Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

I consider you more of a careful expert and I recall you deferring to her expertise once, which made me sad.

Most of what passes as my expertise w/r/t baby names is attributable directly to two writers: Stanley Lieberson (author of A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change) and Laura Wattenberg. I don't consider myself any more of a careful expert than she is, especially when so many of my insights about names I've gleaned from her. I mean, Pamela Redmond Satran is another story.

I guess I have confused my irritation about "errors" with my irritation for dilettantism. This is why I am not a great thinker or an expert!

:) also i want you to own your expertise, jmc.

I kind of want a burger for lunch. Where can I make that happen in the Loop?

What I hear you saying is that she "isn't interested" in the facts, even if that's not what you're saying

I'm merely saying that she "isn't interested" in information that's outside the scope of her post.

I definitely share your fear of a world in which critical thinking is devalued, but that's why I like Wattenberg, since I think she's generally pretty sharp about data and trends in ways that so many lazy journalists aren't.

I'm afraid of people who mischaracterize or misappropriate information and expertise.

If that's the case, I do understand your reaction a little better. Personally, I wouldn't want to feel like I couldn't draw from a particular discipline while exploring or writing about something just because I hadn't studied the discipline thoroughly. (Among other things, it'd mean I'd probably be out of a job.) But "dilettante" is far from a pejorative in my mind.

xp R was pretty taken with M Burger (when she had a LYE! gift card with $ to spare)

:) also i want you to own your expertise, jmc.

Ah well, I like playing the role of an expert, at least. :)

*LEY xp

I had an M Burger for the first time last week, at the one around the corner from the Apple Store. Cheap and tasty.

J3nnifff333rrr 8urg3r, when are you taking lunch? I am going to the courthouse sometime and I would like to eat.

Last thing I'll say, Amanda: you must really hate Malcolm Gladwell.

J3nnifff333rrr 8urg3r, when are you taking lunch? I am going to the courthouse sometime and I would like to eat.

;_; you stomped on my heart.

Jeff's in US air space!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last thing I'll say, Amanda: you must really hate Malcolm Gladwell.

I hope this didn't sound sneering! I'm not even a big Gladwell acolyte or anything, I was just thinking how he's kind of the ultimate dilettante nonfiction writer.

I used him in one of my classes to illustrate the value of critical thinking !

Oh, ha!

It's part of the "just because you read it somewhere doesn't mean it's true" segment. Exhausting shit!

Who wants to make Sibilants/Sibilance with me? I can't do it by myself, I don't know enough about recording things, as it turns out.

Only if it's pronounced with a lisp.

you should take r&b acapellas and cut up just the breath intakes and ends of words, no vowels. i've always meant to make a track like this (and maybe now i will).

^^^I've seen this done with a Sarah Palin speech, it's creepy

actually I might have posted it here, can't quite recall

J3nnifff333rrr 8urg3r, when are you taking lunch? I am going to the courthouse sometime and I would like to eat.

;_; you stomped on my heart.

― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Thursday, July 28, 2011 12:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Sorry about that darlin'; L|66y came at me with fire in her eyes and asked me if I wanted to go to lunch. I figured it was something important and/or interesting, and I was right. We did some strategizing or something.

Jeffy, come home! I want my soup.

Sugar dumpling, come back. I'm sorry I ditched you.

Jeff is home!!!!

So a guy named M1gu3l C@still0 just added me on Google+.

We've all been so lucky. I blocked him. Too many peace signs.

he smells like dirty feet, if you get my meaning

I haven't been added by this person.

He reminds me of John Raffio.

I haven't been added by this person either.

G+ is kinda useless to me if no one else uses it. Am I supposed to add random ilxors who I've never interacted with, even here?

Some of my IRL friends are using it but I haven't gotten around to figuring any of it out beyond putting up a picture.

i consider you guys irl friends, but so far you are the only people i know who use it
so it's like chicago thread, but expanded

I'm monitoring it and dipping my toe in its waters. It will probably get to be a big thing and it shows signs of being good.

I'm going to the podiatrist in 45 minutes! So excited! They're going to prepare my toes for G+ dipping.

Seriously though, she's gonna get all up in my shit!

have any of you tried the g+ hangout thing? is it like the brady bunch?

I kind of love G+. I have not "hung out" but I would like to try it.

i've only used google plus to talk about things i would have talked about here if i was using ilx at work

welcome home jeff

The podiatrist told me to put duct tape on my feet. I'd heard of this before, but I thought it was a spurious home remedy, like some tabloid story I read in the 80s about WD-40 alleviating arthritis.

http://i53.tinypic.com/5nurud.jpg

lololol

Reddit says this guy is the FBI...stop raping my wife guy

http://i.imgur.com/FCppw.jpg

xps

That's him. I see him all the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m39DWVFK-Bw

I just made my first batch of rice in the rice cooker and two things: 1) I can't believe how fast it was. It took 15 min. max for 2 cups dry. 2) It makes the base brown and crunchy, which is wonderful!

I am in an absolutely pissy mood that I just cannot shake. Loath nights like this.

you should sb je55e for posting a natalie merchant video
maybe that will help

Nah I like this new J355e guy, much better than that old Jesse that used to hang around here.

Jesse, hey, I thought you might like this show--and it might help you with your own one-man show (though yours will have singing).

Also, someone on Twitter mentioned this guy by name, and for a second I thought I knew him

Pie. http://www.uptownpies.com/