The Tribune ran this story on how flying this summer is a big pain in the ass. Basically, as airlines try to keep costs down, they run on such a tight schedule that *any* blip in the system causes huge breakdowns. This ripple only intensifies as people find it harder and harder to get onto new flights, since all the flights are running at...
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toothpickmoe:
Now we're talkin'!
toothpickmoe:
I'm so down. Do I get to dress like Snoop Dogg?
Tombstone is like the greatest movie EVER.
I mean, how could it not be? Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, Kurt Russell, Dana Delaney, Billy Zane, Powers Boothe, Jason Priestly, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Thomas Haden Church, John Corbett, Terry O'Quinn, and Michael Rooker all are in it. Plus, *Robert Mitchum* is the narrator? It's like a character actor wet dream.
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I mean, how could it not be? Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, Kurt Russell, Dana Delaney, Billy Zane, Powers Boothe, Jason Priestly, Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thorton, Michael Biehn, Charlton Heston, Thomas Haden Church, John Corbett, Terry O'Quinn, and Michael Rooker all are in it. Plus, *Robert Mitchum* is the narrator? It's like a character actor wet dream.
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toothpickmoe:
Interesting. Well, as long as they're keeping the grand tradition going, I'm all for it.
Oh, I also read a short interview with the daughter of Mr. Powell in Portland. Totally smoking hot, of course.
Oh, I also read a short interview with the daughter of Mr. Powell in Portland. Totally smoking hot, of course.
jtemperance:
I was listening to it all day today too. Love it, tho I prefer Separation Sunday, mostly on the strength of the religious undertones.
By the way, if you and your wife are free Wednesday, a small posse is getting together at Rock Bottom brewery (grand & state) at 6 pm. I'd love to meet you guys, since I'm missing you this weekend at PFork. Let me know ...
By the way, if you and your wife are free Wednesday, a small posse is getting together at Rock Bottom brewery (grand & state) at 6 pm. I'd love to meet you guys, since I'm missing you this weekend at PFork. Let me know ...
So I need to update. But falling behind isn't my fault this time. My MacBook had to go in to the shop AGAIN. At this point, the inverter has been replaced (twice), a new LCD screen put in, the combo drive replaced, two different logic boards have been put in, a battery switch has been changed out, AND the keyboard needed to be fixed. When...
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jtemperance:
For serious, my friend. I have to miss PFork for family reasons, but I hope to meet you afore too long.
wildswan:
Note to self: Don't forget to buy Apple Care.
Re Scooter: I don't deserve to be in jail; he does.
Re Scooter: I don't deserve to be in jail; he does.
OK. So, here are some of our pictures and a general recount of our various adventures in San Francisco.
I'm really, *really* terrible with the camera. I'm just warning you.
We flew in on Thursday, and everything went great - we caught our connecting flight in LA and basically landed in SF right on time. We caught the BART to Union Square, which was where...
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I'm really, *really* terrible with the camera. I'm just warning you.
We flew in on Thursday, and everything went great - we caught our connecting flight in LA and basically landed in SF right on time. We caught the BART to Union Square, which was where...
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ojaeflo:
Dude, thanks again for the ber-generous gift and for coming over Saturday night.
We had such a great time and hope you did too!
We had such a great time and hope you did too!
akirali:
Nah. There's a new SG named Akira so my name reverted back to the old one.
So, we're back! We survived, with only mostly minor troubles. Full update with pictures later in the week. 
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_pie_:
glad you survived, can't wait to see the pics!
obd:
that town is a great place to spend a weekend. I'm glad you had a good trip.
Tomorrow - we take to the skies! See you bitches in Kali-for-nye-aye.
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salome:
Yes, apparently boobs and vag aren't enough for some people. They have to make sure they like what's on my feet. 
jtemperance:
Ooohh. Which part did you guys go to? I'm actually a fan; not sure I could live in SoCal, but I've enjoyed everywhere I've been there.
We had a fantastically awesome weekend - which is a rarity for boring folks like us.
On Friday, we hit up a department gathering. We spent Saturday at the Printer's Row Book Fair, checked out Knocked Up, and the "blowout closing sale" at the Virgin Megastore. Sunday, we had a great time hanging out with OJAEflo and company, then breezed through the blues fest....
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On Friday, we hit up a department gathering. We spent Saturday at the Printer's Row Book Fair, checked out Knocked Up, and the "blowout closing sale" at the Virgin Megastore. Sunday, we had a great time hanging out with OJAEflo and company, then breezed through the blues fest....
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smithers_jones:
Yeah, couldn't resist that one...
_pie_:
I've heard that Knocked Up leans toward the chick flick side a little... what say you?
ArcGIS - you are a dirty, DIRTY motherfucker.
In better news, I went to the bookstore and spent too much money. Academic books make me giddy. They're kind of like strip clubs - you get something out of them, but they never quite live up to the promise.
Also, my current intellectual pet peeve: books written by scientists and pundits that explain why religion is...
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In better news, I went to the bookstore and spent too much money. Academic books make me giddy. They're kind of like strip clubs - you get something out of them, but they never quite live up to the promise.
Also, my current intellectual pet peeve: books written by scientists and pundits that explain why religion is...
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dash_____:
I agree with you entirely about these books -- not only do they make the same mistake as fundamentalists and reduce religion entirely to articulated beliefs (which may not actually be believed by many people who aren't in official positions or the public eye), but most religions about most things are very rational and pragmatic, as long as you accept their assumptions about the world. And even those are not completely divorced from reality--do we fail to live up to our ideals? Does it make sense that something persists after death if everything else in nature is recycled?
The simple fact is that religious sentiments and activites persist even when blatantly ineffective or counterfactual. It doesn't mean people are irrational, it means people are rationally achieving ends different from their stated ones (e.g., social, as you point out). When a religion stops being an effective and meaningful way of coping in the world, of predicting what kind of shit it will through at you, people change it or leave it. But when it seems to be dead on, it grows, like fundamentalisms are all over the world.
Personally, I don't get it, but it makes me ask, "Why is this so powerful for people?" Not, "Why don't people see how irrationally they're behaving?"
The simple fact is that religious sentiments and activites persist even when blatantly ineffective or counterfactual. It doesn't mean people are irrational, it means people are rationally achieving ends different from their stated ones (e.g., social, as you point out). When a religion stops being an effective and meaningful way of coping in the world, of predicting what kind of shit it will through at you, people change it or leave it. But when it seems to be dead on, it grows, like fundamentalisms are all over the world.
Personally, I don't get it, but it makes me ask, "Why is this so powerful for people?" Not, "Why don't people see how irrationally they're behaving?"
toothpickmoe:
I highly, highly recommend This American Life. It is the only radio show for which I own a t-shirt.
Am I an idiot, or is this ad basically saying Ask.com is the best way to find porn on the interwebs?
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toothpickmoe:
You are, without a doubt, the first and only person I've heard say that. And you live in Chicago? Why in the world would you hate something like NPR? 
Oh shit, you don't secretly work for the Bush administration, do you?
Oh shit, you don't secretly work for the Bush administration, do you?
toothpickmoe:
Have you ever listened to anything other than the news shows? 'This American Life' or 'Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me?'
Tonight, I was chatting with my dad and he was talking up a story he heard on NPR. Then, the conversation veered a bit and he mentioned he had heard about this band from Canada on there - "Arcade something." I was like "Arcade Fire?" And he was like "Yeah, it was interesting, and their music was pretty good too."
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obd:
parents: they never stop suprising you.
toothpickmoe:
I'll never forget the road trip down from the Central Coast of California when I turned my dad onto Rollins Band. It was very validating to me.
If I had a nickel for every marketable idea I'd ever had I'd be a damned hundred-dollaraire.
If I had a nickel for every marketable idea I'd ever had I'd be a damned hundred-dollaraire.