetroit
@Karen in GA:
Yup. Used for weight loss by some doctors in Europe. Just have to make sure you keep track of your food and not your appetite.
eemom
I don’t smoke, but I could sure use an OTC appetite suppressant. Any suggestions? (can’t take W*****n, dammit)
Maude
@James E. Powell:
For Republicans: 2 + 2 = 5
For all others: 2 + 2 = 4.
trollhattan
@artem1s:
My glasses experience: Plain ole non-coated glass lenses are difficult to damage. I shattered one once on a tile floor, however.
Coatings and any plastic lenses can be scratched and in the case of the coatings, they can slough off. the only lenses I’d use a paper towel on would be plain glass, something I’ve not owned in decades. I stick with very soft cotton or microfiber, and only after rinsing off any dirt (it’s abrasive). They get the same treatment as a camera lens.
Barely related observation: contact lenses once cost several times as much as a pair of glasses. This has completely inverted, now my contacts are cheap and I can’t seem to buy a pair of glasses for less than four-hundred bucks. Looters!
Maude
@eemom:
Pictures of Donald Trump.
I don’t know of any OTC that works.
WereBear
@jibeaux: I got a Peg Bracken special for you.
13×9 baking pan, oven at 375.
1 pound of diced ham, 2 bags of frozen cauliflower, 1 bag of frozen broccoli. You can zap the veggies right in the microwave but I get extra points by leaving them in the fridge to thaw.
Mix these in the baking pan, and cover with 2 jars of salsa con queso, bake for 25-30 minutes.
Sit for ten minutes. Kids eat it because it’s covered in cheese, parents like it because it’s vegetables, cook likes it because it’s durn easy.
WereBear
@TooManyPaulWs: Damn, that is awful.
Best turning of luck to you.
Roger Moore
@jrg:
Yeah, the big problem with Perl is that it’s a big enough language that it can support dialects that are barely intercomprehensible. Whatever language you come from, there are enough features in Perl similar to that language that you can keep your old programming habits. So Shell people keep programming Shell, C people keep programming C, Lisp people keep programming Lisp, and COBOL people keep programming COBOL. If you’re a Shell person and read something by a Lisp person, it will make as little sense to you as if they were programming in a different language. As far as I can tell, the only way of keeping a project readable is to define your own dialect and force everyone to keep within it; if you let people program as they see fit, you’ll wind up with an unreadable hodgepodge.
stuckinred
@eemom: endorphin
SweetNostrils, fka Scuffletuffle
@cleek: My kayak is full of spiders??
Chuck Butcher
I have a big branch down in the back yard thanks to several inches of very wet snow. 2 weeks ago I was in Key West standing in the shade sweating…
gotta love the 45th parrallel at 3500ft elv at the foot of 10K ft mountains – I guess.
RossInDetroit
I have an eye appointment tomorrow. I’m switching back to single vision from ‘progressive’, which is a gimmick.
Frames cost a fortune but I found the $400 Persols I wanted on That Auction Site for $100 delivered..
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
If by “it” you mean wealthy, privileged, and totally unaccountable French men defending the rights of same to make whatever use they wish of those trampy women who have the bad judgement to exist within arm’s reach (the money-grubbing whores!), then yes, it never ends.
Bernard-Henri Lévy:
Like any other? Litigant? Que Dieu me garde!
Oh, and the other idiot is Gilles Savary, not Jacques. But these frogs, who can tell them apart?
Tom Levenson
@BGinCHI: Oh, does that speak to me.
Cermet
@eemom: Bitter Melon – it does not suppress appetite in of itself but does help control blood sugar levels reducing climbs/dips and that works farly well for me.
My ‘it’ (or is it its?) are my heart meds which are badly pushing my liver again into failure mode – hate that.
Martin
@MikeJ:
No, the problem with Perl is that two people who understand it on a deep level can properly and defensibly produce two wildly different sets of code, and they’ll each curse the other for producing such fucked-up code by their own (correct) standard.
Roger Moore has it right. You can have an expert in english born and raised in Alabama and one from South Africa and fuck if they won’t be able to understand anything more than the occasional pronoun and article from the other.
piratedan
@TooManyPaulWs: aye…in the same boat, with the same bucket I’m afraid. My old company is hiring for the same positions that they laid me off from, but I’m personna non gratta there because to rehire me would be to imply that they should never have let me go. So now I’m in the same job market at 50 that I was at 28, but in the new HR lexicon “experience” means, more family demands, more sick days and more headaches as I’m likely to point out that the latest University of Phoenix buzzwords for business excellence are nothing more than a thin veneer for “we don’t know what the fuck we’re doing but actually understanding the business and the needs of our users isn’t part of the course work” tango.
I’m actually having to think about going to ITT and getting a certification to couple with my CISCO online stuff. . Maybe I should open up my own school of thought, epiphanies R us.
stuckinred
@BGinCHI: Lincoln Square in Urbana?
Montysano
The owner of the small/local/family-owned company where I’ve worked for nearly 20 years is having difficulty appreciating the majesty of the Galtian paradise into which we’re sliding. IOW, he (and I) are trying to figure out how to keep the damned doors open.
57 years old and unemployed is not where I want to be. It’s not hopeless; we may survive. But it ain’t pretty…
srv
@JC:
How about tying tax cuts to domestic investment?
No, that would have been rocket science.
trollhattan
@WereBear:
Seconded–best of luck, soon! I’ve gone as long as a year between permanent, fulltime jobs and it seemed like/pretty much was an eternity. Can’t imagine doubling down on the interval.
Roger Moore
@MikeJ:
Everybody Stand Back: I Know Regular Expressions!
stuckinred
@piratedan: I’m sure you know this but watch out for those proprietaries.
BGinCHI
@Tom Levenson: It’s nice when Althusser’s interpellation actually works in your favor.
artem1s
@trollhattan:
glass lenses are too frigging heavy for me. they are the main reason my frames tended to have a short shelf life. since switching to plastic lenses I really haven’t had many problems with scratches (or frames rupturing), especially the polycarbonite lenses.
I’m too impatient with contacts and they are no good for close work anyway (gold smith for 15 years). but yes, unless you are willing to settle for RPGs, contacts are now much cheaper.
once I am sure the presbyopia is finished I may look into surgery cause my reading vision is still strong. I just can’t see farther than about 3 feet without my scrip.
stuckinred
@BGinCHI: The Stains was good, thanks.
Shinobi
@jibeaux:
The newest easy thing we’ve been making are lovingly coined “meat sacks.” We’ve been making them with ground beef, browned, seasoned, usually a little cheese and butter to hold it together. And then we take the filling and put it inside some Pillsbury crescent rolls and bake them.
It’s not exactly health food, but it is easy and good, and has several food groups. Depending on how old your kids are and how tolerant you are of mess they could probably help you make the dumplings. You can also store for a few hours before serving.
We’ve been thinking about trying it with broccoli, chicken and a little more cheese. I think that would be quite good.
Another great option is make your own pizza night, just get some pizza crusts, (I hear Trader Joe’s pre made crust is good.) Our favorites are chicken with a garlic olive oil sauce, and bbq chicken. We usually have a salad to go with but I’m sure you could do some CSA veggies as a side.
BGinCHI
@stuckinred: Um, no, Chicago. Unless I’ve been kidnapped.
Wait. No. I’m still here.
geg6
“It” is the fucking goddam motherfucking rain that’s been pelting Western PA for days and days and days and days.
I’d say it’s like Seattle except that we actually annually average fewer sunny days than they do.
BGinCHI
@stuckinred: Glad you liked it!
Fee Waybill!
jibeaux
@ChrisS:
Sorry about the depression/anxiety, and those are some good ideas. Love to hear the chicken spinach tortellini soup recipe. I definitely need to do more with the premade pasta sauce, and need to keep some good frozen and refrigerated pastas on hand.
scav
@stuckinred: nah, we sneak a Lincoln Square into Chicago too. @BGinCHI:
Is this this wine shop (this is mostly to be terribly cruel to Tom any myself)?
piratedan
@stuckinred: aye….. very worrisome, I am thinking as a last resort kinda thing…
geg6
@Legalize:
Not if you’re a big Foo Fighters fan, it doesn’t.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/wasting-light-20110408
Mnemosyne
“It” is the fact that our fun trip to Disneyland this weekend caused me to strain my bad knee, and it hurts like a motherfucker. Ice and ibuprofen help, but it still sucks ass.
Amanda in the South Bay. you gotta watch out for those good painkillers they give you after surgery. They make you think you can do a lot more than you really can. Rest and get caught up on your daytime TV or Netflix queue, whichever you prefer.
stuckinred
@piratedan: What’s available at a public institution in your area?
Jewish Steel
@stuckinred: My gf is visiting the Arboretum today. A little cool out, buta crystal clear day.
http://arboretum.illinois.edu/our_gardens/
BGinCHI
@scav: Yep.
It’s pretty good, for a local neighborhood shop.
WaterGirl
I found this to be a really interesting article:
Israel’s Palestinian Arab Spring
It’s a Daily Beast article (not a good sign) and I know nothing about the writer. I do not know as much about the ins and outs of the Israel Palestine situation as I would like, though I have formed an opinion, and now I’m looking for input from smart, informed folks here so I can refine my outlook.
So if this is of interest to anyone, I would love to hear what folks have to say.
piratedan
@stuckinred: well it’s slim pickings, after all Cactus Barbie just reduced all education funding by about a third with the last budget.
Rihilism
@Karen in GA: Karen, just my two cents, but make sure you let your doctor know you are taking OTC supplements (telling the doctor before you take them is probably a better idea). Also, the quitting smoking/depression may just be coincidental and a decent doctor would probably do blood work before prescribing anything…
Svensker
@trollhattan:
Sorry, unpossible. I have it on best authority that climate change scientists are making this all up in order to overthrow the world order and establish a sockalist caliphate with Algore ruling all. This makes no sense to me, but my big brother believes it’s totally true, so it must be.
jibeaux
@Shinobi:
Yep, I do the Trader Joe’s make your own pizzas regularly. At $.99 for the crust, it’s a bargain but don’t believe that bag that you don’t have to prebake the crust. You really do.
I like the meat sack idea, but I’m trying to drop 10 lbs. before I have to put a bathing suit on and I’m steering clear of crescent rolls and the like until it’s baggy sweater season again, ha. But I have been playing around with the idea of things I could put in wonton wrappers as a dumpling or a ravioli, maybe make a big batch and freeze. Spring brings a nearly constant infusion of various greens (bok choi, tatsoi, spinach) and green onions. I chop the greens up and toss them in miso soup for lunch, but they just keep coming. I get sweet potatoes pretty much year round. I think adding some chicken or ground turkey would be good too. Haven’t done it yet because of the time factor, but I think my boredom with the usual menus is getting to that point.
Legalize
@BGinCHI:
I’m dying for some examples. Seriously, this year is killing me. Let me in the loop.
stuckinred
@Jewish Steel: WOW! That is either new or really spiced up. We’re going up for the 4th and my bride will enjoy that. I used to hang at the Morton Arboretum when I went to DupeU for once term. Once got married in the Foo Dog Garden at Allerton too.
ant
@jibeaux:
good luck with all that…
this weekend i discovered a new frozen veggie mix that my SO will eat.
It’s made by birds eye, called southwest something or other…
mostly corn, and black bean, but with mild plablano pepper, and red pepper. The package also claims there is onion, but i didnt see any.
Mr “raspberry jelly is my fav, but i refuse to eat strawberry jelly” ate it, and liked it, so that might be worth a try.
again, good luck.
stuckinred
@jibeaux: After 6 months here people are really starting to diss TJ’s meat and vegetables.
gene108
Thanks for the info guys.
I guess I didn’t realize with super awesome thin lenses (had the Coke-bottles 20 years ago) comes greater care responsibility.
Shinobi
@jibeaux: Yeah, our house is a no diet zone. So I can’t help you with anything even remotely helpful for weight loss!
Pandagon does a regular CSA veggie blog, they might have some good suggestions for things to do with your greens influx over there!
Cris (without an H)
This guy in my town murdered his girlfriend and her daughter last Christmas. He confessed to it and showed no remorse. Now, he’s moving to have the confession suppressed because “he was high on methamphetamines when he was being questioned.”
Is there any precedent for that defense? “My confession is inadmissible because I’m a big ol tweaker?”
BGinCHI
@Legalize: What do you like? Here are some recs, but your mileage will vary depending on what kind of “rock” you like:
We Were Promised Jetpacks, “These Four Walls”
Harlem, “Hippies”
Rural Alberta Advantage, “Departing”
The Dexateens (start anywhere)
Drive-By Truckers, “Go-Go Boots”
Okkervil River, “I am very far” (or earlier stuff)
Mountain Goats, “All Eternals Deck” (first song is really great)
Joseph Nobles
CSA = Community Supported Agriculture, not Confederate States of America. What Confederate States of America veggies would be is anyone’s guess. It would likely include macaroni and cheese.
Svensker
@Cermet:
Golly, I can imagine you would! Have you tried milk thistle for the liver? Mayo’s done some studies showing that it really does seem to help repair damage — and a friend who’s an alcoholic as well as a heart patient (some people never learn…) uses it and it seems to work for him.
andy
Shouldn’t there be some kind of a codicil to Godwin’s Law wherein if you bring up the fact that you have a gun, and ownership of this gun automatically makes your argument a winner, that in fact you have just really lost- and in a pants- down manner?
I’m really tired of these people shitting up my local newspaper comment threads…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/40964542@N08/5727139995/in/photostream
Svensker
@WaterGirl:
Check out antiwar.com for much info on the subject.
PurpleGirl
@TooManyPaulWs: I’m in the same boat, as it were. (But I’ve not gotten any replies to my applications and resumes telling me anything.)
My “it” was figuring out that I missed a medical appointment last week and now I’m out of medication. Tomorrow I go to the clinic and see if I can get the scripts without seeing the doctor and make an new appointment at the same time.
burnspbesq
Forest’s season is over. Hit the post three fucking times. Another year in the Championship. If there are any Swansea fans here, congrats.
Cris (without an H)
@andy: I freaking hate the way the lunatic libertarians have pissed around the corners of the comment threads for both my local papers. You can’t even have a human interest story about a goddamned pumpkin patch without somebody raving about creeping social ism.
TheF79
http://econjwatch.org/articles/economic-enlightenment-revisited-new-results
The authors of the economic survey from last year that purported to show that left/liberals didn’t know anything about economics has been revisited by the same authors, who seem to have genuinely responsed to complaints raised against their study. They include new questions that slant against conservative/libertarian orthodoxy, and find that conservatives and libertarians are just as bad as left/liberals in the original study.
BGinCHI
@burnspbesq: Sorry about Forest, but yeah, can’t wait for Swansea. Friend of ours is writing the team history and is no doubt mad with Welsh glee.
Will also be interesting to see how QPR do.
Legalize
@BGinCHI:
I’ve been all over Jepacks for a few years. I just don’t care for the rest of the acts and records you listed. They’re just not my thing. It’s not a lack of familiarity on my part, it’s that from my perspective, 2011 is a down year for rock music thus far. And I don’t mean Sammy Hagar or anything in the universe in which he inhabits. I mean Titus Andronicus, LCD Soundsystem, Sleigh Bells, Past Lives, Surfer Blood, Wavves, Surf City, the Soft Pack, Black Angels, BRMC, the National, and the like.
WaterGirl
@Svensker:Yeah, I know there’s a ton of info out there, and I’ve read what I have time and interest for. I was just hoping to refine my thinking by getting some perspective from folks like Martin and Omnes and others here whose opinions I respect. I have arrived at a set of thinking about it that makes sense to me – this request was an effort to do the equivalent of “checking my work” in math.
Plus Martin opened the thread with “give us something to talk about”. But I was probably an hour late to the thread, so that ship has likely already sailed. :-)
BGinCHI
@Legalize: Got the new Fleet Foxes but haven’t listened yet really. Like the new Tennis record.
Keep the faith: there will be some new goodies. Get the Harlem if you don’t have it. Great stuff.
cleek
@Legalize:
Wye Oak
burnspbesq
@BGinCHI:
I like it. A lot.
Also be sure to check out the new Airborne Toxic Event.
Either we had a small earthquake over the weekend, or my cat is a lot smarter than I give her credit for. Got home yesterday after being gone all weekend, and my tonearm had slid off the rest and slammed into the edge of the platter. Need a new cartridge; cantilever is bent at a 45 degree angle from normal.
Roger Moore
@jibeaux:
Homemade pizza crust isn’t that hard. If you like, you can use regular bread dough, though it may make a breadier crust than you prefer.
If you’re pressed for time, you can make one of the wet, no-knead doughs instead of regular dough. They’re really great. You start with a ~4:3 flour:water ratio by weight, add salt and just a pinch of yeast, and stir only until the flour is all wet, maybe 30 seconds. Then you cover the bowl and let it rise for 12-18 hours at room temperature. Rising develops the gluten as well as a lot of kneading would, so you get a good, if rather wet, dough. It really is no more than about 5 minutes work to get the dough started, so it’s perfect if you’re busy.
burnspbesq
@Legalize:
Respectfully but strongly disagree. Jason Isbell, Drive-By Truckers, Fleet Foxes, Airborne Toxic Event, R.E.M., TV on the Radio, Bruce Cockburn, Lucinda Williams, Guster, Bright Eyes, Feelies, Panic at the Disco … and if you go a little farther afield, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Wanda Jackson, Gretchen Parlato … plenty of good new music, and more to come.
Karen in GA
@Rihilism:
Not to worry. I’ve got the doctor’s appointment Thursday, so I’ll just ask him about the supplements then. And he’s a freak about doing bloodwork before prescribing medications, so I’m sure I’ll be all sorts of punctured before he gives me anything.
Ruckus
@Montysano:
Same it here. OK close to the same. I’ve got 5 yrs on you and over half of my small company’s life has been during a major depression. Six yrs ago was looking for different job and finding that if one is over 45-50 yrs old, very small business or owning your own is about the only way, unless you happen to have that one skill that is in great demand, that everyone knows they need, but no one knows how to develop/polish and that only you and one other person in your hemisphere actually have.
bemused
@andy:
The comment sections are indeed a cesspool. Recent commenter bitched about ridiculously high property taxes but one good thing is that it “makes people angry and upset with big government” and “One way to stop this deadly nonsense…is to cancel the voting rights of anyone who is not a taxpayer. The idea of generational welfare people voting would make our Founding Fathers roll over in their graves”.
Ruckus
@artem1s:
Had the eye surgery about 15 yrs ago and it has been heaven.
Close up is going away but then I’m an old fart so that seems to be expected. Far is still great and I don’t need no stinking glasses/contacts after 30+ yrs with them.
I’ve never had any problems wiping glasses with paper towels but I do use the soft ones, Viva and the like or tp. They get scratched from my bad handling but not from cleaning. I just ask who wants to sell the whatever? Is it the same people who tell you that you need the whatever? Thought so.
lamh34
My “it” is this: If one more goddamn journo or reporter or blogger or commenter try to defend Newt fuckin’ Gingrich and his “food stamps President” comment I’m gonna shot my fuckin’ TV. And this is by no less than Richard Wolfe on Tweety just now.
Ughh…when Romney had the whole “hang ’em” kerfluffle, I was not even pissed about it. I know Romney is clueless, but I don’t hear dog-whistles in everything he says. Newt Gingrich pug-faced azz has a fuckin’ pattern of dog whistling shit…”kenyan colonial attitude” … Obama…Detroit” AND NOW “Paychecks vs Food Stamps”!!!! Newt Gingrich is from fuckin’ Georgia… he knows exactly what he is saying. Fuckin’ bastard..
Shit, I’m glad I don’t own a fuckin’ gun!!!
R-Jud
@Roger Moore: Seconding this, as this is what I do on Thursday night for Friday evening pizza. I only have the one kid, but I’m the sole breadwinner and the cook, so things are micro-managed around here.
Really the only other things I would add are that:
a) a TBSP of olive oil makes the dough a bit more malleable for pizza
b) I get better results if I tip the dough onto a floured surface, slap it around a little (maybe adding a few more T of flour), and let it rest while I heat the oven.
lamh34
lamh34:
Alright, Woosa, woosa , this video helped calm me down a bit
Obama Meets Memphis High School Graduates
Congratualtion Booker T Washington graduates Class of 2011
Corner Stone
@lamh34:
Is anyone “defending” Newt’s garbage? Where?
Roger Moore
@R-Jud:
No knead dough is great. When my family was visiting for Christmas, I was able to make fresh baked bread for breakfast every day without spending more than a few minutes on it. I could get a batch of bread started with little enough effort that nobody noticed and I had to tell them that tomorrow’s breakfast was taken care of. I still prefer my sourdough when I have the time to do it right, but it’s hard to argue with anything that good and easy.
Seanly
@TooManyPaulWs:
Yikes, 2 years! So sorry to hear that.
I’ve been out of work for 3 months. I can go another 5 or 6. My job search has not been going well. Probably near 100 applications for a handful of phone interviews. Anyone out there need a bridge engineer?
FlipYrWhig
@jibeaux:
I love Trader Joe’s, but I find that their instructions are often way off. I think it’s the spinach pizza that we find ourselves having to bake almost twice as long as the package says; and that’s not at all atypical. Maybe we just have a sucky oven?
lamh34
@Corner Stone: I’ve been at a few places on other blogs I frequent.
But as for journos, first it was that stupid azz Politico chick, but what else can I expect. But today on Tweety, Richard “fuckin'” Wolfe, said that he wouldn’t exactly call what Gingrich said…racist…Tweety (rightly, IMHO) was incredulous.
At least Josh Marshall was on too.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Martin:
The problem with Perl is that I had a douchefuck instructor for it who was an abusive asshat. There’s definitely not more than one way to do it with him.
Oh well, .NET is actually my secret guilty pleasure.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
@geg6:
after last weeks allergies that led to my sinuses draining like a nosebleed for about an hour, the rain isn’t that bad.
my “IT” is judges advertising that they believe having been a prosecutor, and a victim of a crime is seeing “both sides”. my it is also, the next generation of the same last names, on the ballot.
Cliff in NH
If you like pan pizza, get this pan:
Parrish’s Round Cake Pan, 12 x 2 Inches Deep
http://www.amazon.com/Parrishs-Round-Cake-Inches-Deep/dp/B0018ZOMX2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1305585478&sr=8-3
I used a pizza hut pan pizza clone recipe and it cooked way way perfect. way way better than my 9″ aluminized steel cake pan with the same dough.
ChrisS
@jibeaux
Chicken spinach tortellini is pretty much it as far a recipe goes. Sauté some diced onion in a drizzle of olive, add sliced chicken, cook through, add spinach til wilted, add chicken stock and water, bring to a boil and add tortellini.
Roger Moore
@Cliff in NH:
You should be baking your pizza on a stone, not in a pan. It really is better that way.
ChrisS
@173
Cast iron fry pan FTW.
RossInDetroit
It never fucking ends. Just got back from 2.5 hours at work on my day off. had to go in and talk an employee down from a panic attack. Poor bastard. I’m done complaining about MY life now.
RossInDetroit
@burnspbesq:
Needledoctor dot com. Grados are tough. If you don’t trust the cat keep the stylus cover & put it on when not in use.
burnspbesq
@RossInDetroit:
The problem with needledoctor is that if I buy from them, I have to install it myself, and I’m a klutz. I like the cartridge I have (Clearaudio Aurum Bets S), but I’ll take this opportunity to listen to a few others in that price range.
Corner Stone
@lamh34: Ok, thanks. It would just shock me if someone were trying to ‘splain away his really not hiding in plain sight at all bullshit.
ETA, also too, you may have missed it but I H/T’ped you the other night for the Adele 21 album. Which I am enjoying.
Cliff in NH
@Roger Moore:
@500deg on a stone in the pan – the final rise is in the pan and a pan dough can’t really be used without a pan.
Cliff in NH
@ChrisS:
I’ll try that for my small size ones ..
Mnemosyne
@Roger Moore:
Depends on the pizza.
Roger Moore
@Cliff in NH:
I go 550°F on a stone. For the first few minutes, it’s on a Silpat on the stone, which makes it possible to slide a large pizza onto the stone without mangling the crust. After the bottom is cooked enough to stop sticking, I can remove the Silpat and give the pizza a quarter turn to ensure the edges cook evenly.