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No, I'm not a shill. I just know there's a lot of folks on here who love Poutine, and also a lot in the Chicago area. New Q-Tine restaurant opening soon in Logan Square Somebody will have to give it a try & let us know. I miss Chicago. It's my favorite big city. My grandparents lived in...

It's been awhile since we played that game where we guessed the geolocations of pictures based on google maps, so I thought I'd bring something similar to the table. Seems NASA has a large catalog of relatively untagged images that have been taken from the ISS. They have basic data like the...

NBC confirming that Don Pardo, 96, has passed away. Yet another in the long line of famous voices from the soundtrack of your life.

Shout Factory releasing WKRP In Cincinnati: The Complete Series 13-disc set. Shout Factory has a decent history of being able to secure music licensing for shows better than those who have tried in the past. The last DVD release of season 1 was absolutely horrible due to the fact none of the...

It's a hatred that's always been there, but is especially large under the current situation. Next weekend the extended family is flying across the country to Seattle to visit even more family. They've lived in Seattle for ~25 years, but we've seen them at a few major family get togethers in...

If you haven't been following, every year in early January, the Baseball Writers Association of America announces the results of their Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. Announcing who actually was voted in (by receiving 75% of the vote) and of course, those that will have to wait til next year (or...

November 8, 1970 - a diminutive man with half a foot kicked a 63 yard field goal to help the Saints defeat the Detroit Lions. This was one of the longest standing records in professional sports. Every time I watched a NFL kicker attempt a FG of this length, I held my breath a little. For you...

No, I didn't get hammered & roll through town. So last night, after watching the UK football game at my sister's house, on the drive home across town I encountered not 1 but 3 (three!) drivers in front of me that if *I* were a cop, I would have pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving...

Michael Douglas reveals the cause of his throat cancer in other news... reported cases of lockjaw expected to decline.

Last night while bored at work I came across a twit link to what I think is a pretty cool time waster http://www.geoguessr.com/ I remember we had a thread game similar to this concept (or maybe it was a contest). My best score so far has been just shy of 12K. Usually at least once per...

So, nevermind whatever gripes you have or whatever you've got against EA/Maxis regarding this game. Not looking for a discussion on the merits of the game, that can be found in the other EA thread. Just putting it out there if there's any interest in joining a region of HF players. I have...

I know we've had our fun taking jabs at Absath/Buckley over the years (QUIZNOS!), but from the looks of it, the run of Ctrl+Alt+Del might be coming to an end. http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/ This combined with his most recent posts on his FB fan page http://www.facebook.com/CADComic Seems...

As the title suggests, am in San Fran for the next 5-6 days traveling with my folks. We plan on hitting Alcatraz later next week, but other than that I don't really have much else on the list. I think Mom wanted to go to Winchester House at some point, & the wharf. We're staying downtown &...

/sigh jury duty in November... :okay:

Alright - I know I'm late to the party on this one. I'm trying to pass the summer doldrums waiting for Borderlands 2 to come out, so I've been playing older stuff I've never played before on my 360. Enter Assassin's Creed I I'd heard decent things. Over the course of the last couple of...

I don't think I've mentioned the fact that I work 3rd shift. I've worked 3rd shift for the last 7 years, & I've worked some form of 3rd/split/night shift job for the last 20 years, since college. I am fairly certain that if I had to deal with day walkers all the time that I would snap & spend...

No mention from anybody of yesterday's celestial event? I am disappoint.... At any rate, we are now in countdown at a little over 5 years until a total solar eclipse will be visible in North America. In fact, there is a small area near St Louis that will be able to see TWO total solar...

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/bestoftv/2012/04/23/exp-erin-kidney-donor.cnn Thought this sort of thing only happened in the movies.

Fuuhuuuuuck Yeah!!! I would link to the trailer released yesterday too, but the one on youtube is flagged & I'm too lazy to register. So for now if you wanna see it, go to the official website here: http://www.borderlands2.com/ Haven't been this excited about a game release since...

So the past couple of weeks at Amazon they've hired a DJ to come in & pipe music through the building to keep the people happy while we ship the packages. Usually he would come in shortly after lunch & play music (& ONLY music - no VO or talkies) for 5 hours until it was quittin time. The...