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Living in Chicago is inspiring (whereas living in Tampa is physically draining & causes diarrhea) & really pumps me up. I could host a work-out video with all this extra energy (& my neon yellow spandex bodysuit). I've already got a "New Town Resolutions List" to establish some order within the next...
The chorus of Discord can be a truly beautiful sound when it raises the level of discourse.
Now, try not to laugh, but I just got my first Digital Camera. Yeah, I know that I am sooooo behind the times, but what can I say. I'm a Caveman, the was of your world are so strange to me. Anyway, I'm cutting my teeth with a Kodak ZD710. I guess if I get the hang of it my next buy might be an...
Brian, the sweetie pie featured below, is moving off to Chicago to do his masters. Iowa City- and myself- will miss him!
It has been an interesting few days so far in Chicago. I had lunch with my first ever official girlfriend (from when I was 13), her mother and another good friend with whom I went to high school. My first girlfriend's mom hated me at the time. Perhaps she just hated me dating her daughter. I was a...
"Samantha is a Cardinal Fan" ©2008 H Segal To the tune of "Brain Damage" ©1973 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon (original song written by Roger Waters)
Aw, what a crappy summer day. I woke up in the very early hours because there was so much thunder. It is still wet and grey and gloomy and humid out there. I was going to see Batman (and walk all the way over there), but I will skip that and just go straight to my tea meeting. Tea meeting? That's...
We took a 2 hour walk through Hyde Park and along Lake Shore Park this morning. Jenifer and Matt are still getting used to Chicago time so they are up pretty early. It was good because we were back before it started getting real hot.
Jenifer said this is the one building still standing from when the World Fair was in Chicago.
How do you travel to and from work - personal vehicle, bus, subway/train, pedal power? What does it cost you per week in gas or fares? Submitted by Jan. I always travel by bus. I am a strong believer in using public transport. I'm not the most ecologically sound person on the planet, but it's a very...
It's 3:08 and I just got back from a midnight screening. I have to get up for work in 3 hours, and I'm quite sure that I won't sleep, but man... This movie is great. Heath Ledger was amazing, the chaos unleashed in Gotham was monumental, and Jim Gordon was really strong. Chicago looked like a lovely...
Stories of murder, crime, drug possession, rape, arson and bombing are among the most-read in the print news media. Forensic science leads to convictions, exonerations and unsolved cases that create the meat of the facts in these stories and the credibility scientific reports lend only makes the...
Huh? Oh right. These guys were here yet again, offering more off-model DC Universe fun. That fat guy was Superman before! That skinny woman was Wonder Woman before! Come on! OK, they seem to have some sort of alternate universe costumes. Anyway, the Question is new. Ooh, Incredibles costumes, that's...
"Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have -- Cincinnati sounds worse." Heh. Some background: Hillary and I are friends from graduate school. We met when we were the first students to show up at orientation. It was bascially, "you're oddly punctual as well! We're going to make...
While I was out of town at the beginning of June, I left my dead car (which has since been resusitated) parked on the street outside my building for a little over two weeks straight. I took a gamble that while I was traveling, Streets and Sanitation would not be by to sweep our turf. Gamble lost....
[I wrote this earlier tonight for inclusion at my main personal blog, located at jasonpettus.com, the oldest presence online I now still maintain. But the guy who hosts my sites for free there is in the middle of switching them to new servers (Linux-based, more-MySQL-friendly servers); and that has...
(Sorry this took me so long to post! Reason below!) As anyone who's ever run a popular blog can tell you, the moment you do start running a popular blog, you IMMEDIATELY start hearing from all those annoying fucking word-of-mouth marketing companies out there, all of them desperately trying to get...
