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OFFTOP 10.13.08 Garfield Edition

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I'm not usually one for a case of the Mondays, but it's only 8.49am and I'm already set to climb back into bed and hide from the world.  I couldn't wake up with my first alarm and then the second did not sing at the appropriate time.  My shuffle was dead, forcing me to listen to thumping baselines as I scooted along.  Water from residents oversoaking their balcony plants drenched me as I rode through the French Quarter.  Upon opening my scooter seat, I found that red beans and rice had leaked all over my bag (including my new 80-count box of tea).  As I hustled to make the six block walk, a cop stopped me to lecture me about riding on the sidewalk, causing me to clutch my dripping bag to my almost-new fleece, which will cause me to smell like chipotle for the rest of the day.  And then, upon checking my email, yay--two new job rejections!

 

Please, give me some good news, or at least tell me of your worst Monday horror stories.

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Not only is it Monday, which is bad in and of itself...

it is also Columbus Day doubling the shittiness.

All I can say is that, not unlike Janette Rankin who famously chimed “I love my country but I cannot vote for war”, I myself love my Phillies but I cannot root for Joe Blanton.

Cuba Si! Yanqi No!

by Patrick517 on Oct 13, 2008 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions  

I don't have any Monday stories...

everyday is the same to me. Most of the time I don’t know what day of the week it is until I check LL and see the OFFTOP. I haven’t figured out if this is awesome or sad.

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 7:53 AM PDT reply actions  

Sometimes it sucks

Like today when I read the Sunday train schedule and got on the wrong train for 30 minutes. I was busy reading a book I had just bought. Luckily my teammate says, “I can’t believe we’re still underground.” Then I realized it wasn’t Sunday :(

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

Uhhhhh...good news?

I don’t have any BAD news, but I’m afraid I can’t offer much good news – except to offer the quite possibly naïve assertion that the worst may, in fact, be behind you; that you’ve front-loaded all the crap from today into one hour and now it’s smooth sailing.

And honestly, job rejections are OK – at least you heard something. In my last bout with unemployment, I sent out about two to three resumes a day for about four weeks, and got exactly ONE response – the rest just vanished.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 7:57 AM PDT reply actions  

The tea has been saved.

Inside the box were eight individually wrapped cellophane packages.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 13, 2008 8:10 AM PDT reply actions  

oh and by the way nola

nice color scheme.

(I don’t really know what color scheme you’re referring to but I like to obey the tags when possible)

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 8:16 AM PDT reply actions  

You know what's incredibly annoying

is riding your bike to work and forgetting to pack work socks. So now I’ve got the dress shirt, black trousers, black shoes, and white socks combo going. sah-weeeeeeeet.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 8:21 AM PDT reply actions  

As well you should.

Macy’s opens in a half hour, and I will be there when the doors open. This is unacceptable.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 8:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

The realization that I forgot socks hit me halfway to work

but since “halfway to work” means “at the bottom of a really big damn hill that I don’t want to ride up again” I just kept going.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 8:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

It's the look of Elvis Costello

but he never did it with dress trousers and wing tips. He was more of a jeans/docs kinda guy.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions  

So that Poltergeist DirecTV commercial

has the funniest disclaimer ever. At the bottom of the screen, when all the crazy ghost rays start flying out of the TV, in small print it says “NOT INTENDED TO DEPICT ACTUAL VIEWING EXPERIENCE”.

Which is disappointing, because I really thought DirecTV would be my source for supernatural portals; now I gotta find another one.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 8:47 AM PDT reply actions  

I'm sick of how often it's getting shown.

Companies need to learn that after about 10 viewings of the same ad within a 2-day period, I will hate whatever they are selling. Geico does a brilliant job of mixing it up.

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'm pretty tired of it too

The concept is great, but rotate them around a bit. The Geico ads are just unbelievably odd.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions  

You know what sucks...

Using up the remaining vacation days so that you can move. And then catching a cold in the process. And having to come back to work after having missed a week to put out the fires that cropped up when you were gone…

I’ve got a massive cold and I’m having to try and figure out how to fix a broken SQL/ASP app first thing. Nevermind the fact that I lost about 20 hours of sleep last week as well.

T=1 It’ll probably be much, much higher by noon…

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 9:23 AM PDT reply actions  

Man, and I thought waking up sucked.

Sorry to hear you’re going through all of that!

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 9:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

but I now have black socks on

so things are looking up.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions  

I couldn't find my black socks even if I tried...

Of course, I normally wear white socks with my black shoes, which drives a lot of people crazy. But my feet pretty much hide in my cubicle all day so I don’t really care much either.

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 10:09 AM PDT up reply actions  

As long as we're doing comics...

Random Wondermark of the day!

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 9:27 AM PDT reply actions  

I know I said last week that I don't like internationals

But I probably like them better than Chris Iwelumo does.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 9:39 AM PDT reply actions  

I like nothing about Ashley Cole

I don’t often hold grudges against athletes that move teams, but for some reason I want Ashley Cole to step on a sprinklerhead in training and rip his ankle to shreds.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions  

I know, I'm sorry

From now on, it’s all sunshine and kittens.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions  

Didn't think so

but I know you’ve been having a bad morning and the general sentiment was at odds with your desire to have a better day. Overthink? Me? What?

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions  

That's a horrible morning

In happier news, t-148 minutes until I ask my first girl out for coffee without doing it via the internet in over 3 years

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:03 AM PDT reply actions  

Good luck.

Remember: don’t overthink it. Just do it.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions  

This is the plan

I figure it’ll be easier if I generate a completely unrelated conversation and then segue into said situation

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions  

Urbandictionary settled that

As much as I would like to do t his

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions  

Given that she may not get it

It’s pretty hilarious

I’ll take the safe route

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions  

Remember the joke arguement Jeff and I had?

I used some of those lines while breaking up with a GF because I was getting bored with the argument.

by Robert on Oct 13, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions  

How do you force wit?

And if you did, wouldn’t that be a good thing?

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions  

You force wit by being in an uncomfortable position and trying to be funny

despite the fact that the situation may not call for funny, but merely for genial, in order to appeal to someone. And it’s not a good thing. Look at any politician that tries to be funny – it NEVER works. (NO POLITICS – that’s just a generic example)

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'm debating

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'd say get away from campus.

Too many people pausing by those tables and saying hello.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 13, 2008 10:25 AM PDT up reply actions  

That's what I was thinking

That leaves one technical dillemma though- she’s off campus and h as no car. Do I offer to pick her up or just expect her to appear at the coffeehouse?

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah, you're right

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:28 AM PDT up reply actions  

Or it could be a meet there and he offers a ride home situation

which strikes a good balance between formal and not.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions  

That's what I was thinking

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:29 AM PDT up reply actions  

As long as she has a way to get there.

If she lives in walkable distance to a coffee shop, go there.
And make it more like 5:30pm.
Then if it works out dinner, and then drive her home.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 13, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

actually no

I’m having trouble looking at this rationally but even I know there’s no reason to do that

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions  

nononononono

remember I am the voice of reason here.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 13, 2008 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions  

Nope. Too much.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:46 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'm going to shoot for sometime this evening

or tomorrow evening

like 7 or 8 ish

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions  

What time is a good time then?

I always thought dinner was 5-6

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

This is disturbing

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions  

It's a very interesting phenomenon.

Go to a restaurant at 5.30 and notice the age of the crowd. They’ll all be older than your parents.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions  

Of course not

Mariners games are the best place.

by Robert on Oct 13, 2008 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions  

Baseball games

are the worst place for a first date!

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 5:39 PM PDT up reply actions  

Haha

I didn’t take it badly, it made me laugh. Ok, with every girl there are going to be better/worse places for a first date. If a baseball game is a good place for a first date with a girl, then that’s awesome and that girl is awesome. But I think for the majority of girls a baseball game is not a good place for a first date.

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 7:34 PM PDT up reply actions  

I think it takes quite a bit to offend me

I mean, where you have meetings and such I have people screaming obscenities at me. So I’m kinda used to it.

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 7:42 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ha.

I think one of the funniest heckles (what’s the word for this?) I’ve ever received was in Provo, Utah. I was playing a game there and someone in the stands yelled, “Hey 24, they don’t get any sun in Seattle do they??”

I looked into the stands and everyone there was lighter skin than me. I honestly wasn’t sure how to react.

by brayden04 on Oct 14, 2008 3:54 AM PDT up reply actions  

No.

Any place that inhibits conversation is a bad place for a first date. Jazz Alley would be a perfectly fine 2nd or 3rd date.

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions  

Chuck Mangione was playing.

My date and I were too busy reveling in his ability to effortlessly hit a note twenty lines above the staff. We just muttered “wow” every few minutes.

by BrianL on Oct 13, 2008 9:23 PM PDT up reply actions  

Despite that, we managed to stick together for a while.

We had so much fun it spawned a second date shortly afterwords.

by BrianL on Oct 13, 2008 9:31 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yes.

Her uncle worked at a propane retailer. Never approved of my hippie music.

by BrianL on Oct 13, 2008 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions  

"Dad, can I get a gun rack for my bike?"

“Bobby, if you weren’t my son I’d hug you.”

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms. t going well.

by kevin_ess on Oct 14, 2008 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions  

It's fantastic.

Definitely Batdorf’s best blend by a damn sight.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions  

Coming to a close

I just need to find someplace that sells that Tropicana Twister in 6 1-liter packs

by Robert on Oct 13, 2008 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions  

Tropicana Twister is fantastic.

Nowadays though, I’m on a Sunny D “Smooth” kick.

by Goose on Oct 13, 2008 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions  

Perfect, then you'll know

if she just doesn’t want to have coffee with you.

by johnbai on Oct 13, 2008 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions  

Exactly

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions  

Corco's off

40% chance I ask and she says yes
35% I chicken out
25% I ask and she says no

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions  

Don't chicken off, go for it

good luck…

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions  

Corfailed

I didn’t even do it-

I’m going to wait until a natural conversation develops towards the end of class which happens sometimes anyway so no worries there

The thing is I have to walk out of the room at roughly the same time as her or I’m either chasing her or awkwardly waiting for her and she packs a bunch of shit and I travel light so there was no way to succeed

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

Oh yeah that's the plan

Believe it or not you guys are not my primary consults here

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 12:11 PM PDT up reply actions  

Right

That’s why I bailed today

I made myself too nervous by over-consulting

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 12:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

No, see how these are not the same thing?

“Just ask her and be done with it.”

“That’s why I bailed today”

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 12:16 PM PDT up reply actions  

I guess that was more in response to "You are consulting too many people"

I need to sit back and think about this rationally

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 12:27 PM PDT up reply actions  

The best way to approach this is to just ask her straight out.

Like many things in life, you start thinking about this too much and that causes you to heap all this extra pressure on yourself that isn’t really there. If you wait too long and get the idea in your head that you won’t succeed, you’re effed.

Two things. First, girls aren’t idiots. They are more sensitive than guys to body language and small things that we think are inconsequential. With this in mind, she probably has an idea that you like her. Which leads to my second thing. Girls love confidence. I haven’t met a girl who didn’t like confidence. Confidence is tricky, you can’t overplay it because then it becomes arrogance. But the beautiful thing about confidence is you can fake it. And fake it long enough and eventually it becomes real.

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 5:51 PM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

This makes sense

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

Wow fail.

What that should say is isn’t this the girl who thought you were cute? Don’t chicken out, you’re in a great position!

Good luck dude.

by brayden04 on Oct 13, 2008 5:44 PM PDT up reply actions  

yes

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

So I just bought the new David Byrne/Brian Eno record

and it’s actually pretty good. I was a pretty big Talking Heads fan but most of David Byrne’s solo stuff was kinda meh. But this is a good record – very lush, lots of midtempo-y stuff but really well written songs and great production.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:27 AM PDT reply actions  

Some of my favorite Byrne stuff was his post-Talking Heads solo work

But I preferred his Uh-Oh stuff to his wanky experimental soundtrack compositions.

by johnbai on Oct 13, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah, this is much more Uh-Ohish

and it’s really quite good. Probably not something I’ll listen to a ton, but I do quite like it.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions  

Eno is a fantastic producer...

I never thought I’d see the day where he’d work with someone like Paul Simon, but man the more I listen to “Surprise” the more I see how the two of them can co-exist pretty well.

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 10:59 AM PDT up reply actions  

I had a high school cross-country teammate

who used to think that if he drank enough Mt. Dew that it would be an effective form of birth control. Fortunately, I dont think he ever got laid. Although it would have been great if he had ever used the line, “It’s OK baby . . . I’m on the Dew.”

by FlaskInSafeco on Oct 13, 2008 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions  

I was wondering what he meant by "draw backs"

when a 200 F heat source is sitting on your lap the last thing you probably need to think about are what the drawbacks are.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

This exchange for some reason had me cracking up

Dude #1:What happened?
Dude #2:I was at my dealers house.
#1:Uh huh.
#2: I was buying my PCP.
#1:Of course
#2:And…uh I didn’t have enough money for all of the gallon.
#1:oooohh, it’s expensive?
#2:But I wanted the whole gallon.
#1:Of course
#2:So I set up a deal where I would leave her as collateral.
#1:Uh oh!

by Goose on Oct 13, 2008 11:23 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'm all for making the best of this season

and ending up with Knowshon Moreno, Chris Wells, Jeremy Maclin, Michael Oher, etc.

by seattlebruin on Oct 13, 2008 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

I will not stand for another goddamn season of draft hunting.

I’m standing at the 3 of the worst years ever for my teams in 2008 and all my hope resides on Alfie’s bum knee, Spezza’s stupid brain and Heatley’s awesomeness.

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 11:07 AM PDT up reply actions  

This is hilarious
stronger profanity is expressed using words and expressions related to Catholicism and its liturgy.

by Kirsten Schlewitz on Oct 13, 2008 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions  

fuck ostie.

That one’s easy to remember.

I wonder how many people speak french/quebecois in Vancouver. I got myself in a pickle last time I was there for swearing in chinese, forgetting how many people there speak chinese.

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions  

Not as many as back east

but there’s a few. You’d probably be better off swearing in a neutral language though.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 11:31 AM PDT up reply actions  

Time to break out my Danish curses?

Or I could just slur into my Scottish so nobody can understand me.

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions  

I'd go with Danish

Canada being a colony and all.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 11:34 AM PDT up reply actions  

Maybe I'll just mix english french and chinese into a mishmash

though I actually did enjoy the very shocked look I got when an eldery chinese woman overheard me saying unrepeatable things about goats and the ancestors of nobody in particular

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions  

circus life, under the big top world

we all need the clowns to OH HOLY GOD STEVE PERRY WHY DID YOU WRITE THAT LINE CLOWNS ARE NO GOOD FOR ANYBODY

(standard disclaimer about posting clown pics)

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 11:00 AM PDT reply actions  

no precipitation for 24 more hours please

I just stained my deck and it needs to finish drying.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions  

Don't say I didn't warn you...

It’s raining here in Oly. I tried mowing my massive lawn last night, but the neighbors kept interrupting me. Got the front yard done, and stashed the mower under a tarp in the back yard. I don’t think I’ll get to finish the back yard this evening after all :-(

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions  

I slog in clogs upon that log, mouldering deep in blackest bog

past pens of hogs and dying dogs to the steps of the bar wherest they gape agog at a handsome frog living so far from his native gulag. I order up a Cape Cod grog.

by johnbai on Oct 13, 2008 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm in the same boat.

This last weekend was cold enough for me to start thinking about winter and all its wonderful amenities.

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 13, 2008 11:30 AM PDT up reply actions  

It is south of SoDo and north of Boeing Field.

Tends to run along Airport Way. It is an Industrial area for the most part, but it has become a growing neighborhood in recent years.

by Sec 108 on Oct 13, 2008 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

Well, I like it.

There’s a brewing company, Stellar pizza, several pubs / restaurants… if I want to go out for dinner and I’m tired of Columbia City I usually go to Georgetown.

by royalcurve on Oct 13, 2008 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions  

I have friends that live of of Corson Ave.

The city is really doing a nice job of cleaning that area up.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions  

It's more northeast of South Park

But that is quibbling. The point is that Georgetown does in fact rock.

by Sec 108 on Oct 13, 2008 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions  

I have not listened to or read that in a long time.

I will raise a glass to Steven Jessie Bernstein tonight.

by royalcurve on Oct 13, 2008 12:37 PM PDT up reply actions  

I hadn't listened to Prison for a few years, but I put it on this summer while driving back to Missoula from Glacier Park.

It’s just so damned brilliant. The line "The following is pure fiction; actually, I have been handsome and popular all my life. " is alternately the most hilarious and depressing thing I have ever heard.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions  

Georgetown is awesome!

They have an ice cream shop that has punk rock shows, a couple really cool bars, and a really bitchin’ vegan restaurant. It’s on the shortlist of neighborhoods we’re looking at moving to this summer.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 12:06 PM PDT up reply actions  

Best hockey sign ever!

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 12:05 PM PDT reply actions  

Whoa.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions  

how is that even food?

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 12:29 PM PDT up reply actions  

It's not.

It’s terrifying.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 12:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

What on earth for?

I wonder what the boiling point of mountain dew is, anyway?

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions  

What exactly happens?

Does it spark?

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions  

The sugar caramelizes instantly.

Soda water itself worked great to spot clean the grill, so it would do this thing where the sugar would turn into a huge, sticky, bubbling mass in the middle and the area surrounding the sugar mound would be spotlessly clean.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 12:35 PM PDT up reply actions  

I always wondered that about the Eastside

are people there so challenged that their road names always have to have a destination and an origination built into them or they’ll get lost? Bel-Red, Woodinville-Duval, etc.

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by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 12:56 PM PDT up reply actions  

It's an older method of naming roads in aggrarian areas

It looks silly that these areas are developed but when they weren’t it made plenty of sense.

The road that connects Greenfield ,OH with unincorporated Sabina 10 miles away is logically called Greenfield-Sabina Rd.

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions  

It makes more sense than urban street networks

To get from UPS to S 38th St I am on one road with three different names, Alder, Cedar, and Pine just because Ithe road has veered slightly to the left

It makes no sense

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by Corco on Oct 13, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

Talk about making NO sense whatsoever...

One of the streets I moved near seems to simultaneously run east-west AND north-south in the same vicinity. When we looked at this house the very first time, we completely got lost. And I even had a map with directions.

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions  

Tacoma's street network is a different animal.

The city plan was changed three or four times very early in the city’s history.

Seattle’s street network is really simple, aside from the area around Greenlake.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions  

Don't feel bad

I was once walking home from a friend’s house that was a quarter of a mile away and I got lost and took a good 45 minutes to get home

by Dewey N on Oct 13, 2008 1:41 PM PDT up reply actions  

I have eaten some dodgy foods in my day

but I think this one is right up there in the “nope, not even worth pondering” category.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

Wow...

So do the requirements for being QB at Wazzu include also having to be a drummer for Spinal Tap?

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 1:01 PM PDT reply actions  

No, that's the Seahawks' requirements.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 1:02 PM PDT up reply actions  

So...

Will the Dow go up 1000 points in a day? Don’t the markets close at 1:30 Seattle time?

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 1:08 PM PDT reply actions  

Ah.

So the financial adviser my wife met in the new ‘hood was correct – the Dow was due for a massive recovery very soon… I wish I would’ve had some money to throw into the market. It’s a great time to buy if you know what you’re doing.

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by PositivePaul on Oct 13, 2008 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

I like how CNN is calling it a "stunning reversal"

well, it’s only stunning if you don’t understand the concept of “buy low”.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions  

My one and only stock gained almost 15% today.

I wish I could have done as I wished and sold half of my shares a year ago, because I knew the market was due to fall. The plan was to put the money in a high yield savings account, and but like crazy when the time was right. My mom was convinced I was going to spend the money on guitar stuff and refused to tell me who I needed to talk to in order to sell.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 1:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

wait, what?

Oh yeah, baseball. If this game goes as long as Saturday’s I can watch some of it when I get home.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions  

Normally I would be annoyed as hell about a day game during the week

but since I have today off and I’m going out for my girlfriend’s birthday tonight, this is the only way I can watch the game.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions  

Been a while since my last bacon-related post.

I can’t let you all get away with out one today.

Heart attack!

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 1:34 PM PDT reply actions  

They do, and it's awesome

but I couldn’t eat the whole portion because I could feel my system starting to seize up.

Nice Guys Finish Third - Hopelessly lost, but makin' good time.

by pdb on Oct 13, 2008 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

I've always thought that bar has a depressing name.

Screw you, Mariners. I'm back in football's loving arms.

by kevin_ess on Oct 13, 2008 1:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

This thread needs more

Calvin and Hobbes (especially ones that actually show up).

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 1:49 PM PDT reply actions  

This reminds me how much I hate those Calvin pissing on things stickers.

I have a hard time believing Calvin has such a clear preference for Ford trucks that he would feel the need to urinate on a Chevy logo.

J.K.L.

by Aaron Campeau on Oct 13, 2008 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions  

I am happy that the people that actually buy those

have no clue how awesome C&H really is. That they only see it on one level.

by Matthew on Oct 13, 2008 1:53 PM PDT up reply actions  

Or the ones where Calvin (and Susie in some cases) are praying.

For one thing those aren’t licensed merchandise (Bill Waterson was very strict about his licensing), and Calvin and Hobbes took a more skeptical view of things anyway.

by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Oct 13, 2008 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions  

I have a 187mb PDF file of every last one

Except for that stupid fake on the internet whose creator needs to die a thousand deaths

by Robert on Oct 13, 2008 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions  

I torrented the non-pdf one

Quicker and easier but the Sunday ones didn’t look that great

by JI on Oct 13, 2008 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions  

I leave for Orlando on the 19th.

This is going to be the longest damn week ever.

by BrianL on Oct 13, 2008 5:15 PM PDT reply actions  

Is anyone else having a hard time loading up SBN pages right now?

The ad server seems to be broken and it’s causing things to hang up for me.

by BrianL on Oct 13, 2008 5:36 PM PDT reply actions  

Something is up with SBN.

It’s taking me about seven minutes to load up even small fanposts right now. Appears to be related to trying to retrieve data from whoever is providing the ads here.

by BrianL on Oct 13, 2008 8:58 PM PDT up reply actions  

SBN is being dumbbbbb....

The road to hell is paved with Mariners.

by .Taylor on Oct 13, 2008 6:44 PM PDT reply actions  

Anyone ever hear of Swedish Indie band Love Is All?

They opened for Of Montreal and I thought they were all right and generic. Their best song was Wishing Well which you can find here

by Dewey N on Oct 13, 2008 9:01 PM PDT reply actions  

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