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

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/

This weather is insane. I don't know any parents who have gotten a solid night of sleep in days, since these apocalyptic storms keep waking up everyone and everyone keeps ending up in the same bed.

totally slept through the storm last night

then again I am only a dog parent

when the dog bites
when the bee stings

e's been sleeping in our bed at least part of the night pretty much every night for the past couple of weeks - more recently because of the storms, but before that because it was so hot and our little a/c unit doesn't cool off the nursery much so it was pretty toasty back in her room.

Didn't hear a storm. I was out from 7:30pm till 6 this morning.

It wasn't bad, just a lot of rain.

Whats been most annoying about all these storms is that usually this heat slows down the grass growth, but all the rain means I have to cut the grass like every three days.

xpost Wasn't bad? There was this one thunder crack (out near Oak Park, at least) that sounded like a huge bomb going off. It woke me up, woke my wife up, woke my cat up, and woke both girls up, each of whom woke up with a blood-cudling scream. Flooded LSD, once again lots of power outages ... guess it depends where you are/were/live.

guess so!

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).

Thanks, Eric, that does sound interesting.

It was quite a storm in my hood. It mostly keeps me up bc I don't want to miss any of the show, though it's starting to get boring.

Jesse said to tell you all to wait 5 minutes then go fuck yourselves.

Oh my god work is pretty entertaining right now. There is two older dudes standing by my desk talking about going to the Foreigner/Night Ranger/Journey show this weekend and how excited they are. They are currently discussing their favorite songs of each and taking turns imitating riffs with their mouths. So awesome, I really want to set up a webcam.

i hope one of them is psyched for "hot blooded"

Oh yeah, that was the one that kicked off the riff fest. It has sadly broken up already, but it was kind of cool listening to the tangent on Night Ranger's deep cuts.

urgent! urgent!

I heard "The Living Years" yesterday (at Subway) and thought about "I Want to Know What Love Is" and considered starting an ILM thread on white-guy gospel-choir pop.

xpost: definitely depended where you were. Avondale was awash (pun somewhat intentional) in water and lightning. I felt that it was much more extreme than other storms. And, at some point considered moving my bed further away from the windows, but settled for sleeping on the side closest to the windowless wall.

I would be pretty psyched to see Journey too tbh. The drumming in "Don't Stop Believin'" is seriously one of my favorite parts of all times.

that person you guys have mentioned has added me to something on g+
i truly have no idea who he is.

Wait, here he is in the reader. Weird.

does dude lurk on this thread I wonder

if so, HI THERE

i read your picks in the reader. i don't really get lurking. for me that would get really boring really fast.

I want to do one of those picks in the Reader, those what-Chicago-people-read/saw/ate-last-week.

I'm still very curious about the Hyde Park bookstore clerk whom I saw reading ILX one Sunday afternoon.

I feel like M.C. is probably just indiscriminately adding people by means of six-degrees-of-separation.

there's no other reason why i would be added, that's for sure

There's no reason why *I* would be added, and I've met the guy!

My G+ page feels pretty much like just a super-secret version of this page.

Hey, this Printers Ball tonight should be a great time. Going to try to make it later in the eve.

hey ppl that work at libraries -- what's the general sense on donations? specifically, back issues of academic journals? we toss (recycle) a lot of content here...

Who would be dumb enough to torrent a TV show to their work computer? Someone in my office, apparently. (Our IT guy said in an e-mail that he was contacted by the ISP based on a complaint filed by HBO.)

someone in my office d/l-ed an album from a blog site and promptly got horrible horrible viruses on their computer, I loled

I need professional acquaintances. How do I find those? I want a network of paralegals or legal secretaries or similar to be able to ask and answer questions and commiserate with, and to have as contacts for jobs. Where are all the other legal assistants?

xxp I wonder if it's the guy who has bragged to me on more than one occasion that he uses P2P software "all the time" at work, because "no one cares."

xp maybe start a thread on "I Love Paralegals and Legal Secretaries"?

Linkedin groups

Ouch.

xp - oh! I didn't know anything about those! I will look. Thanks.

I don't go in underground el stops very often. Its hot in here.

Until I find a peer friend, I'll be sharing such hilarious tidbits like OMG can you BELIEVE that we are up to EIGHT tolling agreements in one of our cases?! ROFL, amirite?? and going on about the vagaries of multi-district litigation in the Toyota stuck accelerator cases.

And saying "Excuse me, I have to run to the little paralegal's room." Hahahahaa.

it could be like teachers, and paralegals are hesistant to post in public forums about stuff that could get them into big trouble or Big Trouble or out of a job

maybe not though

i'm enjoying spotify! i'm making a playlist of things to listen to from electric eden. right now i am listening to john renbourn just like no big whoop.