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

wait so you're at 7 pm or 12-4?

wait nevermind
singing from 12-4 sounds exhausting

Heads up to those interested: the DuSable Museum is in Hyde Park.

OH GOD THEN I AM NOT GOING

(j/k i know where that museum is, doi -- not 100% sure i can go but i will put it on my calendar to consider)

Ugh, I know that was dumb of me to mention, I just wanted to say it b/c I know some people don't have cars, etc.

Doesn't everyone know where the DuSable Museum is?

It's the Willis Museum.

That's the edgy Je55e we love!

Whoa, wait what?

I'm afraid now that I said something offensive when all I was doing was making fun of Jeff for standing up for the Willis Corporation's name rights.

Willis is a loaded name in popular culture!

(Just teasing you, though.)

DAMMIT why didn't I respond, "What are you talking about?"??????

Anybody have any good umbrella recs? Are those Gustbuster ones any good? Sick of having my 10 dollar umbrellas burst into pieces at the slightest gust.

My improbably tiny umbrella shit the bed (metaphorically) on the way back from lunch. It's just too windy out there.

Mine didn't even make it to lunch, it shit the bed this morning.

So what happened to my bookmarks?

Oh hey check it out.

WHERE ARE MY BOOKMARKS

I had a really huge and well-curated collection of bookmarks before The Event. Like 60-some? More?

Mine are still there. Are you on Zing or the Internet?

Errr a non-mobile browser.

(I have referred to our home computer as "the big Internet.")

I had a really huge and well-curated collection of bookmarks before The Event. Like 60-some? More?

So the top of your New Answers screen was just a list of 60 threads?

Only when they all had new answers.

My bookstalls survive.

Marks too.

jaymc what the hell are you talking about?

i am on The Big Internet.

if you're talking about "site new answers," i don't use that.

my Bookmarks screen showed 60 links.

I guess I don't "get" bookmarks. The only time I have ever used them is when a really long thread has started to move really fast. But then I get annoyed by the persistent "Blah Blah Blah has new answers" notification at the top of the screen. I don't know anything about a "Bookmarks screen."

why don't you use site new answers? it's the best!

i feel like i'm learning so much about you all, but i don't necessarily like what i'm learning.

Oh wait, never mind, I know about the Bookmarks screen.

Bookmarks are useful to follow the threads I like to read. I don't read 90% of ILX and I wouldn't be able to find the threads I want to read (especially on mobile) if it weren't for bookmarks.

Nick did you know you got mentioned positively in an NPR article about that Metallica Lou Reed thing?

yeah dude i think i mentioned that on facebook ... OH WAIT

fuzz-guitar Casio-funk

i wish i had worked harder on my song for that comp since people are actually listening to it. it's not my favorite thing i've ever done. it's not bad, i just feel like i could have done better.

Facewhat?

I read about it on GOIGLE PLUS

hahaha I'm leaving that typo.

I don't understand. How can you not "get" bookmarks? They're bookmarks. They're there to bring you notice that a thread you care about has new answers without having to review the whole list of site/board new answers.

When the thread has new answers, you read them, and bookmark at the end, and then it goes away until it gets new answers again. If you find you have stopped caring about the thread, you remove the bookmark.

I have tons of bookmarks, but I only regularly have notices of new answers on 2 or 3 threads. This one, the gay thread, and the occasional fast-moving ones that I'm following for a while. Besides those, the only time I get notices is when a long-lost thread revives, e.g., the pissing on your belt thread.

i think the difference here is between people who have a few threads they're really interested in and who don't care about the rest (bookmarks), and people who just kind of generally follow whatever people are talking about right now (site new answers)

ATTENTION

I do both.

I don't understand. How can you not "get" bookmarks? They're bookmarks.

That's why I put "get" in quotes. I get what they're there for, I just don't find them particularly useful or compatible with the way I read the board.

I should have said, How can YOU not "get" bookmarks. You seem like the sort of ILX user who is involved in a wide variety of threads for the long term.

Nah, I mostly like to go where the conversation is.

i've missed you
i never realized how much i need to engage in idle daytime chitchat until i could chitchat no more

bookmarks are good when I want to see if posting in a thread gets any response, or when old threads I like get revived (mostly on ILF)
site new answers works but I don't care enough about most of the threads a la Jeff

key word: "idle"
not talking about work, not talking about problems or serious family shit or anything deep
just idle friendly wholesome american jibjab

I mean, sometimes I'll also revive threads -- such as "Baby names" or "Beer in the new era" or "This is the crossword puzzle thread" -- if I have something I want to share, but those are pretty easily searchable.

Fuck. They're definitely all gone. They really were a collection of value for me :(

I missed ILX too. I don't have any coworkers to chat with and while I can email friends and do FB, this place is like a water cooler where I can chit chat and sometimes jibjab.

Jesse, your bookmarks and your bookmarks alone were a sacrifice stet had to make to get ILX back. Thank you for your sacrifice.

http://www.texasdude.com/9-11-01/eagle_cry_bld.jpg

I really like that the eagle is crying blood.