Nice studio pic!
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I totally made a mess of the WDYLL thread (!).
You and me both, sister.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:43 (sixteen years ago) link
john! who was my old roommate that lived at HPK? the one in the comic? ben something? i wonder if he was there during the FF appearance.
― sweet tater, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:44 (sixteen years ago) link
and by "lived" i mean "worked"
― sweet tater, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cdbaby.name/t/u/tumba52.jpg
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I found his myspace page.
― sweet tater, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i think it would be funny if the black panthers had used a white hand in their logo.
Well, you know what I mean. The Black Panthers logo and the Iraqi hand are both deliberately calling attention to the race/ethnicity of the hand. Advertisers, however, don't want consumers to see body parts as racially coded at all; they want it to be abstract and universal, so they use white body parts, because most Americans aren't going to see that as a specific race at all.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:49 (sixteen years ago) link
That's a Palestinian hand.
― dan m, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, Kels, "Ben" is all I remember.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I like this studio pic better of me, but it is Nickless: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1355/1402749481_74598ecb15.jpg?v=0
― KitCat, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
So it is, I just saw the colors on the sleeve and thought Iraqi, but you're right, it's a different flag.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Canadians only look clean.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
what's the big deal with decaf? i ordered some decaf at the coffee shop last week because it was 7:30pm and I wanted a special coffee drink for dessert and did not want caffeine. who cares?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm with you, Amanda. There are reasons to drink coffee besides the caffeine, you know. Like, for example: It tastes good. I mean, I drink Roastaroma tea every morning because it has a delicious, robust flavor I associate with coffee but without the caffeine to which my body is sensitive.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I used to have a shirt that said "Death Before Decaf," and I worked at a coffee shop and looked down my nose at people who ordered decaf and took no care in making their coffee... but I have had to reevaluate. I can't do more than one cup of regular coffee in the morning, if that, but I need more beverage than that, something sugar-free and caffeine free and not juice or anything like that. So it's decaf. :(
― kenan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
I drink decaf sometimes. It was just really weird to hear it in the context of our office where we guzzle regular like it was our own saliva.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll drink some decaf if I have a piece of pie at 10:00 pm or whatever, never at work.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
unless i want to live with a constant headache and have a hole in my stomach, nonstop coffee is a bad idea. i just think the "you're a pussy for drinking decaf" thing is sort of ridiculous. if anything, those people who can live without caffeine at all have more internal fortitude than i do -- i need coffee to teach my morning classes. needing/requiring a substance in order to survive/perform is more wimpy than being self-sufficient, no?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't drink coffee b/c my stomach can't handle it and I don't like being all wound up. Sometimes I wish I liked it because it would be useful, but in those situations I can choke down a Red Bull or a Coke or something.
― dan m, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/preservation/training/handling/hands.gif
These hands are pink.
I don't really get decaf but also I never drink more than two cups per day (one big one in the morning, sometimes a second in the afternoon).
― n/a, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Part of me is curious to see if I could reintroduce coffee into my system slowly, so as not to have such an intense reaction to it, and part of me is sort of glad that I don't "need" it. I only really miss it when a) I smell other people's cups and b) when I'm feeling creatively bankrupt.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Not that the concept of decaf is completely appalling to me. But it was just not something I think any of us would ever consider that we might have. To my (our) ears it was like he said "How about a double no-foam latte."
― Jesse, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I mostly drink coffee when I'm feeling fuzzy or tired, which is usually in the morning and after lunch. It's pretty rare that I get wound up from it.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Jenny mentioned to me that she has taken to drinking tea in the afternoon since it is a pick-me-up, but it is not so jarring. I might try that.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Coffee never tastes as good as it smells.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I am a tea fanatic in the winter.
Why don't you start watching cricket too.
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― Jordan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not as jarring as football.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I am totally overcaffeinated right now. I drank some coffee that had been sitting in the pot cooking since like 6:30 and I think it had gotten superconcentrated somehow and now I'm headachey and wired.
― n/a, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I hated getting decaf when my mom would insist upon it because most diners don't have a fresh pot of decaf, since most people drink regular. So it would always be gross.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesse, iirc you waged an all-out war on tea last year! It went like "tea is stupid and gross" or something like that. ;)
I remember this because we have already had this conversation at least once.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
/convo police
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
nb I actually work with dudes who have tea time and watch cricket. :>
― Jordan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to guess they're Indian/Pakistani rather than British.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Jenny and I were talking about this. She said that tea importers should use as their tagline "Tea: It's Not So Bad."
It's not what I would like to drink, but sometimes I need a lift in the PM and coffee is too much. A Diet Coke would be my top choice, but if I don't have one, then tea might do.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
glad to see you have come around
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Ginger tea rules.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:19 (sixteen years ago) link
A winter staple: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51TMAWPZY5L._AA280_PIbundle-6,TopRight,0,0_AA280_SH20_.jpg
I'm not saying I like it, but it's one effective means of delivering caffeine. Not that I think it's vile, either. But I am going to have to plead the Jaymc Defense on this one: I just don't get it.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Except iced tea, exp. Thai iced tea!
Speaking of iced tea--wtf is up restaurants not serving just PLAIN unflavored BLACK tea in their iced tea? I hate the fucking tropical tea they have all gone to. We have it at Catch and it's perfumey.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
It took me nearly two years but I finally found a tea I love, the Assam Two Leaves and a Bud.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Jesse (and others), you should go to Tea Gschwendner sometime. There's one at State/Division and another at Halsted/Webster. I think they're the only two shops in North America, though. Kr used to work there.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:22 (sixteen years ago) link
Indian, yeah
― Jordan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
(+ the Americans they've converted to their strange Anglo customs)
― Jordan, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I like tea a lot, but I don't think of it as an alternative to coffee. Coffee is what you drink in the morning or at breakfast. Tea is what you drink when it's cold outside or when you want to relax.
― n/a, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Tea is totally normal. Tea with milk, however, is LOL FORINN.
― n/a, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Tea tastes better when you have a special tea set to drink it out of and special decanters for sugar and cream. Also ginger lemon creme cookies. MMMMMMMMm.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm not a caffeinated tea fan myself.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you have a recipe for those cookies?
Oh wow, I was just telling a story about some of the Indian dudes I hung with in college having a weekend cricket tournament/drinkathon with a bunch of people from the UW-Madison Indian student's association. It was fucking crazy, but cricket is v. dull if you're not drinking with your friends.
― dan m, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:26 (sixteen years ago) link