Chicago MMXII

I've had Sprint with my dumbphone and it's been fine.

lol @ the retronym "dumbphone"

I'm down with the 'victimized' explanation -- seems as if some real assholes have been in there before

coupled, of course, with owner assholism

nope, on further perusal, just owner assholism

place reminds me of THE ALLEY too for some reason

Wow, I googled vortex to check out their rules, and I'm fairly certain that it's where I spent New Year's Eve 1999 with my sister. WTF.

same brand of asshole

actually it was New Year's Eve 1998.
xp

(not your sister aj)

Ha ha I was going to compare it to The Alley but I feel bad for Jenny, everyone piling on her restaurant recommendation. It was fine, it really was.

I don't recall ever going into the Vortex. Seems like I would have at some point.

Fyi that La Cocina on Jackson is gone. The John Marshall is taking over all that space. In line at Chipotle now. :/

La Cochina Mexicana.

Ha ha I was going to compare it to The Alley but I feel bad for Jenny, everyone piling on her restaurant recommendation. It was fine, it really was.

It's okay! It was one of three places and it sounds like you tried EAYC first, which is significantly less douchey. I mean, the Vortex has a skull door and that's cool but yeah, either it wasn't that shitty when I lived there or I didn't remember it well enough. Like I said, it wasn't my regular bar.

EAYC looked nice for a drink but they didn't have much on their food menu.

Who's going to Winter Brew this weekend again?

Jordan, my boss just forwarded me an email from a friend who likes M@m@ DD and is going to see them on F@br@y@ 1@ @ the G@@@@ @ill.

xp - I want to but I didn't get a ticket :(

Today's conversation inspired a new display name.

Thank you. That makes my abject restaurant recommendation failure a little easier to handle.

Who's going to Winter Brew this weekend again?

Yo.

sw@g

I also would love to go to winter brew -- didn't realize tickets would sell out so quick!

People are begging for tickets on Craig's List.

why's the man always tryin to keep me down?

:(

Maybe all of you jerks who didn't get tickets can hang out and drink

http://www.alienjesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/.chelada-1259.jpg

Whoa weird. I was JUST thinking about clams, Clamato, and "No clam???!!!"

No clam.

It's a clambake in here.

la combinacion perfecta

Do any of you dykes want to meet me for a burger or pancake and a beer? I want company out amongst people.

I think I'll never get used to the fact that "amongst" is not a real word! Or at least not the accepted American spelling. I really hope it doesn't sound like a Brit affectation b/c it completely is not.

staying in tonight 'cause I gotta get up early tomorrow

buona terra is on check please! tonight!

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?erube_fh=cp&cp.submit.restaurantDetail=1&cp.id=400

Yeah, class starts tomorrow at 9 and I have to be there early because I have to get keys and get somebody to show me how to use the fancy computer projector set up. So I'm in tonight.

I was thinking about going out to find food and/or watching a movie, but wound up getting verrrry sleepy and having a K8-E Balticburger style episode of narcolepsy on my couch at about 7:45.

Pretty bummed about missing Winter Brew :(

Finally figured out how to check e-books out of the library and all of my hold books say something like:

You are patron 13 out of 18 on the waiting list.
Library copies owned: 2

http://hornsletloebeklub.dk/wp-admin/js/gob-bluth-i11.jpg

I really don't understand this manufactured scarcity with lending e-books. If something is apparently that popular, surely its fairly easy to license another copy to satisfy demand? Maybe I just don't understand enough about how this works from the library's end. I tried to check out some e-books from the Evanston library, but I quickly gave up. I think I'm still on the waiting list for one book three months later.

I don't get how it could be harder to get e-books than physical books. When I checked out the complete poems of Anne Sexton a couple of weeks ago, there was a whole shelf of the same exact book. Probably 15 copies. (Which reminds me, I should renew that check-out online. I love that you can do that.)

hey do any of you know the name of a contact person at the whistler? if so, would you email it to me? thankeeeeee.

L.L., per our Outloud conversation the other evening, let me know if you're still interested in getting some Frank's APA sample mailings!

Wait you didn't get my facebook message? I remembered yesterday and wrote to you.

"I remembered" <-- this is one of those lame phrases they put on those little ribbons for losers, like "I did my best!" and "A+ attitude!"

I didn't get it! I just checked again to see if I overlooked it, but I didn't get it at all.

i hope i sent my address to the right WC. let's check and survey the damage...

no i sent it to the right person. check the "other" messages? or i can webmail it to you. i can't remember your actual email address, if i ever had it.

this is great fun

:D

Aha, there it is! FB's interface is so counterintuitive. Will send mail!

Finally figured out how to check e-books out of the library and all of my hold books say something like:

You are patron 13 out of 18 on the waiting list.
Library copies owned: 2

http://hornsletloebeklub.dk/wp-admin/js/gob-bluth-i11.jpg

― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Monday, January 30, 2012 7:38 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

again, this is partially because the default check-out period is 3 weeks and because there's no real incentive to return an ebook before that 3 weeks is up (because there are no late fees) and it's not really clear you can even do so. so almost everyone who checks out an ebook will have it for 3 weeks, so the lists pile up.

I really don't understand this manufactured scarcity with lending e-books. If something is apparently that popular, surely its fairly easy to license another copy to satisfy demand? Maybe I just don't understand enough about how this works from the library's end.

i don't know for sure but my guess is that the budget for e-books at most libraries is still relatively small compared to hard copy books because it's still a new/unproven market. so they might not have enough $$$ to buy like 10 "copies" of a given e-book. there is also just general weirdness in the publishing/licensing/borrowing around e-books at this point so it could be something more arcane. libraries are very interested in tracking interest in various books and trying to meet that interest so i doubt the issue is really a library just not buying enough copies because of ignorance.

Yeah, a lot of it is just that the explosion in ebooks has happened really quickly and libraries haven't caught up with events yet. Like, our ebook usage has skyrocketed even very recently, since so many people got ereaders for Christmas. And a lot of people (myself included) are loathe to cut print book budget to pay for ebooks, but I guess it will come to that soon.

Also, buying ebooks is kind of complicated -- you have to go through a separate vendor and most libraries in the area (not including CPL obv) are part of a larger consortium for ebooks too.

Also, basically all option for buying ebooks for libraries suck, so it's hard to get too excited about any of it. Some new vendors are getting into it, so maybe it will get better.

I'm talking only about public libraries FYI, I don't know about academic/special though I'm sure n/a does

my boss asked me to look into it for our library, even though it's pretty out-of-character for us and not really in line with our policies, and dealing with overdrive for a collection of our size would be prohibitively expensive, and they're kind of the only kid on the block at this point.