Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

yeah, I hadn't seen that one. Cat lady vs. bro: no contest.

I'm in sick today.

Blech.

sick sucks :(

i've been hitting airborn, vitamins, coldeez every day just to keep this cold from taking hold basically

http://www.forgottenchicago.com/pics/LSD/cushscurve.jpg

Old curve on LSD (from that streets website)

Frankfort, like most of Will County, is barely a suburb.

that LSD photo is great-- when's it from?

1963

http://www.forgottenchicago.com/lsd.php

That S curve would have sucked and been a collision-magnet.

I need to stop making crossword puzzles because once I start one, it is very very hard to take a break, even if I should be working. Anyway, I did a theme one, or at least kind of a theme one, and it turned out all right. I'll link to it later.

do you mean because you get involved in it, or because of that fucking demo software? :>

i've resisted downloading it at work, and i'm dying to make another one but i won't have the time until next week at the earliest

I mean because I get involved in it.

me and mattttttt's cat and some stains on my shirt

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/2073620669_714f869b5a.jpg

this is before she got fat

not before I did, though

quality

Btw, Jordan, I did that Tausig puzzle this morning: did you notice he used "half a rack" for ANTLER??

haha, i did notice that! except yours was "half of a gun rack", right?

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P02386.jpg

the other i found some pics from when i was fat ('04/'05)

show us

http://mamadigdown.com/jazzfest9.html

so you 'found' them on your own band's web site?

nice job sherlock

there's a lot of weird shit buried in that site! i had never even looked through it before, i just look at the "dates" page to see when i have to leave the house :>

you see, you marry your band members, while my band is structured more like a temp agency

to be fair, i only married one band member

so far

http://www.hbo.com/events/biglove/img/bg.jpg

Today I had a HILARIOUS employee ID photo taken (I look insanely excited in the picture and every time I look at it I LOL) and while I waited for the picture taker, I watched a disaster safety video about this building. Every scenario started with, "In the event of (insert disaster here), the glass and steel in the main building can become deadly..."

http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/chicago/kveus3772s.jpg

THERE IS NOWHERE TO RUN.

I'm just going to pop in here once a day around lunch and say something about this building.

Dress Barn is having a 60% off clearance sale!

I still can't form an opinion on whether Thompson Center is ugly or not. It confounds me.

It's pretty ugly.

Originally, the design called for curved, insulated (double paned) glass panels, but these were found to be prohibitively expensive. Flat, insulated glass had been suggested, but were dismissed by Jahn. Single-paned (non-insulated), curved glass panels were eventually used and resulted in the need for a more expensive air conditioning system, which remains very costly to operate and is insufficient on hot days (internal temperatures have reached as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit).

Oh goodie.

I always kind of get a kick out of there being a food court at the center of all that curvy glass.

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1337/lobbymy0.jpg

That's a couple floors higher than me, I think, but is pretty much the view from our "break room" which is really just large cubicle with a microwave in it.

wau

I really do talk about this building too much. Sorry.

Likes: The Thompson Center, Dress Barn, Cobb salads
Dislikes: Two-faced people, static cling, nausea

Yeah, that's open, too - no glass, so if I get overwhelmed with the hopelessness of it all one day while I'm waiting for my pop corn to pop, I can just jump right over.

i used to transfer there everyday, from the green line to the blue line.

that happened in the Federal Building in milwaukee where my friend worked (suicide via atrium)

Somebody took a dive in Marshall Fields not too long ago. I'm sure somebody has killed him/herself here at some point although I've been unable to find anything about it.

Okay, that is your daily update from Clark and Lake.

Jenny out.

Here's the latest crossword.

mattttttttttttt just sent me this, figure some of you guys would enjoy perusing through the list

http://www.post-punk.com/ppvideos.html

i'll always have a soft spot for the j&m chain.

ugh, jenny i'm there with you on the static hate. for the past month, pretty much anytime i touch ANYTHING or ANYONE, there's a huge shock. it's so annoying, and kind of embarrassing to meet someone, shake hands and have them recoil in pain. WTF is up with this? can i do anything about it?

jaymc, i'm printing your crosswords and saving them for jan-march when my bosses are gone for 2 months and i have no work to do at work...it's nice to have something fun to look forward to in that time!

p.s. killing yourself inside marshall fields seems way more wrong to me than killing yourself in the thompson center. DEATH BY DRESS BARN!

yay crossword

WTF is up with this? can i do anything about it?

You need to be grounded.

Go to your room.

So it looks like the good Dr. and myself and hopefully a few other peeps will be hitting the Small Bar on Division tomorrow. I know it's probably gonna be really cold, but if anyone feels like coming out, the more the merrier. Last year on my bday I was at a bar trivia and we named ourselves the Stingies for that night, but when we surprisingly won a round the host (purposefully) called our name out as the Stingles (rhymes with Pringles), and continued for the rest of the night. Then all my friends started calling me Stingle for a little bit. I'm hoping tomorrow lives up to that.