No one will care about this but me, and I feel like I should post something more interesting to the world in my semi-annual reemergence to livejournal, but I don't have anything like that on my mind and I feel it better to get back into the swing of posting sooner rather than later. First thing I wanted to say is that I am very proud of Chicago ( Read more... )

This is just too cool for words. A comic that combines two things I love, the Chicago White Sox and Pirates! Check it out here

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I'm on spring break right now. Which means I'm back in the Chicago suburbs. And, more importantly, back in the Chicago suburbs without a car. Which, essentially makes me a prisoner of my home. I've been commenting recently about how easy it is to fall back into the suburbian thought process, where you have to take a car everywhere. In New York ( Read more... )

This video shows paparazzi stalking Lindsay LohanThis is absolutely ridiculous. I mean, honestly, how starved for attention are we that we pay people to take pictures of Lindsay Lohan walking to her car? This whole scenario (including the ensuing fight between the actual photographers) is just disgusting. I mean, I just really don't know what ( Read more... )

Research in Motion, which runs the Blackberry service used by the government, law firms, and a gagillion other people settled its patent dispute with NTP, Inc. See the article here. Basically, RIM lost a ton of patent cases against NTP, and the judge kept putting off the injunction because it would shut down Blackberry service (though they said ( Read more... )

I know I'm probably going to lose my guy card for this, but whatever. Has everyone seen that Walt Disney World commercial where the two little kids are up talking about how great Walt Disney World is, until their mom catches them and tells them to go to sleep, but they can't because they're too excited. Then at the end the mom gets to bed and ( Read more... )

What Would (Will) Bush Do? Taiwan has been making some major noise recently. From what I can gather, they have this committee that basically is just a political front, but on the surface either seeks reunification or better relations with China, which claims Taiwan as a province. Well, the Taiwan president has now essentially disbanded the ( Read more... )

After you go and see this fantastic site, http://www.pandora.com it's awesome. You basically customize your own radio stations. You put in songs that you like and it play songs like it. Great sound. There are ads, supposedly, if you want to listen for free, but I haven't heard any yet. ( Read more... )

The elevators in my building are possessed. They creak really loudly, like they're about to give way. They also routinely skip floors. And randomly move really slowly between floors. Sometimes the elevator will go up when you push the down button. I feel like everytime I step into the elevator, I risk my life by entering some crappy horror ( Read more... )