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xpost to Jordan Yeah, I had the same experience last time. Just get the eye exam and new lenses, and save a couple hundred.

Funny thing is, these glasses were the epitome of indie cool when I got them several years ago, but I found them on the bargain rack for, like, $60. Why? I was in Houston.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm off to the gymnasium for some exercise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:03 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I remember distinctly -- I bought them because the looked like the glasses Justin Theroux wears in Mulholland Drive, and I was obsessed with that movie.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Good luck at the gym, dude. Spin one for me.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Haha, the original copyright is 1985!

Oh, I assumed it was like some super-new programming language. I'm still under the impression that the only language that existed in 1985 was BASIC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

LaTeX isn't even a programming language.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

xpost and maybe LOGO.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:06 (twenty years ago)

LaTeX is like, I dunno, HTML X-TREEEEEEEEEEM. It's for layout, especially designed for complicated math formulas and the like.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:07 (twenty years ago)

I won a graphics contest in third grade using Logo. Glory days, ah, they'll pass you by...

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:08 (twenty years ago)

i have been looking at apartment listings. where do people look for apts when they're searching? craigslist, the reader, where else? i have a while to look (for a two bedroom! i will be living with a friend and two cats, woohoo!) but it's still going to drive me crazy because my default setting is some level of crazy.

most successful for me was walking around the neighborhood in which i wanted to live and looked for 'for rent' signs. but hey! i just moved out of a two bedroom on augusta that was a pretty nice place. where you looking to go?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I once implemented Logo in Javascript. I think that was my geekiest moment ever.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Markup language is the correct term, I believe. But yeah, it's very much like HTML, they're both based off of SGML, work with XML, etc etc etc.

xpost: OH SHIT LOGO! You are my new hero for reminding me of that!

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

Whatever, nerds.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

"gymnasium" sounds all old-fashioned, like you'll be punching a punching bag and doing lots of push ups or something.

i'm looking to move to edgewater or lakeview probably, and my friend lives in edgewater already and will be walking around and checking things out. i need a building with an elevator, which makes things more challenging.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Soon I'll go to the gym.

I found my current apt. by walking around. It's a method I recommend. That and word of mouth.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

Think older than that. He's going to a Spartan-style gymnasium to exercise naked among the disporting youth. Then he will be covered in olive oil and his sweat and grit will be scraped off by a strigil.

http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/gif-still/strigil.gif

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

I need to go to the gym. I was sick and now I'm working late all week and getting fat on takeout. Blech.

Eye doctor, gym, dentist, and find somewhere new to live next year too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

I'm in the apartment market now too. Has anyone ever dealt with N0rth Clyb0urn Realty? They're all up on Craigslist's jock right now.

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

In your daydreams.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Jesse was totally wearing an oldfashioned athletic men's uniform.

OTTO, I am pretty much broke. Thus, I didn't go to any shows this weekend. I do hope to go to another show some day.

Dan, Yes, that's who we used to get our current apartment. They were really nice. Their office was fun too - very hip and full of young smiling people (our age). I wanted to work there.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

A strigil! I was wondering what those things were called the other day.
It's balmy here lads, balmy! Which means outside exercise for me today, after lugging all my crap from work to the car.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Don't make me lug this tin of olive oil back to Portland!

― Casuistry and his strigil (Chris Piuma), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Also, OTTO, I was just sort of hoping you'd introduce us so I wasn't just someone random emailing them, that's all.

Everybody get random.

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Everybody, give me lyrics for a song about cake. Quick! I have practice tonight!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Also, give me some cake!

― Sarah Madkitten McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

I'm on the mic like Kerri Kenny in Cake Like

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Jesse, later today:

http://www.nndb.com/people/245/000027164/max-schmeling-full.jpg

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

tons of apartments available on my street and surrounding areas, ie, the streets between Clark and Broadway and Lawrence and Berwyn. Argyle is full of for rent signs. Actually, the place next door to me is available. 3rd floor walk-up, 1 bedroom, huge back porch, pretty basic, 625/month, parking avail. for $65 a month (!)

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

He's going the distance.
He's going for speed.
She's all alone
In her time of need.
Because he's racing and pacing and plotting the course,
He's fighting and biting and riding on his horse,
He's going the distance.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

We used Clybourne when we moved here. Nice guy took us around to a bunch of slightly over-priced WP and UkV apartments. We ended up taking one we found on our own.

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

That's Cake for ya, right there.

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

All right, off to the olive grove.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Cake Like -- are they one of those bands from the vaunted mid-90s Maritime Canada scene (cf. Sloan, Jale, Eric's Trip)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if more songs have been written about pie than cake.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

My cake lyrics:

You can make it our of flour, you can make it out of cheese
You can top it off with frosting, that's always sure to please
It's CAKE!
(yeah yeah yeah)
Yeah CAKE!
(yeah yeah yeah)

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone ever dealt with N0rth Clyb0urn Realty? They're all up on Craigslist's jock right now.

yes, when me and my ex were moving two years ago we went to them. the dude who showed us a couple of places was really cool and really hated the woman he worked for. didn't wind up taking one of their properties.

sarah, next time you guys are out and about i'll most definitely introduce you to whomever. if you want i'll also drop the "you guys should totally play a show together!" line like it was a spontaneous thought then excuse myself to go to the bar.

regardless of introductions you should really be at that show at the bottle on the 31st just because it's gonna be a great fucking time.

and hey eazy, did you see the hot machines are playing that pitchfork fest thing? wtf?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, they don't appear to be Canadian. Who am I thinking of?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

cake like money or cake like food or cake like something easy? what do you mean?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

You can fill it up with fruit, but don't confuse it with pie
If you keep it in the freezer, it might get really dry
It's CAKE!
(ooh ooh ooh)
Delicious CAKE!
(ooh ooh ooh)

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

No, as far as I know they were kind of a fluke/joke thing that got discovered and became known/liked in arty circles. Something something John Zorn? Anyway, I remembered them because I was really into the State at the time, and Kerri Kenney was on the State. And Ren0 911, I think.

xpost x 5

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

You can rhyme "blow out the candles" with "my life is in shambles". Although I just looked it up and apparently "shambles" means "abattoir" or "slaughterhouse". Who knew?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

• Mission of Burma
• Ted Leo/Pharmacists
• Mountain Goats
• The National
• Jens Lekman
• Hot Machines

Boy, PFM better line up some acts I'm actually excited about seeing...

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

I think I'm living next to a woman named L0gan Slaught3r. How hardcore is that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

They scarf it at Four Seasons
They munch it at the Drake
You never need good reasons
For serving up some cake

CAKE!
CAAAAAAAKE!!!
(cake cake)
CAAAAAAAKE!!!

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

xpost - Yeah, that lineup doesn't interest me much either.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

I am going to write a song about strigils now.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

You can give it your you mother on her day or birth
You can have it all the time, it always brings the mirth
It's CAKE!
(yeah yeah yeah)
Fuckin' CAKE!
(aw hell yeah)

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

(You need some swear words in there, so you know it rocks.)

― Shiny Maroon (kenan), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Really, now I'm going to the Jim.

― unclejessjess (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Cake all up in your motherfuckin grill
Your stomach it'll fill
Sugar, eggs, flour and milk
Too much icing makes you ill

BOYEEEEE

xpost: added swear

― Steely Df'nM (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

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