I’m sitting here, sipping on Maker’s Mark (it’s in the coffee mug), a bit of RC Cola, and just typing away. I’m in that whole "Gee, I should be out more and trying to be more social" mindset. But by now, you must know this song and dance fairly well. There’s more I should be …
The Shamrock: local pub, right near the office, and fast becoming a staple post-work hangout. Justin mentioned going for a drink or two, but it ended up turning into a bar-hop evening. Justin, people-watching. There’s a lot of activity near this place, as it’s right on the corner of Wells and Kinzie – especially at …
So Ben apparently sent away for a hand-held, lie-detector. It’s a small, hand-held device, and measures vocal patterns for truth/accuracy as well as stress. He was playing around with it at work all day today.
This morning, I turned into a fascist fucking cop for like two seconds. I got off the train at the Clark/Lake stop. This particular station is underground, and so everyone needs to take the stairs/escalator to get above ground. Fine. I get in line for the escalator and stay to the right, understanding full well …
At home, I did a little cleaning. I wish Jim would have gotten into town earlier, as I would probably be rip-roaring drunk right now, and taking a ton of photographs to boot. Ah well. Ohio. There’s always Ohio. Today, I’ve been looking forward to watching NOVA. Tonight is Nazi Prison Escape. Yeah, I hear …
My friend Jim was (sorta) in town today. He had planned to arrive around 3:30 PM, but his train was delayed and his connecting train out of town is at 10:30 PM. Turns out, he’s only going to have an hour between trains. We had talked a bit, and discussed when we would see each …
Got Beth Orton’s "This One’s Gonna Bruise" looping in the background. Might have to send off another marriage proposal, if this keeps up.
Ah, let’s get to the festivities from the weekend, shall we? Mike, who works at Q101, is getting married soon, and had a bunch of guys celebrating his impending married status. Start of the day. This is around 4 PM, and everyone’s gathered at Mike’s to have a few beers before we go. Introductions are …
Went out to lunch today with Justin and Ben. This afternoon’s food marks the first solid food I’ve had since Saturday evening. Well, the first solid food I’ve been able to keep down.
Woke up drunk this morning. I did a quick check to see if I had my camera (check) and my wallet (check). Ate some food. A little later, figured out I wasn’t able to keep anything down and horked it back up. Most of the day has been spent on the couch, fading in and …
Going to head over to Mike’s place, a friend from Q101. He’s having a bachelor party this tonight, and we’re hopping all over the place. A bus was rented, and it’s some kind of insane hour and a half journey to whatever strip club it is we’re going to. I never understood the attraction, really. …
This took a bit of digging, but I isolated when the picture taking happened. On April 12, we had a set of Hulk gloves floating around the Marketing Department. Ben had them on (there are sound effects that trigger, if you punch anything) and I snapped a few shots with my camera. Like this one: …
I spent some time mucking with a feature of Swiftmp3 today, and explored the whole "audio spectrum" ability that comes with it. When using it to convert mp3 files to swf files, it will also spit out variables (s0 up through s17) that track the levels (is that even the right term?). So… all you …
Portnoy: Bought Beth Orton’s “Daybreaker” today, after work.Portnoy: I think you were the one who gave me a mp3 of hers. :) Mr. Grumpy: yep, got it from ts, passed it on to you Portnoy: enjoying it immensely Portnoy: although I keep going back to the one song (Carmella) and playing it over and over …
Felix has given the Heimlich Manuever not once... but twice, to two different people. He's happy to report that both attempts were successful.
Felix has perfect pitch. If you play a note, he can guess what it is with a pretty decent degree of accuracy. He attributes this skill to learning music at an early age.
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